Birds of Mexico

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Genus: Spinus (6 species, 20 worldwide)

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Black-capped Siskin (Spinus atriceps)


Lawrence's Goldfinch (Spinus lawrencei) Male Carrizo Plain National Monument, California, United States
Photograph by Alan Schmierer Image has been placed in the Public Domain.


Black-headed Siskin (Spinus notatus forreri) La Petaca Road, Sinaloa, Mexico
Photograph by Nigel Voaden © All Rights Reserved.


Pine Siskin (Spinus pinus) Cap Tourmente National Wildlife, Quebec, Canada
Photograph by Cephas Copyright and usage info Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.


Lesser Goldfinch (Spinus psaltria hesperophilus) Male Waterman Canyon, San Bernardino, California, A green-backed Lesser Goldfinch (race hesperophilus) found in the USA and northwest Mexico.
Photograph by Nigel Voaden © All Rights Reserved.


Lesser Goldfinch (Spinus psaltria colombianus) Male ProAves Chestnut-capped Piha Reserve, Anorí, Antioquia, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Lesser Goldfinch (Spinus psaltria) Female Copacabana, Antioquia, Colombia Note small size and distinctive forked tail.
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

A more yellowish female.


American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis) Male Redmond, Washington State, United States
Photograph by Mick Thompson/Eastside Audubon Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.


American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis) Female Juanita Bay Park, Kirkland, Washington State, United States
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© Tom Friedel - All Rights Reserved, except for images and data otherwise noted.       Colombia       Panama       Ecuador       Costa Rica       Mexico
Experimental sites:       Peru       Venezuela       The World       Brazil       Bolivia
Really Experimental sites:       Guyana       Cuba