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n. - Small yellow-and-black Eurasian finch with a sharp beak.

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  • Another round of the finch-siskin-junco with added! chickadees turmoil in our side yard.
  • Mrs D is hoping that siskins will return this year - there has already been a much greater influx of all the finches including siskin than usual into Southern England.
  • Examples are buff-breasted tody-tyrant (Hemitriccus mirandae), white-winged cotinga (Xipholena atropurpurea), seven-colored tanager (Tangara fastuosa), and yellow-faced...
  • The robins are still singing all along the drive, the ducks are babbling away on the lake, as are the geese to the east, and some sort of siskin or kinglet is singing...
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