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Eurasian Siskin

Spinus spinus

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 104,862, February 77,449, March 121,346, April 190,906, May 275,254, June 300,147, July 321,177, August 276,211, September 202,788, October 151,366, November 82,713, December 64,647.
United States2,168,940
Alaska2,168,867
Russia12,985
United Kingdom2,641
Germany1,976
England1,798
Italy1,433
Sverdlovsk Oblast1,365
Saint Petersburg1,205
France1,097

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Dietary

Group and habits

  • Seed eaterDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly feed on seeds.Inferred from its group
  • Tree nestingListed by a harvested source as nesting in trees.BIRDBASE avian traits database

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumChordates · Chordata
ClassBirds · Aves
OrderPerching Birds · Passeriformes
FamilyFinches, Euphonias, and Allies · Fringillidae
GenusSiskins and New World Goldfinches · Spinus

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