Most of the lesser goldfinches found in San Diego County have a green back, but the Texas variety has a black back. I love how the Cornell Lab of Ornithology describes the birds as “jabbering ...

In the eastern part of their range, lesser goldfinches have a black back but farther west, they have a greenish back. It is also the smallest of the three types of goldfinches, weighing only about ...

Males are bright yellow below with a glossy black ... back. Dandelions, marigolds, zinnias, cosmos, or coneflowers are all great food sources for goldfinches. For more information on lesser ...

Males are very distinct from other goldfinch species ... A very pale female lesser can show whitish undertail coverts, but it has a different wing pattern than all Americans and is always greener ...

black wings with white bars. Females and immatures have dull yellow underparts, olive back, and duller wing bars. Unlike American Goldfinch, whose winter plumage is dullish beige, Lesser Goldfinch ...

It is a bit smaller though and has a much smaller range, so I guess lesser it is. The male of this goldfinch is also bright yellow but in Texas the back is black. In breeding plumage, a male ...

Lesser goldfinches are gorgeously plumed all year with rich black backs, black heads, dark beaks and bright yellow undersides. American goldfinches show up in Texas in drab, dingy, gray-brown ...

Lesser goldfinches are common in and around Santa Fe in the summer months. It’s not uncommon to see these small, yellow finches in the winter, as we are just on the northern edge of their winter ...

The culprits may be chatty Lesser Goldfinches. They attack Turk’s Cap ... Adult males have black backs and are bright yellow below, from their throats to their tails. They have some white ...

The Lesser Goldfinches might be shifting north in response to climate and habitat changes reported by this study, and indeed, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's eBird Status and Trends project ...

New research published in the journal Ornithology shows that Lesser Goldfinches, a small songbird traditionally found in the Southwest, are expanding their range northward through the Pacific ...