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Pronunciation: [ɡˈə͡ʊldfɪnt͡ʃɪz] (IPA)

Goldfinches are small, brightly colored birds that are typically found in fields and meadows. These birds are also known by other names, including yellow finches, wild canaries, and thistle finches. The term "wild canaries" is used because of their sweet, melodic song, which is similar to that of a canary. "Thistle finches" is another synonym for goldfinches because they are often found eating the seeds of thistle plants. Other synonyms for goldfinches include American goldfinches and European goldfinches, which refer to the species of the bird found in those regions. No matter what you call them, these cute and colorful birds are a joy to watch and listen to.
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What are the hypernyms for Goldfinches?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

  • Other hypernyms:

    animal, bird, creature, organism, vertebrate, Aves (Lanimal taxon), Finch (bird family), Passerine (bird order).

Usage examples for Goldfinches

I have taken a great fancy to these pretty toys and mean to hang them in my own forests, that my goldfinches and nightingales may dwell therein in winter, instead of flying to the southland."
"The Green Forest Fairy Book"
Loretta Ellen Brady
Who can stay indoors when the goldfinches are busy among the bloom on the apple trees?
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies
Listen how happy the goldfinches are in the orchard.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies

Famous quotes with Goldfinches

  • They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
    Pablo Picasso
  • As in hunting, so in hawking, the sportsmen had their peculiar impressions, and therefore the tyro in the art of falconry is recommended to learn the following arrangement of terms as they were to be applied to the different kinds of birds assembled in companies. A sege of herons, and of bitterns; an herd of swans, of cranes, and of curlews; a dopping of sheldrakes; a spring of teels; a covert of cootes; a gaggle of geese; a badelynge of ducks; a sord or sute of mallards; a muster of peacoccks; a nye of pheasants; a bevy of quails; a covey of partridges; a congregation of plovers; a flight of doves; a dule of turtles; a walk of snipes; a fall of woodcocks; a brood of hens; a building of rooks; a murmuration of starlings; an exaltation of larks; a flight of swallows; a host of sparrows; a watch of nightingales; and a charm of goldfinches.
    Joseph Strutt
  • Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop From low hung branches; little space they stop; But sip, and twitter, and their feathers sleek; Then off at once, as in a wanton freak: Or perhaps, to show their black, and golden wings Pausing upon their yellow flutterings.
    John Keats
  • A grasshopper shrilled in a tuft at her feet and was answered by other shrillings among the gorse bushes; a solitary rook flapped heavily overhead, and a pair of goldfinches twittered among the thistle-down; there was no other sound except the scarcely perceptible never-ceasing sighing of the wind in the pines and its rustling of acres of heath-bells.
    Flora Thompson

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