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19 sty 2012 · Males have really black wings with bright wingbars and feather edges, while the females have duller brownish-black wings with buffy or brownish-white wingbars and edges. This is pretty easy to judge, but it requires a bit of experience and judgment.
4 mar 2022 · An adult female American goldfinch is slightly smaller than a male. She has olive coloring on her back, buff sides, and a greenish-yellow forehead, throat, and underside. Her wings and tail are a dull black with white wing bars; her legs and feet are a light brown and her bill is dull orange.
8 lis 2016 · Photos and videos of this bird species with detailed captions, including males, females, juveniles, geographic forms, color morphs, and typical habitat.
Adult males in spring and early summer are bright yellow with black forehead, black wings with white markings, and white patches both above and beneath the tail. Adult females are duller yellow beneath, olive above. Winter birds are drab, unstreaked brown, with blackish wings and two pale wingbars.
Males are vibrant yellow in the summer and olive color during the winter, while females are dull yellow-brown shade which brightens only slightly during the summer. The autumn plumage is almost identical in both sexes, but males have yellow shoulder patches.
Adult males in spring and summer are bright yellow with black forehead and wings. Females are dull yellow below and olive above with two distinct wingbars. In winter, they are drab, buffy-brown.
Breeding female: very different from male. Underparts very yellow with white undertail coverts, while upperparts, including head, olive green. Lower wing bar buffy and quite wide.
