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Bird name:

Oriental Greenfinch

Carduelis sinica

Order

PASSERIFORMES

Family

Finches (Fringillidae)

Code 4

ORGR

Code 6

CARSIC

ITIS

179235

Breeding Location:

Bushes, shrubs, and thickets

Breeding Type:

Monogamous, Solitary nester

Breeding Population:

Rare to casual

Egg Color:

Pale blue with brown spots

Number of Eggs:

3 - 5

Incubation Days:

12 - 14

Egg Incubator:

Female

Nest Material:

Stems, moss and grasses, with lining of finer materials.

Migration:

Migratory

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General

Oriental Greenfinch: Medium-sized finch with dark gray-brown upperparts, brown underparts, and yellow undertail coverts. Face, breast, and rump are olive-green; cap and nape are gray. Bill is pink. Wings are dark with white-edged feathers and large bright yellow patches. Tail is notched and black with yellow base on outer feathers. Female is duller and browner. Juvenile is lighter than female, streaked on underparts.

Range and Habitat

Oriental Greenfinch: Rare to casual in the Aleutians and Pribilofs during spring migration. Preferred habitats include open coniferous and deciduous forests, cutover woodlands, riverbanks, and human habitations.

Breeding and Nesting

Oriental Greenfinch: Three to five pale blue eggs spotted with brown are laid in a nest made of stems, moss, and grass, lined with finer materials, and built in a tree or bush. Incubation ranges from 12 to 14 days and is carried out by the female.

Foraging and Feeding

Oriental Greenfinch: Eats mostly seeds, but also insects; forages in trees, shrubs, weedy areas, and on the ground.

Readily Eats

Safflower, Apple Slices, Suet, Millet, Peanut Kernels, Fruit, Commercial Mixed Bird Seed

Vocalization

Oriental Greenfinch: Call includes various warbled and trilled phrases.

Similar Species

Oriental Greenfinch: None in range.

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Underparts

Belly, undertail coverts, chest, flanks, and foreneck.

Undertail coverts

Small feathers that cover the areas where the retrices (tail feathers) attach to the rump.

Upperparts

Back, rump, hindneck, wings, and crown.

Breast

The upper front part of a bird.

Cap

The area on top of the head of the bird.

Face

The front part of the head consisting of the bill, eyes, cheeks and chin.

Nape

Also called the hindneck or collar, it is the back of the neck where the head joins the body.

Rump

The area between the uppertail coverts and the back of the bird.

4 and 6 letter alpha codes

The four letter common name alpha code is is derived from the first two letters of the common first name and the first two letters of common last name. The six letter species name alpha code is derived from the first three letters of the scientific name (genus) and the first three letters of the scientific name (species). See (1) below for the rules used to create the codes..

Four-letter (for English common names) and six-letter (for scientific names) species alpha codes were developed by Pyle and DeSante (2003, North American Bird-Bander 28:64-79) to reflect A.O.U. taxonomy and nomenclature (A.O.U. 1998) as modified by Supplements 42 (Auk 117:847-858, 2000) and 43 (Auk 119:897-906, 2002). The list has been updated by Pyle and DeSante to reflect changes reported by the A.O.U from 2003 through 2006.

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