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: Resident throughout Asia from Russia east to Japan. Rare to casual vagrant in the western Aleutian archipelago and Pribilof Islands in summer and 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: Rare vagrant to western Alaska. Unlikely to be confused with any other species in that range.