February 19 2010
Birds of the Arizona Feeder
I need help identifying
Ok fans of the bird world, can you help me identify this little bird. My guess is a female Gold Finch. I’ve looked on the net but haven’t found a good representative picture identifying the bird.
Tags: Arizona, Birds
After hunting on the internet, I decided to go traditional and look in my Roger Tory Peterson “The Field Guide to the Birds East of the Rockies” and I think that it must be a female Painted Bunting. The males are really colorful. I double checked on google images. It breeds in the southern part of the U.S. and winters in Panama.
http://tinyurl.com/yf4nb2t
Hi Z, I don’t think so, because this isn’t in the Buntings range. I believe it’s a Lesser Goldfinch: http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Lesser_Goldfinch/id
Maybe! Here’s a link to pictures from all angles. In your photo the wings are barely seen. Do they look like the ones here?
http://tinyurl.com/yz4muxa
Yeppers Z, that’s the bird and I’m pretty sure that’s what we are seeing on the feeder.
Great. It’s nice to know the birds’ names. It makes it easier than saying things like “that little yellow one”.
For a while I thought it may be a warbler, but not only was the beak wrong, but the warbler I was thinking of has orange markings.