American Goldfinch

Description: 4 1/2-5" Smaller than a sparrow, breeding male bright yellow with white rump, black forehead, white edges on back of wings and tail, female and winter male duller and grayer, with black wings, tail, and white wing-bars, travels in flocks	Habitat: .Woodland edges, fields, thickets, orchards, roadsides, riparian areas with willows, feeders. Common and widespread. Often seen eating thistle seed.
Nesting: 4-5 pale blue eggs in a well-made cup of grass, bark strips, and plant down, placed in the upright fork of a tree or sapling	Range: breeds from British Columbia east to Newfoundland, south across central and east US, winters in much of US.
Voice: bright per-chic-o-ree, also rendered as potato chip! delivered in flight coinciding with each undulation	Diet: insects and seeds of deciduous trees, forbs (especially composites), grass, floral buds, berries. Young fed regurgitant of milky seed pulp; few insects.

Notes: undulating flight, winter flocks of 300 birds common, often called the "Wild Canary," late nester in mid-summer, so only single brood

When present in Oklahoma: abundant year-round statewide, numbers higher in winter months