Pine Siskin

Description: 4 1/2-5" dark streaked finch with notched tail and small patches of yellow and wings and tail, usually seen in flocks, which have distinctive flight pattern: birds alternately bunch up and disperse in undulating flight	Habitat: Coniferous forests, mixed woodlands, groves of alders, shrubs, fields, feeders. Winter range is erratic with flocks often numbering over 100.
Nesting: 3-4 pale-green eggs lightly speckled with dark brown or black in a shallow saucer of grass, twigs, bark and moss, lined with plant down and feathers placed in a conifer	Range: breeds from Alaska east to New England, south to Texas, winters southward in lower US
Voice: distinctive bzzzzz, song like hoarse Goldfinch	Diet: insects, seeds of deciduous and coniferous trees, forbs, and grass, floral buds and nectar (of trees), sap

Notes: When foraging in flocks, birds tend to move down from top of tree in compact group, then move in circular flight to another tree and repeat, winter flocks usually 50-200, occasionally to 1,000, nomadic in fall and winter; feeds in mixed flocks, especially with goldfinches, juncos, crossbills

When present in Oklahoma: present statewide abundantly in winter, scarce in summer