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Unusual Goldfinch?

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Subject: Unusual Goldfinch?
From: "Geoffrey Dabb" <>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 13:10:18 +1000

Looks to me like it has been pecking seeds out of moist sandy soil and has some fragments of soil adhering to its bill at the point where the bill would not be cleaned by being pushed into the earth

 


From: Julian Robinson [
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 9:27 AM
To: Canberra Birds
Subject: [canberrabirds] Unusual Goldfinch?

 

It probably won't excite anyone on this list when I report my happy discovery that we have regular European Goldfinches here in Narrabundah lower, at least  in winter, but I still lov'em and they make a nice change from black and white birds that seem to be the only ones we get on the golf course.

Anyway yesterday a lone Goldfinch was sitting in a tree all fluffed up and looking perhaps unhappy.  I've never seen a Goldfinch on its own before.  Then I noticed it's strange beak appearance which I enclose in case it is interesting. I don't know whether this is a rare or well known bird pox, or perhaps just the remains of eating something sticky .  Do flocking birds often sit alone?



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