Observing the goldfinches in flight is soothing and enlightening, making it easy to meditate on what they symbolize ...

The brightly colored male American goldfinch is especially recognizable ... It is often heard in flight, giving distinct flight calls. Polytypic (4 named ssp.; differences slight).

The female American goldfinch is larger and has white undertail coverts, a wide buffy lower wing bar with very little white at the base for the flight feathers, and a pale pinkish bill.

Goldfinches are stunning examples of the finch ... Some birds renew their flight feathers, which can take up to a month. 6. Migrating birds can be divided into “calendar birds” and “weather ...

The vast majority of native bird nesting takes place in spring, right after the trees green up and the flowers start to bloom. The spring nesting season feels like a frantic rush to quickly build ...

A Modern Dancer shows a penguin creatively tobogganing on the ice in Antarctica This picture of a European Goldfinch taken in France during winter came second in the competition's Birds In Flight ...

Goldfinches arrive here for the winter from ... The songs ring out in a cadence that rises and falls in sync with their undulating flight as if they have created the choreography for their flight ...