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Goldfinch
(New Jersey State Bird)
Latin: Carduelis tristis / French: Chardonneret jaune / Lenape: Wisawtayas

Goldfinch male and female talking back and forth.  Female was hidden in a pine tree while male sang from a leafless high perch in next tree, South Amboy Waterworks, 4/16/05 (65kb)      wave862
Wellfleet, Cape Cod, MA Maurice's Campground, 8/8/02, (175kb), melodious perching song with Mourning Dove flying off and Black-capped Chickadees call and feeding buzz.  Pitch pine forest.  Notice introductory "wee" and three-part song with variations in endings on each part. wave682
Wellfleet, Cape Cod, MA Maurice's Campground, 8/8/02, (100kb), same bird with illustration of song-switching wave683
Wellfleet, Cape Cod, MA Maurice's Campground, 8/8/02, (44kb), another song variation  wave684
Sayerville, NJ, South River Drive, 04/20/02 (233kb).  Springtime song.  Large numbers of Goldfinch nest in the trees and shrubs of the river floodplain in spring.

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Collegeville, PA, 8/18/99 (35kb), Flight call "December, I will remember" and variations

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Sayerville, NJ, North River Drive, 1/13/03 (15kb) "sweet birdie" notes plus flight calls of other birds feeding in canopy of Sweetgum trees.  Large winter flock.

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Delaware Water Gap, Hickory Hollow, AT south of Mohican Outdoor Center, 9/30/02, 3:00 p.m., flight call flying south along the ridge with Chickadees, Towhee and Crickets on the ridge (35kb)         wave652
 

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See also, "Goldfinch" from "Bent's: Life Histories of Familiar North American Birds", http://home.bluemarble.net/~pqn/ch41-50/goldfinch.html

To hear how to pronounce "Goldfinch" in the Delaware Lenape language, see, http://www.delawaretribeofindians.nsn.us/birds.html