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Carduelis carduelis (2012)🐦

Photo: Pierre Dalous · CC BY-SA 3.0

SpeciesPasseriformesFringillidae
Birds

🐦European Goldfinch

Carduelis carduelis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Le Chardonneret élégant (Carduelis carduelis) est une espèce de passereaux de la famille des Fringillidae, partiellement migratrice, petite et très bariolée. Il tient son nom de sa nourriture favorite : le chardon. Le terme « élégant » souligne l’harmonie de ses couleurs. L’espèce est classée (vulnérable) sur la liste rouge des espèces menacées en France éditée par l’Union internationale pour la conservation de la nature (UICN).

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
10
vs you
≈ 1/3,880th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.02 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
27 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the European Goldfinch

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.02 kg
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 0.02 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.05 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.08 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.02 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.01 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
27 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Herbivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Woodland
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Insessorial
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for European Goldfinch yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPasseriformes
  5. ›familyFringillidae
  6. ›genusCarduelis
  7. ›speciesCarduelis carduelis
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
  4. genusCarduelis
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
  11. genusCarduelis
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Closest relative on this site
🐦 Eurasian Bullfinch — last shared an ancestor ≈ 18 million years ago.
In other languages
红额金翅雀 (zh), szczygieł (pl), Carduelis carduelis (es), tengelic (hu), Καρδερίνα (el), حسون أوراسي (ar) … and 26 more languages
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Carduelis carduelis (2012)030 European goldfinch with Wisteria in the background in Glâne District Photo by Giles LaurentCardelius Cardelius femmina
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