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Carduelis carduelis (2012)🐦

Photo: Pierre Dalous · CC BY-SA 3.0

SpeciesPasseriformesFringillidae
Birds

🐦European Goldfinch

Carduelis carduelis (Linnaeus, 1758)

红额金翅雀（学名：Carduelis carduelis）为燕雀科红额金翅雀属的鸟类。分布于俄罗斯、阿富汗、伊朗、克什米尔、印度、欧洲大部以及中国大陆的天山等地，一般生活于沟谷杨木林、灌丛、溪边柳林、草原、农田、居民点、在新疆栖息于海拔1800-2500m间以及在西藏分布在海拔3000m以上。该物种的模式产地在喜马拉雅山。

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
Other figures ↓

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

Maximum lifespan
27 years
AnAge
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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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More about the European Goldfinch

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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