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A juvenile male Lesser Goldfinch, pausing during his snack time! He was feasting on the seeds from our Black-eyed Susan seed heads. This little cutie is just starting to get his black forehead feathers. Photo taken in our backyard in Camas, Washington.
Taken at Myakka River State Park, Florida.
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The Merlin bird ID app leans toward greater, but I'm not convinced - the slightly peaked head seems more lesser than greater. Daniel Irons below and others saw the same thing, so I'm going with lesser. Spotted among some gadwall, common goldeneyes, and red-breasted mergansers with no other scaup in sight in a large inlet off Long Island Sound in southwestern Connecticut.
This male Lesser Goldfinch was seen among the Aloe at the Los Angeles County Arboretum, Arcadia CA..
A flock of lesser goldfinches flew into a tree beside my pond. This male beauty was extracting seeds from this thistle like flower.
Emigrant Lake – Jackson County – Oregon – USA
·Size & Shape : Lesser Goldfinches are tiny, stub-billed songbirds with long, pointed wings, and short, notched tails.
·Behavior : Lesser Goldfinches gather in groups of up to several hundred at a time. They feed on seeds and grains, both in weedy fields and at bird feeders. Their flocks mix with other seed-eating songbirds, especially at bird feeding stations.
·Habitat : Lesser Goldfinches feed in weedy fields, budding treetops, and the brush of open areas and edges. Depending on food availability, they may concentrate in mountain canyons and desert oases, but they are also fairly common in suburbs.
- Cornell University Lab of Ornithology
This one has only one leg. It would hop around using just a little bit of assist with a shallow wing flap. I watched for several minutes, and it seemed to be foraging as well as its companions.
Also evident in this image is the pure white flank. In addition to a longer bill to head length ratio, the Greater Yellowlegs can be heavily barred along the flank.
Murray Marsh. Sturgeon County, Alberta.
Lesser Violetear is locally common in montane regions of southern Central America and of South America, from Costa Rica south to northern Argentina, and east to the coastal mountains of northern Venezuela. Formerly Lesser was included with Mexican Violetear (Colibri thalassinus), which occurs from Mexico to Nicaragua, as a single species ("Green Violetear", C. thalassinus), but Mexican and Lesser violetears differ significantly from one another in plumage, and now are classified as separate species. All species of violetears (Colibri), including Lesser, have a patch of elongated violet feathers on the sides of the head (hence the English name). Lesser Violetear otherwise is mostly glittering green; most populations have a purely green breast, lacking the bright blue breast patch of Mexican Violetear, but reportedly some specimens of Lesser, from the northern part of the range, in Costa Rica, also may have some blue on the underparts. Lesser Violetear inhabits highland humid forest borders, clearings and highland pastures, and is resident throughout its range. doi.org/10.2173/bow.lesvio1.01
Picture taken at Alambi - Ecuador - for a Peaceful Blue Monday!
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Lesser whitethroat (Curruca curruca) perched on a branch.
Piegża (Curruca curruca) siedząca na gałązce.
Lesser Yellowlegs - Tringa flavipes
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens, New York, USA
What you see here is a bird defending its feeding territory as another yellowlegs was about to land nearby. This is one of the first frames as it was taking off. More photos from this outing coming soon… Such a great day!
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I have Lesser Goldfinches that have adopted me and my yard, but they're not that cooperative in terms of modeling. This beautiful little female worked on her breakfast seeds in full unobstructed view of my camera, at my local regional park. Wondrous. She's even got that perch where she's straddled two stems, one foot on each. Cracks me up.
The lesser flamingo is a species of flamingo occurring in sub-Saharan Africa, with another population in India. Birds are occasionally reported from further north, but these are generally considered vagrants. It was moved from the genus Phoeniconaias to Phoenicoparrus in 2014. Wikipedia
I rarely see Lesser Goldfnches. I have only seen a couple of them at my home. Not a great photo but I wanted to document this bird. Photographed through window glass. At most this bird stopped by for 3 minutes. IMG_4599
I had the ID wrong (as happens much too often). Thanks to mcnod for the correct ID.
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La Ceja, Colombia; Central Andes; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Spinus psaltria colombianus (Lafresnaye, 1843)
Lesser goldfinch / Jilguero Aliblanco)
The lesser goldfinch (Spinus psaltria) is a very small songbird of the Americas. This petite species is not only the smallest North American Spinus finch, it may be the smallest true finch in the world. This species ranges from 9 to 12 cm (3.5 to 4.7 in) in length.
This American goldfinch ranges from the southwestern United States to Venezuela, Colombia and Peru.
Lesser Flamingo - Lake Munyanyange, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Western, Uganda
Bird Species # (552) that I photographed and placed on my Flickr Photostream. Overall goal is 1000.
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A male Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis) relaxing on a small urban pond in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
4 May, 2021.
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