American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis)
Mnemonics:
pa-chip-chip-chip, or per-chick-a-ree, or po-ta-to-chip
Spectrogram
Song Description
Long and short songs comprised of twitters and warbles with random repetition of notes and phrases.
Calls:
Pee-tee-tee-tee, Tew-weet, Dzik series, Zree & Bee-bee. (See Pieplow for examples of a number of calls.)
Sound Recordings
| Common Name | Rating | ML Cat# | Recordist |
| American Goldfinch | 3.6 | 107792281 | Kazdan |
Resources:
- All about birds: alder flycatcher. c2020. Ithaca (NY): Cornell Lab of Ornithology; [accessed 2020 Dec 23]. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Alder_Flycatcher/sounds
- Pieplow, Nathan. Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America. New York, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
Bird Sound Recordings
Alder Flycatcher | American Crow | American Goldfinch | American Redstart | Belted Kingfisher | Black-and-white Warbler | Black-capped Chickadee | Black-throated Green Warbler | Blackburnian Warbler | Blue Jay | Blue-headed Vireo | Broad-winged Hawk | Brown Thrasher | Canada Goose | Cedar Waxwing | Chipping Sparrow | Common Nighthawk | Common Raven | Common Yellowthroat | Dark-eyed Junco | Downy Woodpecker | Eastern Phoebe | Eastern Wood-Pewee | Golden-crowned Kinglet | Gray Catbird | Hairy Woodpecker | Hermit Thrush | Herring Gull | Lincoln’s Sparrow | Magnolia Warbler | Northern Flicker | Northern Parula | Northern Saw-whet Owl | Osprey | Ovenbird | Purple Finch | Red Crossbill (type 10) | Red-breasted Nuthatch | Red-eyed Vireo | Red-winged Blackbird | Ruffed Grouse | Savannah Sparrow | Song Sparrow | Swainson’s Thrush | Swamp Sparrow | White-throated Sparrow | Winter Wren | Wood Duck | Yellow Warbler | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | Yellow-rumped Warbler