Singer, Embarrassed Goldfinch
Goldfinches are one of the most vegetarian of birds. They eat seeds mostly, regurgitating them to feed their young, pulling seeds out of thistles, and all sorts of plants. I watch them out my dining room window hanging rightside up and upside down on thin swaying stalks of seed pods of cornflowers. Reading about them, I learned a new name for their vegetarian style of eating: granivores.
This feather carving isn’t yellow! I couldn’t find an appropriate small yellow feather so I just used this one and called the bird embarrassed.
Terres, John K. (1980). The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds. New York: Knopf. p. 329. ISBN 978-0-394-46651-4.