Females are less colorful year-round. The female American goldfinch is duller yellow with patches of drab olive and white wing bars. Meet the three types of goldfinches in the United States.

Its gold is not the brilliant blaze of an American goldfinch — an almost neon beauty, but rather more subdued, with just wing and breast patches of yellow ... The female builds a nest of ...

These yellow beauties are the state bird of Iowa ... travel together searching for suitable nest sites. The female goldfinch builds a nest made of twigs, rootlets, and plant stems, and usually ...

The females are a more reserved mustard-brownish-yellow with white ... and September, so goldfinches have to wait until late in the year to start their families. The female does all of the ...

An American goldfinch nest contains thistle down upon which the female lays white eggs ... the males will shed their colorful bright yellow feathers and grow new ones that are more subtly ...

I have been waiting for the goldfinch to change color and am making a concentrated effort to watch for signs of the spring molt of the male. Today, finally, I saw my first hint of bright yellow on ...

A yellow-headed male Gouldian finch will have a yellow-tipped beak similar to that of female Gouldian finches. Juvenile birds are less colorful than their adult counterparts. Their coats are dull ...

Juvenile: resembles adult female. Unstreaked. The male is unlike any other finch in North America; the Wilson’s warbler is the only other bright yellow species with a black cap, but it does not ...