Researchers have compiled more than 400 reports of European goldfinch, the majority of which were from Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Michigan. The original source of the birds seems to have ...

A lone European goldfinch sampled a Wheaton backyard feeder in February 2016. • Jeff Reiter's column has appeared in the Daily Herald since 2008. You can reach him via his blog, Words on Birds.

A message on my answering machine brightened up my day: Marion Pearson reporting that she’d spotted a European goldfinch among the common American goldfinches dining at her feeder in Enfield. I saw ...