Gowlspink
In Tarn, France
Scientific classification
Kinrick: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Cless: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Faimily: Fringillidae
Genus: Carduelis
Species: C. carduelis
Binomial name
Carduelis carduelis
Carduelis carduelis carduelis
1 summer 2 all year
Carduelis carduelis caniceps
3 summer 4 all year
Carduelis carduelis carduelis

The Gowdspink or Gowdie (Carduelis carduelis) is a wee birdie that's weel kent as gairden birds in Scotland an haes a fondness for the seeds o the thristle an the taisle. They wis aften taen as birds for the cage but this is nou ootwi the law.

Merk that Spinus spinus is kent as the gowdie an aw.

References eedit

  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Carduelis carduelis". IUCN Reid Leet o Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. Internaitional Union for Conservation o Naitur. Retrieved 16 Julie 2012. Cite has empty unkent parameter: |last-author-amp= (help)CS1 maint: uises authors parameter (link) CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)