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Goldfinch (horse)
Goldfinch or The Goldfinch may refer to: Birds * European goldfinch, ''Carduelis carduelis'' * Some species of the genus ''Spinus (genus), Spinus'': ** American goldfinch, ''Spinus tristis'' ** Lawrence's goldfinch, ''Spinus lawrencei'' ** Lesser goldfinch, ''Spinus psaltria'' Arts, entertainment, and media * The Goldfinch (painting), ''The Goldfinch'' (painting) (1654), by Carel Fabritius * The Goldfinch (novel), ''The Goldfinch'' (novel) (2013) by Donna Tartt, in which Fabritius' painting features ** The Goldfinch (film), ''The Goldfinch'' (film) (2019), based on the novel *Distelfink, a goldfinch motif in Pennsylvania Dutch folk art Science and technology *USS Goldfinch, USS ''Goldfinch'', US Navy ships *HMS Goldfinch, HMS ''Goldfinch'', four ships of the Royal Navy and one of the shore establishment *Gloster Goldfinch, a British single-seat biplane fighter from the later 1920s People *Goldfinch (surname) {{disambiguation Animal common name disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Goldfinch
The European goldfinch or simply the goldfinch (''Carduelis carduelis'') is a small passerine bird in the finch Family (biology), family that is native to the Palearctic zone in Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia. It has been introduced to other areas, including Australia, New Zealand, Uruguay and the United States. The breeding male has a red face with black markings around the eyes, and a black-and-white head. The back and flanks are buff or chestnut brown. The black wings have a broad yellow bar. The tail is black and the rump is white. Males and females are very similar, but females have a slightly smaller area of red on the face. The goldfinch is often depicted in Italian Renaissance paintings of the Madonna (art), Madonna and Child. Taxonomy The European goldfinch was one of the birds described and illustrated by Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner in his ''Historiae animalium (Gessner), Historiae animalium'' of 1555. The first Species description, formal description w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spinus (genus)
''Spinus'' is a genus of passerine birds in the finch family. It contains the North and South American siskins and goldfinches, as well as two Old World species. Taxonomy The genus ''Spinus'' was introduced in 1816 by the German naturalist Carl Ludwig Koch with the type species by tautonomy as ''Fringilla spinus'' Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus, 1758, the Eurasian siskin. The genus name is from the Ancient Greek ''spínos'', a name for a now-unidentifiable bird. All of the species in the genus, except for the Tibetan serin, were formerly included in the genus ''Carduelis''. They were moved to the resurrected genus ''Spinus'' based on phylogenetic studies of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences. The Tibetan serin was formerly placed in the genus ''Serinus''. The Eurasian siskin and the Tibetan serin are the only species from the Old World included in the group. The Tibetan serin is an Outgroup (cladistics), outgroup within ''Spinus'', having been the first to diverge. The remainde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Goldfinch
The American goldfinch (''Spinus tristis'') is a small North American bird in the finch Family (biology), family. It is Bird migration, migratory, ranging from mid-Alberta to North Carolina during the breeding season, and from just south of the Canada–United States border to Mexico during the winter. The only finch in its subfamily to undergo a complete molt, the American goldfinch displays sexual dichromatism: the male is a vibrant yellow in the summer and an olive (color), olive color during the winter, while the female is a dull yellow-brown shade which brightens only slightly during the summer. The male displays brightly colored plumage during the breeding season to attract a mate. The American goldfinch is a Seed predation, granivore and adaptation, adapted for the consumption of seedheads, with a conical beak to remove the seeds and agile feet to grip the stems of seedheads while feeding. It is a social bird and will gather in large flocks while feeding and migrating. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence's Goldfinch
Lawrence's goldfinch (''Spinus lawrencei'') is a small songbird of erratic distribution that breeds in California and Baja California and winters in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Description At about long and weighing about , it is slightly bigger than the lesser goldfinch and slightly smaller than the American goldfinch, with less yellow in the plumage than either. Adults of both sexes are gray with pink to grayish flesh-color bills, stubbier than other goldfinches'. They have yellow rumps and paired yellowish wing-bars, as well as yellow edges on the flight feathers and yellow on the breast. The tail is black, crossed by a white band. Plumage is duller in winter, brightening after a spring molt. Males are paler, with black caps and faces and larger areas of brighter yellow. Females are browner, have less and duller yellow, and lack the black. Juveniles resemble females but are even duller and have faint streaks on the upperparts and especially the underp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesser Goldfinch
The lesser goldfinch (''Spinus psaltria'') is a small finch in the genus '' Spinus'' native to the Americas. As is the case for most species in the genus ''Spinus'', lesser goldfinch males have a black forehead, which females lack. Males in this species vary strikingly in the color of their back across their range, from green in western North America to black in the eastern Rocky Mountains and Texas south to northern South America; this variation has resulted in five subspecies being recognized. Taxonomy Together with its relatives the American goldfinch and Lawrence's goldfinch, it forms a clade, termed the 'New World goldfinch' clade, in the genus ''Spinus''. Some authors have suggested treating this clade as a separate genus ''Astragalinus'', but this has not been followed by either the IOC or BirdLife International. The lesser goldfinch was formally described by the American zoologist Thomas Say in 1822 under the binomial name ''Fringilla psaltria''. The specific epithet '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Goldfinch (painting)
''The Goldfinch'' () is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age artist Carel Fabritius of a life-sized chained goldfinch. Signed and dated 1654, it is now in the collection of the Mauritshuis in The Hague, Netherlands. The work is a trompe-l'œil oil on panel measuring that was once part of a larger structure, perhaps a window jamb or a protective cover. It is possible that the painting was in its creator's workshop in Delft at the time of the gunpowder explosion that killed him and destroyed much of the city. A common and colourful bird with a pleasant song, the goldfinch was a popular pet, and could be taught simple tricks including lifting a thimble-sized bucket of water. It was reputedly a bringer of good health, and was used in Italian Renaissance painting as a symbol of Christian redemption and the Passion of Jesus. ''The Goldfinch'' is unusual for the Dutch Golden Age painting period in the simplicity of its composition and use of illusionary techniques. Following the dea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Goldfinch (novel)
''The Goldfinch'' is a novel by the American author Donna Tartt. It won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Published in 2013, it followed '' The Little Friend'' in 2002. ''The Goldfinch'' follows 13-year-old Theodore Decker, and the dramatic changes his life undergoes after he survives a terrorist attack at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that kills his mother and results in him coming into possession of Carel Fabritius's painting '' The Goldfinch''. Background Tartt has stated that she had been wanting to write about Amsterdam for 20 years, having lived for some time in the city after the success of ''The Little Friend''. She was partly inspired to write ''The Goldfinch'' after hearing about the Taliban’s destruction in 2001 of the historic statues of Buddha in Bamiyan, Afghanistan. She says: "There was nothing to write about, there was not really a story – but there was an idea that something so beautiful, a light at the heart of the world, could be just taken away, de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Goldfinch (film)
''The Goldfinch'' is a 2019 American drama film directed by John Crowley. It was written by Peter Straughan, who adapted the 2013 novel '' The Goldfinch'' by Donna Tartt. It stars Ansel Elgort as Theodore Decker, whose life changes after his mother dies in a terrorist bombing at a museum and a dying man convinces him to take a famous painting called '' The Goldfinch'' from the museum. Oakes Fegley, Aneurin Barnard, Finn Wolfhard, Sarah Paulson, Luke Wilson, Jeffrey Wright, and Nicole Kidman appear in supporting roles. The novel's film rights were sold to Warner Bros. and RatPac Entertainment in July 2014, with ICM Partners brokering the deal. Two years later, Crowley was hired to direct the film adaptation, and Elgort was selected to portray the lead role. Most of the remaining cast joined from October 2017 to January 2018. Filming began in New York City in January 2018 and moved to Albuquerque in April 2018 for the rest of the production. ''The Goldfinch'' premiered at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Distelfink
A distelfink is a stylized goldfinch, probably based on the European variety. It frequently appears in Pennsylvania Dutch folk art. It represents happiness and good fortune and the Pennsylvania German people, and is a common theme in hex signs and in Fraktur (Pennsylvania German folk art), fraktur. The word ''distelfink'' (literally 'thistle-finch') is (besides ''Stieglitz'') the German name for the European goldfinch. In popular culture During the 1940s, variations of Distelfink birds with flowers, hearts and tulips became popular designs for crochet, pottery and wallpaper patterns. Distelfink was adopted as the name for a chain of drive-in restaurants serving Pennsylvania Dutch The Pennsylvania Dutch (), also referred to as Pennsylvania Germans, are an ethnic group in Pennsylvania in the United States, Ontario in Canada, and other regions of both nations. They largely originate from the Palatinate (region), Palatina ... food that became popular across Pennsylvania duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Goldfinch
USS ''Goldfinch'' may refer to the following ships operated by the United States Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare, maritime military branch, service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is the world's most powerful navy with the largest Displacement (ship), displacement, at 4.5 millio ...: * , a minesweeper built as the trawler ''Fordham'' in 1929 * , a wooden-hulled motor minesweeper, was commissioned 20 January 1944 * ''Goldfinch'' (AM-395), was authorized for construction on 16 May 1945 but her contract was canceled 1 November 1945 {{DEFAULTSORT:Goldfinch, Uss United States Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Goldfinch
Four ships of the Royal Navy and one shore establishment have borne the name HMS ''Goldfinch'', probably after the bird the European goldfinch. Ships * was a 6-gun brig launched in 1808 that became a Post Office Packet Service packet, sailing out of Falmouth, Cornwall. She was sold in 1838. * was an wooden screw gunboat launched on 2 February 1856 and broken up 1869. * was a composite gunboat launched in 1889 and sold in 1907. * was an launched in 1910. She was wrecked on Start Point, Sanday Island, Orkney on 18 February 1915, and subsequently broken for scrap in April 1919. Shore establishment * HMS ''Goldfinch'' was the name given to Ta' Qali airfield in Malta when it was transferred to the Fleet Air Arm The Fleet Air Arm (FAA) is the naval aviation component of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy (RN). The FAA is one of five :Fighting Arms of the Royal Navy, RN fighting arms. it is a primarily helicopter force, though also operating the Lockhee ... on 1 April 1945 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gloster Goldfinch
The Gloster Goldfinch was a single-engined single-seat high-altitude biplane fighter of all-metal construction from the later 1920s. It did not reach production and only one was built. Development In January 1926 the Air Ministry funded Gloster Aircraft to produce an all-metal version of their Gamecock for a high altitude fighter role, hence requiring a supercharged engine. The result was the Goldfinch, a single-bay biplane with unequal span wings of marked stagger. Unsurprisingly, this aircraft had a strong similarity to the Gamecock and in particular to the Gamecock II with its narrow-chord ailerons. Because of the supercharged engine the fuselage was longer forward of the cockpit. The tail also was slightly different, the tailplane having rounded trailing tips and the fin, initially, was very broad in chord and short in height.''Flight'' 4 October 1928 Only one Goldfinch was built but there were two rather different versions. The first build had all-metal wings but a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
