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Goldfinch (other)
Goldfinch or The Goldfinch may refer to: Birds * European goldfinch, ''Carduelis carduelis'' * Some species of the genus '' Spinus'': ** American goldfinch, ''Spinus tristis'' ** Lawrence's goldfinch, ''Spinus lawrencei'' ** Lesser goldfinch, ''Spinus psaltria'' Arts, entertainment, and media * ''The Goldfinch'' (painting) (1654), by Carel Fabritius * ''The Goldfinch'' (novel) (2013) by Donna Tartt, in which Fabritius' painting features ** ''The Goldfinch'' (film) (2019), based on the novel *Distelfink, a goldfinch motif in Pennsylvania Dutch folk art Science and technology * USS ''Goldfinch'', US Navy ships * HMS ''Goldfinch'', four ships of the Royal Navy and one of the shore establishment *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 Gloste ..., a British ... [...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 that is native to Europe, North Africa and western and central Asia. It has been introduced to other areas, including Australia, New Zealand and Uruguay. 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 red area on the face. The goldfinch is often depicted in Italian Renaissance paintings of the Madonna and Child. Taxonomy The European goldfinch was one of the birds described and illustrated by Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner in his '' Historiae animalium'' of 1555. The first formal description was by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of his ''Systema Naturae'' published in 1758. He introduced the binomial name, ... [...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. 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 genus ''Spinus'' was introduced in 1816 by the German naturalist Carl Ludwig Koch with the Eurasian siskin (''Spinus spinus'') as the type species. Evolution and phylogeny The Tibetan serin is an outgroup within ''Spinus'', having been the first to diverge. The remainder of the genus can be divided into three monophyle ... [...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. It is 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 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 granivore and 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. It may behave territorially during nest construction, but this aggression is ... [...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 underpa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesser Goldfinch
The lesser goldfinch (''Spinus psaltria'') is a very small songbird of the Americas. Together with its relatives the American goldfinch and Lawrence's goldfinch, it forms the New World goldfinch clade in the genus '' Spinus''. As is the case for all three New World goldfinches (and some of their siskin relatives), lesser goldfinch males have a black forehead, which females lack. Males in this species vary strikingly in back color across their range, from green in western North America to black from Texas south to South America. Five subspecies are often recognized. Taxonomy The lesser goldfinch was formally described by the American zoologist Thomas Say in 1822 under the binomial name ''Fringilla psaltria''. The specific epithet ''psaltria'' is Ancient Greek for a female harpist. The type locality is Colorado Springs, Colorado. The lesser goldfinch is now placed in the genus '' Spinus'' that was introduced in 1816 by the German naturalist Carl Ludwig Koch. Five subspecies are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Goldfinch (painting)
''The Goldfinch'' ( nl, Het puttertje) 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. ... [...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, among other honors. Published in 2013, it was Tartt's first novel since ''The Little Friend'' in 2002. ''The Goldfinch'' centers on 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''. Plot introduction The novel is a coming-of-age tale told in the first person. The protagonist, 13-year-old Theodore Decker, survives a terrorist bombing at an art museum where his mother is killed. While staggering through the debris, he takes with him a small Dutch Golden Age painting called '' The Goldfinch''. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to tal ... [...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 the 201 ... [...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. The word ''distelfink'' (literally 'thistle-finch') is (besides ''Stieglitz'') the German name for the European goldfinch. In popular culture In the story "The Sign of the Triple Distelfink", the American cartoonist Don Rosa used a ''triple distelfink'' hex sign Hex signs are a form of Pennsylvania Dutch folk art, related to fraktur, found in the Fancy Dutch tradition in Pennsylvania Dutch Country. Barn paintings, usually in the form of "stars in circles", began to appear on the landscape in the early 1 ... as the origin for Gladstone Gander's remarkable luck. Notes External linksExample of a distelfink American art Visual motifs {{decorative-art-stub ... [...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 maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage ...: * , 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 trade, 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, Start Point, Sanday, Orkney, Sanday Island, Orkney on 18 February 1915, and subsequently broken for scrap in April 1919. Shore establishment * HMS ''Goldfinch'' was the name given to RAF Ta Kali, Ta' Qali airfield in Malta when it was transferred to the Fleet Air Arm on 1 April 1945 for use as a Fleet Requirements Unit. References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Goldfinch, Hms Royal Navy ship names ... [...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 fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
