Goldfinch or The Goldfinch may refer to:
Birds
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European goldfinch, ''Carduelis carduelis''
* Some species of the genus ''
Spinus'':
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American goldfinch, ''Spinus tristis''
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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 abou ...
, ''Spinus lawrencei''
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Lesser goldfinch, ''Spinus psaltria''
Arts, entertainment, and media
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''The Goldfinch'' (painting) (1654), by Carel Fabritius
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''The Goldfinch'' (novel) (2013) by Donna Tartt, in which Fabritius' painting features
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''The Goldfinch'' (film) (2019), based on the novel
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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 ...
, a goldfinch motif in Pennsylvania Dutch folk art
Science and technology
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USS ''Goldfinch'', US Navy ships
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HMS ''Goldfinch'', four ships of the Royal Navy and one of the shore establishment
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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 single-seat biplane fighter from the later 1920s
People
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Goldfinch (surname)
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