🐾 Lesser Goldfinch

Spinus psaltria · wildlife atlas entry

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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 American goldfinches clade in the genus Spinus sensu stricto . Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

Record card

Scientific name	Spinus psaltria
Rank	species
Community observations	115,856 research-grade records on iNaturalist

Classification

kingdom Animalia › phylum Chordata › class Aves › order Passeriformes › family Fringillidae

Seen in the wild — community photographs

Lesser Goldfinch photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2025-03-21 · Fullerton, CA, USA
(c) Shawn O'Neil, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Lesser Goldfinch photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-22 · 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
(c) ldjaffe, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Lesser Goldfinch photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · HBCP East
(c) Kate Bridges-Lyman, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Lesser Goldfinch photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · HBCP East
(c) Kate Bridges-Lyman, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Lesser Goldfinch photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Pine Bench Rd, Yucaipa, CA, US
(c) Nevin Talley, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Lesser Goldfinch photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Griffith Park, Los Angeles, CA, US
(c) M.R. Perry, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Lesser Goldfinch photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-21 · 1635 Elanco Ave, Eugene, OR 97408, USA
(c) evsherr, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

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