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Flocks of tiny Pine Siskins may monopolize your thistle feeder one winter and be absent the next. This nomadic finch ranges widely and erratically across the continent each winter in response to seed crops. Better suited to clinging to branch tips than to hopping along the ground, these brown-streaked acrobats flash yellow wing markings as they flutter while feeding or as they explode into flight. Flocks are gregarious, and you may hear their insistent wheezy twitters before you see them.

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Five years ago, when we first published this resource page about Pine Siskins and how to identify them, we were marveling over their rare visit to our area. Now, in 2020, it's happening again. But this time, we’re witnessing what’s possibly the biggest Pine Sisken irruption in recorded history. But, wait... There's more. It’s not

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Pine Siskin Free and friendly birdwatching community - with forum, gallery, blogs and reviews. Chat with other birders around the world, post and view photographs of birds in the wild, read and discuss reviews on equipment, blog about your latest sightings.

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