Lawrence's Goldfinch

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iLawrence's Goldfinch
Conservation status
Least Concern (LC)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Fringillidae Genus: Carduelis Species: C. lawrencei
Binomial name
Carduelis lawrencei Cassin, 1852

The Lawrence's Goldfinch, Carduelis lawrencei, is a small songbird of North America. Slightly bigger than the Lesser Goldfinch, and slightly smaller than the American Goldfinch, with less yellow markings than either.

It ranges from central California, and its southern coast, in the United States to Baja California in Mexico.

Females have less yellow and lack the black cap and chin of the males.

Lawrence's goldfinch can also range into central Arizona and northern Sonora; also extreme southwestern New Mexico, the Madrean sky islands region of the three states.

This bird's name commemorates the American ornithologist George Newbold Lawrence.

[edit] References

• BirdLife International (2004). Carduelis lawrencei. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 12 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern