Can you help to identify this small bird ?

[Alan B]

I've looked through my Collins bird guide 5 times and i just cannot identify this bird :(

Remember this bird was photographed in the UK.

http://images.fotopic.net/?iid=yas9wh&outx=600&noresize=1&nostamp=1

[PhilHannah]

Young Thrush?


I snapped a bird recently also couldnt identify it from Collins however try emailing a small jpeg to


editor@britishbirds.co.uk

They Identified it for me (a very scruffy Coal tit)

[BlueTit]

YEs, I was going to say young thrush too, pretty sure that is what it is. Great capture.

[dewmuw]

I can tell you what it isn't. It isn't a thrush - the beak is the wrong shape.

I think you might have caught a juvenile Linnet. Do you have any more from other angles?

http://www.garden-birds.co.uk/album/images/linnet1.jpg

[weemannie]

I think it might be a juvenile Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis).

Its difficult to tell from this view, did you catch a glimpse of any wingbars or other distinguishing marks on its tail or wings?

[Ron Lacey]

I've looked through my Collins bird guide 5 times and i just cannot identify this bird :(

Remember this bird was photographed in the UK.



I'm not sure if they are indigenous to Europe and the UK but it looks like a pine siskin to me.

Ron

[Alan B]

Do you have any more from other angles?

Thanks for all your guesses.As for that question i'll see what i got.

[PhilHannah]

I'm not sure if they are indigenous to Europe and the UK but it looks like a pine siskin to me.

Ron

Actually looking at the Eurasian Siskin in Collins it does look like a young Siskin..
And inhabits conifers etc.

Im not much up on birds but there ye go..

[dewmuw]

OK I've been home and looked through my books and I now think it is probably as young siskin. In fact fairly certain that it is. I think the black/dark area on the tail confirms that