Noun

(en noun)

A small green and yellow European finch, or Carduelis spinus'', now often ''Spinus spinus .

*2001 , (Anthea Bell), translating WG Sebald, Austerlitz , Penguin 2011, p. 2:

*:I sat there on a bench in dappled shade, beside an aviary full of brightly feathered finches and siskins fluttering about.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-01

, author=Paul Bartell, Ashli Moore , title=Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight , volume=101, issue=1, page=47–48 , magazine= citation , passage=Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported […] that pine siskins (Spinus pinus ) undergo an irregular, nomadic type of nocturnal migration.}}

Any of various similar birds in the genera Carduelis'' and ''Serinus .