Pine Siskin

• Scientific Name: Spinus Pinus
• Common Name: Pine Siskin
• Diet: seeds
• Color: gray and yellow
• Size: 5 inches
• Active Period: transient
• Habitat: town
• Field Identification: a small mostly grayish finch like bird yellow markings on the wings and tail, seen once in Ajo at a thistle feeder
• Nest: cup in conifer
• Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
• Genus: Spinus
• Family: Fringillidae
• Order: Passeriformes
• Phylum: Chordata (hollow nerve cord)
• Subphylum: Vertebrata (backbone)
• Species: pinus