Bird Watching: Red-browed Firetails are back, 1 by kennedyh

kennedyh wrote:
Resin,

I had a look in my Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds (Volume 7), published only last year, and the name given is different again. It is now apparently Neochmia temporalis. The only synonym they give is Fringilla temporalis which dates back to 1802.

We have no native true finches here, but the European Goldfinch and Greenfinch were both introduced into Australia and I see lots of Goldfinches and the occasional Greenfinch in this area. New Zealand had 4 finches introduced, the Goldfinch and Greenfinch and in addition, the Chaffinch and Common Redpoll.
Here is a Goldfinch taking a drink in my garden: