Goldfinch Bird 64 page Notebook with Envelope

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Goldfinch Bird 64 page Notebook with Envelope by Julian Williams

These notebooks have  64 pages and can be sent as a gift or thank you card.

The pages can be ripped out, like a shopping list or telephone pad.

Every page is uniquely illustrated with pictures of  European birds, butterflies and plants.

The back of the notebook includes an introductory text telling the reader interesting facts about of the butterfly/bird illustrated on the front cover

SKU: SNB6B37

These bird notebooks are part of our Nature Notes Series

These cards include an introductory text on the back of the cards.  TEXT written on the back of this card reads:

The Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis

Goldfinches are adapted to feed on thorny plants like thistles and teasel.  Folk stories developed that the goldfinch, sometimes known as Saviour birds, acquired its red face after it got splashed with blood whilst pulling thorns from Christ’s brow.   In medieval pictures goldfinches were often depicted with the Madonna and Child and John the Baptist as a forewarning that Christ would save humanity through his crucifixion.

In the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer mentions the cook “gaily dressed he was as is a goldfinch in the woods”   In the 18th century used “goldfinch” as a slang word for a wealthy person in fancy clothing.

Goldfinches, renowned for their beauty and pretty song, were trapped each year to be sold as cage-birds.  They were so popular that by the 19^th century the trapping had caused the population to crash.  The numbers recovered following the success of one of the earliest conservation campaigns by the then newly formed Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

Other common names include thistle tweaker, thistle finch, goldie, gold linnet, redcap and King Harry.  The collective name for goldfinches is a charm, is derived from the old English c’irm, describing the birds’ twittering song.