### animal | vertebrate | bird | finch:

Bullfinch
* have glossy black wings and tail feathers.
  * have glossy black wings and tail feathers. They show a white rump. The legs and feet are fleshy brown. Their short, swollen bill is adapted to eat buds, and is black except in 'P. nipalensis', which has a yellowish bill. The males can be distinguished by their orange or red breast. Some species have a black cap.

Bunting
* are birds
  - fabric
  - finchs
  - ground feeders
* is cloth decorated with the national colors.
* prefer the security of nearby shrubbery.
* specifically use the pattern of stars around the North Star.

### animal | vertebrate | bird | finch | bunting:

Indigo bunting
* are buntings.
* settle on a territory in pairs a few days after arriving at the breeding grounds.
* use the stars to find their way while other use the sun to steer.

Snowbird
* Many snowbirds escape their colder climates to enjoy our mild winters.
* are the thousands of people from the North who follow the sunshine south to Florida
  - welcome in winter
* have two countries worth of laws and taxes to deal with.

### animal | vertebrate | bird | finch:

Canary
* Canaries Give the names of four varieties of canaries
  - are also a fairly inexpensive little birds
* Canaries are beautiful, bright little birds commonly kept as pets
  - fragile animals that represent the best of what nature has to offer
  - descendants of the wild serin finch or canary of the Canary Islands
  - fairly easy to keep healthy on seeds alone
  - little yellow birds that sing often and have been kept in cages as pets for centuries
  - relatively easy to care for, but they are shy and gentle birds
  - safe with older children
  - sensitive to fouled air and chemicals
  - shy, gentle birds and stress can shorten their lifespan
  - singers
* Canaries are small birds, but some varieties are larger than others
  - yellow birds very similar to parakeets
  - social birds that live in pairs or groups in the wild
* Canaries are very sensitive to carbon monoxide
  - chemical fumes
  - eat seeds
  - feed on seeds
  - generally show a mild disease with low mortality
  - get nutrition
* Canaries have clean environments
  - daughters
  - growth
  - high body temperatures naturally because of fast metabolism
  - two distinct feather types
* Canaries includes air sacs
  - bird's feet
  - brains
  - breasts
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - chest cavities
  - chests
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - ears
  - faces
  - flight feathers
  - heads
  - lips
  - mouths
  - nuclei
  - plasma membranes
  - quill feathers
  - rib cages
  - second joints
  - sections
  - skulls
  - sterna
  - talons
  - vacuoles
  - wishbones
  - like to eat greens and can have some every day
  - live for years
* Canaries love to bathe, particularly in warm weather
  - take baths
  - normally sing year-round except during the molting period and a short time thereafter
  - prefer light-colored baths to dark, opaque shades
  - range in color from brown to orange to yellow and are the size of a parakeet
* Most Canaries are somewhat timid and shy little birds.
* Most canaries eat seeds
* Most canaries have clean environments

### animal | vertebrate | bird | finch | canary:

Male canary
* All male canaries sing, but only some are bred for song.
* Male canaries are the sex of the species that sings
  - fight with each other, sometimes with fatal results
  - tend to live longer than female canaries