small sharp-billed yellow-and-black Eurasian finch

a small yellowish-green bird found particularly among fir trees where it eats seeds of trees and wild plants.

A small finch of the genus Carduelis. Represented in the North Country by a single species, the relatively nondescript Pine Siskin ( Carduelis pinus).

A number of small birds in the finch family Fringillidae are named as siskins. These are mainly some of the small species in the genus Carduelis with largely yellow plumage, but a few similar-looking birds in the genus Serinus are also named as siskins. Armstrong-Whitworth also had an aeroplane called the Siskin.