Will removing perches from a tube birdfeeder limit visitors to goldfinches?

Subject: Will removing perches from a tube birdfeeder limit visitors to goldfinches?

Date: Wed Nov 1 11:30:00 2000
Posted by carly
Grade level: grad (non-science) School: No school entered.
City: new york State/Province: No state entered. Country: us
Area of science: Zoology
ID: 973096200.Zo

Message:


I want to know if you can change the types of finches that will come to a 
thistle tube feeder by removing or adding perches. I have been told that 
only goldfinches can cling to seed port holes, that the more aggressive 
house finches require perches to cling to.

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