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MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. Started conversation Mar 5, 2015
Here in the UK their favoured plant is teasel, which is a tall plant with a multi-seeded head that disperses its unfeathered seeds by wind action , whereas generally the thistle is a smaller plant with feathered seeds that are, again, dispersed by wind, but by a different action.
With garden plant feeders they, like most finches, will always favour niger seeds over all other foods offered to them.
MMF
Teasel versus thistle
MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. Posted Mar 5, 2015
A teasel seed head, with goldfinch
http://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/dipsacus-fullonum/classid.1000000968/
And a thistle head with Siskin
http://ibc.lynxeds.com/photo/pine-siskin-carduelis-pinus/feeding-thistle-seed-head
MMF
Teasel versus thistle
MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. Posted Mar 5, 2015
Maybe this helps?
http://www.botanicalaccuracy.com/2014/01/teasels-tousled-with-thistles.html
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Teasel versus thistle
Gnomon - time to move on Posted Mar 6, 2015
I've changed it to "they specialise in the seeds of thistles and teasels".
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