I'm not completely sure what type of bird this is,
but I think it may be some form of Goldfinch.
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Some credit Emerson Bennett and
his obscure 1850 novel Oliver Goldfinch for the phrase, although others have it appearing in English as early as 1823.
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But the desperate grandiosity of“The Goldfinch” eventually makes it sterile,
draining the story of its humanity, and the audience's potential to have empathy for the characters' traumas.