%0 Journal Article %T What Might have been the Ancestor of New World Siskins? %A Antonio Arnaiz-Villena %A Valentin Ruiz-del-Valle %A Raquel Reguera %A Pablo Gomez-Prieto and Juan Ignacio Serrano-Vela %J The Open Ornithology Journal %D 2008 %I Bentham Open %R 10.2174/1874453200801010046] %X Eurasian Carduelis spinus (siskin) has given rise to the C.pinus (pine siskin) North American radiation,which includes C.dominicensis, C.p. perplexus and C.atriceps. It is addressed the question why C.spinus is not thriving now in Amer %U http://www.benthamscience.com/open/tooenij/articles/V001/46TOOENIJ.htm