chaffinch: see finch finch, common name for members of the Fringillidae, the largest family of birds (including over half the known species), found in most parts of the world except Australia.
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Songbird (Fringilla coelebs) that breeds in gardens and farmlands of Europe and northern Africa to central Asia (and, by introduction, South Africa). It is the most common finch in western Europe. The 6-in. (15-cm) male has a bluish crown, rust-brown back, greenish rump, and pinkish to rust face and breast; the female is greenish brown. The Canary Islands, or blue, chaffinch (F. teydea) is similar.
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Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
(credit: H. Schunemann—Bavaria-Verlag)
chaffinch
a common European finch, Fringilla coelebs, with black and white wings and, in the male, a reddish body and blue-grey head
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