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chaffinch

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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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Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
(credit: H. Schunemann—Bavaria-Verlag)
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.


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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The saddest part of it was that the poor little chaffinch fluttered about the bushes, looking so reproachfully at us that we knew she thought we had done it, and though David tried to explain to her, it was so long since he had spoken the bird language that I fear she did not understand.
Much as I know'd the birds' names in the hedges to be chaffinch, sparrer, thrush.
He received thirty sous per day, and for a month he returned to his lodgings gay as a chaffinch, and affable toward his master.
 
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