Greenfinch

Wikipedia mentions the entire population migrates to Africa for the winter, so I guess this one got left behind in our garden.

comments (4)

greenfly

Green Fly

This is as far from a Wood Warbler as you can get!! What a terrible mistake. This is not even a warbler for goodness sake.

It is a GREENFINCH Posted 13 years ago
1. Ferdy Christant
  
  Lion
  
  Thanks for the correction, I changed the identification, title and tags. Please do chill out a little, we're all enthusiasts here trying to correctly identify species, and mistakes happen in the process. I appreciate your correction, but there's no reason to flip. Posted 13 years ago

greenfly

Green Fly

Wikipedia, on this occasion, is actually correct as well. The entire population does overwinter in sub-Saharan Africa. I'm afraid you do just have a Greenfinch in your garden during the winter - nothing particularly special about that. Posted 13 years ago, modified 13 years ago

Joost Thissen

Lion

@greenfly I agree with you that it indeed is a greenfinch and good that you say so, but there is no reason to use capslock for telling that.
Posted 13 years ago

The European Greenfinch

The European Greenfinch, or just Greenfinch, is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. The genus "Carduelis" might be split up and in this case, the greenfinches would be separated in their old genus "Chloris" again.

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Similar species: Perching Birds

Species identified by Ferdy Christant