Breeding male © Santiago Caballero Carrera eBird S106713706 Macaulay Library ML 433940431
Nonbreeding male © Santiago Caballero Carrera
Female © Santiago Caballero Carrera
Female © Itamar Donitza
Breeding male © Ivan Sjögren
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Female © Joseph Rowsome
Female © Leo Damrow
Female © Santiago Caballero Carrera
Breeding male © Tomasz Gustyn
Nonbreeding male © Javier Hernández Cabello
Breeding male © Grzegorz Burkowski

Common Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs

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Identification

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Common in varied wooded and forested habitats, parks, gardens, farmland with hedges and scattered trees. Forms flocks in winter; often visits garden feeders. Handsome, brightly colored male is distinctive, with bluish cowl, pink face and breast, black-and-white wing pattern (colors muted in winter). Female much drabber but shares male pattern; especially note the complex wing pattern. Both sexes have white outer tail feathers, often striking in flight such as when flushed.

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