Linnet

Linnet - Carduelis cannabina
A small slim finch adundant in open areas, especially marsh and shingle areas in winter. Widespread and numerous resident in the UK.
Indentification
Male Males are attractively marked with a crimson forehead & breast in spring & summer. They have a grey head, brown back & buff belly & throat. Their tails are are black & white, medium in length and notched.
Female The female lacks the crimson forehead & breast instead has but has a buff streaked colouring.
Size 13 - 14cms
Bill grey, short & stubby
Legs grey; medium in length
Habitat heaths, estuaries, woods, hedges and gardens
Behaviour flits, perches openly, hops, takes off & lands from vegetation or the ground.
Flocking  1 - 500
Flight undulating
Voice high pitched twittering in flight
Breeding
Nest in bushes
Eggs 4 - 6 pale blue, speckled reddish 
Incubation period 10 -14 days
Fledgling 14 -17 days
Broods 2 - 3; April - June 
Food seeds
UK breeding pairs 800,000 pairs
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