Linnet
A small slim finch adundant in open areas, especially marsh and shingle areas in winter. Widespread and numerous resident in the UK.
Identification
- 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 - 14 cms
- Bill
- Grey; short & thin
- 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 & Feeding
- Nest
- In bushes
- Eggs
- 4 - 6 pale blue, speckled reddish
- Incubation Period
- 10 - 14 days
- Broods
- 2 - 3; April - June
- Food
- Seeds
- UK Breeding Pairs
- 800,000 pairs
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