Tuesday Tweet - Common Chaffinch

Tuesday Tweet

@reddings_retreat_tintern Tuesday’s Tweet - Common Chaffinch

A Common Chaffinch is a regular visitor thought out the year to @reddings_retreat_tintern. Birds & other wildlife spotted at Reddings Retreat can be viewed on our website: https://reddings-retreat-tintern.webador.co.uk/

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Common Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs

Photos from Merlin Bird Identification App.

Description: 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.

Speed: 27 mph average

Source: Merlin Bird Identification App

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