The linnet lifted its beak and uttered a few melancholy notes as she opened the cage door.
Two bright goldfinches and one red-breasted linnet were just standing there.
Goldfinches and linnets happened to be two of the reserve's commonest species.
The woman in charge of the birds took linnet after linnet from a tiny cage.
A large proportion of the birds owned by bird fanciers are larks and linnets.
It included such birds as the hedge sparrow, song thrush, linnet, chaffinch and moorhen.
For example, the life of a canary in a cage is far longer than the life of a linnet or a chaffinch.
