Exempel på chaffinch

• Every four or five minutes a chaffinch sings close by, and another fills the interval near the gateway. 

• How curious is the structure of the nest of the goldfinch or chaffinch! 

• The chaffinches called cheerfully on the plum-trees and sang in the early morning. 

• The daisies and the dandelions were still tightly shut, and in the hedgerow a half-awakened chaffinch hopped from twig to twig, too sleepy to chirrup. 

• Wherever a group of other trees rose amid the firs, the loud chirp of the chaffinch was heard, or the eager twitter of some little newly-wedded birds, disputing about the position of their nest. 

• Other species observed near the poison sites included rabbits, hares, foxes, roe, fallow and red deer and very small birds, mostly greenfinches and chaffinches.

• It included such birds as the hedge sparrow, song thrush, linnet, chaffinch and moorhen.

• In all, 20 chaffinches were used in these experiments.

• I have been in many modest homes where the bullfinch, the chaffinch and the goldfinch have been made the objects of love, thought and attention.

• They did not know a sparrow from a chaffinch.

• So far as is known, birds are the only animals, apart from man, which have the power of vocal imitation; hence the use of chaffinches in this particular experiment.

• But the average child would hardly be able to tell the difference between the eggs of a chaffinch and those of a goldcrest, except by size.

• Like the common chaffinch, but, unlike most other finches, its young are fed extensively on insects.

• There was a reduction in the number of greenfinches but no significant decline in the overall number of chaffinches.

• There are a number of magnificent old oaks, and breeding birds include sparrowhawk, stock dove, bullfinch, willow warbler and chaffinch.

• Birds that can be seen in the area include, skylarks, sparrowhawks, kestrels, goldcrests and chaffinches.

• The birds which are known to nest or visit include blackcap, common chaffinch, grasshopper warbler, grey partridge, kingfisher, sand martin, skylark and sparrowhawk.

• For this, the audience is divided into four groups, taking the parts of owls, herons, turtle-doves and chaffinches engaging in a singing competition.

• There is also a wide variety of woodland birds, such as chaffinch, treecreeper and nuthatch, throughout the year.

• The common chaffinch often nests close to a mistle thrush, the vigilance of the finch and the aggressive behaviour of the thrush benefiting both species.