European Greenfinch
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European Greenfinch

Chloris chloris(Linnaeus, 1758)

Native
Order
PASSERIFORMES
Genus
Chloris
Commonness
Very common
Best seen
Year-round

01 · Identification

How to tell it apart

The European greenfinch or simply the greenfinch is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae.

Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

02 · Where

Where to find it

Breeding range
Subarctic to subtropical west and central Palearctic in woods, gardens, oases: British Isles and north Scandinavia east to north-west Kazakhstan, north Xinjiang (north-west China) and Krasnoyarsk (south-central Russia); in south to Iberian Pen., Madeira and Canary Is. (Macaronesia, west of north Africa), Morocco to Tunisia (north-west and north-central Africa) and north-east Egypt, Mediterranean to Turkey, Cyprus, Levant. north Iraq and north Iran through Altai region to south-east Kazakhstan
Non-breeding range
Some withdrawal from north

03 · When

When to look

Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.

  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
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  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec

05 · Behaviour

Habits and haunts

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