Chaffinch

Word CHAFFINCH
Character 9
Hyphenation chaf finch
Pronunciations /ˈt͡ʃæfɪnt͡ʃ/

Definitions and meanings of "Chaffinch"

What do we mean by chaffinch?

A small European songbird (Fringilla coelebs) having reddish-brown plumage and a blue-gray cap in the male. noun

A common European bird of the genus Fringilla, F. cœlebs, whose pleasant short and oft-repeated song is heard from early spring to the middle of summer. noun

A name of the Australian birds of the genus Chloëbia, as C. gouldiæ. noun

A bird of Europe (Fringilla cœlebs), having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch. noun

A small passerine bird, Fringilla coelebs, of the finch family. noun

Small European finch with a cheerful song noun

A small passerine bird, Fringilla coelebs, of the finch family.

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The word "chaffinch" in example sentences

In a low tree I spotted a female chaffinch, which is one of the most common birds in Europe and is all but absent in Malta, owing to the country's widespread illegal finch trapping. ❋ Unknown (2010)

House birds like the blue tit or the chaffinch eat seeds or insects, which are easy to find in the countryside when the weather is mild, as it has been for this winter so far. ❋ Unknown (2012)

The warbling of a chaffinch flitting through the bushes. ❋ Alix Rickloff (2011)

Verhagen recently collaborated on a paper titled “Modeling Cultural Evolution: A Parallel Investigation of Changes in Bird Song and Human Language,” based on how chaffinch song evolved along a chain of oceanic islands. ❋ Sy Montgomery (2010)

Sparrows at the top end of a hedge, chaffinch in the middle and yellowhammers at the far end kept their abrasive little calls to themselves, flying only short loops from the hedge as if they knew the wind would sweep them away on its fierce currents to the east. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The chaffinch is best heard in isolation at between 1:49-1:51. ❋ Unknown (2010)

• Two different species seem to be competing, the chaffinch and wren. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's a wren that kicks off proceedings at around 1:38 but again the chaffinch interrupts at 1:40. ❋ Unknown (2010)

While it's a chaffinch that begins to sing at around 1:26 it's the wren that carries on up to 1:30. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Each valley of northern Scotland features a distinct chaffinch song. ❋ Sy Montgomery (2010)

Birds (12) buzzard; hobby; wood pigeon; crow; chiffchaff; blackbird; chaffinch; grey heron; gull (unspecified); green woodpecker; magpie; owl (unspecified); ❋ Unknown (2010)

• Large flocks of chaffinch with some bramblings in woodland, abundant redwing and fieldfare in hawthorn hedges, and rare waxwings appearing in unusually high numbers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

All the flower colours here come from green, as do the songs of willow warbler, chaffinch and skylark. ❋ Unknown (2010)

From somewhere a chaffinch added a note in counterpoint: Take wing! ❋ L.J. SMITH (2010)

Another bird who starts to sing in February is the chaffinch. ❋ Michele Ann Young (2009)

The fuse-wire-thin goldcrest calls, a single curtailed pink of a chaffinch, and my breath. ❋ TIM DEE (2009)

The ring-dove found his hemp-seed, the chaffinch found his millet, the goldfinch found chickweed, the red-breast found worms, the green finch found flies, the fly found infusoriae, the bee found flowers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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