Chaffinch, Fringilla coelebs, Linnaeus, 1758, also known as the common chaffinch, Eurasian/European chaffinch, and by a suite of evocative nicknames, such as the whitewing or white finch, copper finch ...

Wenlock Edge, Shropshire: The chaffinch’s chest is dawn-lit, his head grey, the heraldry of his flash-feathers signalling the breeding season to come For a brief moment, a cock chaffinch owns the ...

Research by the RSPB has established that bird tables and other flat feeders carry the greatest risk of transmitting the disease. Birds suffering from trichomonosis typically perc ...

Chaffinches are around 14-16cm in length with a wingspan of 26cm. They live here all year around and are typically found in woodland, farmland, and gardens across the whole country. These birds are ...

Bird-lover Leon Timms brought a garden bird back from the brink of death using an iPhone bird call app. Timms diligently nursed the chaffinch back to health (Picture: INS News) The tree surgeon used ...

‘FROM your lofty perch atop the leafy tree… You pipe your tunes… The tunes your father piped in days gone by'. The words of Irish-born poet Francis Duggan, now living in Australia, on our much-admired ...

The chaffinch is the most common bird to be seen in Scottish gardens, according to a recent survey. The study, by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), found that the species visited ...

SCOTLAND'S most abundant garden bird is the chaffinch, the world's biggest bird survey has revealed. Almost three quarters of the 26,788 people in Scotland involved in the RSPB's Big Garden BirdWatch ...