Chaffinch

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  • noun. A small European songbird (Fringilla coelebs) having reddish-brown plumage and a blue-gray cap in the male.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A small passerine bird, Fringilla coelebs, of the finch family.
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  • noun. small European finch with a cheerful song
  • Word Usage
    "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."
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    finch  
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