Genus Carduelis, family Fringillidae: three species, in particular the common C. chloris of Europe and the Middle East
Example sentencesExamples
Outside the breeding season you will always find greenfinches in small flocks.
Two or more greenfinches will fly some distance to the garden shrub Daphne mezereum L., usually in June, to devour every one of its hundreds of large seeds.
The numbers of greenfinches have increased over the years, but so have the primroses!
In the mid 1960s deaths from salmonellosis were reported in greenfinches and house sparrows feeding at bird tables in gardens.
Birds will be roosting in your Leylandii hedge - especially greenfinches which prefer to roost in conifer.
Definition of greenfinch in US English:
greenfinch
nounˈɡrēnfin(t)SHˈɡrinfɪn(t)ʃ
A Eurasian finch with green and yellow plumage.
绿金翅雀
Genus Carduelis, family Fringillidae: three species, in particular the common C. chloris of Europe and the Middle East
Example sentencesExamples
In the mid 1960s deaths from salmonellosis were reported in greenfinches and house sparrows feeding at bird tables in gardens.
Two or more greenfinches will fly some distance to the garden shrub Daphne mezereum L., usually in June, to devour every one of its hundreds of large seeds.
Birds will be roosting in your Leylandii hedge - especially greenfinches which prefer to roost in conifer.
The numbers of greenfinches have increased over the years, but so have the primroses!
Outside the breeding season you will always find greenfinches in small flocks.