Common chaffinch or simply the chaffinch is a common and widespread small passerine bird in the finch family.
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10 Facts About Common chaffinch
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Eggs and nestlings of the Common chaffinch are taken by a variety of mammalian and avian predators.
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Common chaffinch was described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae under its current binomial name.
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The Common chaffinch is one of the many birds depicted in the marginal decoration of the 15th-century English illuminated manuscript the Sherborne Missal.
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Thorpe determined that if the young common chaffinch is not exposed to the adult male's song during a certain critical period after hatching, it will never properly learn the song.
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The common chaffinch was introduced from Great Britain into several of its overseas territories in the second half of the 19th century.
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In New Zealand, the common chaffinch had colonised both the North and South Islands by 1900 and is one of the most widespread and common passerine species.
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Eggs and nestlings of the common chaffinch are predated by crows, Eurasian red and eastern grey squirrels, domestic cats and probably by stoats and weasels.
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Common chaffinch was once popular as a caged songbird and large numbers of wild birds were trapped and sold.
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Common chaffinch is still a popular pet bird in some European countries.
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