Field guide to the most commonly encountered mammals and birds

Here, we provide some basic information regarding commonly observed species (plus some others about which we have had queries).  

Feel free to contact us by email if you have any questions regarding species you have encountered on the site.

For more information about mammals, we recommend the Mammal Society's species hub, here. For birds, excellent resources are available from the RSPB (here) and the BTO (here).

 

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Greenfinch (European)

(C) Edwyn Anderton (shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 license)

 

Scientific Name: Chloris chloris

Appearance: Sexes differ. Male: Apple-green plumage above and below. Dark patch between eye and bill. Yellow edging to flight feathers visible as stripe with wings closed. Yellow-edged tail feathers. Grey wings with dark tips visible in flight. Female: overall duller plumage than male, with dull, dark streaking. Less extensive yellow on wings and tail. Both sexes have heavy, conical, pale bill.

Song: Disorderly-sounding series of trills and call notes of varying pace. Some musical, others metallic, intermixed with wheezing, buzzy dzweee.

When heard: Resident. Male song produced from March through to end of breeding season in August.

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