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What the Common Linnet sounds like
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The common linnet is a slim bird with a long tail. The upper parts are brown, the throat is sullied white and the bill is grey. The summer male has a grey nape, red head-patch and red breast. Females and young birds lack the red and have white underparts, the breast streaked buff.
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When to see the Common Linnet
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Common Linnet
The map shades 72 countries with regular records, and 6 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Taiwan, United States, India, Iceland, Kuwait, Faroe Islands.
About the Common Linnet
The common linnet or Eurasian linnet is a small passerine bird of the finch family, Fringillidae. It derives its common name and the scientific name, Linaria, from its fondness for hemp seeds and flax seeds—flax being the English name of the plant from which linen is made.
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Easily confused with
TwiteLinaria flavirostrisThe twite is similar in size and shape to a linnet, at 13 to 13.5 cm (5.1 to 5.3 in) long.
Yemen LinnetLinaria yemenensisThe Yemen linnet is a species of finch in the family Fringillidae.
Warsangli LinnetLinaria johannisThe Warsangli linnet is a species of finch in the family Fringillidae.
Side by side: Common Linnet vs Twite
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