chaffinch
chaffinch
Definition
chaf·finch (c̸haf′inc̸h′)
chaffinch
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- find: After the walk we headed for Chorros de Espina and found two Chaffinch.
Adjective modifier
- female: A female Chaffinch was seen once at the weekend on the ground in the garden, she has not been seen at the feeders.
- male: This male chaffinch was waiting for his turn at the bird feeder.
- few: Island Canaries and a few Chaffinches were in some fields and along the roadside verge were some Small Blue butterflies.
- blue: We soon found a group of blue chaffinches feeding by the picnic tables, with a few canaries.
- several: Our first winter visitor, a brambling, seen in the garden among several chaffinches.
Modifies a noun
- singing: A young bird, within the first year of life, hears other chaffinches singing.
chaffinch Quotes
Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In Englandönow!
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