finch
a female finch
a kind of bird – song bird – several kinds of birds (true finches) with short to moderately long strong thick cone-shaped beak (bill) with 12 tail feathers, found mostly in the northern hemisphere and Africa belong to this family; grows to 3-9 inches long, weighs 8-79 grams; (different sources give different years of life span to different species);
female ~~ hen
baby ~~ chick
group ~~ charm
voice (call) ~~ cheep (different sounds)
home ~~ nest (for laying eggs and raising chicks)
Some common finch names are: chaffinch, goldfinch, greenfinch, bullfinch, spectacled finch, rosefinch, (zebra finch of Australia (?)), grassfinch, pinefinch
a male finch
The ‘Sinai Rosefinch’ is the national bird of Jordan, an Arab country in the Southwest Asia.
The ‘eastern goldfinch or American goldfinch’ is the state bird of Iowa, New Jersey; the ‘willow goldfinch or American goldfinch’ is the state bird of Washington; and the ‘purple finch’ is the state bird of New Hampshire, USA.
The ‘finch’ is the common name for the largest family of song birds with strong beak (bill) for crack opening different kinds of seeds they feed on, found all over the world.
In some species (kinds) the males are with very brightly coloured feathers and the females are mostly drab – in plain grey or light brown feathers.
to pull a finch = to rob an innocent person (of some valuables) by cheating
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