Bird school

• Brambling
• Blue tit
• Bullfinch
• Blackbird
• Barn swallow
• Bohemian waxwing
• Black woodpecker
• Black redstart
• Blackcap
• Chaffinch
• Chiffchaff
• Crow
• Coal tit
• Crested tit
• Common swift
• Common treecreeper
• Dunnock
• Fieldfare
• Greenfinch
• Goldfinch
• Greater woodpecker
• Garden warbler
• Great tit
• Green woodpecker
• House martin
• House sparrow
• Hawfinch
• Jackdaw
• Linnet
• Long-tailed tit
• Lesser whitethroat
• Lesser spotted woodpecker
• Marsh tit
• Magpie
• Mistle thrush
• Nightingale
• Nuthatch
• Pheasant
• Pied flycatcher
• Redpoll
• Rook
• Redstart
• Robin
• Spotted flycatcher
• Siskin
• Starling
• Song thrush
• Yellowhammer
• Winter wren
• Willow
• Tree sparrow
• Wood pigeon
• White wagtail
• Willow tit
• Whitethroat

The bullfinch

Did you know?

The male The female The young bird

Before the nest is built and breeding begins, the male courts the female with a complicated dance during which he demonstrates his white belly

Appearance
This is a heavily set finch with a substantial hooked beak, black crown and a shining white belly. The adult male is red on the neck and abdomen while the female has the same features with a greyish brown colour underneath.

Similar bird
This is the only red breasted bird with a black head and ashen grey back.

Sounds and song
A soft call can be heard from both flying and sitting birds.

Food and bird tables
Frequent guest at bird tables.
The bullfinch feeds on seeds, berries and sprouts from deciduous trees, but to some extent also insects. It is a popular bird in Western Europe as it often visits our bird tables in the wintertime.

The nest and hollows
The female builds a nest from twigs and root fibres which she will usually place at a couple of metres height in a small fir or in a juniper shrub.