linnets in English

noun
1
a mainly brown and gray finch with a reddish breast and forehead.
And he found a number of bird species, such as the corn bunting, tree sparrow, grey partridge, skylark, linnet and yellow wagtail, which have been seriously declining since the growth of intensive agriculture.
noun

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1. 22 Meadow pipits and skylarks, redpolls and linnets.

2. The diet of nestling linnets (Acanthis cannabina) living on a heathland in Brittany (France) was studied by faecal pellet analysis during the 1982 and 1983 breeding seasons.