Finches

Songs

Chaffinch (Apr, Herts).












Goldfinch (Apr, Suffolk).











(Apr, Herts).











Greenfinch (Apr, Herts).











Calls

The male Chaffinch in spring utters calls that may be a substitute for the song. These are learned and known as "rain calls".
(Apr, Herts)









(Apr, Suffolk)




















Chaffinch alarm call (Apr, Herts).











Chaffinch flight call (bird in flight, Apr, Suffolk).












The Greenfinch flight call is harder and a little higher than the Chaffinch call, and often rapidly repeated (perched birds, Dec, Herts).











The common flight call of the Lesser Redpoll is usually doubled (in flight, Dec, Herts).












Flock of about 50 feeding at the top of a birch (Dec, Herts).


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The common Siskin flight call is a descending pyoo or kyoo (Dec, Suffolk).




















Two call variants (Dec, Suffolk).



















A flock feeding at the top of an alder, with harsh rattling calls (Dec, Suffolk).











The Hawfinch alarm call is similar to the tick alarm call of the Robin, but is often single or doubled and heard from the top of a tree or in flight (Apr, Suffolk).











Robin alarm call for comparison(Dec, Herts).

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