Common name: common Greenfinch

 Scientific name: Carduelis chloris

 Order: Passeriformes

 Family: Fingillidae

 Length: 14 - 15 cm.

 Importance: 25-27 cm.

 Iris: Ø 3,5 mm.; Chestnut-tree

 Description:

 Bird of robust aspect. It stands out for his alive behavior and for his interest to singing. The macho has the top green dark parts and low green, including the obispillo; remigies secondary gray and primary yellow with black tops; the tail is a negress ended in two tops and with the beginning of the external rectrices of yellow color; broad and strong beak.The female is dun greyish with yellow zones, chest and back listed; wings and tail like the macho but of more subdued colors.

 The young persons are like the females but they have the plumage furthermore dark and striped.

 Characteristics:

 During the summer epoch it is easy to observe them in the cable of high tension singing a few very beautiful melodies, especially in the morning.Habitat:

 Central Europe. Gardens, cemeteries, parks, clear of forests of caducifolios and compounds, gardens, parks, gardens, near accessions human and avenues. In general it is possible to see him in places where the trees and bushes are present.

 The greenfinch is one of grain-eating more frequent in the gardens and urban parks.

 It has the most powerful beak after the picogordo. In the feeding-place the greenfinch is very bellicose and is in the habit of threatening to the remaining birds with the opened beakSinging:

 Harmonious, sonorous, sibilant and gorjeante; he resembles that of the canary. They issue it often in a flight or from a high innkeeper.

 Supply:

 It is a question of a grain-eating bird. He does not despise to eat insects and berries. It pleases of settling in certain species of thistles in search of his seeds, but almost always it searches show restraint in the soil.

 In autumn and winter it feeds also of berries.

 Nest building:

 When the macho courts a female, it lowers the wings, raises the tail, looks at the sky and issues his bel canto.

 The "most "early" pairs begin to construct the nest about April, finishing the epoch of baby of this species in August. During these 4 months they effect from 2 to 3 puttings, realized normally in the trees (fruit trees, trees placed in the parks and

The putting consists from 4 to 6 eggs, which are incubated for two weeks. The eggs have the white rind, with black spots in the broadest end. The incubation corresponds exclusively to the female, while the macho remains immobile from a nearby innkeeper, though they are both members of the pair those that feed the babies, who take vegetable products of the maw of his parents. Once left the nest the babies ask his parents for food with an endless "duil-duil". In the summer these imploring tones are listened from the thickness of the glass of the tree.

 Migratory movements:

 The Common Greenfinch is an annual species.