Common linnet

Body length about 13 cm, weight 19–22 g. In males, the forehead and chest are red, the abdomen and sides are white, the back is brownish-brown without streaks. Females and young linnets are grayish-brown, there is no red color in plumage.

A habitat

Gardens, hedges, protective tree and shrub plantations, shrubbery in meadows and forest edges.

Reproduction

It nests on forest edges and in gardens. For a bird's nest, a shrub is most often chosen, if possible prickly. They willingly nest on small fir trees or trees, not high above the ground, rarely more than two and a half meters. The clutch contains 4-6 pale greenish-blue eggs, covered with brownish speckles, forming a corolla at the blunt end. Only the female incubates for 13–14 days.

Food

It feeds and feeds the chicks mainly with seeds and buds. Useful for weed control. Linnet is often kept in cages. Unlike most other songbirds, the linnet sings not only during the mating season.