Common chaffinch
- Description
- Chaffinches feed on insects and seeds. In The Birds of Devon D’Urban notes that of all the finches, the chaffinch plunders the most seeds and fruit buds. However, it makes up for these ‘thefts’ by also devouring the seeds of ‘noxious weeds’. This female bird is dated 12 December 1907.
- Accession Loan No.
- 395/1907
- Collection Class
- Birds
- Common Name
- common chaffinch
- Simple Name
- bird: skin
- Full Name
- FRINGILLIDAE: Fringilla coelebs Linnaeus: common chaffinch
- Family Group
- Collector / Excavator
- D'Urban, Mr William Stewart Mitchell (from the collection of)
- Collection Town
- Topsham
- Collection County
- Devon
- Collection Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe
- Phylum
- CHORDATA: VERTEBRATA
- Family
- FRINGILLIDAE
- Genus
- Fringilla Linnaeus
- Species
- coelebs Linnaeus
