Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs )
A male chaffinch
FEEDING
Chaffinches eat a variety of seeds and scraps. They eat Peanuts granules and sunflower hearts.
They also eat
fruits
berries
insects
spiders
grain
Winter and Autumn: Chaffinch is a seed eater and in the winter and autumn feeds in flocks on farmland
Nesting Season In the nesting season they they forage in trees and bushes, hunting for spiders, [...]
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The Coal Tit
FEEDING
The Coal Tit -
Their main food is insects and their larvae (particularly those that attack trees)
Take seeds and nuts and particularly like sunflower seeds and can often be glimpsed at bird feeders.
All tits are acrobatic birds and the coal tit is no exception. They can easily hang from bird feeders
DESCRIPTION
The coal tit is one [...]
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SONG
A variety of ‘cheep’ and chirp’.
One of the reasons they sing is to keep in contact within the flock they are in.
FEEDING House Sparrows are seed eaters. This means they have beaks that let them crack open the husk and get the seed from inside. Many birds can’t do this.
House sparrows eat a variety of [...]
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Robin
Latin Name: Erithacus rubecula
Feeding
A specialist Robin and songbird mixed seed will bring robins to your garden.
Feed that contains berries and insects will help the robin survive the winter.
Their usual diet is insects and their larvae, spiders and worms, weed seeds and fruit berries, seeds, nuts and oats.
Loves mealworms and eating from birdtables.
Description
Large, black eyes. Forehead, throat [...]
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Name of bird: The Cuckoo
Latin name Cuculus canorus
Colloquial or slang name: The cuckoo
Description – It could be mistaken for a sparrowhawk.
Its ‘cuckoo’ call is a sign of Spring. The cuckoo is a parasite and causes the death of other fledglings as it takes over the nest of the host. Any bird (almost) could be [...]
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