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- noun Plural form of
chaffinch .
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Examples
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Birds such as chaffinches are also responding to higher temperatures
British Blogs BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition 2010
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Within a couple of minutes there were great tits, blue tits and chaffinches all round me and all inquisitive.
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Our blue tits and chaffinches are perfectly happy in the countryside at the moment.
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They were at once confidently identified by my companions: chaffinches, reed buntings and yellowhammers but no tree sparrows, although between 15 and 25 are now resident in this wetland, brought back by the establishment of the Cary Marsh nature reserve.
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Two robins are engaged in a musical duel, chaffinches flit from branch to branch plinking and chinking constantly.
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A few weeks ago, a flock of chaffinches came down to pick the ground clean of its seedy harvest.
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Their absence has triggered a flurry of letters and emails to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds from anxious householders disconcerted by the absence of blue tits, greenfinches, chaffinches and house sparrows from suburban Britain.
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Blackbirds, thrushes and chaffinches will all have nesting sites in the hedgerows.
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Rowan nods, knowing he could never tell her he has only ever heard birdsong online, or that he and Clara once spent a good hour watching video footage of chirping sedge warblers and chaffinches, nearly in tears.
The Redleys Matt Haig 2010
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Rowan nods, knowing he could never tell her he has only ever heard birdsong online, or that he and Clara once spent a good hour watching video footage of chirping sedge warblers and chaffinches, nearly in tears.
The Redleys Matt Haig 2010
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