Appearance:

Pinkish red (male) or greyish brown (female) underparts, and slate grey upperparts. Bill short and deep. Hood, tail, wings, bill and base of bill shiny black. Pure white rump and vent, together with white wing-bars prominent in flight. Wings and tail relatively long. Juveniles lacks black hood. Flight strongly undulated. Not so hurried as other finches when foraging.

Sound:

Contact call a soft, full-bodied, descending, pure whistle; "peeuu". Song a quiet, modest mix of contact call and various chirping sounds, with peculiar harmonics.

Contact call, song:

Distribution:

Xeno-canto: map

Ecology:

Birdlife ecology

Links:

Observation.org Latest observations

Video IBC

Image search Flickr NB! May give other species

Sound search at Xeno-canto

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Appearance:

Combination of striking black and white head and yellow underparts makes it rather unmistakable. Back greenish, tail and wings bluish. Outer tail feathers white. Sexes alike except for wider black belly-stripe in males. Biggest tit.

Sound:

Song highly variable, but usually consisting of two to three notes repeated in a motif. Same birds have many different motifs but generally repeat them many times before switching. Identified by its timbre and often metallic resonant quality, more than by actual phrasing (which is very variable). Often includes buzzing sounds in song. Generally more full-bodied and resonant calls than blue tit, and not so high-pitched. Characteristic Chaffinch-like "tink tink tink" often uttered by male.

Song:

Distribution:

Wikipedia: map (se also Xeno-canto below)

Ecology:

Birdlife ecology

Links:

Observation.org Latest observations

Video IBC

Image search Flickr NB! May give other species

Sound search at Xeno-canto

Featherbase

CC