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Female chaffinch

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Female chaffinch

Female chaffinches have a brown head and nape, and, the short stubby beak of most seed-eating birds. Their double white wing bar can be clearly seen here. Female chaffinches build neat nests of dry grass and moss, usually in the fork of a tree, and incubate the eggs. Both parents feed the nestlings.

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Christina Troup, Introduced land birds – Finches, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/17178/female-chaffinch (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Christina Troup, published 1 March 2009.