A PAIR of greenfinches, which are on the UK red list, have been spotted in Herefordshire.<\/p>\n
Tony Dell, a member of our Birds Spotted in Herefordshire group on Facebook,\u00a0spotted a pair of the birds in Clehonger.<\/p>\n
According to the RSPB, the birds nest in conifers, love to feast on sunflower seeds, and are a regular garden visitor despite their numbers being in decline.<\/p>\n
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Although quite sociable, they may squabble among themselves or with other birds at the bird table.<\/p>\n
Greenfinch populations declined during the late 1970s and early 1980s but increased dramatically during the 1990s. A recent decline in numbers has been linked to an outbreak of trichomonosis, a parasite-induced disease that prevents the birds from feeding properly.<\/p>\n
The British Trust for Ornithology says the birds can be found across the UK and Ireland at all times of year.<\/p>\n
The males have distinctive green plumage with yellow in the wing and tail while the females and juveniles are duller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A PAIR of greenfinches, which are on the UK red list, have been spotted in Herefordshire. Tony Dell,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[10729,600,4735,10732,70,10730,10731,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-15743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-birds-nest","9":"tag-facebook","10":"tag-herefordshire","11":"tag-rspb","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-sunflower-seeds","14":"tag-tony-dell","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114329136972914341","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}