Listen to nature: explore bird wildlife sounds: Sparrows and Finches, Sunbirds and Flowerpeckers (Ploceidae, Fringillidae, Nectariniidae, Dicaeidae)
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| Bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula | |
| song, recorded by A. Rex Ashby, 10 April 1988, New Forest, Hampshire, England. | |
| Bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula | |
| cagebirds singing German folk tunes, recorded by Jurgen Nicolai, Hessen, Germany. | |
| Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs | |
| aberrant song, recorded by Richard Ranft, 10 May 1988, Kensington Gardens, London, England. | |
| Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs | |
| song, recorded by Richard Ranft, 17 June 1989, Ennerdale, Cumbria, England. | |
| Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs | |
| calls, recorded by William Pedley, 22 April 1986, Leckhampstead Wood, Buckinghamshire, England. | |
| Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs | |
| song, recorded by William Thorpe, 1954, England. | |
| Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs | |
| Kaspar Hauser chaffinch (raised in acoustic isolation), recorded by William Thorpe, 7 May 1956, England. | |
| Common Crossbill Loxia curvirostra | |
| community singing, recorded by Simon Elliott, 4 November 1990, Kielder Forest, Northumberland, England. | |
| Corn Bunting Emberiza calandra | |
| song, recorded by E Allsopp, 15 July 1967, Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire, England. | |
| Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis | |
| song, recorded by Eric & May Nobles, 29 July 1992, Llangynog, Montgomeryshire, Wales. | |
| Greenfinch Carduelis chloris | |
| calls, recorded by Patrick Sellar, 8 August 1982, Purley, Surrey, England. | |
| House Sparrow Passer domesticus | |
| calls, recorded by Eric & May Nobles, 24 July 1992, Upper Tanat Valley , Montgomeryshire, Wales. | |
| Linnet Acanthis cannabina | |
| flight calls, recorded by Victor Lewis, 25 May 1965, Berkshire, England. | |
| Redpoll Acanthis flammea | |
| song during display flight, recorded by William Pedley, 11 July 1975, Salthouse Heath, Norfolk, England. | |
| Reed Bunting Emberzia schoeniclus | |
| song, recorded by William Pedley, 10 July 1973, Buckinghamshire, England. | |
| Seychelles Sunbird Nectarinia dussumieri | |
| song, recorded by Robert Stjernstedt, 8 November 1976, Mahe, Seychelles. | |
| Siskin Carduelis spinus | |
| song, recorded by John B. Fisher, 3 April 1973, Frensham Common, Surrey, England. | |
| Yellow-eyed Canary Serinus mozambicus | |
| song, recorded by David Watts, 3 November 1984, Oliphants Camp, Kruger National Park, South Africa. | |
| Yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella | |
| song, recorded by A. Rex Ashby, 6 July 1985, Fordingbridge, Hampshire, England. | |
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