The common redpoll (Acanthis flammea) is a species of bird in the finch family. It breeds somewhat further south than the Arctic redpoll, also in habitats with thickets or shrubs.
Description
The common redpoll is a small brownish-grey finch with dark streaks and a bright red patch on its forehead. It has a black bib and two pale stripes on the wings. Males often have their breasts suffused with red. It is smaller, browner and more streaked than the generally similar Arctic redpoll, adults measuring between 11.5 and 14 centimetres in length and weighing between 12 and 16 grams . The rump is streaked and there is a broad dark brown streak across the vent. It has brown legs, dark-tipped yellowish bills and dark brown irises.
Behaviour
The range of the common redpoll extends through northern Europe and Asia to northern North America, Greenland and Iceland. It is a partial migrant, moving southward in late autumn and northward again in March and April. Its typical habitat is boreal forest of pines, spruces and larches. It feeds mainly on seeds, principally birch and alder seed in the winter.
The common redpoll builds its nest low down in a tree or bush. The nest has an outer layer of thin twigs, a middle layer of root fibres, fragments of juniper bark and lichens and an inner layer of down, willow buds and reindeer hair. Three to seven speckled eggs are laid and incubated by the female. They hatch after about eleven days and the young fledge in about a further thirteen days.
Asturian: Pardín de Baberu
Belarusian: Звычайная чачотка, Чачотка звычайная
Bulgarian: Брезова скатия
Breton: Ar golvennig penn ruz
Catalan: Passerell, Passerell golanegre
Catalan (Balears): Passerell golanegre
Valencian: Passerell
Czech: Čečetka tundrová , Čečetka zimní
Welsh: Bengoch, Linbengoch, Llinos bengoch, Llinos bengoch gyffredin, Llinos flodiog, Llinos frongoch, Pengoch
Danish: Gråsisken, Stor Gråsisken
German: Birkenzeisig, Birkenzeisig-flammea, Taigabirkenzeisig
Greek: Τσακρίλλι
Greek (Cypriot): Τσακρίλλι
English: Common Redpoll, Lesser Redpoll, Mealy Common Redpoll, Mealy Redpoll, Redpoll
English (IOC): Common Redpoll
Esperanto: flamkardelo
Spanish: Organillo, Pardillo Norteño, Pardillo piquigualdo, Pardillo sicerin, Pardillo Sizerín
Spanish (Spain): Pardillo Sizerín
Spanish (HBW): Pardillo norteño
Estonian: Urvalind
Basque: Passerell golanegre , Txoka gorritza
Finnish: Urpiainen
Faroese: Reyðkollur
French: Sizerin à tête rouge, Sizerin cabaret, Sizerin caberet, Sizerin flammé
Irish: Deargéadan, Gleoisín cúldearg
Gaelic: Deargan Seilich
Galician: Liñaceiro común, Liñaceiro paponegra, Passerell golanegre
Manx: Bytermmyn Dhone, Bytermyn cooyl-jiarg, Lossan Ruy
Hebrew: שחירת־סנטר, תפוחית שחורת סנטר, תפוחית שחורת־סנטר
Croatian: Sjeverna juričica
Hungarian: Zsezse
Icelandic: Auðnutittlingur
Italian: Organetto, Organetto comune, Organetto nordico
Inuktitut: Orpimmiutaq, Shetshageak
Japanese: beni hiwa, benihiwa, Beni-hiwa
Japanese: ベニヒワ
Japanese (Kanji): 紅鶸
Georgian: ჩრდილოეთის ჭვინტა
Khakas: Паранчых, Тыбайах
Kazakh: Шекілдек
Kazakh (Transliteration): şekildek
Greenlandic: Orpimmiutaq, Shetshageak
Korean: 홍방울새
Korean (Transliteration): hong-bangul-sae
Cornish: Pencough
Scientific: Acanthis flammea, Acanthis flammea flammea, Carduelis flammea, Carduelis flammea flammea, Carduelis linaria, Fringilla flammea
Luxembourgish: Rouden Zeisel
Limburgish: Kneuter, Kneuterke
Lithuanian: Čimčiakas, Paprastasis cimciakas, Paprastasis čimčiakas
Latvian: (ķeģis), Alkšņu putniņš, Parastais ķeģis
Macedonian: Брезова чинка, Северно конопларче
Mongolian: Дөлөн цэгцүүхэй, Улаан толгойт, Улаан толгойт бужирга
Mongolian (Bichig, Inner Mongolia): ᠬᠣᠨᠳᠣᠯᠠᠢ ᠴᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠰᠠᠷᠠᠲᠣ ᠪᠢᠯᠵᠣᠣᠬᠠᠢ
Mongolian (Cyrillic, Inner Mongolia): Хондлой цагаан сарт бялзуухай
Mongolian (Transliteration): dölöŋ tsegtsüükhei, khondloi tsagaan sart byalzuukhai, ulaaŋ tolgoit bujirag
Moldavian: Inăriță
Maltese: Bagħal tal-Ġojjin
Dutch: Barmijs, Barmsijs, Grote Barmsijs, Marmsijs
Norwegian Nynorsk: Gråsisik
Norwegian: Gråsisik
Polish: czeczotka, czeczotka (zwyczajna), Czeczotka zwyczajna
Pinyin: bái-yāo zhū-dǐng-què, hóng ruò, pǔtōng zhū-dǐng-què, zhù diǎn, zhù diǎn hóng, zhū-dǐng-què
Portuguese: pintaroxo de queixo preto, Pintaroxo-de-queixo-preto, Pintarroxo-de-queixo-preto, Pintarrôxo-de-queixo-preto
Portuguese (Portugal): Pintarroxo-de-queixo-preto
Romansh: Zaisch da laresch, zaisch da laresch nordic
Romanian: Inăriță
Russian: Обыкновенная чечетка, Обыкновенная чечётка , Чечётка, Чечетка обыкновенная
Scots: Dearcan seilich
Northern Sami: Umpolcizaš
Slovak: Stehlík čečetavý, Stehlík čečetavý alpský, stehlík čečetka
Slovenian: brezovcek, brezovček, Severni brezovček
Serbian: Brezova juričica, juricica, juricica (konopljarka), Konopljarka, Severna juričica, sjeverna jurcica, sjeverna jurčica, Конопљарка, Северна jуричица, Северна јуричица, Северна коноплјарка
Swedish: Gråsiska
Turkish: Hup İsketesi, Huş İsketesi, Kuzey ketenkuşu, Шекілдек
Ukrainian: Звичайна чечітка, Чечітка звичайна
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