Noun:

ஒரு சிறிய (பாடும்) பறவை,

linnet's Usage Examples:

linnets manager Gary Mills said: " I'm delighted.

3 This little bird, which is about the size of the linnet, has the head and back silvery blue, and the rest of the plumage chocolate red-brown.

In addition to skylarks, other birds feeding on the roof have included linnet, meadow pipit and pied wagtail.

linnets in the rape field.

The redpolls form a little group placed by many authorities in the genus Linota, to which they are unquestionably closely allied, and, as stated elsewhere (see FINCH), the linnets seem to be related to the birds of the genus Leucosticte, the species of which inhabit the northern parts of North-West America and of Asia.

Birds of passage include the buzzard, kite, quail, wild fowl of various kinds, golden thrush, wagtail, linnet, finch and nightingale.

They are found on heath, salt marsh and open scrub, where they can find goldfinch, linnet or meadow pipit.

The birds of this genus - the crossbills - when their other characters are taken into account, prove to be intimately allied on the one hand to the grosbeaks (Pinicola) and on the other through the redpolls (Aegiothus) to the linnets (Linota) - if indeed these two can be properly separated.

As these waste places have been gradually brought under the plough, in England and Scotland particularly, the haunts and means of subsistence of the linnet have been curtailed, and hence its numbers have undergone a very visible diminution throughout Great Britain.

Thus, the linnet and partridge have failed to establish themselves in New Zealand.

Synonyms:

lintwhite, Carduelis, genus Carduelis, finch, Carduelis cannabina,

Antonyms:

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