A flash of green and yellow goes by so quickly the colours merge and there is no time to identify the colourful passer-by: a Siskin, a pair of Goldfinches, a Serin? It is a Greenfinch. Resident all the year in Spain, the male’s summer plumage [below, top] is brilliant. The female [below, bottom] is disappointingly dull. Seen often in flocks, Greenfinches fly up together all of a rush. They are fast fliers, with quick bursts of speed and following an undulating path.
Listen to the song of the Greenfinch and read more about it at the RSPB website.5 to remember
un Verderón – a Greenfinch
un resplandor – a flash
tan rapido – so quickly
unir – to merge
el plumaje – the plumage
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‘RSPB Complete Birds of Britain and Europe’ [UK: Dorling Kindersley]
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