Small bird (approx 16 cm or 6.5 in) with a striking white spot on the shoulder and wings, very visible in flight. Males with ventral plumage, breast and cheeks in salmon colour, blue-grey nape, and small black band on the forehead. Back also salmon. Females with plumage of more muted and brown tones. Less marked blue-grey colour on forehead and nape.
Woodland environment
Forest species that occupies dense and open wooded masses. Present also in parks and gardens, wooded urban areas and bushes and crops and boundaries with trees, even if dispersed. In the spring they occupy the wooded areas and in winter they explore more the fallow and stubble fields.
Species resident in the province all year round. It breeds from March. Two annual layings of 3 to 6 eggs. Nest in trees. Granivore. Feeding based on seeds, buds and fleshy fruits, complemented with insects during the breeding season. Gregarious, it forms flocks from summer until spring.
Very common and frequent bird throughout the Great Path.
Finches are songbirds with great musical gifts. But it is believed that these gifts are not innate, but that the chicks have the ability to learn from their parents' talent.
- Altos de Hondonero
- Arroyo de la Ventilla
- Camino de la Fuenfría
- El Alcázar - La Maroma
- El Cerro de Santi Petri
- El Torcal
- Fuente de los 100 Caños
- Fuente del Acebuche
- Genal and Guadiaro rivers junction
- Genil River banks
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 16. Cuevas Bajas - Alameda
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 19. Campillos - Embalses del Guadalhorce
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 20. Embalses del Guadalhorce - Estación de El Chorro (Álora)
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 21. Estación de El Chorro (Álora) - Carratraca - Ardales
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 22. Ardales - El Burgo
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 23. El Burgo - Ronda
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 24. Ronda - Estación de Benaoján
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 26. Jimera de Líbar - Benalauría
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 27. Benalauría - Genalguacil
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 28. Genalguacil - Casares
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 29. Casares - Estepona
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 30. Estepona - Marbella
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 31. Marbella - Ojén
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 32. Ojén - Mijas
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 33. Mijas - Benalmádena
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 34. Benalmádena - Alhaurín de la Torre
- Great Malaga Path (GR 249). Stage 35. Alhaurín de la Torre - Málaga
- Hoz de Marín
- Llanos de Líbar
- Montes de Malaga Natural Park
- Quejigales - Puerto de Los Pilones
- Refugio de Juanar
- Río del Burgo
- Río Guadalmina
- Río Jorox
- Sierra de Mollina y Laguna de la Ratosa
- Sierra del Padrastro
- Tajos del Fraile, Doña Ana y Gómer
- Valley of Genal River
- Valley of the Guadalhorce River
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