Chaffinch Call MP3s
Clean song and contact-call recordings for one of Europe's most common finches, made for identification and study, not hunting.
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About this species
Around 15 cm in length, the Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) is a passerine songbird: the male slate-blue-headed and pink-breasted, both sexes flashing double white wing-bars. It is a familiar bird of woodland, parks, hedgerows and leafy gardens.
The male's cheerful song accelerates into a descending rattle with a final flourish. It takes small seeds and aquatic invertebrates sieved from the surface and shallow mud. One of the most abundant of all European birds, it forms large, mobile winter flocks. On migration it moves through Greece and the Mediterranean in great numbers, a familiar bird of field, wood and garden.
Legal use
The Chaffinch is a protected species across essentially all of its European range, including under the UK Wildlife and Countryside Act, and it is not a recognized game bird under EU law. Recent attempts to open recreational shooting or live-trapping seasons — including a 2025 Lombardy (Italy) derogation covering Chaffinch, which a Rome administrative court ruled unlawful, and Malta's recurring autumn finch-trapping derogation covering Chaffinch and six other finch species, which the EU Court of Justice found breached the Birds Directive in 2024 and which remains under fresh EU infringement action for 2025 — underscore that there is no valid, durable general hunting season for this species. This product is intended for birdwatching, identification, and lawful decoy or research use for Chaffinch — see our full country-by-country disclaimer for details on protected-species rules in your location.