bullfinch

The bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula is notorious for the damage it does by eating the buds of fruit trees and flowering shrubs in spring. Bullfinches prefer to stay in the safety of trees, and are rarely seen on the ground. A bullfinch's nest is made from small twigs, moss, and lichen, lined with root fibres. The female lays a clutch of four or five eggs, two or three times per year.

Eurasian finch with a thick head and neck, and short heavy bill, genus Pyrrhula pyrrhula, family Fringillidae, order Passeriformes. It is small and blue-grey or black in colour, the males being reddish and the females brown on the breast. Bullfinches are 15 cm/6 in long, and usually seen in pairs. They feed on tree buds as well as seeds and berries, and are usually seen in woodland. They also live in the Aleutians and on the Alaska mainland.