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Index Eurasian siskin

The Eurasian siskin (Spinus spinus) is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae.[1]

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  1. 89 relations: Abies alba, Alder, Ancient Greek, Animal migration, Artemisia (plant), Asteraceae, Atlantic canary, Aviculture, Čížečku, čížečku, Baeolophus, Beak, Beetle, Belgium, Benin, Berne Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats, Birch, Bird migration, Bird nest, Bird vocalization, Black Sea, Carduelis, Carl Linnaeus, Centaurea, Chenopodium, Chizhik-Pyzhik, Citril finch, Cloaca, Conifer, Crop residue, Deciduous, Down feather, Ear, Egg incubation, Elif Shafak, Elm, European greenfinch, European serin, Filipendula ulmaria, Finch, Fir, First Engineer Bridge, Genus, German folklore, Gibraltar, Greater Khingan, Hypericum perforatum, Iberian Peninsula, Inner Mongolia, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Jiangsu, ... Expand index (39 more) »

  2. Spinus (genus)

Abies alba

Abies alba, the European silver fir or silver fir, is a fir native to the mountains of Europe, from the Pyrenees north to Normandy, east to the Alps and the Carpathians, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, and south to Italy, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Albania and northern Greece.

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Alder

Alders are trees that compose the genus Alnus in the birch family Betulaceae.

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Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.

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Animal migration

Animal migration is the relatively long-distance movement of individual animals, usually on a seasonal basis.

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Artemisia (plant)

Artemisia is a large, diverse genus of plants belonging to the daisy family Asteraceae, with almost 500 species.

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Asteraceae

Asteraceae is a large family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales.

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Atlantic canary

The Atlantic canary (Serinus canaria), known worldwide simply as the wild canary and also called the island canary, common canary, or canary, is a small passerine bird belonging to the genus Serinus in the true finch family, Fringillidae. Eurasian siskin and Atlantic canary are birds described in 1758.

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Aviculture

Aviculture is the practice of keeping and breeding birds, especially of wild birds in captivity.

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Čížečku, čížečku

Čížečku, čížečku ("Siskin, o Little Siskin") is a traditional Czech children's folk song and a singing game which was performed in the past as an annual custom supposed to enhance the yield of poppy.

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Baeolophus

Baeolophus is a genus of birds in the family Paridae, commonly called tits.

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Beak

The beak, bill, or rostrum is an external anatomical structure found mostly in birds, but also in turtles, non-avian dinosaurs and a few mammals.

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Beetle

Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera, in the superorder Holometabola.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.

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Benin

Benin (Bénin, Benɛ, Benen), officially the Republic of Benin (République du Bénin), and also known as Dahomey, is a country in West Africa.

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Berne Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats

The Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats, also known as the Bern Convention (or Berne Convention), is a binding international legal instrument in the field of Nature Conservation, it covers the natural heritage in Europe, as well as in some African countries.

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Birch

A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus Betula, in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams.

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Bird migration

Bird migration is a seasonal movement of birds between breeding and wintering grounds that occurs twice a year.

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Bird nest

A bird nest is the spot in which a bird lays and incubates its eggs and raises its young.

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Bird vocalization

Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs.

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Black Sea

The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia.

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Carduelis

The genus Carduelis is a group of birds in the finch family Fringillidae.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.

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Centaurea

Centaurea is a genus of over 700 species of herbaceous thistle-like flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.

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Chenopodium

Chenopodium is a genus of numerous species of perennial or annual herbaceous flowering plants known as the goosefoot, which occur almost anywhere in the world.

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Chizhik-Pyzhik

"Chizhyk-Pyzhik" (Чи́жик-Пы́жик) is a Russian comic folk song.

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Citril finch

The citril finch (Carduelis citrinella), also known as the Alpine citril finch, is a small songbird, a member of the true finch family, Fringillidae.

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Cloaca

A cloaca,: cloacae, is the rear orifice that serves as the only opening for the digestive, reproductive, and urinary tracts (if present) of many vertebrate animals.

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Conifer

Conifers are a group of cone-bearing seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms.

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Crop residue

Crop residues are waste materials generated by agriculture.

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Deciduous

In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, after flowering; and to the shedding of ripe fruit.

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Down feather

The down of birds is a layer of fine feathers found under the tougher exterior feathers.

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Ear

An ear is the organ that enables hearing and (in mammals) body balance using the vestibular system.

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Egg incubation

Egg incubation is the process by which an egg, of oviparous (egg-laying) animals, develops an embryo within the egg, after the egg's formation and ovipositional release.

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Elif Shafak

Elif Shafak (Elif Şafak,; née Bilgin; born 25 October 1971) is a Turkish-British novelist, essayist, public speaker, political scientist and activist.

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Elm

Elms are deciduous and semi-deciduous trees comprising the genus Ulmus in the family Ulmaceae.

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European greenfinch

The European greenfinch or simply the greenfinch (Chloris chloris) is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. Eurasian siskin and European greenfinch are birds described in 1758.

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European serin

The European serin, or simply the serin (Serinus serinus), is the smallest species of the family of finches (Fringillidae) and is closely related to the Atlantic canary.

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Filipendula ulmaria

Filipendula ulmaria, commonly known as meadowsweet or mead wort, is a perennial herbaceous plant in the family Rosaceae that grows in damp meadows.

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Finch

The true finches are small to medium-sized passerine birds in the family Fringillidae.

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Fir

Firs are evergreen coniferous trees belonging to the genus Abies in the family Pinaceae.

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First Engineer Bridge

The First Engineer Bridge (Первый Инженерный мост, Pervy Inzhenerny most) is one of several Russian bridges that span the Moika River in Saint Petersburg.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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German folklore

German folklore is the folk tradition which has developed in Germany over a number of centuries.

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Gibraltar

Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory and city located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Bay of Gibraltar, near the exit of the Mediterranean Sea into the Atlantic Ocean (Strait of Gibraltar).

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Greater Khingan

The Greater Khingan Range or Da Hinggan Range (IPA), is a -long volcanic mountain range in the Inner Mongolia region of Northeast China.

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Hypericum perforatum

Hypericum perforatum, commonly known as St John's wort (sometimes perforate St John's wort or common St John's wort), is a flowering plant in the family Hypericaceae.

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Iberian Peninsula

The Iberian Peninsula (IPA), also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in south-western Europe, defining the westernmost edge of Eurasia.

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Inner Mongolia

Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China.

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International Union for Conservation of Nature

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.

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Jiangsu

Jiangsu is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China.

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Larch

Larches are deciduous conifers in the genus Larix, of the family Pinaceae (subfamily Laricoideae).

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Least-concern species

A least-concern species is a species that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evaluated as not being a focus of wildlife conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wild.

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Lichen

A lichen is a symbiosis of algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species, along with a yeast embedded in the cortex or "skin", in a mutualistic relationship.

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Mathurin Jacques Brisson

Mathurin Jacques Brisson (30 April 1723 – 23 June 1806) was a French zoologist and natural philosopher.

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.

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Moss

Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta sensu stricto.

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Nidifugous and nidicolous organisms

In biology, nidifugous organisms are those that leave the nest shortly after hatching or birth.

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Onomatopoeia

Onomatopoeia (or rarely echoism) is a type of word, or the process of creating a word, that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Palearctic realm

The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth.

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Passerine

A passerine is any bird of the order Passeriformes (from Latin passer 'sparrow' and formis '-shaped') which includes more than half of all bird species.

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Picea abies

Picea abies, the Norway spruce or European spruce, is a species of spruce native to Northern, Central and Eastern Europe.

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Pine siskin

The pine siskin (Spinus pinus) is a North American bird in the finch family. Eurasian siskin and pine siskin are Spinus (genus).

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Pinus nigra

Pinus nigra, the Austrian pine or black pine, is a moderately variable species of pine, occurring across Southern Europe from the Iberian Peninsula to the eastern Mediterranean, on the Anatolian peninsula of Turkey, Corsica and Cyprus, as well as Crimea and in the high mountains of Northwest Africa.

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Pinus sylvestris

Pinus sylvestris, the Scots pine (UK), Scotch pine (US), Baltic pine, or European red pine is a species of tree in the pine family Pinaceae that is native to Eurasia.

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Plumage

Plumage is a layer of feathers that covers a bird and the pattern, colour, and arrangement of those feathers.

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Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

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Poppy

A poppy is a flowering plant in the subfamily Papaveroideae of the family Papaveraceae.

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Populus

Populus is a genus of 25–30 species of deciduous flowering plants in the family Salicaceae, native to most of the Northern Hemisphere.

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Precociality and altriciality

Precocial species in birds and mammals are those in which the young are relatively mature and mobile from the moment of birth or hatching.

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Protein

Proteins are large biomolecules and macromolecules that comprise one or more long chains of amino acid residues.

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Redpoll

The redpolls (genus Acanthis) (in Great Britain also historically known as redpoles) are a group of small passerine birds in the finch family Fringillidae, which have characteristic red markings on their heads.

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Rumex

The docks and sorrels, genus Rumex, are a genus of about 200 species of annual, biennial, and perennial herbs in the buckwheat family, Polygonaceae.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.

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Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a subregion of Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples.

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Seed predation

Seed predation, often referred to as granivory, is a type of plant-animal interaction in which granivores (seed predators) feed on the seeds of plants as a main or exclusive food source,Hulme, P.E. and Benkman, C.W. (2002) "Granivory", pp.

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Sexual dimorphism

Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different morphological characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly involved in reproduction.

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Sobriquet

A sobriquet is a descriptive nickname, sometimes assumed, but often given by another.

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Spruce

A spruce is a tree of the genus Picea, a genus of about 40 species of coniferous evergreen trees in the family Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal (taiga) regions of the Earth.

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Subspecies

In biological classification, subspecies (subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.

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Supercilium

The supercilium is a plumage feature found on the heads of some bird species.

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Systema Naturae

(originally in Latin written with the ligature æ) is one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and introduced the Linnaean taxonomy.

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Taraxacum

Taraxacum is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, which consists of species commonly known as dandelions.

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Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests

Temperate broadleaf and mixed forest is a temperate climate terrestrial habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature, with broadleaf tree ecoregions, and with conifer and broadleaf tree mixed coniferous forest ecoregions.

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Thistle

Thistle is the common name of a group of flowering plants characterized by leaves with sharp prickles on the margins, mostly in the family Asteraceae.

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Tibet

Tibet (Böd), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about.

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Yangtze

Yangtze or Yangzi is the longest river in Eurasia, the third-longest in the world.

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10th edition of Systema Naturae

The 10th edition of Systema Naturae (Latin; the English title is A General System of Nature) is a book written by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus and published in two volumes in 1758 and 1759, which marks the starting point of zoological nomenclature.

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See also

Spinus (genus)

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_siskin

Also known as Aberdevine, Carduelis spinus, Common siskin, European Siskin, Spinus spinus.

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