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 Blue Chaffinch 

Blue Chaffinch
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Fringillidae
Genus: Fringilla
Species: teydea
Binomial name
Fringilla teydea

The Blue Chaffinch, (Fringilla teydea), is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae.

This bird is restricted to mountain pine forests on Tenerife[?] and Gran Canaria[?] in the Canary Islands. Its preference is for habitat at around 1500m, but it will descend lower in bad weather. It builds its nest in a tree fork, and lays two eggs. This bird isn't migratory. This species may form small flocks outside the breeding season.

Blue Chaffinch structurally resembles a large Chaffinch, but the breeding male is unmistakeable, with its largely blue plumage and grey bill. The female is like a female Chaffinch, but the wing bars are much weaker.

The food is seeds, but unlike most finches, the young are fed extensively on insects.

The song is shorter and weaker than that of the Chaffinch , and the flight call is croakier.

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