EUROPEAN GREENFINCH

Photographed on Adventure Beach, South Bruny Island, Tasmania, January 2015

488        EUROPEAN GREENFINCH               Carduelis chloris

Australia            (329)

14-16 cm. Native of Europe, N. Africa and Middle East, introduced into Australia from 1860s, spread to Tasmania in 1940s. Range SE Australia, se tip of SA, all Victoria and Tasmania and se NSW. Found in farmland, weedy wastelands, coastal dunes, swamp-woodlands, roadsides, orchards, parks; favours introduced trees.