Their calls include a loud buzz-twink-twink-twink; and in flight it is a low, weak weiou. A chaffinch's song lasts about three seconds and is repeated; it starts with buzzing notes, slows ...

Her approach in this book, therefore, is to teach British children about some of ... adult Britons cannot identify a robin, let alone a chaffinch. By the end of this absorbing book, readers ...