Eurasian Bullfinch

Pyrrhula pyrrhula

The Eurasian bullfinch or common bullfinch is a small passerine bird in the finch family, Fringillidae. In Anglophone Europe it is known simply as the bullfinch, as it is the original bird to bear the name bullfinch. Source

Where it is now

In the last 8 weeks this bird was recorded 239,761 times across 53 areas (each area is a 5 degree square).

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Movement and weather

Each season it is first heard regularly where daytime highs are around 14°C (typically 13 to 20°C, from 17 areas).

Over the weeks it was present in the past year, its centre in Europe ranged from 56°N in May to 65°N in December, about 1,000 km apart.

Arrival dates

The week it was first heard regularly in each region, after at least six weeks away. Dates differ from south to north, so a region has a range.

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Figures are effort corrected and come from automatic sound identification, which makes mistakes. How this is measured and how it compares with human observers.