Linaria cannabina
Silhouette: Louis-Julien de la Bouëre · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
The common linnet or Eurasian linnet (Linaria cannabina) is a small passerine bird of the finch family, Fringillidae. It derives its common name and the scientific name, Linaria, from its fondness for hemp seeds and flax seeds—flax being the English name of the plant from which linen is made.
In 1758, the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus included the common linnet in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name, Acanthis cannabina. The species was formerly placed in the genus Carduelis but based on the results of a phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences published in 2012, it was moved to the genus Linaria that had been introduced by the German naturalist Johann Matthäus Bechstein in 1802.
The genus name linaria is the Latin for a linen-weaver, from linum, "flax". The species name cannabina comes from the Latin for hemp. The English name has a similar root, being derived from Old French linette, from lin, "flax".
There are seven recognised subspecies: Non-breeding in north Africa... Wikipedia →
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dresden Zoo | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 2 | Yerevan Zoo | 🇦🇲 Armenia | |
| 3 | Penza Zoo | 🇷🇺 Russia |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Linnet sighting in Milan on a given day, based on 33 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 70th most-seen of the 124 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February–April and October–December
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Linnet in Milan on a given day, against under 5% in January and May–September, the lowest months.
Between 11 am and 2 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Linnet sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
18th of 50
Of the 50 cities where we can rate Linnet sightings, Milan ranks 18th at under 5%. The best odds are in Amman (Jordan, about 70%), Liverpool (United Kingdom, about 50%) and Dublin (Ireland, about 20%).
Same family: Fringillidae
The closest relatives of the Linnet that you can see in Milan (family Fringillidae, Finches, Euphonias, and Allies) are Chaffinch (about 60%), European Serin (about 20%) and Eurasian Siskin (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Linnet is recorded against all the birds logged in Milan (33 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
