Editing Common linnet (section)

==Behaviour==
[[File:Carduelis cannabina cannabina MHNT 223 St Moré.jpg|thumb|Eggs]]
[[File:Linaria cannabina mediterranea MHNT.ZOO.2010.11.223.20.jpg|thumb|''Linaria cannabina mediterranea'' - [[MHNT]]]]
Open land with thick bushes is favoured for breeding, including heathland and garden. It builds its nest in a bush, laying four to seven eggs.

This species can form large flocks outside the breeding season, sometimes mixed with other finches, such as [[twite]], on coasts and salt marshes.

The common linnet's pleasant song contains fast trills and twitters.

It feeds on the ground, and low down in bushes, its food mainly consisting of seeds, which it also feeds to its chicks. It likes small to medium-sized seeds from most arable weeds, [[Polygonum|knotgrass]], dock, [[crucifers]] (including [[charlock]], [[capsella bursa-pastoris|shepherd's purse]]), chickweeds, [[dandelion]]s, [[thistle]], [[sow-thistle]], [[mayweed]], [[Senecio vulgaris|common groundsel]], [[common hawthorn]] and [[birch]]. They have a small component of [[Invertebrate]]s in their diet.