Editing Common linnet (section)

==Conservation==
The common linnet is listed by the UK [[Biodiversity Action Plan]] as a priority species. It is protected in the UK by the [[Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981]].

In Britain, populations are declining, attributed to increasing use of herbicides, aggressive scrub removal and excessive hedge trimming; its population fell by 56% between 1968 and 1991, probably due to a decrease in seed supply and the increasing use of herbicide. From 1980 to 2009, according to the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme, the European population decreased by 62%<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.birdlife.org/community/2011/08/farmland-birds-in-europe-fall-to-lowest-levels/|title = French President Macron wants to allow trapping of 110,000+ wild birds|date = 16 September 2021}}</ref>

Favourable management practices on agricultural land include:

* [[Set-aside]]
* Overwinter stubbles
* Uncultivated margins, ditches, field corners
* [[Conservation headland]]s
* Wild bird cover, using plants that produce small, oil-rich seeds, such as [[kale]], [[quinoa]], [[mustard plant]] and oil-seed rape ''[[Brassica napus]]''
* Restoration of [[meadow]]s: restoration and creation of hay-meadows
* Short, thick, thorny hedgerows and scrub for nesting habitat