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Common Linnet
Linaria cannabina · Family Fringillidae
Linaria cannabina
Family Fringillidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Fringillidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 3,054,968
- Countries and territories with records
- 88

About this species
This species has 3,054,968 occurrence records from 88 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Spain (16.7%), the United Kingdom (14%), Sweden (12.8%), the Netherlands (11.4%) and France (11.2%); together they account for 66.1% of the total. In Spain, this species accounts for 0.98% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Linaria cannabina combines the genus name Linaria with the species epithet cannabina. The Warbla app catalog lists 4 species of the genus Linaria; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Linaria flavirostris, Linaria yemenensis and Linaria johannis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 204 species of the family Fringillidae. This species ranks 9th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Spinus tristis. Its record count is 6.7 times the family average (459,113). The family Fringillidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.