UK garden birds with red on them

A red breast means a robin. A red face means a goldfinch. Red on the back of the head means a great spotted woodpecker, and a deep rose-pink breast means a bullfinch.

4 of the 30 birds on this site fit. Each one links to its full page, with what separates it from the ones it gets mistaken for.

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  Goldfinch

  Red face, gold wing bar, tinkling call. A specialist seed-eater that has moved into gardens in enormous numbers over thirty years.

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  Great Spotted Woodpecker

  Blackbird-sized, pied, with red under the tail. Male has a red nape patch; the juvenile's whole crown is red, which fools everyone.

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  Redwing

  A small dark thrush with a cream eye-stripe and rusty flanks. A winter visitor from the north, arriving in October and gone by April.

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  Robin

  The gardener's shadow. Orange-red breast, upright stance, and a fierce territorial streak hidden behind a very tame manner.

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