#fringilla

[snototter]

A brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) perches in a tree in Sweden

by Tim Melling

[herpsandbirds]

Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla), male, in non-breeding (winter) plumage, family Fringillidae, order Passeriformes, Scotland

photograph by Mike Thrower

[thelovelygods]

[nightcrews]

Fringilla and Cahir would have been the best power besties, I just know it. Nilfgaard’s biggest baddies.

[ornithological]

common chaffinch (fringilla coelebs), leucistic, ireland

[best-bird-tournament]

Subfamily Fringillinae chaffinches / genus Fringilla

Which is the best bird?

African chaffinch

Azores chaffinch

Madeira chaffinch

Canary Islands chaffinch

Blue chaffinch

Eurasian chaffinch

Gran Canaria blue chaffinch

Brambling

Voting ended onOct 14, 2025

This genus is monotypic in its subfamily.

[ahh-fxck]

Also speaking of sheer power, Francesca and Fringilla are incredibly powerful.

I get the impression that fire magic, being drawn by expending the life force of the soul, is especially corrosive to attempts to shield from it, sapping the shield-user nearly as much as the person who killed part of themselves, or all of themselves, in order to cast the spell. The more powerful the fire magic, the more of the other mage's power it takes to survive it, in other words, no matter what source they're drawing from. And if they're not careful, maybe it takes some of their life force, too.

In this scene, Francesca went through the mages of Aretuza like a hot knife through butter. Then, after losing Filavandrel in an assault meant for her, she survived tapping into enormously powerful fire magic to bring the ring above Aretuza down.

Fringilla not only expended an enormous amount of power in the fighting and killing of some of the most powerful mages on the continent, she then saved Francesca from that fire.

Then they saved each other from Alzur's Lightning. I need to emphasize how impressive I found that. It struck me on the re-watch how much power was implied in that outburst, and it really drove home to me how impressive, what powerhouses, both of those women are in terms of sheer magical oomph and skill. Tissaia, arguably one of the most powerful mages to have ever lived, expending the entire might of Aretuza in one last awful hurrah, couldn't bring these women down.

And even after that, they survived yet a third round of fire magic, at the hands of Stregobor. (Honestly I hope he burned himself up entirely and let life's door hit his ass on the way out.)

And both of them come out of the gate swinging and swinging hard in Season 4. Just. Very impressive.

[quietparanoiac]

I'm okay, actually.

The Witcher (2019–), 3x04