From its call.

shilfa (pluralshilfas)

1. (UK, dialect) Thechaffinch.
   • 1866, Alexander Smith,Alfred Hagart's Household, page20:

     And the birds! not the gray sparrows you see here, butshilfas and bullfinches and yellow-yeldrings.

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