Eurasian Linnet, Carduelis cannabina, is a species of passerine bird in the finch family found in cropland, grassland and heathland and shrub ecosystems. It is a widespread breeder across much of Europe. This species inhabits lowland open heaths and commons, moorlands and hills with scattered trees and light woodlands, open rocky hillsides, mountain slopes, alpine meadows and maquis or valleys with low shrubs. It is also found in woodland and forest clearings and edges, edges of cultivation, fallow fields, scrub and weed patches, plantations, orchards, vineyards, hedgerows, parks and large gardens. During the non-breeding season it also occupies coastal dunes, saltmarshes and shingle banks (European Red List 2015).

Carduelis cannabina has a breeding population size of 13700000-19100000 pairs and a breeding range size of 3370000 square kilometres in the EU27. The breeding population trend in the EU27 is Decreasing in the short term and Decreasing in the long term.

The EU population status of Carduelis cannabina was assessed as Declining, because EU27 population or range declined by at least 20% since 1980, with continuing decline since 2001.