Yellow canary
Yellow canary | |
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In Northern Cape, South Africa | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Fringillidae |
Subfamily: | Carduelinae |
Genus: | Crithagra |
Species: | C. flaviventris
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Binomial name | |
Crithagra flaviventris (Gmelin, JF, 1789)
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Synonyms | |
Serinus flaviventris |
The yellow canary (Crithagra flaviventris) is a small
Taxonomy
The yellow canary was
The yellow canary was formerly placed in the
Four subspecies are recognised:[7]
- C. f. damarensis (Roberts, 1922) – southwest Angola, Namibia, Botswana and central north South Africa
- C. f. flaviventris (Gmelin, JF, 1789) – extreme south Namibia and west, southwest South Africa
- C. f. guillarmodi (Roberts, 1936) – highlands of Lesotho
- C. f. marshalli (Shelley, 1902) – southeast Botswana, central, northeast South Africa and lowlands of Lesotho
Description
The yellow canary is typically 10 cm in length. The adult male colour ranges from almost uniform yellow in the northwest of its range to streaked, olive backed birds in the southeast. The underparts, rump and tail sides are yellow. The female has grey-brown upperparts, black wings with yellow flight feathers, and a pale supercilium. The underparts are white with brown streaking. The juvenile resembles the female, but has heavier streaking.
This species is easily distinguished from the yellow-fronted canary by its lack of black facial markings, and its bill is less heavy than that of other similar African Crithagra species.
The brimstone canary, with overlapping range, is a known confusion species.
Distribution and habitat
Its
The yellow canary is a common and gregarious seedeater. Its call is chissick or cheree, and the song is a warbled zee-zeree-chereeo.
References
- . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Gmelin, Johann Friedrich (1789). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae : secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latin). Vol. 1, Part 2 (13th ed.). Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Georg. Emanuel. Beer. p. 856.
- ISBN 978-0-9568611-2-2.
- ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Brisson, Mathurin Jacques (1760). Ornithologie, ou, Méthode Contenant la Division des Oiseaux en Ordres, Sections, Genres, Especes & leurs Variétés (in French and Latin). Vol. 3. Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche. pp. 227-229 No. 3, Plate 11 Fig. 2. The two stars (**) at the start of the section indicates that Brisson based his description on the examination of a specimen.
- PMID 22023825.
- ^ Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2023). "Finches, euphonias". IOC World Bird List Version 13.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 23 August 2023.
- ^ Swainson, William (1827). "On several forms in ornithology not hitherto defined". Zoological Journal. 3: 348.
- Ian Sinclair, Phil Hockey and Warwick Tarboton, SASOL Birds of Southern Africa (Struik 2002) ISBN 1-86872-721-1
- Clement, Harris and Davis, Finches and Sparrows by ISBN 0-7136-8017-2
External links
- Yellow canary- Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.