Chloris sinica
Silhouette: Mathieu Pélissié · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~90% in a week >90%
The Oriental greenfinch (Chloris sinica), also known as the grey-capped greenfinch, is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae that breeds in broadleaf and conifer woodlands of the East Palearctic. In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the Oriental greenfinch in his Ornithologie based on a specimen collected in China. He used the French name Le pinçon de la Chine and the Latin Fringilla sinencis. Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. When in 1766 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the twelfth edition, he added 240 species that had been previously described by Brisson. One of these was the oriental greenfinch. Linnaeus included a brief description, coined the binomial name Fringilla sinica and cited Brisson's work. The type locality was subsequently restricted to Macau in eastern China. The specific name sinica is Medieval Latin for Chinese.
The greenfinches were later placed in the genus Carduelis but when molecular phylogenetic studies found that they were... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nikko National Park | 🇯🇵 Japan |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beijing Wildlife Park | 🇨🇳 China |
Likely
About 60% of wildlife watchers report an Oriental Greenfinch sighting in Beijing on a given day, based on 4,243 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 11th most-seen of the 324 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 90%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March and May
In those months about 70% of wildlife watchers report an Oriental Greenfinch in Beijing on a given day, against about 20% in August, the lowest month. Those are among Beijing's driest months, with about 25 mm of rain a month against 150 mm in July.
Between 1 and 4 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Oriental Greenfinch sightings with a recorded time, and about 6 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is most active around dawn and dusk.
2nd of 46
Of the 46 cities where we can rate Oriental Greenfinch sightings, Beijing ranks 2nd at about 60%. The best odds are in Sendai (Japan, about 70%).
Same family: Fringillidae
The closest relatives of the Oriental Greenfinch that you can see in Beijing (family Fringillidae, Finches, Euphonias, and Allies) are Brambling (about 30%), Yellow-billed Grosbeak (about 20%) and Hawfinch (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Oriental Greenfinch is recorded against all the birds logged in Beijing (4,243 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
