Crithagra capistrata
Silhouette: Sheatherius · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~70% in a week ~90%
The black-faced canary (Crithagra capistrata) is a species of finch in the family Fringillidae. It is found in Angola, Burundi, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.
The black-faced canary was formerly placed in the genus Serinus but phylogenetic analysis using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences found that the genus was polyphyletic. The genus was therefore split and a number of species including the black-faced canary were moved to the resurrected genus Crithagra. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | Brazzaville | 🇨🇬 Republic of the Congo |
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Black-faced Canary sighting in Brazzaville on a given day, based on 31 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 28th most-seen of the 82 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 70%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May, September and November–December
In those months about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Black-faced Canary in Brazzaville on a given day, against about 20% in January–February and August, the lowest months. June has too few records to rate.
Only Brazzaville, in our data
Brazzaville is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Black-faced Canary sightings: about 30% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the Black-faced Canary that you can see in Brazzaville (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Pied Crow (about 90%), Rufous-tailed Palm-Thrush (about 80%) and Common Bulbul (about 80%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Black-faced Canary is recorded against all the birds logged in Brazzaville (31 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.
