Passer luteus
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In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
The Sudan golden sparrow (Passer luteus) is a small species of bird in the sparrow family found in sub-Saharan Africa. It is a famous cage bird, and in aviculture, it is known as the golden song sparrow. The Arabian golden sparrow and this species are sometimes considered one species, as the "golden sparrow".
This species was first described by Martin Lichtenstein in 1823, as Fringilla lutea, from a specimen collected at Dongola, Sudan. Since then it has generally been placed in the genus Passer. The species name luteus means saffron yellow in Latin.
The two golden sparrows are very similar, and have often been treated as the same species. Both are similar to the chestnut sparrow, and all three may once have been only clinally different. The male Arabian golden sparrow is almost entirely gold-coloured, the male chestnut sparrow is mostly chestnut, and the male Sudan golden sparrow is intermediate. British ornithologist Richard Meinertzhagen considered even the chestnut sparrow to be conspecific, though the range of the Sudan golden sparrow overlaps with that of the chestnut sparrow without any known interbreeding in a small area of Darfur. The three species... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | Dakar | 🇸🇳 Senegal |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
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| 1 | Wilhelma | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 2 | Bloedel Conservatory | 🇨🇦 Canada |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Sudan Golden Sparrow sighting in Dakar on a given day, based on 39 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 67th most-seen of the 152 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February and March
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Sudan Golden Sparrow in Dakar on a given day, against about 10% in September to January, the lowest months. Those are among Dakar's driest months, with about 5 mm of rain a month against 190 mm in August.
Only Dakar, in our data
Dakar is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Sudan Golden Sparrow sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Passer
The closest relatives of the Sudan Golden Sparrow that you can see in Dakar (genus Passer, True Sparrows) are House Sparrow (about 60%) and Northern Grey-headed Sparrow (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Sudan Golden Sparrow is recorded against all the birds logged in Dakar (39 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.
