Crithagra mozambica
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In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
The yellow-fronted canary (Crithagra mozambica) is a small passerine bird in the finch family. It is sometimes known in aviculture as the green singing finch or the green singer. This bird is a resident breeder in Africa south of the Sahara Desert. Its habitat is open woodland and cultivation. It nests in trees, laying three or four eggs in a compact cup nest. It has been introduced to Mauritius, Rodrigues, Réunion, Assumption Island, Mafia Island, Puerto Rico, and the Hawaiian Islands, where it is found on western Hawaii, southeastern Oahu and Molokai.
The yellow-fronted canary is a common, gregarious seedeater. It is 11–13 cm in length. The adult male has a green back and brown wings and tail. The underparts and rump are yellow, and the head is yellow with a grey crown and nape and a black malar stripe. The female is similar, but with a weaker head pattern and duller underparts. Juveniles are greyer than the female, especially on the head.
Its song is a warbled zee-zeree-chereeo. The yellow-fronted canary was formerly placed in the genus Serinus, but phylogenetic analysis using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences found the genus to be polyphyletic. The genus was... Wikipedia →
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yaoundé | 🇨🇲 Cameroon | |
| 2 | Kigali | 🇷🇼 Rwanda | |
| 3 | Lusaka | 🇿🇲 Zambia | |
| 4 | Zanzibar City | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 5 | Abuja | 🇳🇬 Nigeria | |
| 6 | Durban | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 7 | Mombasa | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 8 | Lilongwe | 🇲🇼 Malawi | |
| 9 | Dar es-Salaam | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 10 | Freetown | 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | National Aviary | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 2 | Bloedel Conservatory | 🇨🇦 Canada |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-fronted Canary sighting in Freetown on a given day, based on 17 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 18th most-seen of the 79 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.
June
In that month about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-fronted Canary in Freetown on a given day, against about 10% in December to February, the lowest months. That is one of Freetown's wettest months, with about 400 mm of rain against almost none in January. March–April, July–August and October–November have too few records to rate.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Yellow-fronted Canary sightings with a recorded time, and about 6 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is most active around dawn and dusk.
10th of 21
Of the 21 cities where we can rate Yellow-fronted Canary sightings, Freetown ranks 10th at about 20%. The best odds are in Yaoundé (Cameroon, about 80%), Kigali (Rwanda, about 50%) and Lusaka (Zambia, about 40%).
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the Yellow-fronted Canary that you can see in Freetown (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Common Bulbul (about 50%), Pied Crow (about 50%) and African Thrush (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Yellow-fronted Canary is recorded against all the birds logged in Freetown (17 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.
