Crithagra burtoni
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In 3 days ~10% in a week ~20%
The thick-billed seedeater (Crithagra burtoni) is a species of finch in the family Fringillidae. It is native to the Western High Plateau and Bioko, the Albertine rift montane forests and the East African montane forests.
The thick-billed seedeater 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 thick-billed seedeater were moved to the resurrected genus Crithagra. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aberdare National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 2 | Bwindi Impenetrable National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 3 | Nyungwe National Park | 🇷🇼 Rwanda | |
| 4 | Ngorongoro Conservation Area | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 5 | Volcanoes National Park | 🇷🇼 Rwanda | |
| 6 | Arusha National Park | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 7 | Virunga National Park | 🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo | |
| 8 | Kibale National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kigali | 🇷🇼 Rwanda |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Thick-billed Seedeater sighting in Kigali on a given day, based on 27 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 157th most-seen of the 244 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 20%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February
In that month about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Thick-billed Seedeater in Kigali on a given day, against under 5% in March to January, the lowest months.
Between 6 and 9 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Thick-billed Seedeater sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Kigali, in our data
Kigali is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Thick-billed Seedeater sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Crithagra
The closest relatives of the Thick-billed Seedeater that you can see in Kigali (genus Crithagra, African Seedeaters, Serins, Canaries, and Citrils) are Yellow-fronted Canary (about 50%), Western Citril (about 30%) and Brimstone Canary (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Thick-billed Seedeater is recorded against all the birds logged in Kigali (27 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.
