Chloris ambigua
Silhouette: Mathieu Pélissié · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
The black-headed greenfinch (Chloris ambigua) is a small passerine bird in the family Fringillidae. It is found in the Chinese province of Yunnan, northern Laos, eastern Myanmar and adjacent areas of Vietnam, Thailand and Northeast India.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. The black-headed greenfinch is a medium-sized finch with a length of 12.4–14 cm (4.9–5.5 in). It has a dark blackish-olive head, a pale pinkish-brown conical bill and a yellow patch on the wings. The sexes are similar.
The black-headed greenfinch was described by the French zoologist Émile Oustalet in 1896 and given the binomial name Chysomitris ambigua. In the past the black-headed greenfinch was included with the other greenfinches in the genus Carduelis but molecular phylogenetic studies have shown that the greenfinches are not closely related to the other species in the genus Carduelis and they are now placed in the resurrected genus Chloris. The genus had originally been introduced by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1800. The word Chloris is from the Ancient Greek word khlōris for the European greenfinch; the specific epithet... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | Kunming | 🇨🇳 China |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
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| 1 | Tierpark Berlin | 🇩🇪 Germany |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Black-headed Greenfinch sighting in Kunming on a given day, based on 31 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 34th most-seen of the 99 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.
September
In that month about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Black-headed Greenfinch in Kunming on a given day, against about 10% in February–April, August and November–December, the lowest months. That is one of Kunming's wettest months, with about 100 mm of rain against 10 mm in February.
Only Kunming, in our data
Kunming is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Black-headed Greenfinch sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Black-headed Greenfinch is recorded against all the birds logged in Kunming (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.
