Crithagra mozambica
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In 3 days ~70% in a week ~90%
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 30% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-fronted Canary sighting in Zanzibar City on a given day, based on 78 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 37th most-seen of the 86 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.
January and July
In those months about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-fronted Canary in Zanzibar City on a given day, against about 20% in March, May and December, the lowest months. Those are among Zanzibar City's driest months, with about 40 mm of rain a month against 260 mm in April.
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.
4th of 21
Of the 21 cities where we can rate Yellow-fronted Canary sightings, Zanzibar City ranks 4th at about 30%. 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 Zanzibar City (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are House Crow (about 90%), Scarlet-chested Sunbird (about 80%) and House Sparrow (about 70%), 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 Zanzibar City (78 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.
