Platyspiza crassirostris
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
The vegetarian finch (Platyspiza crassirostris) is a species of bird in the Darwin's finch group of the tanager family Thraupidae endemic to the Galápagos Islands. It is the only member of the genus Platyspiza. The vegetarian finch is one of Darwin's finches, a group of closely related birds that evolved on the Galápagos Islands. The group is related to the yellow-faced grassquit (Tiaris olivaceus) which is found in South and Central America and the Caribbean. An ancestral relative of the grassquit arrived on the Galápagos Islands some 2–3 million years ago, and the vegetarian finch is an early evolutionary radiation from that ancestor.
When Darwin first collected the species in 1835, he assumed it was a finch. John Gould, who formally described the vegetarian finch in 1837, placed it in a new genus Camarhynchus and coined the binomial name Camarhynchus crassirostris. The vegetarian finch is now placed in the genus Platyspiza that was introduced by Robert Ridgway in 1897. Molecular phylogenetic studies have shown that Darwin's "finches" are actually members of the subfamily Coerebinae within the large tanager family Thraupidae.
The vegetarian finch is the sole member... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Galápagos Islands | 🇪🇨 Ecuador |
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With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Vegetarian Finch sighting in Galápagos Islands on a given day, based on 755 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 53rd most-seen of the 114 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
Any time of year
In every month with enough records, about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Vegetarian Finch in Galápagos Islands on a given day, so our monthly data shows no clear season.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Vegetarian Finch sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Galápagos Islands, in our data
Galápagos Islands is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Vegetarian Finch sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Thraupidae
The closest relatives of the Vegetarian Finch that you can see in Galápagos Islands (family Thraupidae, Tanagers and Allies) are Small Ground-Finch (about 70%), Medium Ground-Finch (about 50%) and Small Tree-Finch (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Vegetarian Finch is recorded against all the birds logged in Galápagos Islands (755 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), 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.
