Chloris sinica
Silhouette: Mathieu Pélissié · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
The Oriental greenfinch (Chloris sinica), also known as the grey-capped greenfinch, is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae that breeds in broadleaf and conifer woodlands of the East Palearctic. In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the Oriental greenfinch in his Ornithologie based on a specimen collected in China. He used the French name Le pinçon de la Chine and the Latin Fringilla sinencis. Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. When in 1766 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the twelfth edition, he added 240 species that had been previously described by Brisson. One of these was the oriental greenfinch. Linnaeus included a brief description, coined the binomial name Fringilla sinica and cited Brisson's work. The type locality was subsequently restricted to Macau in eastern China. The specific name sinica is Medieval Latin for Chinese.
The greenfinches were later placed in the genus Carduelis but when molecular phylogenetic studies found that they were... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nikko National Park | 🇯🇵 Japan |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beijing Wildlife Park | 🇨🇳 China |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report an Oriental Greenfinch sighting in Nikko National Park on a given day, based on 82 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 42nd most-seen of the 102 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April, October and December
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report an Oriental Greenfinch in Nikko National Park on a given day, against about 10% in March and June–September, the lowest months.
Between 1 and 4 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Oriental Greenfinch sightings with a recorded time, and about 6 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is most active around dawn and dusk.
Only Nikko National Park, in our data
Nikko National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Oriental Greenfinch sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Fringillidae
The closest relatives of the Oriental Greenfinch that you can see in Nikko National Park (family Fringillidae, Finches, Euphonias, and Allies) are Japanese Grosbeak (about 20%), Brambling (about 10%) and Eurasian Bullfinch (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Oriental Greenfinch is recorded against all the birds logged in Nikko National Park (82 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.
