Crithagra burtoni
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In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
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 |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Thick-billed Seedeater sighting in Nyungwe National Park on a given day, based on 228 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 77th most-seen of the 252 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.
December and January
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Thick-billed Seedeater in Nyungwe National Park on a given day, against about 10% in March–June and October–November, the lowest months. Those are among Nyungwe National Park's wettest months, with about 470 mm of rain a month against 30 mm in July.
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.
3rd of 8
Of the 8 parks where we can rate Thick-billed Seedeater sightings, Nyungwe National Park ranks 3rd at about 20%. The best odds are in Aberdare National Park (Kenya, about 30%) and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Uganda, about 20%).
Same genus: Crithagra
The closest relatives of the Thick-billed Seedeater that you can see in Nyungwe National Park (genus Crithagra, African Seedeaters, Serins, Canaries, and Citrils) are Streaky Seedeater (about 50%), Western Citril (about 20%) and Yellow-fronted Canary (about 10%), 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 Nyungwe National Park (228 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.
