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Alternative name: Yellow-throated Serin

Photo by Jon Gallagher
Melka Ghebdu, Ethiopia, January 2012

Serinus flavigula

Crithagra flavigula

[edit] Identification

Length 10-11 cm. A grey-brown canary with a yellow rump and a pale yellow throat patch, white belly, sides of the face are grey, the chin is white and a blackish band runs across the lower neck.

Status: Classified as Endangered in the 2008 IUCN Red List.¹

[edit] Distribution

A restricted range in central Ethiopia.

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic.
Placed in genus Crithagra by Gill and Donsker.

[edit] Habitat

Semi-arid scrub and savanna, savanna with scattered trees, thick patches of scrub on rocky hill sides, and grasslands.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes seeds.

[edit] References

1. BirdLife International (2008) Species factsheet: Serinus flavigula. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 16/8/2008.

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