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<div style="{{psubheader}}">Featured Article: '''[[Ivory Gull]]'''</div>
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<div style="{{psubheader}}">Featured Article: '''[[Yellow Canary]]'''</div>
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[[Image:Ivory_Gull.jpg|thumb|350px|left|Photo by {{user|Rob|Rob}} <br />[[Svalbard]], June 2003]]
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[[Image:Yellow_Canary.jpg|thumb|230px|left|Photo by {{user|Mybs|Mybs}} <br />[[South Africa]]]]
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====Similar species====
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The [[Yellow-fronted Canary]] has a more brightly contrasting yellow rump, duller yellow underparts, a white-tipped tail, and is smaller.<br />
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[[Brimstone Canary]] is larger with a heavier bill and green (not yellow) forehead; more green overall (but notice geographic variation in Yellow Canary with birds from the Cape area being greener). Brimstone Canary has a much shorter [[Topography#Heads|supercilium]] that quickly narrows behind the eye. <br />
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[[White-throated Canary]] is similar to the female [[Yellow Canary]], but larger, has a heavier bill, is less streaked, and the yellow-green rump contrasts more with the greyish-brown back and mantle.
 
==Distribution==
 
==Distribution==
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Found in Arctic seas and pack ice. Breeding range from northern [[Siberia]] (New Siberian Islands, Severnaya Zemlya, Novaya Zemlya and Franz Josef Land) west to [[Svalbard]], [[Greenland]] and northern [[Canada]] (northern Baffin Island and Queen Elizabeth Islands).<br />
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Southern [[Africa]]: [[Lesotho]], [[South Africa]], [[Botswana]], [[Namibia]] and south-western [[Angola]].<br />  
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Spends most of the year along the ice edge. In winter concentrations of this species occur in Labrador Sea along the ice edge of Davis Strait. Some also winter in Bering Sea.<br />
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Introduced to the island of [[St. Helena]] and Ascension.
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Some birds reach northern [[Europe]] and the north of the [[US]] in winter.<br />
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==Taxonomy==
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==Behaviour==
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Placed in genus [[:Category:Crithagra|Crithagra]] by Gill and Donsker.
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====Breeding====
 
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Short breeding season from late June to August. Does not breed when food conditions are bad. Breeds in loose colonies of 5 to 60 pairs, sometimes more; rarely solitary. The 2 olive eggs are laid in a ground nest lined with moss, lichens or seaweed. The nest is placed on a bare, snow-free rock behind some shelter.
 
  
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Revision as of 15:33, 30 September 2013

Featured Article: Yellow Canary
Photo by Mybs
South Africa

Similar species

The Yellow-fronted Canary has a more brightly contrasting yellow rump, duller yellow underparts, a white-tipped tail, and is smaller.
Brimstone Canary is larger with a heavier bill and green (not yellow) forehead; more green overall (but notice geographic variation in Yellow Canary with birds from the Cape area being greener). Brimstone Canary has a much shorter supercilium that quickly narrows behind the eye.
White-throated Canary is similar to the female Yellow Canary, but larger, has a heavier bill, is less streaked, and the yellow-green rump contrasts more with the greyish-brown back and mantle.

Distribution

Southern Africa: Lesotho, South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and south-western Angola.
Introduced to the island of St. Helena and Ascension.

Taxonomy

Placed in genus Crithagra by Gill and Donsker.

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