#1067 · 🐦 birds

Saffron Finch

🇳🇱 Gewone Saffraangors ·Sicalis flaveola

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Alejandro Bayer Tamayo · CC BY-SA 4.0
2. © Brennan Moore · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Nicolas Olejnik · CC BY 4.0
4. © Steven Mlodinow · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Arley Vargas · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
6. © Deyvson Moutinho Caliman · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Arley Vargas · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
8. © Gabriel Brachetti · CC BY 4.0
9. © Aitor · CC BY 4.0
10. © Lucas Pereira · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The saffron finch ( Sicalis flaveola ) is a tanager from South America that is common in open and semi-open areas in lowlands outside the Amazon Basin. They have a wide distribution in Colombia, northern Venezuela (where it is called "canario de tejado" or "roof canary"), western Ecuador, western Peru, eastern and southern Brazil (where it is called "canário-da-terra" or "native canary"), Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, northern Argentina, and Trinidad and Tobago. It has also been introduced to...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 51,301iNaturalist observations
weight 19.2 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
51,301 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 19 g.
Scientifically named in 1766 (260 years ago).