Saffron Finch
Sicalis flaveola
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 30,743
- Most observed in
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The saffron finch 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, western Ecuador, western Peru, eastern and southern Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, northern Argentina, and Trinidad and Tobago. It has also been introduced to Hawaii, Panama, Puerto Rico, Jamaica and elsewhere. Although commonly regarded as a canary, it is not related to the Atlantic canary. Formerly, it was placed in the Emberizidae but it is close to the seedeaters.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Saffron finch”.