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Black-throated canary
Crithagra atrogularis · Family Fringillidae
Crithagra atrogularis
Family Fringillidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Fringillidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 116,588
- Countries and territories with records
- 22
About this species
This species has 116,588 occurrence records from 22 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (81.5%), Namibia (12.7%), Zimbabwe (2.3%) and Botswana (1.8%); together they account for 98.4% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.24% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Crithagra atrogularis combines the genus name Crithagra with the species epithet atrogularis. The Warbla app catalog lists 37 species of the genus Crithagra; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Crithagra mozambica, Crithagra flaviventris and Crithagra gularis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 204 species of the family Fringillidae. This species ranks 35th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Spinus tristis. Its record count is 25.4% of the family average (459,113). The family Fringillidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.