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Yellow canary
Crithagra flaviventris · Family Fringillidae
Crithagra flaviventris
Family Fringillidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Fringillidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 120,568
- Countries and territories with records
- 21
About this species
This species has 120,568 occurrence records from 21 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (92.2%), Namibia (4.9%) and Botswana (1.5%); together they account for 98.5% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.28% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Crithagra flaviventris combines the genus name Crithagra with the species epithet flaviventris. 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 atrogularis and Crithagra gularis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 204 species of the family Fringillidae. This species ranks 31st among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Spinus tristis. Its record count is 26.3% of the family average (459,113). The family Fringillidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.