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Yellow-fronted canary
Crithagra mozambica · Family Fringillidae
Crithagra mozambica
Family Fringillidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Fringillidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 159,987
- Countries and territories with records
- 73
About this species
This species has 159,987 occurrence records from 73 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (40.6%), the United States (23.8%), Kenya (4.6%), Uganda (4.5%) and Zimbabwe (3.3%); together they account for 76.8% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.16% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Crithagra mozambica combines the genus name Crithagra with the species epithet mozambica. The Warbla app catalog lists 37 species of the genus Crithagra; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Crithagra flaviventris, Crithagra atrogularis and Crithagra gularis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 204 species of the family Fringillidae. This species ranks 27th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Spinus tristis. Its record count is 34.8% of the family average (459,113). The family Fringillidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.