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Yellow-crowned Canary

Serinus flavivertex(Blanford, WT, 1869)

English (US) Yellow-crowned Canary

The Yellow-crowned Canary (Serinus flavivertex) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Fringillidae (Finches, Euphonias, and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.

Scientific name
Serinus flavivertex
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
English (US)
Yellow-crowned Canary
Described by
(Blanford, WT, 1869)

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Recognised subspecies

The AviList checklist recognises 3 subspecies for this species.

Taxonomic history

First described as
Crithagra flavivertex
Described by
(Blanford, WT, 1869)
Type locality
'Tigre', Abyssinia; type from Adigrat, Tigre Province, Abyssinia, fide W. L. Sclater, 1930, Syst. Av. Aethiop., p. 817.
Original description
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History including Zoology, Botany, and Geology ser.4, vol.4, no.23 p.330

Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.

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