Yellow-throated seedeater

The yellow-throated seedeater (Crithagra flavigula) is a species of finch in the family Fringillidae. It is found only in Ethiopia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Yellow-throated seedeater
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Fringillidae
Subfamily: Carduelinae
Genus: Crithagra
Species:
C. flavigula
Binomial name
Crithagra flavigula
(Salvadori, 1888)
Synonyms

Serinus flavigula

The voice of the bird is a jumbled chirpy song and its call is canary like zeee-zsreee. The bird favors semi-desert areas with thick patches of scrub on rocky hill sides, scattered trees in savannah type areas. It also prefers highlands rather than low lands.

The yellow-throated seedeater was formerly placed in the genus Serinus but phylogenetic analysis using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences found that the genus was polyphyletic.[2] The genus was therefore split and a number of species including the yellow-throated seedeater were moved to the resurrected genus Crithagra.[3][4]

References
  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Crithagra flavigula". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22720127A94658707. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22720127A94658707.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  2. Zuccon, Dario; Prŷs-Jones, Robert; Rasmussen, Pamela C.; Ericson, Per G.P. (2012). "The phylogenetic relationships and generic limits of finches (Fringillidae)" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 62 (2): 581–596. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2011.10.002. PMID 22023825.
  3. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David (eds.). "Finches, euphonias". World Bird List Version 5.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
  4. Swainson, William (1827). "On several forms in ornithology not hitherto defined". Zoological Journal. 3: 348.


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