Monday, November 8, 2010

African Citril - Serinus Citrinelloides

Description:
Size: 4.75 inches
Male: black forehead, cheeks, lores and chin; pale yellow thin double wingbar, thin yellow supercilium.
Female: duller than male; dull olive face, short and thin supercilium, more heavily streaked above and below.
Call: is a soft clicking 'cheep', alarm call a soft 't, t, tee', and there is also a subdued twittering note, often given in flight.
Song is loud and Canary-like or Linnet-like, but sweeter in tone, with a clean piping wishtle of three or four notes, 'tweet-ti-tu'.

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