Yellow Crowned Canary-Serinus Canicollis

Location: East Africa to eastern South Africa.
Description:

• Size: 5.25 inches


• Adult male breeding: crown to mantle grey, yellowish-green rump, face and breast, yellow edges to base of tail.


• Adult female: duller than male, with grey on chin and breast, distinctly streaked on upperparts, more lightly on flanks.


• Juvenile: pale buffish-brown with dark streaks; yellowish wash to underparts, broad pale buff-brown wingbars, and yellowish edges to flight feathers.


• Call is 'sweet' and a staccato chatter, alarm call a repeated 'tweee', 'pee-eee' or 'twoo-ee' or 'skleree'; gives a twiterring note in flight.


• Song is a loud, prolonged and musical series of Goldfinch-like trills, and warbles, said to resemble Skylark in tone.