Finches (Fringillidae)
Yellow-throated Seedeater (Serinus flavigula) - HBW 15, p. 524
French: Serin à gorge jaune
German: Gelbkehlgirlitz
Spanish: Serín Gorjigualdo
Other common names: Yellow-throated Serin
Taxonomy: Serinus flavigula Salvadori, 1888, Ambokarra, Shoa Province, Ethiopia.
Forms a superspecies, and formerly treated as conspecific, with S. xantholaemus; both have been treated as conspecific with S. atrogularis. Geographical variation of S. xantholaemus problematic and insufficiently known, and position further confused by population on Mt Fantalle (C Ethiopia), which intermediate in characters between latter and present species. Present taxon was once thought to be a synonym of S. xanthopygius or even a hybrid between that and S. dorsostriatus. Provisionally considered a separate species pending further research, including anal.. View all taxonomy...
Forms a superspecies, and formerly treated as conspecific, with S. xantholaemus; both have been treated as conspecific with S. atrogularis. Geographical variation of S. xantholaemus problematic and insufficiently known, and position further confused by population on Mt Fantalle (C Ethiopia), which intermediate in characters between latter and present species. Present taxon was once thought to be a synonym of S. xanthopygius or even a hybrid between that and S. dorsostriatus. Provisionally considered a separate species pending further research, including analysis of mitochondrial DNA. Monotypic.
Distribution: C Ethiopia (Shoa Province).
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A bird on top of a tree, calling and flying away. Locality Afar Plains, Afar Region, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 27 November 2005 7 years ago 21 sec 2.4
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An adult feeding on seeds in dry scrub.
Locality Melka Ghebdu, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
David Beadle 7 February 2009 18 weeks ago 4.3 -
Two individuals feeding on young shoots of an unidentified creeper, gritting on the embankment followed.
Locality Mhelka Gebdu, Afar Plains, Afar Region, Ethiopia
Christian Boix Hinzen 4 November 2009 3 years ago 2.5
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A bird calling once (repeated). Locality Afar Plains, Afar Region, Ethiopia
(Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 27 November 2005 18 weeks ago 3
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