Yellow-faced Siskin - BirdForum Opus

Photo © by Ciro Albano
State of Cear, Brazil, August 2006

Spinus yarrellii

Carduelis yarrellii

Identification

10 cm (4 in)

• Fine pointed bill
• Slightly forked tail

Male

• Black crown
• Bright yellow face, sides of neck and underparts
• Pale yellow-olive upperparts with short, dark olive stripes
• Yellow rump
• Black wings
• Olive-yellow edging to wing-coverts
• Bright yellow wing-bar, wing-patch and tertial fringes
• Black tail with yellow base
  

Female

• Bright yellowish-olive crown and upperparts
• Yellow rump

Distribution

South America: found in northern Venezuela; interior north-eastern Brazil (Ceará to Bahia)

Threatened especially by illegal capture for the pet trade.

Taxonomy

Formerly placed in genus Carduelis.

This is a monotypic species¹.

Habitat

Dry woodland and shrubland, second growth, edges, arable land, plantations, and urban areas. Found in lowland up to 500 m asl.

Behaviour

Diet

There is little information available; they are thought to eat a variety of seeds and fruit.

Breeding

They are known to nest in pine trees in Brazil, but there is not much information published.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2015. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2015, with updates to August 2015. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved October 2015)
3. BirdLife International

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Yellow-faced Siskin. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 21 December 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Yellow-faced_Siskin

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