Orange-crowned Euphonia

Euphonia saturata

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernFruitForestDomed nestTiny · 13 g

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The orange-crowned euphonia is about 10 cm (3.9 in) long. The species is sexually dimorphic. Adult males have a deep orange-yellow crown. The rest of their head and their nape, throat, wings, and upperparts are glossy blue-black with a purplish tinge. The top side of their tail is blue-black and the underside dark gray. Their underparts from their breast to the undertail coverts are deep orange ochraceous. Adult females have a dark olive head and upperparts. Their underparts are olive-yellow that is slightly paler and yellower on the throat, belly, and undertail coverts. Voice: The orange-crowned euphonia's song is "a leisurely series of tsit notes, nasal tcheeur notes, and fast tididit phrases". Its calls are "a simple beem-beem" and "a high, clear whistled pee-deet".

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When to see the Orange-crowned Euphonia

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is December, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Orange-crowned Euphonia

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 2 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Peru.

About the Orange-crowned Euphonia

The orange-crowned euphonia is a species of bird in the family Fringillidae, the finches and euphonias. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

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