Streaky Seedeater (Crithagra striolata) | Photos, Calls and ID

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ShrublandCup nestSmall · 22 g

Streaky Seedeater (Crithagra striolata), photo 2 — Photo: (c) Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Streaky Seedeater (Crithagra striolata), photo 3 — Photo: (c) Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Streaky Seedeater (Crithagra striolata), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Elliot Greiner, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Streaky Seedeater (Crithagra striolata), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Tristan Jobin, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Streaky Seedeater (Crithagra striolata), photo 6 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Streaky Seedeater (Crithagra striolata), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Jiro Iguchi, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Streaky Seedeater (Crithagra striolata), photo 8 — Photo: (c) avocat, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Streaky Seedeater (Crithagra striolata), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Tony KM, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Streaky Seedeater (Crithagra striolata), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Elliot Greiner, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

What the Streaky Seedeater sounds like

Sonogram of the Streaky Seedeater: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Anne Ndung'u · Song · Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Streaky Seedeater

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

Where to see the Streaky Seedeater

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 9 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.

Kenya Tanzania Ethiopia Rwanda Uganda South Africa Congo - Kinshasa Eritrea Burundi

Recorded as a rare visitor in Malawi.

About the Streaky Seedeater

The streaky seedeater is a species of finch in the family Fringillidae. It is native to the eastern Afromontane.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Forest CanaryCrithagra scotopsThe forest canary is a small bird with a short, thick beak, measuring 11–13 cm in length and weighing 10-14 g.

Reichenow's SeedeaterCrithagra reichenowiReichenow's seedeater is a species of finch in the family Fringillidae.

White-throated CanaryCrithagra albogularisThe white-throated canary is a small bird about 15 cm long with generally dull-coloured plumage and a yellow or yellow-green rump.

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