Syrian Serin (Serinus syriacus) | Photos and ID

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Syrian Serin (Serinus syriacus), photo 1 — Photo: tomas_kay · CC BY 4.0

Syrian Serin (Serinus syriacus), photo 2 — Photo: ramidos · CC BY 4.0

Syrian Serin (Serinus syriacus), photo 3 — Photo: Nachman bones · CC BY 4.0

Syrian Serin (Serinus syriacus), photo 4 — Photo: Nachman bones · CC BY 4.0

Syrian Serin (Serinus syriacus), photo 5 — Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0

Syrian Serin (Serinus syriacus), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Nachman bones, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Syrian Serin (Serinus syriacus), photo 9 — Photo: (c) tomas_kay, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Syrian Serin (Serinus syriacus), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Christoph Moning, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

ID tip

The Syrian serin is prettily coloured with bright yellow and pale grey feathers. The eyes are large and are surrounded by a bright yellow ring. The beak is grey and the legs are pale pinkish-grey. It has a long trilling call and may also chirp and twitter.

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When to see the Syrian Serin

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is June, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Syrian Serin

Regular range

The map shades 6 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Israel Palestinian Territories Lebanon Jordan Syria Saudi Arabia

About the Syrian Serin

The Syrian serin is a brightly coloured small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae.

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Easily confused with

Ethiopian SiskinSerinus nigricepsThe Ethiopian siskin or Abyssinian siskin is a species of finch in the family Fringillidae.

Yellow-crowned CanarySerinus flavivertexThe yellow-crowned canary is a small passerine bird in the finch family.

Black-headed CanarySerinus alarioThe black-headed canary is 12–15 cm in length.

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