Thick-billed Seedeater

Crithagra burtoni

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernSeedsForestCup nestSmall · 31 g

When to see the Thick-billed Seedeater

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

Where to see the Thick-billed Seedeater

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 8 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 Burundi.

About the Thick-billed Seedeater

The thick-billed seedeater is a species of finch in the family Fringillidae. It is native to the Western High Plateau and Bioko, the Albertine rift montane forests and the East African montane forests.

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Easily confused with

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