Stats

Lifespan: Up to 10 yrs
Size: Small
Diet: Herbivore
Activity: Diurnal
Social: Flock
Biome: Tropical grassland
Range: South America
Movement: Flight
Breeding: Egg-laying
Defense: Speed
Status: Common

About

The male Saffron Finch is drenched in brilliant golden-yellow plumage, with a vivid orange patch blazing on the crown that gives him an almost jewel-like intensity. Native to open lowlands across South America, this stocky seed-cracker has been widely introduced elsewhere and remains one of the most popular cage birds in the world.

Life cycle

1.
egg
A small clutch of speckled eggs is incubated in a cup nest, turned and kept warm by the parent.
2.
hatchling
A pink, blind hatchling is fed by its parents in the nest, gaping its bill at every visit.
3.
juvenile
A feathered juvenile fledges from the nest, learning to fly and to forage close to its parents.
4.
adult
Fully grown with adult plumage and song.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Sicalis
Species: Sicalis flaveola