Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Fringillidae > Serinus > Serinus canariaSerinus canaria (Common Canary; Atlantic Canary; Island Canary)Synonyms: Fringilla canaria (homotypic) The Atlantic canary (Serinus canaria) is known worldwide simply as wild canary. It is also called the island canary, canary or common canary, is a small passerine bird belonging to the genus Serinus in the finch family, Fringillidae. It is native to the Canary Islands, the Azores, and Madeira. Wild birds are mostly yellow-green, with brownish streaking on the back. The species is common in captivity and a number of colour varieties have been bred. This bird is the natural symbol of the Canary Islands, together with the Canary Island date palm. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 5.05232 EDGE Score: 1.80044 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 15 grams | | Birth Weight [2] | 1.5 grams |  | | Diet [3] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore | | Diet - Fruit [3] | 10 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [3] | 10 % | | Diet - Plants [3] | 10 % | | Diet - Seeds [3] | 70 % | | Forages - Understory [3] | 20 % | | Forages - Ground [3] | 80 % | | | Clutch Size [6] | 4 | | Clutches / Year [4] | 2 | | Fledging [4] | 14 days | | Incubation [5] | 13 days | | Mating Display [2] | Ground and non-acrobatic aerial display | | Mating System [2] | Monogamy | | Maximum Longevity [7] | 24 years |
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Land Use |
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Arico pine woodland |
Spain |
A1, A2, B2, C1, C6 |
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Cabeço do Fogo |
Portugal |
B3, C2, C6 |
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Capelinhos |
Portugal |
A4i, A4ii, B1i, B1ii, B2, B3, C2 |
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Costa das Flores |
Portugal |
A4i, A4ii, A4iii, B1i, B1ii, B2, B3, C2, C4, C6 |
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El Canal y Los Tiles laurel forest |
Spain |
A1, A2, B2, B3, C1, C6 |
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Frontera laurel forest |
Spain |
A1, B2, B3, C1, C6 |
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Garajonay National Park |
Spain |
A1, A2, B2, B3, C1, C2, C6 |
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Ilhas Desertas |
Portugal |
A1, A2, A4ii, B1ii, B2, B3, C1, C2, C6 |
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Ilhéus do Porto Santo |
Portugal |
A2, B3, C6 |
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La Caldera de Taburiente National Park |
Spain |
A1, B2, B3, C1, C6 |
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La Palma laurel forest |
Spain |
A1, A2, B2, B3, C1, C2, C6 |
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Las Vueltas, Aguas Negras and Quebradas mountains |
Spain |
A1, B2, B3, C1 |
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Laurissilva |
Portugal |
A1, A2, B3, C1, C2, C6 |
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Mountain of Agua, gully of Los Cochinos and gully of Cuevas Negras |
Spain |
A1, A2, B2, B3, C1, C6 |
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Nizdafe plains |
Spain |
B3 |
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Pajonales, Ojeda, Inagua and La Data pine woodlands |
Spain |
A1, A2, B2, B3, C1, C2, C6 |
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Pico da Vara |
Portugal |
A1, A2, B3, C1, C2, C6 |
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Ponta de São Lourenço |
Portugal |
A2, A4ii, B1ii, B2, B3, C2, C6 |
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Ponta do Pargo |
Portugal |
A2, A4ii, B1ii, B2, B3, C2, C6 |
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Porto Santo Oeste |
Portugal |
A2, B2, B3, C6 |
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Tamadaba pine woodland |
Spain |
A2, B2, C6 |
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Vilaflor pine woodland |
Spain |
A1, A2, B2, B3, C1, C6 |
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Zona Central do Pico |
Portugal |
B3, C2, C6 |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Mediterranean Basin |
Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey |
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 Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Storchová, Lenka; Hořák, David (2018), Data from: Life-history characteristics of European birds, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n6k3n ♦ 2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 ♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 6Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 ♦ 7de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 8Frugivory and factors influencing visitation by birds at "Balo" (Plocama pendula Ait., Rubiaceae) plants in the Canary Islands, Manuel Nogales, Alfredo Valido, Félix M. Medina, Juan D. Delgado, Ecoscience 6: 531-538 (1999) ♦ 9Dupont YL, Hansen DM and Olesen JM (2003) Structure of a plant-flower-visitor network in the high-altitude sub-alpine desert of Tenerife, Canary Islands. Ecography 26:301-310
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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