European Serin
Serinus serinus
Tiny with very small, stubby bill. Both sexes are heavily streaked, with yellow rumps. Males have a bright yellow face and breast; this is gray-brown in females. Common in parks, gardens, cities, agricultural areas,and forest edges. Often sings from electricity wires, posts, TV antennas, and the tops of trees. Frantically fast song is often delivered in arcing song flight with "slow motion" wingbeats. Feeds on seeds and sometimes invertebrates.
识别特征
The European serin is a small short-tailed bird, 11–12 cm in length. The upper parts are dark-streaked greyish green, with a yellow rump. The yellow breast and white belly are also heavily streaked. The male has a brighter yellow face and breast, yellow wing bars and yellow tail sides. The song of this bird is a buzzing trill, very familiar in Mediterranean countries.<p>It breeds across southern and central Europe and North Africa. Southern and Atlantic coast populations are largely resident, but the northern breeders migrate further south in Europe for the winter. Open woodland and cultivation, often with some conifers, is favoured for breeding. It builds its nest in a shrub or tree, laying 3–5 eggs. It forms flocks outside the breeding season, sometimes mixed with other finches.<p>The food is mainly seeds, and, in the breeding season, insects. This small serin is an active and often conspicuous bird.
分类信息
The European serin was described by Carl Linnaeus in 1766 in the 12th edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Fringilla serinus. The Latin serinus comes from the French word serin for a canary. The French word may be a corruption of the Latin word citrinus meaning "lemon-coloured".
- 学名
- Serinus serinus
- 命名信息
- (Linnaeus, 1766)
- 目
- Passeriformes
- 科
- Fringillidae
- 属
- Serinus
分布与栖息地
Breeding range: PAL, AF : temperate to subtropical w Palearctic in woods, gardens, scrub: n France to far s Scandinavia and to n Estonia and far w Russia; s to Iberian Pen., Tenerife and Gran Canaria (c Canary Is., Macaronesia, w of n Africa) and Morocco to w Libya (nw, nc Africa) through Mediterranean to Turkey and Cyprus. Non-breeding range: short- to mid-distance migration.
- 繁殖区
- PAL, AF : temperate to subtropical w Palearctic in woods, gardens, scrub: n France to far s Scandinavia and to n Estonia and far w Russia; s to Iberian Pen., Tenerife and Gran Canaria (c Canary Is., Macaronesia, w of n Africa) and Morocco to w Libya (nw, nc Africa) through Mediterranean to Turkey and Cyprus
- 非繁殖区
- short- to mid-distance migration
- 迁徙
- Complete migrants
行为
Migration pattern: Complete migrants.
保护状况
Population trend: declining.
- 种群趋势
- declining
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