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title: "Yellow-fronted Canary"
description: "Crithagra mozambica — Vogels. The yellow-fronted canary (Crithagra mozambica) is a small passerine bird in the finch family."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/yellow-fronted-canary
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Yellow-fronted Canary

> Crithagra mozambica — Vogels. The yellow-fronted canary (Crithagra mozambica) is a small passerine bird in the finch family.

- Scientific name: *Crithagra mozambica*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos), `zoo` (Dierentuin en huisdieren), `savanna` (Savanne)
- iNaturalist observations: 5903
- Wikidata: [Q18472128](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18472128)
- iNaturalist taxon: [558601](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/558601)

## Names

- en: Yellow-fronted Canary
- de: Mosambik-Girlitz
- es: Serín frentiamarillo
- fr: Serin du Mozambique
- pt: Xirico
- pl: Afrokulczyk mozambijski

## Countries with the most observations

ZA (2363), US (1494), KE (157), ZM (152), ZW (141), GM (136), MW (120), HK (108), TZ (92), UG (84), MU (78), SG (77)

## Summary

The yellow-fronted canary (Crithagra mozambica) is a small passerine bird in the finch family. It is sometimes known in aviculture as the green singing finch or the green singer.
This bird is a resident breeder in Africa south of the Sahara Desert. Its habitat is open woodland and cultivation. It nests in trees, laying three or four eggs in a compact cup nest.  It has been introduced to Mauritius, Rodrigues, Réunion, Assumption Island, Mafia Island, Puerto Rico, and the Hawaiian Islands, where it is found on western Hawaii, southeastern Oahu and Molokai.
The yellow-fronted canary is a common, gregarious seedeater…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow-fronted_canary

## Photo

![Yellow-fronted Canary](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/yellow-fronted-canary/medium.jpg)

Photo: Damien Wallace · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/348430471

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/yellow-fronted-canary?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).