Mystery Birds: Yellow-crowned Canary, Serinus flavivertex, and Cut-throat Finch, Amadina fasciata

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[Mystery birds] Yellow-crowned (Kenya) Canary, Serinus flavivertex (left), Cut-throat (Ribbon) Finch, Amadina fasciata (right), photographed in the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, Africa. [I will identify these birds for you in 48 hours]

Image: Dan Logen, 7 August 2006 [larger view].

Nikon D2X, 200-400 mm VR lens at 310 mm. ISO 400 f/5 1/500 sec.

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These are a cut-throat finch pair. The mail is on the right and light brown. They very thick beak and "ribbon" of red on the throat. Hence the name also "Ribbon finch" Lynn Barlow

By Lynn Barlow (not verified) on 02 Sep 2009 #permalink

Nope not a pair of cut throats but one, upper right and the ribbon is so thin it could be juvenile or female.

The yellow varigated bird on the left appears to be a green singing finch or yellow crowned canary juvenile

By Paula Hansen (not verified) on 02 Sep 2009 #permalink