Saffron Finch

Saffron Bunting ( Sicalis flaveola )

Features

The male has a yellow plumage with darker wings and tail and orange forehead. The female is colored either upper side gray-brown, our whitish with yellow breast band or is it a paler version of the male. The song of the saffron bunting is melodic.

Occurrence

The saffron Bunting lives in savannah and scrubland outside the Amazon basin in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil and Argentina. In parts of Central America and the Caribbean, it has been introduced.

Behavior

The saffron Ammer is a gregarious bird, which forms small flocks and looking on the ground for seeds.

Reproduction

The saffron bunting nests in a tree cavity, in the rafters of a house, or it takes over an abandoned nest of another bird. Three to five eggs are incubated by the female for about two weeks. With 14 -17 days the young birds fledge.