📸 PhotoPhoto: Juan Emilio · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons Source
Atlantic Canary
Serinus canaria (Atlantic Canary · カナリア)
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 Its body length of 13 cm is slightly shorter than a ballpoint pen (about 14 cm) (Comparison).
- 💡 In the Canary Islands, it is also known to nest in banana plantations, orchards, and gardens.
- 💡 All of the roughly 470,000 and 9,000 individuals in Spain live in the Canary Islands, while introduced populations live in Bermuda, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico.
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
📖 1. Overview
The Atlantic Canary is a small finch found only in Madeira, the Azores, and the Canary Islands. It is fairly common across the Canary Islands except on Lanzarote and Fuerteventura.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
It is a small, short-billed, greenish bird with streaking on the back and flanks. Males have a noticeably yellow face, throat, and breast, whereas females are much duller.
🔍 3. Ecology & Behavior
It feeds mainly on seeds, shoots, and buds, supplemented with insects. It breeds two or three times a year, building a thick cup-shaped nest lined with moss and feathers at the end of a branch, laying 3–5 eggs, and incubating them for 13–14 days.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
No direct record connecting this species to Korea has been found.
📚 Sources & References
- • IUCN Red List LC (2018) — https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22720056/132137153
- • IUCN Red List category LC — latest assessment at iucnredlist.org
- • doi.org — avilist.v2026
- • iucnredlist.org — 132137153
- • wikidata.org — Q192524
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Serinus canaria -Parque Rural del Nublo, Gran Canaria,
- • seo.org — serin-canario
- • link.springer.com — s10336-005-0044-2
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — Mathieu Pélissié · CC0 1.0 (Related taxon silhouette — Chloris chloris)
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.