[ATLANTIC CANARY]

Serinus canaria

Status:  No accepted records.

Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025).

Clement (2020) refers to this species as Island Canary.

Comments: Cage birds are derived from birds native to the Canary Islands, Azores, and Madeira and usually lack back streaking due to selection by aficionados.  A population is established in Hawaii (Clement 2020).

An undoubted escape with no back streaking was in western Douglas Co 17 Mar 2016 (Silcock 2016).

Literature Cited

AviList Core Team, 2025. AviList: The Global Avian Checklist, v2025. https://doi.org/10.2173/avilist.v2025.

Clement, P. 2020. Island Canary (Serinus canaria), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.comcan.01.

Silcock, W.R. 2016. Spring Field Report, Mar 2016 to May 2016. NBR 84: 58- 85.

Recommended Citation

Silcock, W.R., and J.G. Jorgensen.  2025.  Atlantic Canary (Serinus canaria). In Birds of Nebraska — Online. www.BirdsofNebraska.org

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Updated 22 Jul 2025