Photo of two male Finsch's Euphonia, made by Carl Beel in
Overbridge in January 2010. This Euphonia is rather uncommon in
the whole of Suriname, you will find them mostly when and where
there are berries available for them in trees and shrubs. They
have a clear whistle (dee,dee,
dee here) that you hear when they sing from twigs higher up. The
male at the right of the photo is just singing and a female
nearby was answering. The species has a restricted range,
confined as it is to the Guiana shield (the Guianas, and adjacent
parts of Venezuela and Brazil). This is another song from Finsch's euphonia, also
taped by Otte Ottema at Belwaarde, with also a Boat-billed
flycatcher screaming (hya, hya, hya).
The Fisch's euphonia is held as a cagebird in Suriname, already
for a long time. Around 1900 it cost about 1 guilder, quite a
substantial amount in that time, the more sought after but more
common Violaceos euphonia did cost a
half guilder and the Golden-sided euphonia
5. They are captured with a singing bird in a cage and sticks
with glue in the trees around. Below is a picture of a female
(but female euphonias are difficult to identify), taken by Erik
Toorman at the Celos grounds in Paramaribo in juni 2007.
Each small square indicates the observation of at least one (group) of these birds, the medium ones at least 4 observations on different days and the largest ones 10 or more. The color of each square indicates: blue for coastal area, yellow for savanna and red for rainforest.
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