Captain Saffron

I found this little saffron finch feeding off of who knows what at a quaint beach park in Captain Cook, Hawaii called Manini Beach Park. --- The saffron finch (...
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I found this little saffron finch feeding off of who knows what at a quaint beach park in Captain Cook, Hawaii called Manini Beach Park. --- The saffron finch (Sicalis flaveola) is a tanager from South America that is common in open and semi-open areas in lowlands outside the Amazon Basin. They have a wide distribution in Colombia, northern Venezuela (where it is called "canario de tejado" or "roof canary"), western Ecuador, western Peru, eastern and southern Brazil (where it is called "canário da terra" or "native canary"), Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, northern Argentina, and Trinidad and Tobago. It has also been introduced to Hawaii, Puerto Rico and elsewhere. Although commonly regarded as a canary, it is not related to the Atlantic canary. Formerly, it was placed in the Emberizidae but it is close to the seedeaters. (Wikipedia)
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