Brimstone Canary (Crithagra sulphurata) [XC432699]
by Rolf A. de By from Bathurst, South Africa (call)
Brimstone Canary (Crithagra sulphurata) [XC507083]
by Frank Lambert from Makana Local Municipality (near Grahamstown), Western District, Eastern Cape, South Africa (song)
Nest
Open cup composed of thin stems and other plant material, lined with plant down, located in a leafy bush or a tree.
Proposed subspecies loveridgei (described from Lumbo, in north-eastern Mozambique) is synonymized with sharpii, and languens (from Manhica, in southern Mozambique) with wilsoni.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
sharpii (Neumann, 1900) - Central, south-western and eastern Angola, north-eastern and south-eastern DRCongo east to west-central and southern Kenya, north-eastern and southern Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe and northern and central Mozambique.
wilsoni Roberts, 1936 - Southern Mozambique, Swaziland and eastern South Africa (eastern Limpopo south to KwaZulu-Natal and eastern Cape).
sulphurata (Linnaeus, 1766) - Southern South Africa (southern western Cape and western eastern Cape).
BirdLife International Species Factsheet