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 LC    Brimstone Canary* Id (Atlas):
    Crithagra sulphurata

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Brimstone Canary, Brimstone Serin, Bully Canary, Bully Seedeater

Family
Fringillidae (Finches)

Size
15 - 16 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland. Also, subtropical and tropical lowland dry grassland, rural gardens, pastureland, arable land.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Burundi, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Lesotho.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2020) and stable.

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Habits
Usually singly or in pairs. Occasionally small groups.

Food
Fruit, seeds, flowers, shoots.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (44)...)

 
Brimstone Canary (Crithagra sulphurata) [XC62623]
     by Stein \u00d8. Nilsen from Wilderness National Park, South Africa (song)

 
Brimstone Canary (Crithagra sulphurata) [XC472388]
     by Lynette Rudman from Namanga Bus Station (near Namanga), Namanga, Kajiado County, Kenya (call)

Nest
Open cup composed of thin stems and other plant material, lined with plant down, located in a leafy bush or a tree.

Subspecies
May form a superspecies with Northern Grosbeak-canary (Crithagra donaldsoni) and Southern Grosbeak-canary (Crithagra buchanani).

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).



References
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Files:
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