Black-faced Canary (Crithagra capistrata)

Family
Fringillidae (Finches)

Size
11 - 12 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Finsch & Hartlaub, 1870)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. Also, subtropical and tropical lowland moist shrubland, inland wetlands.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Burundi, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Gabon, Zambia.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2020) and stable.

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (4)...)

Black-faced Canary (Crithagra capistrata) [XC854372]
by id from Rivendell Farm, Copperbelt Province, Zambia (song)

Black-faced Canary (Crithagra capistrata) [XC854371]
by Dries Van de Loock from Rivendell Farm, Copperbelt Province, Zambia (song)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Abyssinian Citril (Crithagra citrinelloides). Has been treated as conspecific with Papyrus Canary (Crithagra koliensis).

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

capistratus (Finsch and Hartlaub, 1870) - Central and south-western Gabon and southern PRCongo east, discontinuously, to eastern DRCongo and western Burundi and south, very locally, to northern Angola, south-eastern DRCongo and northern Zambia.
hildegardae (Rand & Traylor, 1959) - West-central Angola.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Black-faced Canary (Crithagra capistrata) - 10 files

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