Northern Grosbeak-Canary
Crithagra donaldsoni(Sharpe, RB, 1895)
English (US) Northern Grosbeak-Canary
The Northern Grosbeak-Canary (Crithagra donaldsoni) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Fringillidae (Finches, Euphonias, and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: southern Ethiopia and Somalia to northern Kenya; isolated population in Taita HillsRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Crithagra donaldsoni
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Northern Grosbeak-Canary
- Described by
- (Sharpe, RB, 1895)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Serinus donaldsoni
- Described by
- (Sharpe, RB, 1895)
- Type locality
- Somaliland ; type from Darde or Smith River near Sheikh Hussein, Abyssinian Somaliland, fide W. L. Sclater, 1930, Syst. Av. Aethiop., p. 817.
- Original description
- Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 4 p.41
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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