Yellow-fronted finch

(Crithagra mozambica)

Range: Throughout Sub-Saharan Africa; from Senegal to South Africa.

Subspecies

• C. m. mozambica: Coastal Kenya and Mafia Island (Chole Shamba) southward to Mozambique, Zimbabwe, eastern and southeastern Botswana, and northeastern South Africa (North West to Limpopo)

• C. m. barbata: Southern Chad, western Sudan, western and southern South Sudan, Central African Republic, eastern DR Congo, Uganda, southwestern Kenya, and central Tanzania

• C. m. caniceps: Senegal to Cameroon

• C. m. gommaensis: Eritrea, as well as northwestern and central Ethiopia

• C. m. granti: Eastern South Africa (Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal, southward to Eastern Cape), Eswatini, and southern Mozambique

• C. m. grotei: Southeastern Sudan (east of the Nile), eastern South Sudan, as well as western and southwestern Ethiopia

• C. m. punctigula: Cameroon (northward to Toukte, Grand Capitaine, and Koum)

• C. m. samaliyae: Southeastern DR Congo to southwestern Tanzania and Zambia

• C. m. tando: Gabon to northern Angola and southwestern DR Congo

• C. m. vansoni: Far southeastern Angola and Namibia to northern Botswana and southwestern Zambia