 The Cape canary is a common and gregarious seed-eater.Its call is "tsit-it-it", and the song is warbled goldfinch-like trills and whistles given in display flight or from a high perch.This species is phylogeneticagy included within the group of "Serinus alario" now thriving around the southern tip of Africa, together with "Serinus syriacus" (Asian distribution and Asian and African patches in winter) and "Serinus pusillus" (Asian distribution) Arnaiz-Villena et al., 1999

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