In southwestern and western South Africa, the older broad treatment of Corypha apiata recorded a grayer population. A wing-clapping display flight is also reported.
Birds in the southwestern and western Cape are described as grayer than the broad older treatment of Mirafra apiata. They clap their wings during display flights.
It performs a wing-clapping display flight. Local movements related to rain and vegetation are reported from arid areas with irregular rainfall.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.