Fraser's Sunbird (Deleornis fraseri)

Other Scientific Names
Deleornis fraseri

Other Names (World)
Fraser's Sunbird, Scarlet-tufted Sunbird, Brown Sunbird

Family
Nectariniidae (Sunbirds)

Size
11 - 13 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Jardine & Selby, 1843)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest. From sea-level - 1,550 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Cameroon, Cote dIvoire, Central African Republic, Congo, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2012) and decreasing.

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (1)...)

Fraser's Sunbird (Deleornis fraseri) [XC719085]
by id from Ankasa NR, Ghana (call)

Fraser's Sunbird (Deleornis fraseri) [XC367515]
by \u00c9tienne Leroy from Parc National d'Azagny, Ivory Coast (call)

Subspecies
Fraser's Sunbird (Deleornis fraseri) and Grey-headed Sunbird (Deleornis axillaris) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped intoAnthreptes fraseri following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).

Sometimes treated as conspecific with Grey-headed Sunbird (Deleornis axillaris), but the two meet in south-western DRCongo apparently without intergrading.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

idius (Oberholser, 1899) - South-western Guinea and Sierra Leone east to Togo. Also recorded in extreme southern Mali.
cameroonensis (Bannerman, 1921) - Southern Nigeria east to south-western Central African Republic, south to PRCongo, western DRCongo and north-western Angola.
fraseri (Jardine & Selby, 1843) - Bioko I (Fernando P�o).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Frasers Sunbird (Deleornis fraseri) - 10 files

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