Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird (Anthreptes orientalis)

Other Names (World)
Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird, Kenya Violet-backed Sunbird, Kenya Sunbird

Family
Nectariniidae (Sunbirds)

Size
12 cm

First Described (Guide)
Hartlaub, 1880

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry shrubland, dry savanna.

Range (Guide)

Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda.

South-eastern Sudan, Ethiopia and north-western and southern Somalia south to northern Uganda, Kenya and north-eastern and west-central Tanzania, also Rwanda,

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 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (19)...)

Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird (Anthreptes orientalis) [XC267766]
by isaac kilusu from Dawa River, Ethiopia (call)

Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird (Anthreptes orientalis) [XC578596]
by Brian Henderson from kwakilusu,oloitoktok, Kenya (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Forms a superspecies with Western Violet-backed Sunbird (Anthreptes longuemarei), Uluguru Violet-backed Sunbird (Anthreptes neglectus) and Violet-tailed Sunbird (Anthreptes aurantius).

Two proposed subspecies, neumanni (described from Afgoi, in southern Somalia) and barbouri (from Dodoma, in Tanzania), are both considered insufficiently differentiated from birds elsewhere in range.

References
See References.

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