Pygmy Sunbird (Hedydipna platura)

Other Names (World)
Pygmy Sunbird, Pygmy Long-tailed Sunbird, Western Pygmy Sunbird, Southern Pygmy Sunbird

Family
Nectariniidae (Sunbirds)

Size
10 - 15 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Vieillot, 1819)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry shrubland, dry savanna.

Range (Guide)

Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, Uganda.

Western and southern Mauritania and Senegal east to Sudan and western Ethiopia, south to northern Guinea, northern Ivory Coast, northern Cameroon, north-eastern DRCongo, Uganda and north-western Kenya.

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 (7)...)

Pygmy Sunbird (Hedydipna platura) [XC405708]
by julien Birard from Dindefelo-Segou, K\u00e9dougou, Senegal (call)

Pygmy Sunbird (Hedydipna platura) [XC597982]
by Peter Boesman from University Campus, Maiduguri, Borno, Nigeria (call, song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Genus formerly subsumed in Anthreptes. Recently, this species and its three congeners were placed in a genus Hedydipna, but this name invalid, current genus name having precedence. Forms a superspecies with Nile Valley Sunbird (Hedydipna metallica), and formerly treated as conspecific.

References
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