Green-headed Sunbird (Cyanomitra verticalis)

Other Names (World)
Green-headed Sunbird, Green-headed Olive Sunbird, Olive-backed Sunbird(!)

Family
Nectariniidae (Sunbirds)

Size
13 - 15 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Latham, 1790)

Habitat
Dry savanna.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia.

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
A loud, rapid 'chip-ip-ip-ip-ip' song. Also a nasal 'wher'.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (27)...)

Green-headed Sunbird (Cyanomitra verticalis) [XC700784]
by Peter Boesman from \u00eele de Kassa, secteur nord, Guinea (call)

Green-headed Sunbird (Cyanomitra verticalis) [XC660752]
by Dries Van de Loock from Mutinondo Wilderness area, Northern Province, Zambia (call)

Subspecies
Has been thought to form a superspecies with Bannerman's Sunbird (Cyanomitra bannermani), possibly including also Cameroon Sunbird (Cyanomitra oritis) and Blue-headed Sunbird (Cyanomitra alinae). Nominate subspecies and bohndorffi intergrade in Cameroon.

Proposed subspecies niassae, described from Kondeland (north of L Malawi), in south-western Tanzania, appears indistinguishable from viridisplendens.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

verticalis (Latham, 1790) - Senegal east to western and northern Cameroon.
bohndorffi (Reichenow, 1887) - Central and southern Cameroon and Central African Republic south to inland Gabon, middle DRCongo and northern Angola.
cyanocephala (Bechstein, 1811) - Coasts of mainland Equatorial Guinea and Gabon south to north-western Angola (Cabinda) and extreme western DRCongo (mouth of R Congo).
viridisplendens (Reichenow, 1891) - Southern Sudan and north-eastern and eastern DRCongo east to Uganda, Kenya (east to Mt Kenya) and Tanzania, and north-eastern Zambia and northern Malawi.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Green-headed Sunbird (Cyanomitra verticalis) - 10 files

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