Palestine Sunbird (Cinnyris osea)

Other Scientific Names
Cinnyris osea

Other Names (World)
Palestine Sunbird, Orange-tufted Sunbird, Northern Orange-tufted Sunbird, Chad Orange-tufted Sunbird (decorsei)

Family
Nectariniidae (Sunbirds)

Size
10 - 11.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Bonaparte, 1856)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry grassland and shrubland, dry savanna. From sea-level - 3,200 m.

Range (Guide)

Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Egypt, Israel (B), Jordan (B) (NB), Lebanon (B), Oman (B), Saudi Arabia (B), Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic (B), Uganda, Yemen (B).

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 (48)...)

Palestine Sunbird (Cinnyris osea) [XC779954]
by Marcin So\u0142owiej from KM20,Flamingo Pools, Eilat, Israel (call, song)

Palestine Sunbird (Cinnyris) [XC528707]
by Daniel Parker from Amram's Pillars, Israel (song, subsong)

Subspecies
Genus often subsumed in Nectarinia. Has been thought perhaps to form a superspecies with Orange-tufted Sunbird (Cinnyris bouvieri), Oustalet's Sunbird (Cinnyris oustaleti), White-breasted Sunbird (Cinnyris talatala) and Purple Sunbird (Cinnyris asiaticus).

Proposed subspecies butleri (described from Kajo Kaji, in southern Sudan) considered inseparable from decorsei.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

osea (Bonaparte, 1856) - Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, north-eastern Egypt, southern Syria, Jordan, western Saudi Arabia, Yemen and southern Oman.
decorsei Oustalet, 1905 - Widely scattered localities at L Chad and in eastern Cameroon, Central African Republic, western and southern Sudan, north-eastern DRCongo and north-western Uganda.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Palestine Sunbird (Cinnyris osea) - 10 files

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