Copper Sunbird (Cinnyris cupreus)

Other Scientific Names
Cinnyris cupreus

Other Names (World)
Copper Sunbird, Coppery Sunbird, Copper-colored Sunbird, Copper-coloured Sunbird

Family
Nectariniidae (Sunbirds)

Size
13 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Shaw, 1812)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry shrubland, dry savanna.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa (B), Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Botswana.

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

Copper Sunbird (Cinnyris cupreus) [XC687588]
by id from Bakoumba, Lekoko, Haut-Ogooue, Gabon (uncertain)

Copper Sunbird (Cinnyris cupreus) [XC508815]
by BurBenj from Mutanda Nature Lodge, North-Western province, Zambia (call)

Subspecies
Genus often subsumed in Nectarinia. Has been thought to form a superspecies with Dusky Sunbird (Cinnyris fuscus). Nominate subspecies exhibits clinal variation in size, which increases from west to east. Described subspecies septentrionalis (from Mpumu, in Uganda) is synonymized with nominate and vaughanjonesi (from Kasempa, in Zambia) with chalceus.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

cupreus (Shaw, 1812) - South-western Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia and Sierra Leone east to Cameroon, Central African Republic, southern Sudan, western Ethiopia, Uganda and western Kenya (west of Rift Valley), and from Gabon and north-western Angola (Cabinda) east to DRCongo (except south-east) and western Tanzania.
chalceus (Hartlaub, 1862) - Angola (except Cabinda), south-eastern DRCongo, Zambia, south-western Tanzania, Malawi, north-eastern Namibia (Caprivi Strip), northern Botswana (Chobe National Park, Kasane) northern Mozambique and northern Zimbabwe.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Copper Sunbird (Cinnyris cupreus) - 10 files

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