Purple-banded Sunbird (Cinnyris bifasciatus)

Other Names (World)
Purple-banded Sunbird, Common Purple-banded Sunbird, Little Purple-banded Sunbird, Bifasciated Sunbird, Little Bifasciated Sunbird, Short-billed Sunbird

Family
Nectariniidae (Sunbirds)

Size
10 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Shaw, 1812)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry grassland and shrubland, subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest, dry savanna.

Range (Guide)

Angola (B), Botswana (B), Congo [The Democratic Republic of the] (B), Congo [The Democratic Republic of the] (B), Ethiopia (B), Gabon (B), Kenya (B), Malawi (B), Mozambique (B), Namibia (B), Rwanda (B), Somalia (B), South Africa (B), Swaziland (B), Tanzania [United Republic of] (B), Uganda (B), Zambia (B), Zimbabwe (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 (19)...)

Purple-banded Sunbird (Cinnyris bifasciatus) [XC858506]
by Thibaut Chansac from Family Cottage, Bagamoyo, Pwani Region, Tanzania (song)

Purple-banded Sunbird (Cinnyris bifasciatus) [XC566374]
by id from Kasanka National Park, Zambia (call)

Subspecies
Genus often subsumed in Nectarinia. Forms a superspecies with C. tsavoensis, and the two are sometimes treated as conspecific.

Proposed subspecies strophium, described from Manhi��a (Sul do Save), in Mozambique, considered indistinguishable from microrhynchus.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

bifasciatus (Shaw, 1812) - South-western Central African Republic and Gabon south, discontinuously, to western Angola (Cabinda south to Benguela, also Namibe and central Hu��la).
microrhynchus Shelley, 1876 - Eastern DRCongo, Uganda and Kenya south to extreme eastern Angola (north-eastern Moxico), north-eastern Namibia (Caprivi), extreme northern Botswana, eastern Zimbabwe, Mozambique and eastern South Africa; Zanzibar and Mafia I, off Tanzania.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Purple-banded Sunbird (Cinnyris bifasciatus) - 10 files

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