Beautiful Sunbird (Cinnyris pulchellus)

Other Names (World)
Beautiful Sunbird, Beautiful Long-tailed Sunbird

Family
Nectariniidae (Sunbirds)

Size
15 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Habitat
Dry savanna.

Range (Guide)

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

Vagrant to Rwanda.

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 (13)...)

Beautiful Sunbird (Cinnyris pulchellus) [XC699821]
by isaac kilusu from Dubreka, marais Dofili, Guinea (call)

Beautiful Sunbird (Cinnyris pulchellus) [XC425474]
by Oscar Campbell from Janjanbureh, Janjanbureh, Central River, Gambia (song)

Subspecies
It has been suggested that this species and Black-bellied Sunbird (Cinnyris nectarinioides) link the "Nectarinia mariquensis complex" with the "Nectarinia chalybeus complex".

Proposed subspecies aeger (described from A�r, in Niger) and lucidipectus (from Wad Medani, on Blue Nile in east-central Sudan) considered inseparable from nominate.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

pulchellus (Linnaeus, 1766) - Mauritania, Senegal and Guinea-Bissau east to Sudan, Eritrea and western Ethiopia, south to Sierra Leone, central Nigeria, northern Cameroon, Central African Republic, north-eastern DRCongo, Uganda and north-western Kenya.
melanogastrus (Fischer, GA & Reichenow, 1884) - Western, central and southern Kenya and Tanzania. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Gorgeous Sunbird (Cinnyris melanogastrus).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Beautiful Sunbird (Cinnyris pulchellus) - 10 files

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