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 LC    Tiny Sunbird* Id (Atlas):
    Cinnyris minullus

Description (10)
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Other Scientific Names
Cinnyris minullus

Family
Nectariniidae (Sunbirds)

Size
9 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Reichenow, 1899)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest.

Range (Guide)
Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Uganda.

Sierra Leone east to Ghana, and southern Nigeria, Bioko I (Fernando Póo) and Gabon east to DRCongo and western Uganda.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
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Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (13)...)

 
Tiny Sunbird (Cinnyris minullus) [XC617103]
     by Rod Cassidy from Ivindo, Ogooue-Ivindo, Gabon (song)

 
Tiny Sunbird (Cinnyris minullus) [XC704610]
     by Deville Tanguy from For\u00eat class\u00e9e du Mont Tonkoui, Man, Montagnes District, Ivory Coast (song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Genus often subsumed in Nectarinia. Supposedly larger birds from Bioko I described as subspecies amadoni, and others, from R Lualaba, in DRCongo, described as subspecies marginatus. However, both fall within range of variation of populations elsewhere in species' area of distribution.


References
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Files:
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