Little Green Sunbird (Anthreptes seimundi)

Other Names (World)
Little Green Sunbird, Seimund's Little Green Sunbird, Little Olive Sunbird

Family
Nectariniidae (Sunbirds)

Size
9 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Ogilvie-Grant, 1908)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (3)...)

Little Green Sunbird (Anthreptes seimundi) [XC315838]
by id from Parc National du Banco, Ivory Coast (call)

Little Green Sunbird (Anthreptes seimundi) [XC611160]
by Phil Gregory from Kakum National Park (near Odumase Abrafo), Twifo, Central, Ghana (call)

Subspecies
Sometimes placed in genus Nectarinia. With such treatment, subspecies name minor becomes invalid, as preoccupied, and must then be replaced by name traylori.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

kruensis (Bannerman, 1911) - Western Guinea and Sierra Leone east to Togo.
minor Bates, 1926 - South-eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, southern Central African Republic east to DRCongo, southern Sudan, Uganda (Budongo Forest) and extreme north-western Tanzania, south to north-western and north-eastern Angola.
seimundi (Ogilvie-Grant, 1908) - Bioko I (Fernando P�o).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Little Green Sunbird (Anthreptes seimundi) - 10 files

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