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 LC    Superb Sunbird* Id (Atlas):
    Cinnyris superbus

Description (10)
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Family
Nectariniidae (Sunbirds)

Size
17 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Shaw, 1812)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest, dry savanna, inland wetlands.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda.

Unknown to Guinea-bissau.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (7)...)

 
Superb Sunbird (Cinnyris superbus) [XC267656]
     by Bram Piot from northern section along road, Kibale Forest, W Uganda, Uganda (flight call)

 
Superb Sunbird (Cinnyris superbus) [XC137088]
     by Rod Cassidy from Ngogo Research Camp, Kibale National Park, Kabarole, Western Region, Uganda (call)

Subspecies
Genus often subsumed in Nectarinia.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

  • ashantiensis Bannerman, 1922   -  Sierra Leone and southern Mali east to Togo and north-western Benin.
  • nigeriae (Rand & Traylor, 1959)   -  South-eastern Benin and southern Nigeria.
  • superbus (Shaw, 1812)   -  Southern Cameroon, Central African Republic and DRCongo (except north-east) south to western Angola.
  • buvuma van Someren, 1932   -  North-eastern DRCongo, Uganda, western Kenya and extreme north-western Tanzania.



References
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Files:
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