Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Egypt, Israel (B), Jordan (B) (NB), Lebanon (B), Oman (B), Saudi Arabia (B), Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic (B), Uganda, Yemen (B).
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Palestine Sunbird (Cinnyris osea) [XC355626]
by Marcin So\u0142owiej from Har Hanegev Hatzfoni (near Yeruham), Be'er Sheva, South District, Israel (call, song)
Palestine Sunbird (Cinnyris osea) [XC650043]
by Oscar Campbell from Al Reeth, Al Reeth, Jazan, Saudi Arabia (song)
Proposed subspecies butleri (described from Kajo Kaji, in southern Sudan) considered inseparable from decorsei.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
osea (Bonaparte, 1856) - Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, north-eastern Egypt, southern Syria, Jordan, western Saudi Arabia, Yemen and southern Oman.
decorsei Oustalet, 1905 - Widely scattered localities at L Chad and in eastern Cameroon, Central African Republic, western and southern Sudan, north-eastern DRCongo and north-western Uganda.