Blue-throated Brown Sunbird (Cyanomitra cyanolaema)

Other Names (World)
Blue-throated Brown Sunbird, Blue-headed Brown Sunbird, Blue-throated Sunbird

Family
Nectariniidae (Sunbirds)

Size
14 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Jardine & Fraser, 1851)

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, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, 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 (21)...)

Blue-throated Brown Sunbird (Cyanomitra cyanolaema) [XC719082]
by Deville Tanguy from Kakum National Park, Ghana (call)

Blue-throated Brown Sunbird (Cyanomitra cyanolaema) [XC403589]
by Brendan Sloan from Erunwon (near Ijebu Ode), Ijebu ode, Ogun State, Nigeria (call, song)

Subspecies
No apparent close relative. Shows characters of both present genus and Chalcomitra.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

magnirostrata (Bates, 1930) - Sierra Leone east to Togo.
octaviae Amadon, 1953 - South-western Nigeria, Cameroon and southern Central African Republic east to Uganda (Budongo Forest) and western Kenya (Kakamega Forest), and south to northern Angola and southern DRCongo (Katanga). Also north-western and western Tanzania.
cyanolaema (Jardine & Fraser, 1851) - Bioko I (Fernando P�o).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Blue-throated Brown Sunbird (Cyanomitra cyanolaema) - 10 files

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