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 LC    Amethyst Sunbird* Id (Atlas):
    Chalcomitra amethystina

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Amethyst Sunbird, Black Sunbird, Amethyst-throated Sunbird

Family
Nectariniidae (Sunbirds)

Size
14 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Shaw, 1812)

Habitat
Dry savanna.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (12)...)

 
Amethyst Sunbird (Chalcomitra amethystina) [XC508777]
     by Colin Jackson from Mad Man's crossing, Jimbe drainage, North-western province, Zambia (call)

 
Amethyst Sunbird (Chalcomitra amethystina) [XC858619]
     by Zo\u00eb Lunau from Dzalanyama Forest Reserve, Lilongwe, Central Region, Malawi (call)

Subspecies
Forms a group with Carmelite Sunbird (Chalcomitra fuliginosa) and Green-throated Sunbird (Chalcomitra rubescens) and sometimes thought to form a superspecies with those, despite considerable geographical overlap, but all appear to hybridize occasionally in areas where they meet.

Other proposed subspecies are adjuncta from eastern Swaziland (described from Stegi, in Lebombo Mts), which is synonymized with nominate, and doggetti (Ravine, in western Kenya) and kalckreuthi (Mombasa, in south-eastern Kenya), both merged with kirkii.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

  • deminuta Cabanis, 1880   -  South-eastern Gabon, southern PRCongo, western and south-eastern DRCongo, Angola, Namibia, northern and western Zambia and northern Botswana.
  • kirkii (Shelley, 1876)   -  South-eastern Sudan, south-eastern Ethiopia (sight records), Somalia (Jubba Valley), north-eastern Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, eastern and southern Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique (south to Coguna) and Zimbabwe.
  • amethystina (Shaw, 1812)   -  Eastern Botswana, southern Mozambique (south of R Limpopo), Swaziland and eastern and southern South Africa (Limpopo, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal south to southern coastal western Cape).
  • kalckreuthi (Cabanis, 1878)   -  Southern Somalia, eastern Kenya and north-eastern Tanzania.



References
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Files:
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