Purple-banded sunbird
Purple-banded sunbird | |
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A male at Ngwenya Resort, Mpumalanga, South Africa. | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Nectariniidae |
Genus: | Cinnyris |
Species: | C. bifasciatus |
Binomial name | |
Cinnyris bifasciatus (Shaw, 1812) | |
Synonyms | |
Nectarinia bifasciata |
The purple-banded sunbird (Cinnyris bifasciatus) is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
The Tsavo sunbird, sometimes lumped with the purple-banded, is here considered a separate species.
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Nectarinia bifasciata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
External links
- Purple-banded sunbird - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.
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