Nectariniidae

Aethopyga duycenbodei Photo by Mark Thibault (Oriental Bird Images) Common name:elegant sunbird (en); beija-flor-elegante (pt); souimanga des Sangi (fr); suimanga elegante (es); Sangihenektarvogel (de)Taxonomy:Order PasseriformesFamily NectariniidaeRange:At present, the elegant sunbird in endemic to the Indonesian island of Sangihe, located north of Sulawesi, but there are historical records of this species on the nearby island of…

Cinnyris manoensis Photo by Warwick Tarboton (Warwick Tarboton) Common name:miombo double-collared sunbird (en); beija-flor-do-miombo (pt); souïmanga du miombo (fr); suimanga del miombo (es); miombonektarvogel (de)Taxonomy:Order PasseriformesFamily NectariniidaeRange:This African species is patchily distributed between Angola, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and northern Mozambique. Size:These birds are 13 cm long  and weigh around 9 g. Habitat:The miombo double-collared sunbird is…

Anthreptes collaris Photo by Sergi Aris (Flickr) Common name:collared sunbird (en); beija-flor-de-colar (pt); souimanga à collier (fr); suimanga acollarado (es); waldnektarvogel (de)Taxonomy:Order PasseriformesFamily NectariniidaeRange:This species is found in sub-Saharan Africa, from Senegal to Ethiopia and south to Angola, northern Botswana, and through Mozambique down to eastern South Africa.Size:These birds are 9-10 cm long and weigh…

Chalcomitra senegalensis Photo by Mike Pope (World-Birds) Common name:scarlet-chested sunbird (en); beija-flor-de-peito-escarlate (pt); souïmanga à poitrine rouge (fr); suimanga pechiescarlata (es); rotbrust-glanzköpfchen (de)Taxonomy:Order PasseriformesFamily NectariniidaeRange:This species is found in sub-Saharan Africa, from southern Mauritania and Guinea to Ethiopia and south to northern Namibia and north-eastern South Africa. The scarlet-chested sunbird is absent from the Congo river basin…