Elegant Sunbird
Aethopyga duyvenbodei(Schlegel, H, 1871)
English (US) Elegant Sunbird
The Elegant Sunbird (Aethopyga duyvenbodei) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Nectariniidae (Spiderhunters and Sunbirds) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: Sangihe and Siau islands (off northern Sulawesi)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Aethopyga duyvenbodei
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Endangered
- English (US)
- Elegant Sunbird
- Described by
- (Schlegel, H, 1871)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Nectarinia duyvenbodei
- Described by
- (Schlegel, H, 1871)
- Type locality
- Sanghir Island.
- Original description
- Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor de Dierkunde 4 p.14
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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