Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird
Anthreptes orientalisHartlaub, KJG, 1880
English (US) Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird
The Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird (Anthreptes orientalis) 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: southeastern South Sudan, southern and eastern Ethiopia, northwestern and southern Somalia, northern Uganda, Kenya, and TanzaniaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Anthreptes orientalis
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird
- Described by
- Hartlaub, KJG, 1880
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Hartlaub, KJG, 1880
- Type locality
- Lado, on Bahr-el-Jebel [White Nile] , Sudan.
- Original description
- Journal für Ornithologie 28, no.150 p.213
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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