Grey-chinned Sunbird
Anthreptes tephrolaemus(Jardine, W; Fraser, L, 1852)
English (US) Gray-chinned Sunbird
UK name: Grey-chinned Sunbird
The Grey-chinned Sunbird (Anthreptes tephrolaemus) 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 Benin and southern Nigeria eastward to southern Central African Republic, southern South Sudan, Uganda, southwestern Kenya, and northwestern Tanzania, southward to northern Angola and southern Democratic Republic of the Congo; BiokoRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Anthreptes tephrolaemus
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Gray-chinned Sunbird
- English (UK)
- Grey-chinned Sunbird
- Described by
- (Jardine, W; Fraser, L, 1852)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- N[ectarinia] tephrolaemus
- Described by
- (Jardine, W; Fraser, L, 1852)
- Type locality
- Clarence, Fernando Po.
- Original description
- Contributions to ornithology p.154-155
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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