Bates's Sunbird
Cinnyris batesiOgilvie-Grant, WR, 1908
English (US) Bates's Sunbird
The Bates's Sunbird (Cinnyris batesi) 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: Liberia to Nigeria, Gabon, southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and northwestern Zambia; BiokoRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Cinnyris batesi
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Bates's Sunbird
- Described by
- Ogilvie-Grant, WR, 1908
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Ogilvie-Grant, WR, 1908
- Type locality
- River Ja, Cameroons, and Camma River, Gaboon.
- Original description
- Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 23 p.19
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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