Congo Sunbird
Cinnyris congensis(van Oort, ED, 1910)
English (US) Congo Sunbird
The Congo Sunbird (Cinnyris congensis) 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: Democratic Republic of the Congo and Congo (banks of upper Congo and Ubangi rivers)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Cinnyris congensis
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Congo Sunbird
- Described by
- (van Oort, ED, 1910)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Nectarinia congensis
- Described by
- (van Oort, ED, 1910)
- Type locality
- Boma, lower Congo ; error, corrected to Irebu by Chapin, 1954, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 75B, p. 268.
- Original description
- Ornithologische Monatsberichte 18 p.54
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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Purple-banded Sunbird
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