Red-chested Sunbird
Cinnyris erythrocercus(Hartlaub, KJG, 1857)
English (US) Red-chested Sunbird
The Red-chested Sunbird (Cinnyris erythrocercus) 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: South Sudan, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, southwestern Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, and northwestern TanzaniaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Cinnyris erythrocercus
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Red-chested Sunbird
- Described by
- (Hartlaub, KJG, 1857)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Nectarinia erythrocerca
- Described by
- (Hartlaub, KJG, 1857)
- Type locality
- no locality ; White Nile, south of lat. 8° N., designated by Sclater, ibid., following Heuglin, ibid.
- Original description
- System der Ornithologie Westafrica's p.270
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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