Tsavo Sunbird
Cinnyris tsavoensisVan Someren, VGL, 1922
English (US) Tsavo Sunbird
The Tsavo Sunbird (Cinnyris tsavoensis) 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: southern Somalia, eastern Kenya, and northeastern TanzaniaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Cinnyris tsavoensis
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Tsavo Sunbird
- Described by
- Van Someren, VGL, 1922
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Cinnyris bifasciatus tsavoensis
- Described by
- Van Someren, VGL, 1922
- Type locality
- Tsavo.
- Original description
- Novitates Zoologicae 29 p.196
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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