Nile Valley Sunbird
Hedydipna metallica(Lichtenstein, MHC, 1823)
English (US) Nile Valley Sunbird
The Nile Valley Sunbird (Hedydipna metallica) 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: breeds Egypt (primarily the Nile Valley) to Sudan, northeastern South Sudan, Eritrea, northern Ethiopia, Djibouti, northwestern Somalia, southwestern Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and southwestern Oman; nonbreeding visitor to northern Egypt (Cairo) and northern eastern SomaliaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Hedydipna metallica
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Nile Valley Sunbird
- Described by
- (Lichtenstein, MHC, 1823)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Nectarinia metallica
- Described by
- (Lichtenstein, MHC, 1823)
- Type locality
- Dongolam Nubiae (Dongola, Sudan).
- Original description
- Verzeichniss der Doubletten des zoologischen Museums der Königl. Universität zu Berlin nebst Beschreibung vieler bisher unbekannter Arten von Säugethieren, Vögeln, Amphibien und Fischen p.15
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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