Pygmy Sunbird
Hedydipna platura(Vieillot, LJP, 1819)
English (US) Pygmy Sunbird
The Pygmy Sunbird (Hedydipna platura) 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: Mauritania and Senegal eastward to Sudan, South Sudan, and perhaps locally in western Ethiopia, southward to northern Ivory Coast, northern Nigeria, northern Central African Republic, northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and northern Uganda; resident in northern part of range, only a breeding visitor to southern portions of rangeRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Hedydipna platura
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Pygmy Sunbird
- Described by
- (Vieillot, LJP, 1819)
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Taxonomic history
- First described as
- Cinnyris platurus
- Described by
- (Vieillot, LJP, 1819)
- Type locality
- Senegal.
- Original description
- Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc. Nouvelle édition 31 p.501
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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