Bocage's Sunbird
Nectarinia bocagiiShelley, GE, 1879
English (US) Bocage's Sunbird
The Bocage's Sunbird (Nectarinia bocagii) 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: highlands of central Angola and southwestern Democratic Republic of the CongoRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Nectarinia bocagii
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Bocage's Sunbird
- Described by
- Shelley, GE, 1879
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Shelley, GE, 1879
- Type locality
- Angola; type from Caconda, cf. Sclater, 1930, Syst. Av. Aethiop., p. 683.
- Original description
- A monograph of the Nectariniidæ, or family of sun-birds pt9-10 p.21 pl.6 fig.2
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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