Purple-breasted Sunbird
Nectarinia purpureiventris(Reichenow, A, 1893)
English (US) Purple-breasted Sunbird
The Purple-breasted Sunbird (Nectarinia purpureiventris) 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: montane forest of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Uganda, Rwanda, and BurundiRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Nectarinia purpureiventris
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Purple-breasted Sunbird
- Described by
- (Reichenow, A, 1893)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Cinnyris purpureiventris
- Described by
- (Reichenow, A, 1893)
- Type locality
- Migere, western Mpororo [= southwestern Uganda, cf. Chapin, 1954, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 75B, p. 273].
- Original description
- Ornithologische Monatsberichte 1 p.61
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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