Olive sunbird
| Olive sunbird | |
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| Eastern olive sunbird, Queen Elizabeth Park, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Nectariniidae |
| Genus: | Cyanomitra |
| Species: | C. olivacea |
| Binomial name | |
| Cyanomitra olivacea (Smith, 1840) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Nectarinia olivacea | |
The olive sunbird (Cyanomitra olivacea) is a species of sunbird found in a large part of Africa south of the Sahel. It prefers forested regions, and is absent from drier, more open regions such as the Horn of Africa and most of south-central and south-western Africa. It is sometimes placed in the genus Nectarina.
The western subspecies (roughly west of the East African Rift) are sometimes split as the western olive sunbird, Cyanomitra obscura, in which case Cyanomitra olivacea becomes the eastern olive sunbird
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Nectarinia olivacea". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
External links
- Olive sunbird - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.
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