Sunbirds (Nectariniidae)
Hunter's Sunbird (Chalcomitra hunteri) - HBW 13, p. 265
French: Souimanga de Hunter
German: Purpurbürzel-Glanzköpfchen
Spanish: Suimanga de Hunter
Taxonomy: Cinnyris hunteri Shelley, 1889, Useri River, Kenya-Tanzania border.
Genus previously merged with Nectarinia. May form a superspecies with C. senegalensis; sometimes regarded as conspecific, but the two are ecologically segregated in area of marginal overlap in E Kenya. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- siccata (Clancey, 1986) - extreme SE Sudan, SSW Ethiopia (near Mega), NW Kenya (including NW shore of L Turkana), and plateau regions of Somalia.
- hunteri (Shelley, 1889) - S & EC Ethiopia, Kenya (except NW) and extreme NE Tanzania.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A male moving in vegetation. Locality Imi, Ethiopia (ssp hunteri)
Josep del Hoyo 5 December 2005 7 years ago 27 sec 4.4
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An adult male
Locality Amboseli National Park, Kenya
Marco Valentini 31 January 2012 1 year ago 4.2 -
An adult female
Locality Amboseli National Park, Kenya
Marco Valentini 30 January 2012 1 year ago 4.1 -
An adult female
Locality Amboseli National Park, Kenya
Marco Valentini 30 January 2012 1 year ago 4 -
Female sitting on a branch
Locality Leipzig Zoo, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
Johannes Pfleiderer 1 September 2006 3 years ago 4 -
coming at a dripping pipe in our camp
Locality Amboseli National Park, Kenya
Marco Valentini 31 January 2012 1 year ago 3.4 -
Male perched
Locality Parrot Park (NOP), Veldhoven, North Brabant Province, Netherlands
Johannes Pfleiderer 19 May 2008 3 years ago 3.4
- No sound recordings available yet
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