Sunbirds (Nectariniidae)
Olive-bellied Sunbird (Cinnyris chloropygius) - HBW 13, p. 273
French: Souimanga à ventre olive
German: Olivbauch-Nektarvogel
Spanish: Suimanga Ventrioliva
Taxonomy: Nectarinia chloropygia Jardine, 1842, Aboh, Nigeria.
Genus often subsumed in Nectarinia. Race bineschensis poorly differentiated from, and sometimes synonymized with, orphogaster; moreover, it is isolated from other races of present species, and has been suggested also as being possibly misidentified C. reichenowi. Proposed races luehderi (described from Bipindi, in Cameroon) and insularis (Bioko) synonymized with nominate; uellensis (Koloka, Angu and Amadi, on R Uelle, in DRCongo) merged with orphogaster. Females in Cameroon and DRCongo having light yellow pectoral tufts and red breastban.. View all taxonomy...
Genus often subsumed in Nectarinia. Race bineschensis poorly differentiated from, and sometimes synonymized with, orphogaster; moreover, it is isolated from other races of present species, and has been suggested also as being possibly misidentified C. reichenowi. Proposed races luehderi (described from Bipindi, in Cameroon) and insularis (Bioko) synonymized with nominate; uellensis (Koloka, Angu and Amadi, on R Uelle, in DRCongo) merged with orphogaster. Females in Cameroon and DRCongo having light yellow pectoral tufts and red breastband but no metallic plumage described as race ogilviegranti, but shown to be aberrantly plumaged females of nominate race. Four subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- kempi Ogilvie-Grant, 1910 - Senegal E to SW Nigeria.
- chloropygius (Jardine, 1842) - Bioko I (Fernando Póo) and SE Nigeria E to S Chad and Central African Republic, S to NW Angola and W DRCongo.
- orphogaster Reichenow, 1899 - C & E DRCongo and S Sudan S to NE Angola, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, W Kenya and W Tanzania.
- bineschensis Neumann, 1903 - SW Ethiopia.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A male feeding on flowers Locality Mabira Forest, Uganda (ssp orphogaster)
Keith Blomerley 5 August 2002 6 years ago 29 sec 4 -
A perched bird Locality Central Region, Ghana
Juan Sanabria 1 November 2009 3 years ago 14 sec 3.3 -
A male on a dead tree, rubbing the bill and flying away Locality Nyabyeya, Uganda (ssp orphogaster )
Josep del Hoyo 31 August 2006 6 years ago 7 sec 2.3
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A male.
Locality Buhoma, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
Tadeusz Rosinski 27 February 2011 27 weeks ago 4.6 -
A bird feeding on the nectar of Leonotis nepetifolia
Locality Kibale National Park, Uganda
Piotr Jonczyk 20 February 2011 2 years ago 4.5 -
Male on lakeside tree.
Locality Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda (ssp orphogaster)
Tom Tarrant 30 December 2005 3 years ago 3 -
Feeding on Lantana flowers
Locality Kibungo, East Province, Rwanda
Jason Anderson 10 January 2010 2 years ago 2.8
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