Sunbirds (Nectariniidae)
Straight-billed Green Sunbird (Anthreptes rectirostris) - HBW 13, p. 252
French: Souimanga à bec droit
German: Goldband-Nektarvogel
Spanish: Suimanga Piquirrecto
Other common names: Green Sunbird, Banded(!)/Banded Green/Green-backed/Western Green Sunbird; Yellow-chinned Sunbird (rectirostris); Grey-chinned Sunbird (tephrolaemus)
Taxonomy: Certhia rectirostris Shaw, 1811, no locality = Ashanti, Ghana.
Forms a superspecies with A. rubritorques. Races sometimes treated as two distinct species. Proposed race amadoni (from Rumpi Hills, in W Cameroon) considered insufficiently distinct from tephrolaemus, differing from latter only in slightly smaller size; description of pujoli (from Guinea) is based on a juvenile specimen of nominate race. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- rectirostris (Shaw, 1811) - extreme S Mali, Sierra Leone and E & SE Guinea E to Ghana.
- tephrolaemus (Jardine & Fraser, 1851) - SE Benin and S Nigeria E, including Bioko I (Fernando Póo), to S Central African Republic, DRCongo, S Uganda and W Kenya, S to NW Angola and NW Tanzania; also S Sudan (Imatong Mts).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A female arranging the nest and flying away Locality Buhoma, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda (ssp tephrolaema)
Josep del Hoyo 8 September 2006 5 years ago 37 sec 4.6 -
A male on a branch Locality Buhoma, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda (ssp tephrolaema)
Josep del Hoyo 8 September 2006 5 years ago 37 sec 4.4 -
A male in the jungle canopy II Locality Kakum National Park, Central Region, Ghana (ssp rectirostris)
Juan Sanabria 1 November 2009 3 years ago 25 sec 3.8 -
A male in the jungle canopy I Locality Kakum National Park, Central Region, Ghana (ssp rectirostris)
Juan Sanabria 1 November 2009 3 years ago 15 sec 3.3 -
A male high on a branch and flying away Locality Buhoma, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda (ssp tephrolaema)
Josep del Hoyo 8 September 2006 5 years ago 16 sec 3 -
A male in the forest canopy Locality Kakum National Park, Central Region, Ghana (ssp rectirostris)
Juan Sanabria 1 November 2009 3 years ago 27 sec 2.7
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Breeding plumaged male perched
Locality Kakum National Park, Central Region, Ghana (ssp rectirostris)
Nik Borrow 6 February 2013 9 weeks ago 3.6
- No sound recordings available yet
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