Sunbirds (Nectariniidae)
Western Violet-backed Sunbird (Anthreptes longuemarei) - HBW 13, p. 251
French: Souimanga violet
German: Violettmantel-Nektarvogel
Spanish: Suimanga Violeta
Other common names: (African) Violet-backed/Blue/Plum-coloured/Longuemare’s Sunbird; Uganda Violet-backed Sunbird (haussarum)
Taxonomy: Cinnyris longuemarei Lesson, 1833, “Senegambia superior” = Senegal.
Forms a superspecies with A. orientalis, A. neglectus and A. aurantius. Race haussarum sometimes included within nominate. Four subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- longuemarei (Lesson, 1833) - Senegal S to Guinea-Bissau and E to N Sierra Leone.
- haussarum Neumann, 1906 - E Guinea E to N Cameroon, Central African Republic, S Sudan, N DRCongo and N & W Uganda.
- angolensis Neumann, 1906 - S PRCongo, SW & SE DRCongo, Angola, Zambia, Malawi W of Rift Valley, and SW Tanzania.
- nyassae Neumann, 1906 - SE Tanzania (S from Dar es Salaam), Malawi E of Rift Valley, N Mozambique and E Zimbabwe.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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male bird Locality Brufut, Western Division, The Gambia (ssp longuemarei)
Daniêl Jimenez 4 January 2012 1 year ago 15 sec 3.5 -
female bird Locality Brufut, Western Division, The Gambia (ssp longuemarei)
Daniêl Jimenez 4 January 2012 1 year ago 12 sec 3.3
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Assumed by self to be a young male.
Locality Balaba Nature Camp, Gunjur, Western Division, The Gambia
M P Goodey 1 October 2007 1 year ago 3.4 -
A female on a twig
Locality Ngaoundaba Ranch, Ngaoundéré, Adamawa Province, Cameroon
Tadeusz Stawarczyk 13 February 2012 49 weeks ago 3.3 -
A frontal view of a perched bird.
Locality Mole National Park, Northern Region, Ghana
Ken Havard 1 December 2009 2 years ago 2
- No sound recordings available yet
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