Sunbirds (Nectariniidae)
White-breasted Sunbird (Cinnyris talatala) - HBW 13, p. 291
French: Souimanga à ventre blanc
German: Weißbauch-Nektarvogel
Spanish: Suimanga Pechiblanco
Other common names: (Southern) White-bellied Sunbird
Taxonomy: Cinnyris talatala A. Smith, 1836, between Orange River and Kurrichaine, South Africa.
Genus often subsumed in Nectarinia. Forms a superspecies with C. oustaleti; both have sometimes been considered to be part of a superspecies that also includes C. bouvieri, C. osea and C. asiaticus. Proposed races anderssoni (described from NW Namibia), lumbo (from Lumbo, in N Mozambique) and arestus (from near Eshowe, in KwaZulu-Natal) considered inadequately differentiated from birds elsewhere in species’ range. Monotypic.
Distribution: SW & S Angola and N Namibia E to Zambia, Malawi and patchily to SE Tanzania, S to N & E Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Swaziland and E South Africa (North West and Limpopo Provinces S to N Free State and Kwazulu-Natal).
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A male singing Locality Nylsvley Nature Reserve, Limpopo Province, South Africa (Monotypic species)
Helmut Schenkel Brunner 31 July 2003 5 years ago 14 sec 4.5 -
A male and then a female, drinking Locality Tierpark Hagenbeck, Hamburg, Germany (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 15 August 2006 5 years ago 30 sec 4.4 -
A male foraging and feeding in a flowering tree Locality Victoria Falls, Matabeleland North Province, Zimbabwe (Monotypic species)
Greg Baker 14 September 1999 1 year ago 20 sec 2.5
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A male with pollen on its head.
Locality Kruger National Park, South Africa (Monotypic species)
David Stowe 1 year ago 4.7 -
A male with the bill inserted into the corolla to reach the nectar.
Locality Kruger National Park, South Africa (Monotypic species)
David Stowe 1 year ago 4.4 -
A mâle on flowers at Lower sabie restcamp
Locality Kruger National Park, South Africa
Ghislain Gosse 17 August 2011 1 year ago 4.3 -
Female perched on Aloe flower
Locality Polokwane (Pietersburg), Limpopo Province, South Africa
jmdebruyn 22 August 2009 50 weeks ago 4.2 -
Singing male perched on a tree branch
Locality Kruger National Park, South Africa
Robert Erasmus 6 September 2011 24 weeks ago 4 -
White-breasted sunbird on aloe
Locality Loskop Dam Nature Reserve, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa
jacashgone 14 August 2009 3 years ago 3.8
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Call. Gardens of Makuti Lodge. 2:23pm. Locality Etosha National Park, Kunene Region, Namibia
(Monotypic species)
Charles Hesse 17 November 2009 3 years ago 3
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