Biology:Purple-banded sunbird
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Short description: Species of bird
| Purple-banded sunbird | |
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| A male at Ngwenya Resort, Mpumalanga, South Africa. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Nectariniidae |
| Genus: | Cinnyris |
| Species: | C. bifasciatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Cinnyris bifasciatus (Shaw, 1812)
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| Synonyms | |
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Nectarinia bifasciata | |
The purple-banded sunbird (Cinnyris bifasciatus) is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Eswatini, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa , Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
The Tsavo sunbird, sometimes lumped with the purple-banded, is here considered a separate species.
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2016). "Cinnyris bifasciatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T103801419A94562143. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T103801419A94562143.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/103801419/94562143. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
External links
- Purple-banded sunbird - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.
Wikidata ☰ Q2669185 entry
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