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Genus: Chalcomitra (7 species)

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Buff-throated Sunbird (Chalcomitra adelberti) Range: AF: w


Amethyst Sunbird (Chalcomitra amethystina) Male Range: AF: e, se, s Johannesburg, South Africa
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Amethyst Sunbird (Chalcomitra amethystina) Female Range: AF: e, se, s South Africa
Photograph by Graham Searll © All Rights Reserved.

Possibly an immature which is described as having a black throat and speckled chest.
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Socotra Sunbird (Chalcomitra balfouri) Range: AF: Socotra

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Carmelite Sunbird (Chalcomitra fuliginosa) Range: AF: w


Hunter's Sunbird (Chalcomitra hunteri) Male Range: AF: Ethiopia and Somalia to ne Tanzania Lake Baringo, Kenya
Photograph by Tropical Birding (Nick Athanas) © All Rights Reserved.

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Green-throated Sunbird (Chalcomitra rubescens) Range: AF: w, sw


Scarlet-chested Sunbird (Chalcomitra senegalensis) Male Range: AF: w, c, e, s Senegal
Photograph by Nik Borrow Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.


Scarlet-chested Sunbird (Chalcomitra senegalensis) Female Range: AF: w, c, e, s Lake Chivero, Harare, Zimbabwe
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