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Genus: Cinnyris (64 species)


Greater Double-collared Sunbird (Cinnyris afer) Male Range: AF: e, s South Africa Bramasole Guest House, South Africa
Photograph by Bruno Conjeaud © All Rights Reserved.


Greater Double-collared Sunbird (Cinnyris afer) Female Range: AF: e, s South Africa Giant's Castle, South Africa
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Note thicker red band compared to Southern Double-collared Sunbird.


Purple Sunbird (Cinnyris asiaticus) Range: PAL, OR: e Arabian Pen. to se Asia Bandavhgarh, India
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Palawan Sunbird (Cinnyris aurora) Range: OR: Palawan group (sw Philippines)

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Bates's Sunbird (Cinnyris batesi) Range: AF: Ivory Coast and s Liberia e to e, s DR Congo


Purple-banded Sunbird (Cinnyris bifasciatus microrhynchus) Male Range: AF: wc, e, se Sakania, Democratic Republic of Congo
Photograph by Nigel Voaden © All Rights Reserved.

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Orange-tufted Sunbird (Cinnyris bouvieri) Range: AF: Cameroon and the Central African Republic to Uganda, n Zambia and n Angola

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Apricot-breasted Sunbird (Cinnyris buettikoferi) Range: AU: Sumba (c Lesser Sundas)

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Violet-breasted Sunbird (Cinnyris chalcomelas) Range: AF: ec Somalia to se Kenya


Southern Double-collared Sunbird (Cinnyris chalybeus) Range: AF: South Africa Western Cape, South Africa
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Compare to Greater Double-collared Sunbird.


Olive-bellied Sunbird (Cinnyris chloropygius orphogaster) Male Range: AF: w, c Queen Elizabeth NP, Uganda
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South Moluccan Sunbird (Cinnyris clementiae) Range: AU: Buru and Seram to Kai Is.


Splendid Sunbird (Cinnyris coccinigastrus) Male Range: AF: Senegal and Gambia s to Liberia and e to ne DR Congo and nw Uganda The Gambia
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Anjouan Sunbird (Cinnyris comorensis) Range: AF: Anjouan (=Nzwani; ec Comoros)

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Congo Sunbird (Cinnyris congensis) Range: AF: Congo region

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Mayotte Sunbird (Cinnyris coquerellii) Range: AF: Mayotte and satellites (se Comoros)


Copper Sunbird (Cinnyris cupreus) Range: AF: w, c, e, sc Uganda
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Seychelles Sunbird (Cinnyris dussumieri) Range: IO: Inner Is. (ne Seychelles)


Red-chested Sunbird (Cinnyris erythrocercus) Male Range: AF: extreme s Sudan to w, c Tanzania Lake Bunyonyi, Uganda
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Red-chested Sunbird (Cinnyris erythrocercus) Female Range: AF: extreme s Sudan to w, c Tanzania Entebbe, Uganda
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Sahul Sunbird (Cinnyris frenatus) Range: AU: Sulawesi and n Moluccas to New Guinea (except n) and satellites, Aru Is. (sw of New Guinea) ne QLD (far ne Australia), Bismarck Arch. and n, sc Solomon Is. Thornton Beach, Daintree, Queensland, Australia
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Sahul Sunbird (Cinnyris frenatus) Female Range: AU: Sulawesi and n Moluccas to New Guinea (except n) and satellites, Aru Is. (sw of New Guinea) ne QLD (far ne Australia), Bismarck Arch. and n, sc Solomon Is. Daintree Village, Queensland, Australia
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Forest Double-collared Sunbird (Cinnyris fuelleborni) Range: AF: c, s Tanzania, Malawi, ne Zambia and n Mozambique Malawi
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Dusky Sunbird (Cinnyris fuscus fuscus) Male Range: AF: sw Namibia
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Dusky Sunbird (Cinnyris fuscus) Female Range: AF: sw Namibia
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Western Miombo Sunbird (Cinnyris gertrudis) Male Range: AF: c Angola and s DR Congo to sw Tanzania and n Malawi Mutinondo, Zambia
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Abyssinian Sunbird (Cinnyris habessinicus) Range: AF: ne, e, also s


Arabian Sunbird (Cinnyris hellmayri) Male Range: PAL: w, s Arabian Pen. Oman
Photograph by Ammadoux © All Rights Reserved.


Arabian Sunbird (Cinnyris hellmayri) Female Range: PAL: w, s Arabian Pen. Oman
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Hofmann's Sunbird (Cinnyris hofmanni) Range: AF: e Tanzania

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Humblot's Sunbird (Cinnyris humbloti) Range: AF: w Comoros

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Mamberamo Sunbird (Cinnyris idenburgi) Range: AU: Mamberamo, Sepik and Ramu basins, n New Guinea

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Tukangbesi Sunbird (Cinnyris infrenatus) Range: AU: Tukangbesi and other islands off se Sulawesi


Johanna's Sunbird (Cinnyris johannae fasciatus) Male Range: AF: w, c Ankasa Conservation Area, Ghana
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Johanna's Sunbird (Cinnyris johannae fasciatus) Male Range: AF: w, c Ankasa Conservation Area, Ghana
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Garden Sunbird (Cinnyris jugularis) Range: OR: Philippines (except Palawan group)

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Loten's Sunbird (Cinnyris lotenius) Range: OR: India and Sri Lanka


Loveridge's Sunbird (Cinnyris loveridgei) Male Endangered Range: AF: ec Tanzania Ulugurus, Tanzania
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Ludwig's Double-collared Sunbird (Cinnyris ludovicensis) Range: AF: Angola

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Eastern Miombo Sunbird (Cinnyris manoensis) Range: AF: sc, se


Marico Sunbird (Cinnyris mariquensis) Male Range: AF: e, se, s Mapungubwe National Park, Limpopo, South Africa
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Marico Sunbird (Cinnyris mariquensis) Female Range: AF: e, se, s Serengeti, Tanzania
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Eastern Double-collared Sunbird (Cinnyris mediocris) Male Range: AF: w, c Kenya and n Tanzania Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania
Photograph by Nigel Voaden © All Rights Reserved.

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Gorgeous Sunbird (Cinnyris melanogastrus) Range: AF: w, c, s Kenya and Tanzania

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Tiny Sunbird (Cinnyris minullus) Range: AF: Sierra Leone and Liberia to Uganda, DR Congo and Gabon and Bioko I.


Moreau's Sunbird (Cinnyris moreaui) Male Near Threatened Range: AF: c Tanzania Udzungwas, Tanzania
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Black-bellied Sunbird (Cinnyris nectarinioides erlangeri) Male Range: AF: e Negele, Ethiopia
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Neergaard's Sunbird (Cinnyris neergaardi) Near Threatened Range: AF: se Mozambique to Swaziland and e South Africa Phinda Game Reserve, South Africa
Photograph by Graham Searll © All Rights Reserved.


Malagasy Green Sunbird (Cinnyris notatus notatus) Male Range: AF: w Comoros and Madagascar Ranomafana, Madagascar
Photograph by Bradley Hacker © All Rights Reserved.

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Ornate Sunbird (Cinnyris ornatus) Range: OR, AU: s China and Andaman Is., Burma, Thailand, Indochina and Malay Pen. to Greater and Lesser Sundas


Palestine Sunbird (Cinnyris osea osea) Male Range: AF: nc, also s, w Arabian Pen. Dana Biosphere Reserve, Jordan
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Oustalet's Sunbird (Cinnyris oustaleti) Range: AF: sc


Pemba Sunbird (Cinnyris pembae) Male Range: IO: Pemba I. (off Tanzania) Manta Resort, Pemba Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania
Photograph by Nigel Voaden © All Rights Reserved.


Pemba Sunbird (Cinnyris pembae) Female Range: IO: Pemba I. (off Tanzania) Manta Resort, Pemba Island, Pemba Island, Tanzania
Photograph by Nigel Voaden © All Rights Reserved.

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Prigogine's Double-collared Sunbird (Cinnyris prigoginei) Near Threatened Range: AF: se DR Congo


Beautiful Sunbird (Cinnyris pulchellus) Male Range: AF: Mauritania to Sierra Leone and e to Eritrea, w Ethiopia and nw Kenya Lake Albert, Uganda
Photograph by Bruno Conjeaud © All Rights Reserved.


Regal Sunbird (Cinnyris regius regius) Male Range: AF: ec Echuya Forest, Uganda
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Northern Double-collared Sunbird (Cinnyris reichenowi reichenowi) Male Range: AF: wc, e Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda
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Northern Double-collared Sunbird (Cinnyris reichenowi reichenowi) Female Range: AF: wc, e Buhoma, Uganda
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Rockefeller's Sunbird (Cinnyris rockefelleri) Vulnerable Range: AF: e DR Congo


Rufous-winged Sunbird (Cinnyris rufipennis) Male Vulnerable Range: AF: c Tanzania Uluti, Tanzania
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Shelley's Sunbird (Cinnyris shelleyi) Range: AF: Tanzania to Zambia, n Zimbabwe and n Mozambique

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Flame-breasted Sunbird (Cinnyris solaris) Range: AU: Sumbawa to Timor and satellites (Lesser Sundas)


Souimanga Sunbird (Cinnyris sovimanga) Range: AF: Aldabra (w Aldabra group, sw Seychelles) and Madagascar Masoala, Madagascar
Photograph by Nigel Voaden © All Rights Reserved.


Rwenzori Double-collared Sunbird (Cinnyris stuhlmanni graueri) Male Range: AF: sc Mgahinga National Park, Uganda
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Superb Sunbird (Cinnyris superbus) Range: AF: w, c


White-bellied Sunbird (Cinnyris talatala) Male Range: AF: s Tanzania to s Angola, n Botswana, n, e South Africa and Mozambique Pilanesberg National Park, Northwest Province, South Africa
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Flores Sea Sunbird (Cinnyris teysmanni) Range: AU: Flores Sea is. s of Sulawesi


Tsavo Sunbird (Cinnyris tsavoensis) Male Range: AF: e Kenya and ne Tanzania Negele, Ethiopia
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Ursula's Sunbird (Cinnyris ursulae) Range: AF: Cameroon

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Usambara Double-collared Sunbird (Cinnyris usambaricus) Near Threatened Range: AF: se Kenya and ne Tanzania


Variable Sunbird (Cinnyris venustus) Male Range: AF: w, c, e Garneton, Zambia
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Whyte's Double-collared Sunbird (Cinnyris whytei) Male Range: AF: ec Nyika National Park, Malawi
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