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Buff-throated Sunbird

Chalcomitra adelberti

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernNectarForestDomed nestTiny · 10 g
Buff-throated Sunbird (Chalcomitra adelberti), photo 1
Photo: Zac Peterson · CC BY 4.0
Buff-throated Sunbird (Chalcomitra adelberti), photo 2
Photo: Zac Peterson · CC BY 4.0
Buff-throated Sunbird (Chalcomitra adelberti), photo 3
Photo: Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová · CC BY 4.0
Buff-throated Sunbird (Chalcomitra adelberti), photo 4
Photo: Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová · CC BY 4.0
Buff-throated Sunbird (Chalcomitra adelberti), photo 5
Photo: Zac Peterson · CC BY 4.0
Buff-throated Sunbird (Chalcomitra adelberti), photo 6
Photo: Zac Peterson · CC BY 4.0
Buff-throated Sunbird (Chalcomitra adelberti), photo 7
Photo: Zac Peterson · CC BY 4.0
Buff-throated Sunbird (Chalcomitra adelberti), photo 8
Photo: Zac Peterson · CC BY 4.0
Buff-throated Sunbird (Chalcomitra adelberti), photo 9
Photo: Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová · CC BY 4.0
Buff-throated Sunbird (Chalcomitra adelberti), photo 10
Photo: (c) Dan Riley, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

When to see the Buff-throated Sunbird

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Buff-throated Sunbird

Regular range

The map shades 9 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Ghana Nigeria Côte d’Ivoire Liberia Sierra Leone Togo Guinea Benin Guinea-Bissau

About the Buff-throated Sunbird

The buff-throated sunbird is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae. It is found in Benin, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Togo.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Green-throated Sunbird (Chalcomitra rubescens) Green-throated SunbirdChalcomitra rubescensThe green-throated sunbird is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae. Hunter's Sunbird (Chalcomitra hunteri) Hunter's SunbirdChalcomitra hunteriHunter's sunbird is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae. Carmelite Sunbird (Chalcomitra fuliginosa) Carmelite SunbirdChalcomitra fuliginosaThe Carmelite sunbird is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae.

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