Elegant Sunbird

When to see the Elegant Sunbird

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 8 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Elegant Sunbird

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Elegant Sunbird

The elegant sunbird is a large, up to 12 cm long, Australasian sunbird in the genus Aethopyga. The male has an iridescent blue-green crown, shoulder patch and uppertail coverts, yellow bar across lower back, red ear coverts, olive back, yellow throat, red neck collar and yellow below. The female has a yellowish olive upperparts, scaly crown and yellow underparts.

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Easily confused with

Tboli SunbirdAethopyga tiboliiThe Tboli sunbird is a species of bird in the sunbird family Nectariniidae. Apo SunbirdAethopyga boltoniThe Apo sunbird has a curved bill, yellow chest and olive wings. Lina's SunbirdAethopyga linaraboraeThis species was formerly conspecific with the Apo sunbird but was split by Robert Kennedy, Pedro Gonzales and Hector Miranda in 1997.