Fraser's Sunbird (Deleornis fraseri) | Photos and ID

LCLeast ConcernInvertebrates

ForestTiny · 11 g

Fraser's Sunbird (Deleornis fraseri), photo 3 — Photo: (c) Zac Peterson, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Fraser's Sunbird (Deleornis fraseri), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Antoine Thivolle, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Fraser's Sunbird (Deleornis fraseri), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Zac Peterson, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

When to see the Fraser's Sunbird

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

Where to see the Fraser's Sunbird

Regular range

The map shades 13 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Ghana Equatorial Guinea Côte d’Ivoire Cameroon Gabon Liberia Nigeria Sierra Leone Congo - Brazzaville Angola Central African Republic Guinea Congo - Kinshasa

About the Fraser's Sunbird

Fraser's sunbird or the scarlet-tufted sunbird, is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda.

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Easily confused with

Grey-headed SunbirdDeleornis axillarisThe grey-headed sunbird is a small passerine bird which breeds in mixed forest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Uganda.

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