Green-headed Sunbird

When to see the Green-headed Sunbird

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Green-headed Sunbird

The map shades 26 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Mali.

About the Green-headed Sunbird

The green-headed sunbird is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae. It is found in Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia.

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

Easily confused with

Grey SunbirdCyanomitra veroxiiThe grey sunbird or mouse-coloured sunbird is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae. Blue-throated Brown SunbirdCyanomitra cyanolaemaThe blue-throated brown sunbird is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae. Blue-headed SunbirdCyanomitra alinaeThe blue-headed sunbird is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae.