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Grey-headed Sunbird

Deleornis axillaris

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestTiny · 11 g
Grey-headed Sunbird (Deleornis axillaris), photo 1
Photo: avocat · CC BY 4.0
Grey-headed Sunbird (Deleornis axillaris), photo 2
Photo: Tommy Andriollo · CC BY 4.0
Grey-headed Sunbird (Deleornis axillaris), photo 3
Photo: Tommy Andriollo · CC BY 4.0
Grey-headed Sunbird (Deleornis axillaris), photo 4
Photo: Tommy Andriollo · CC BY 4.0
Grey-headed Sunbird (Deleornis axillaris), photo 5
Photo: Tommy Andriollo · CC BY 4.0
Grey-headed Sunbird (Deleornis axillaris), photo 6
Photo: Tommy Andriollo · CC BY 4.0

When to see the Grey-headed Sunbird

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Grey-headed Sunbird

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 2 countries with regular records, and 2 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.

Uganda Congo - Kinshasa

Recorded as a rare visitor in Tanzania, Nigeria.

About the Grey-headed Sunbird

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

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

Easily confused with

Fraser's Sunbird (Deleornis fraseri) Fraser's SunbirdDeleornis fraseriFraser's sunbird or the scarlet-tufted sunbird, is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae.

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