Johanna's Sunbird (Cinnyris johannae) | Photos and ID

LCLeast ConcernOmnivore

ForestDomed nestTiny · 13 g

Johanna's Sunbird (Cinnyris johannae), photo 1 — Photo: Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová · CC BY 4.0

Johanna's Sunbird (Cinnyris johannae), photo 2 — Photo: Jay Pruett · CC BY 4.0

Johanna's Sunbird (Cinnyris johannae), photo 3 — Photo: (c) Jay Pruett, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Johanna's Sunbird (Cinnyris johannae), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Johanna's Sunbird (Cinnyris johannae), photo 5 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

When to see the Johanna's Sunbird

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

Where to see the Johanna's Sunbird

Regular range

The map shades 12 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

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

About the Johanna's Sunbird

Johanna's sunbird is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae. It is widely spread across the African tropical rainforest. It is named after Johanna Verreaux, wife of French naturalist Édouard Verreaux.

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

Easily confused with

Tiny SunbirdCinnyris minullusThe tiny sunbird is the smallest species in the genus.

Seychelles SunbirdCinnyris dussumieriIt can reach a length from eleven to twelve centimetres.

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