Purple-naped Spiderhunter (Kurochkinegramma hypogrammicum) | Photos, Calls and ID

LCLeast ConcernOmnivore

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Purple-naped Spiderhunter (Kurochkinegramma hypogrammicum), photo 5 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Purple-naped Spiderhunter (Kurochkinegramma hypogrammicum), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Tristan Jobin, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Purple-naped Spiderhunter (Kurochkinegramma hypogrammicum), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Jiro Iguchi, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Purple-naped Spiderhunter (Kurochkinegramma hypogrammicum), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Jiro Iguchi, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Purple-naped Spiderhunter (Kurochkinegramma hypogrammicum), photo 9 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Purple-naped Spiderhunter (Kurochkinegramma hypogrammicum), photo 10 — Photo: (c) desertnaturalist, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

What the Purple-naped Spiderhunter sounds like

Sonogram of the Purple-naped Spiderhunter: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Christoporus Merung · Song · Rungan, Gunung MAS Regency, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia · CC0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Purple-naped Spiderhunter

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

Where to see the Purple-naped Spiderhunter

Regular range

The map shades 9 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Malaysia Thailand Vietnam Indonesia Cambodia China Laos Brunei Myanmar (Burma)

About the Purple-naped Spiderhunter

The purple-naped spiderhunter or purple-naped sunbird is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae. It is the only species in the genus Kurochkinegramma. It is found in Southeast Asia from Myanmar to Sumatra and Borneo. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

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

Easily confused with

Red-chested SunbirdCinnyris erythrocercusThe red-chested sunbird is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae.

Black SunbirdLeptocoma aspasiaIt is a small songbird with a long down-curved bill and iridescent body.

Splendid SunbirdCinnyris coccinigastrusThe splendid sunbird is a sunbird.

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