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Pygmy Sunbird

Hedydipna platura

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernOmnivoreWoodlandDomed nestTiny · 7 g
Pygmy Sunbird (Hedydipna platura), photo 1
Photo: Attila Oláh · CC BY 4.0
Pygmy Sunbird (Hedydipna platura), photo 2
Photo: Attila Oláh · CC BY 4.0
Pygmy Sunbird (Hedydipna platura), photo 3
Photo: Ron Knight from Seaford, East Sussex, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.0
Pygmy Sunbird (Hedydipna platura), photo 4
Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
Pygmy Sunbird (Hedydipna platura), photo 5
Photo: karim Attouche · CC0
Pygmy Sunbird (Hedydipna platura), photo 6
Photo: Mourad Harzallah · CC BY 4.0
Pygmy Sunbird (Hedydipna platura), photo 7
Photo: Attila Oláh · CC BY 4.0
Pygmy Sunbird (Hedydipna platura), photo 8
Photo: Attila Oláh · CC BY 4.0
Pygmy Sunbird (Hedydipna platura), photo 9
Photo: Attila Oláh · CC BY 4.0
Pygmy Sunbird (Hedydipna platura), photo 10
Photo: Attila Oláh · CC BY 4.0

ID tip

Male birds have green back, yellow belly, and an extremely long central tail feather, while females have gray-brown upperparts and dim-yellow underparts.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

When to see the Pygmy Sunbird

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

Where to see the Pygmy Sunbird

Regular range

The map shades 22 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Nigeria Ghana Senegal Gambia Cameroon Burkina Faso Benin Chad Uganda Niger Mali Algeria Central African Republic Guinea-Bissau Kenya Guinea Côte d’Ivoire Ethiopia Togo Congo - Kinshasa Mauritania South Sudan

About the Pygmy Sunbird

The pygmy sunbird is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae. It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, and Uganda.

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

Easily confused with

Nile Valley Sunbird (Hedydipna metallica) Nile Valley SunbirdHedydipna metallicaThe Nile Valley sunbird is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae. Amani SunbirdHedydipna pallidigasterThe Amani sunbird is a small vibrant bird with distinctive features. Collared Sunbird (Hedydipna collaris) Collared SunbirdHedydipna collarisThe collared sunbird is a bird species of the family Nectariniidae.

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