Western Violet-backed Sunbird

When to see the Western Violet-backed 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 Western Violet-backed Sunbird

The map shades 22 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.

Recorded as a rare visitor in South Sudan, Mali.

About the Western Violet-backed Sunbird

The western violet-backed sunbird or Longuemare's sunbird is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae. It is the most widely ranging species in the violet-backed sunbird superspecies, ranging throughout a large part of tropical mainland sub-Saharan Africa not inhabited by other members of the superspecies. It is mainly found in regions with mesic woodland.

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Easily confused with

Red-throated SunbirdAnthreptes rhodolaemusThe red-throated sunbird is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae. Mangrove SunbirdAnthreptes gabonicusThe mangrove sunbird or mouse-brown sunbird, is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae. Plain-backed SunbirdAnthreptes reichenowiThe plain-backed sunbird, also known as blue-throated sunbird is a sunbird.