Yellow-chinned Sunbird

What the Yellow-chinned Sunbird sounds like

Recorded by Ben Phalan · Call · Cavalla Forest, Grand Gedeh, Liberia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Yellow-chinned Sunbird

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 Yellow-chinned Sunbird

The map shades 16 countries with regular records, and 1 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 Guinea.

About the Yellow-chinned Sunbird

The yellow-chinned sunbird is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae. It is found in West Africa, namely Sierra Leone to Ghana. The grey-chinned sunbird was formerly grouped with this species.

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

Easily confused with

Little Green SunbirdAnthreptes seimundiThe little green sunbird is small, light yellow, and warbler-like; overall similar to the Bates's sunbird. Red-throated SunbirdAnthreptes rhodolaemusThe red-throated sunbird is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae. Western Violet-backed SunbirdAnthreptes longuemareiThe western violet-backed sunbird or Longuemare's sunbird is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae.