Cyanomitra
| Cyanomitra | |
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| File:Eastern Olive Sunbird (Nectarinia olivacea).jpg | |
| Eastern olive sunbird (Cyanomitra olivacea) | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Nectariniidae |
| Genus: | Cyanomitra Reichenbach, 1853 |
| Type species | |
| Certhia cyanocephala[1] Shaw, 1812
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Cyanomitra is a genus of African sunbirds. Its members are sometimes included in Nectarinia.
The sunbirds are a group of very small Old World passerine birds which feed largely on nectar, although they will also take insects, especially when feeding young. Flight is fast and direct on their short wings. Most species can take nectar by hovering like a hummingbird, but usually perch to feed most of the time.
Taxonomy
[edit | edit source]The genus Cyanomitra was introduced in 1853 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach.[2] The name combines the Ancient Greek kuanos meaning "dark-blue" with mitra meaning "head-band".[3] The type species was designated by George Robert Gray in 1855 as Certhia cyanocephala Shaw.[4][5] This taxon is now considered to be a subspecies of the green-headed sunbird (Cyanomitra verticalis cyanocephala'').[6]
Species
[edit | edit source]The genus contains 7 species:[6]
| Image | Common name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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| File:Greenheadsunbird.jpg | Green-headed sunbird | Cyanomitra verticalis | Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia. |
| Bannerman's sunbird | Cyanomitra bannermani | Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Zambia. | |
| File:Cyanomitra cyanolaema.jpg | Blue-throated brown sunbird | Cyanomitra cyanolaema | African tropical rainforest |
| File:Cameroon Sunbird (Cyanomitra oritis).jpg | Cameroon sunbird | Cyanomitra oritis | Western High Plateau & Bioko |
| File:Blue-headed sunbird.jpg | Blue-headed sunbird | Cyanomitra alinae | Albertine Rift montane forests |
| File:Eastern Olive Sunbird (Nectarinia olivacea).jpg | Olive sunbird | Cyanomitra olivacea | Africa south of the Sahel. |
| File:Sunbird Grey 2010 07 04 Alan Manson Queen Elizabeth Park.jpg | Grey sunbird | Cyanomitra veroxii | Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, and Tanzania. |
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References
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Further reading
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