Olive Sunbird

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Olive Sunbird
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Nectariniidae Genus: Nectarinia Species: N. olivacea
Binomial name
Nectarinia olivacea (Smith, 1840)

The Olive Sunbird (Nectarinia olivacea) is a species of sunbird found in a large part of Africa south of the Sahel. It prefers forested regions, and is absent from drier, more open regions such as the Horn of Africa and most of south-central and south-western Africa. It is sometimes placed in the genus Cyanomitra.

The western subspecies (roughly west of the Great Rift Valley) are sometimes split as the Western Olive Sunbird, Nectarinia obscura, in which case Nectarinia olivacea becomes the Eastern Olive Sunbird

[edit] References

• BirdLife International 2004. Nectarinia olivacea. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 26 July 2007.