Temminck's sunbird

Temminck's sunbird
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Nectariniidae
Genus: Aethopyga
Species: A. temminckii
Binomial name
Aethopyga temminckii
(Müller, 1843)

The Temminck's sunbird (Aethopyga temminckii) is a species of sunbird. It is found in up to 1800 m altitude in Borneo, Sumatra, Malaysia, and south west Thailand in tropical moist montane forests.

This bird's common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Dutch aristocrat and zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck.[2]

female - Doi Ang Khang Mountain - Thailand.

It has been considered conspecific with Javan sunbird, Aethopyga mystacalis.

The Temminck's sunbird is 10 cm (female) -12.5 cm (male) long. The longer-tailed male is mostly scarlet, except for a greyish belly, yellow and purple bands between the back and tail, and four purple bands on the head emanating from the beak. The female is drab olive, except for rufous fringes to the wing and tail feathers.

References

Notes
  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2017). "Aethopyga temminckii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2017.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
  2. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 335–336.
Sources
  • Robson, Craig: A Field Guide to the Birds of Thailand ISBN 1-84330-921-1
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