Northern Double-collared Sunbird
Cinnyris reichenowi
Aves
RARE
Stats
- Lifespan
- 4-8 yrs
- Size
- Tiny
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Activity
- Diurnal
- Social
- Pair
- Biome
- Tropical montane forest
- Range
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Movement
- Flight
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Speed
- Status
- Rare
About
A small East African highland sunbird whose iridescent metallic-green male wears two bright collar bands — a narrow scarlet stripe above a violet-blue one — making it one of the most distinctively patterned birds in its mountain habitat. It feeds primarily on nectar, hovering or clinging to alpine flowers with its long, slender, down-curved bill.
Life cycle
- 1.eggA small clutch of speckled eggs is incubated in a cup nest, turned and kept warm by the parent.
- 2.hatchlingA pink, blind hatchling is fed by its parents in the nest, gaping its bill at every visit.
- 3.juvenileA feathered juvenile fledges from the nest, learning to fly and to forage close to its parents.
- 4.adultFully grown with adult plumage and song.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Nectariniidae
- Genus
- Cinnyris
- Species
- Cinnyris reichenowi