Elegant Sunbird
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The Elegant Sunbird, Aethopyga duyvenbodei is a large, up to 12 cm long, Australasia
n sunbird
in the genus Aethopyga
. The male has an iridescent blue-green crown, shoulder patch and uppertail coverts, yellow bar across lower back, red ear coverts, olive back, yellow throat, red neck collar and yellow below. The female has a yellowish olive upperparts, scaly crown and yellow underparts.
An Indonesia
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, the Elegant Sunbird is distributed to the island of Sangihe, north of Sulawesi
. It is found and locally common in the forests and plantations near Mount Sahendaruman
in southern Sangihe.
Due to ongoing habitat loss, small population size and limited range, the Elegant Sunbird is evaluated as Endangered on the IUCN Red List
of Threatened Species.
Australasia
Australasia is a region of Oceania comprising Australia, New Zealand, the island of New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term was coined by Charles de Brosses in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes...
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Sunbird
The sunbirds and spiderhunters are a family, Nectariniidae, of very small passerine birds. There are 132 species in 15 genera. The family is distributed throughout Africa, southern Asia and just reaches northern Australia. Most sunbirds feed largely on nectar, but also take insects and spiders,...
in the genus Aethopyga
Aethopyga
Aethopyga is a genus of birds in the Nectariniidae family. Species in this genus are found in South Asia, Southeast Asia and parts of China...
. The male has an iridescent blue-green crown, shoulder patch and uppertail coverts, yellow bar across lower back, red ear coverts, olive back, yellow throat, red neck collar and yellow below. The female has a yellowish olive upperparts, scaly crown and yellow underparts.
An Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
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Endemism in birds
An endemic bird area is a region of the world that contains two or more restricted-range species, while a "secondary area" contains one or more restricted-range species. Both terms were devised by Birdlife International....
, the Elegant Sunbird is distributed to the island of Sangihe, north of Sulawesi
Sulawesi
Sulawesi is one of the four larger Sunda Islands of Indonesia and is situated between Borneo and the Maluku Islands. In Indonesia, only Sumatra, Borneo, and Papua are larger in territory, and only Java and Sumatra have larger Indonesian populations.- Etymology :The Portuguese were the first to...
. It is found and locally common in the forests and plantations near Mount Sahendaruman
Mount Sahendaruman
Mount Sahendaruman is an extinct volcano located in southern part of Indonesian island of Sangihe .It is an area high in biodiversity in Wallacea, especially seen in the small forest patch in mountain slopes Mount Sahendaruman, the last remaining primary forest in Sangihe.Mount Sahendaruman is home...
in southern Sangihe.
Due to ongoing habitat loss, small population size and limited range, the Elegant Sunbird is evaluated as Endangered on the IUCN Red List
IUCN Red List
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species , founded in 1963, is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species. The International Union for Conservation of Nature is the world's main authority on the conservation status of species...
of Threatened Species.