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Beautiful sunbird
| Beautiful sunbird | |
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| In the Gambia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Nectariniidae |
| Genus: | Cinnyris |
| Species: | C. pulchellus
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| Binomial name | |
| Cinnyris pulchellus (Linnaeus, 1766)
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| Synonyms | |
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Certhia pulchella Linnaeus, 1766 | |
The beautiful sunbird (Cinnyris pulchellus), formerly placed in the genus Nectarinia, is a small passerine bird in the sunbird family Nectariniidae. It is native to tropical Africa, its range extending from Senegal and Guinea in the west to Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Kenya in the east. It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the gorgeous sunbird (Cinnyris melanogastrus).
- ^ BirdLife International (2024). "Cinnyris pulchellus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2024. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
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