Olive Sunbird

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Nectariniidae

Genus

Cyanomitra

eBird Code

eaosun1

Vocalizations

Subspecies (11)

• Cyanomitra olivacea alfredi

  southern Tanzania to Malawi, southeastern Zambia, and northern Mozambique

• Cyanomitra olivacea cephaelis

  Benin to northern Angola and the Congo Basin

• Cyanomitra olivacea changamwensis

  southern Somalia and coastal Kenya to northeastern Tanzania; Mafia Island

• Cyanomitra olivacea granti

  Zanzibar and Pemba Island

• Cyanomitra olivacea guineensis

  Senegal to Togo

• Cyanomitra olivacea neglecta

  central Kenya to northeastern Tanzania

• Cyanomitra olivacea obscura

  Príncipe and Bioko (Gulf of Guinea)

• Cyanomitra olivacea olivacea

  eastern South Africa (southern KwaZulu-Natal to Eastern Cape), and Eswatini

• Cyanomitra olivacea olivacina

  northeastern South Africa (northeastern KwaZulu-Natal) and southern Mozambique

• Cyanomitra olivacea ragazzii

  southern South Sudan and southwestern Ethiopia to Uganda, western Kenya, western Tanzania, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and northern Zambia

• Cyanomitra olivacea sclateri

  eastern Zimbabwe and west-central Mozambique