Collared Sunbird

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Nectariniidae

Genus

Hedydipna

eBird Code

colsun2

Vocalizations

Subspecies (9)

• Hedydipna collaris collaris

  southern KwaZulu-Natal, western Eswatini, and eastern Cape Province

• Hedydipna collaris djamdjamensis

  southwestern Ethiopia (Alghe and Sagan river area)

• Hedydipna collaris elachior

  eastern Kenya to northeastern Tanzania, Manda Island, Zanzibar, and Mafia Island

• Hedydipna collaris garguensis

  southeastern South Sudan, far southwestern Ethiopia, eastern and southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, western Tanzania, eastern Angola, and northern Zambia

• Hedydipna collaris hypodila

  Bioko Island (Gulf of Guinea)

• Hedydipna collaris somereni

  southeastern Nigeria southward to northwestern Angola and eastward to northern Democratic Republic of the Congo and southwestern South Sudan

• Hedydipna collaris subcollaris

  Senegal to southern Nigeria (Niger River delta)

• Hedydipna collaris zambesiana

  Angola to Tanzania, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and northeastern South Africa

• Hedydipna collaris zuluensis

  northeastern KwaZulu-Natal to southern Mozambique and Zimbabwe