Purple-throated Sunbird

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Nectariniidae

Genus

Leptocoma

eBird Code

putsun3

Subspecies (4)

• Leptocoma sperata henkei

  northern Philippines (northern Luzon and adjacent islets)

• Leptocoma sperata juliae

  southern Philippines (central and western Mindanao, Basilan, and Sulu Archipelago; intergrades with trochilus in central Mindanao)

• Leptocoma sperata sperata

  northern Philippines (central and southern Luzon, Polillo, and Catanduanes; intergrades with henkei in central Luzon)

• Leptocoma sperata trochilus

  central to southern Philippines (Mindoro eastward to Samar, southward to Palawan and eastern Mindanao)