Ornate Sunbird
Cinnyris ornatus
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 7,331
- Most observed in
- 🇸🇬 Singapore
Description
The ornate sunbird (Cinnyris ornatus) is a species of bird in the sunbird family Nectariniidae that is endemic to Mainland Southeast Asia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo and the Lesser Sunda Islands. It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the olive-backed sunbird, now renamed the garden sunbird (Cinnyris jugularis).
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Ornate sunbird”.