Shining Sunbird (Cinnyris habessinicus)
About the Shining Sunbird
The Abyssinian sunbird (Cinnyris habessinicus), formerly the shining sunbird, is a species of passerine bird in the sunbird family Nectariniidae. The Arabian sunbird was formerly treated as a subspecies. Three subspecies are recognised: C. h. habessinicus (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1828) – northeast Sudan, Eritrea and north, central Ethiopia C. h. alter Neumann, 1906 – east Ethiopia and north Somalia C. h. turkanae Van Someren, 1920 – southeast Sudan, south Ethiopia, south Somalia, north Kenya and northeast Uganda Two additional former subspecies, C. h. hellmaryi and C. h. kinneari, have now been split as a separate species, the Arabian sunbird C. hellmaryi.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 20 recordings for this species: 4 CC BY-NC-SA · 3 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.
Listed as recorded in Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Flame-breasted SunbirdCinnyris solarisrecording
- Loten's SunbirdCinnyris loteniusrecording
- Northern Double-collared SunbirdCinnyris reichenowirecording
- Tiny SunbirdCinnyris minullusrecording
- Tsavo SunbirdCinnyris tsavoensisrecording
- Variable SunbirdCinnyris venustusrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.