Green-tailed sunbird
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Green-tailed sunbird | |
---|---|
A. nipalensis nipalensis, male (♂) | |
A. nipalensis angkanensis, female (♀) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Nectariniidae |
Genus: | Aethopyga |
Species: | A. nipalensis
|
Binomial name | |
Aethopyga nipalensis (Hodgson, 1836)
|
The green-tailed sunbird (Aethopyga nipalensis) or Nepal yellow-backed sunbird is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae.
It is found in Nepal and the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent, stretching eastwards into parts of Southeast Asia.
Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. In southeast Szechwan and Yunnan, it lives in open mountain woods with moss-covered trees, from 1825 to 3350 meters elevation.
References
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Aethopyga nipalensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22718081A94565721. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22718081A94565721.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
External links
- Media related to Aethopyga nipalensis at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- Articles with short description
- Short description matches Wikidata
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Articles with 'species' microformats
- Commons link is locally defined
- Aethopyga
- Birds of Nepal
- Birds of Eastern Himalaya
- Birds of China
- Birds of Southeast Asia
- Birds described in 1837
- Taxa named by Brian Houghton Hodgson
- Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
- All stub articles
- Nectariniidae stubs