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Purple Sunbird
Cinnyris asiaticus · Family Nectariniidae
Cinnyris asiaticus
Family Nectariniidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Nectariniidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 767,906
- Countries and territories with records
- 23
About this species
This species has 767,906 occurrence records from 23 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (89.7%), the United Arab Emirates (4.4%), Thailand (1.3%) and Sri Lanka (1.2%); together they account for 96.6% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 1.1% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Cinnyris asiaticus combines the genus name Cinnyris with the species epithet asiaticus. The Warbla app catalog lists 50 species of the genus Cinnyris; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Cinnyris talatala, Cinnyris chalybeus and Cinnyris lotenius.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 136 species of the family Nectariniidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 25.4 times the family average (30,217). The family Nectariniidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.