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Southern Double-collared Sunbird
Cinnyris chalybeus · Family Nectariniidae
Cinnyris chalybeus
Family Nectariniidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Nectariniidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 137,574
- Countries and territories with records
- 15
About this species
This species has 137,574 occurrence records from 15 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). South Africa accounts for 99.5% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.34% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Cinnyris chalybeus combines the genus name Cinnyris with the species epithet chalybeus. The Warbla app catalog lists 50 species of the genus Cinnyris; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Cinnyris asiaticus, Cinnyris talatala and Cinnyris lotenius.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 136 species of the family Nectariniidae. This species ranks 5th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Cinnyris asiaticus. Its record count is 4.6 times the family average (30,217). The family Nectariniidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.