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Cinnyris jugularis · Family Nectariniidae

Cinnyris jugularis

Family Nectariniidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Nectariniidae
GBIF occurrence records
61,007
Countries and territories with records
23
Garden sunbird
Domzjuniorwildlife · Olive-backed Sunbird female, Misamis Oriental, Philippines 1.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Domzjuniorwildlife · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 61,007 occurrence records from 23 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Australia (48.2%), the Philippines (44.6%) and Indonesia (3%); together they account for 95.8% of the total. In Australia, this species accounts for 0.027% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Cinnyris jugularis combines the genus name Cinnyris with the species epithet jugularis. 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 chalybeus.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 136 species of the family Nectariniidae. This species ranks 19th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Cinnyris asiaticus. Its record count is 2 times the family average (30,217). The family Nectariniidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Nectariniidae

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