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Palestine sunbird

Cinnyris osea · Family Nectariniidae

Cinnyris osea

Family Nectariniidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Nectariniidae
GBIF occurrence records
117,567
Countries and territories with records
16
Palestine sunbird
Charles J. Sharp · Palestine sunbird (Cinnyris osea osea) male.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Fullaire · Suimanga_Palestino_Canto!_Suimanga_Palestino_Llamado!_-_Palestine_Sunbird_Song_-_Cinnyris_Osea.opus · CC BY 3.0 · Fullaire · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 117,567 occurrence records from 16 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Israel (87%), Palestine (7%), Jordan (2.2%), Saudi Arabia (1.8%) and Oman (1.2%); together they account for 99.3% of the total. In Israel, this species accounts for 1.5% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Cinnyris osea combines the genus name Cinnyris with the species epithet osea. 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 9th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Cinnyris asiaticus. Its record count is 3.9 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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