The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·13428SpeciesAves2,645 field observations
  1. Animals
  2. ›Chordates
  3. ›Vertebrates
  4. ›Birds
  5. ›Perching Birds
  6. ›Sunbirds and Spiderhunters
  7. ›Aethopyga
Fork-tailed Sunbird
Plate 1 of 2. (c) 57Andrew, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), uploaded by 57Andrew · via iNaturalist

On eBird ↗

Fork-tailed Sunbird

Live sightings near you, the range map, bar charts of when it is seen, and Macaulay Library photos and recordings.

Fork-tailed Sunbird

Aethopyga christinae

The fork-tailed sunbird (Aethopyga christinae) is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. It is found in China, Hong Kong, Laos, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. These small birds, with decurved bill, call a soft and frequent "zwink-zwink" and a metallic trill. The bird appears in the most commonly used postal stamp of Hong Kong.

Continue reading on Wikipedia
§·

Listen

Looking for field recordings…

§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Aethopyga christinae in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 13428.