Purple-banded Sunbird

Purple-banded Sunbird
Purple-banded Sunbird
A male at Ngwenya Resort, Mpumalanga, South Africa.
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Nectariniidae
Genus: Nectarinia
Species: N. bifasciata
Binomial name
Nectarinia bifasciata
(Shaw, 1812)

The Purple-banded Sunbird (Nectarinia bifasciata or Cinnyris bifasciatus) is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

The Tsavo Sunbird, sometimes lumped with the Purple-banded, is here considered a separate species.

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