Garden Sunbird

How to identify

Field marks

1. Bill long and decurved
2. Male of the nominate subspecies with a dark, iridescent throat
3. Female with a pale yellow stripe above the eye
4. Female upperparts greenish-olive

Male, female and young

Juvenile resembles the female but is paler and browner.

Where and when it's recorded

Garden Sunbird has been recorded at 677 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 15 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Singapore Botanic GardensSingapore3,081 records
2. Townsville Town Common Conservation ParkAustralia2,873 records
3. Cattana WetlandsAustralia2,713 records

Countries and regions with the most records

SingaporeThailandAustraliaPhilippinesIndonesiaMalaysiaCambodiaIndia

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The garden sunbird (Cinnyris jugularis), previously known as the olive-backed sunbird, is a species of passerine bird in the family Nectariniidae that is found in the Philippines except on the Palawan island group. It was formerly considered to be conspecific with seven other species: the ornate sunbird, Palawan sunbird, Sahul sunbird, Tukangbesi sunbird, Flores Sea sunbird, South Moluccan sunbird and the Mamberamo sunbird.

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