Mrs. Gould's Sunbird

How to identify

Field marks

1. Male forehead to crown, supercilium and throat deep purple
2. Male face-sides, nape and upper back bright red
3. Male belly and vent yellow-green; tail coverts bright blue
4. Bill decurved and pointed, suited to nectar feeding

Male, female and young

Female duller than the male, with dark olive upperparts and grayish-yellow underparts.

Voice

A high, thin “tzeeee” and sharp “tzit”; during courtship in the breeding season, the male gives “zhai-zhai-zhai”.

Where and when it's recorded

Mrs. Gould's Sunbird has been recorded at 294 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 9 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Doi Inthanon NP – summitThailand1,259 records
2. Doi Pha Hom Pok NP – Doi Lang (W), AKA Doi San JuThailand895 records
3. Doi Inthanon NPThailand721 records

Countries and regions with the most records

ThailandChinaVietnamBhutanIndiaMyanmar (Burma)NepalLaos

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

Mrs. Gould's sunbird (Aethopyga gouldiae) is a sunbird species native to forests and shrublands from the southern foothills of the Himalayas to Southeast Asia.

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