Olive-backed Sunbird Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Cinnyris asiaticus
Family : Nectariniidae
Order : Passeriformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : Evergreen forest
Description : The Olive-backed Sunbird is a tiny, olive passerine with a yellow belly (length 10 cm, wing 5 cm, bill 2.3 cm, tarsus 1.4 cm, tail 3.2 cm approximately). The male is visibly different from the female. In the breeding season, the male has olive-green upperparts, a black tail with white tip, and its throat and breast are metallic blue, purple or blue-green. Its rest of its underparts are yellow. The female has olive upperparts, a black tail with white tip, and yellow underparts. The non-breeding male looks like the female but is distinguished by a broad blackish stripe down the centre of its throat and breast. It feeds on insects and nectar. Its usual call is a loud note: sweet. It breeds in January-February in Myanmar.
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Aethopyga ignicauda
(Green‑tailed Sunbird) -
Dicaeum erythrorhynchos
(Plain Flowerpecker) -
Dicaeum ignipectus
(Little Spiderhunter) -
Dicaeum melanoxanthum
(Yellow‑vented Flowerpecker) -
Dicaeum agile
(Orange‑bellied Flowerpecker) -
Dicaeum chrysorrheum
(Thick‑billed Flowerpecker) -
Dicaeum cruentatum
(Fire-breasted Flowerpecker)
Species groups
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Bee-eaters -
Booby -
frigatebird -
phalarope -
tropicbird -
Martins and Swallows -
Crows, Drongos & allies -
Woodpeckers -
Eared Nightjars -
Ibises & Spoonbills
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Trogons -
Coucals -
Pelicans -
Darters
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Gulls -
Warblers and allies -
Flowerpeckers & Sunbirds -
Sparrows, Wagtails, Pipits a& allies -
moonbird -
Hawks & Eagles -
Snipes, Sandpipers, Plovers & allies -
Small Kingfishers -
Cisticola & Prinia -
Plovers & Lapwings -
Rails, Gallinules & Coots -
Tits
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Parrots -
Rosefinches and Buntings -
Bustards -
Grebes -
Pheasants & Partridges -
Old World flycatcher -
Starlings and Mynas -
Hornbills -
Buttonquails -
Rollers -
Bluebirds -
Crested Kingfishers -
Cormorants -
Pigeons and Doves -
Jacanas
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Typical Owl -
Finfoots &booby
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Flamingo
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Herons and Bitterns -
Treecreepers -
Nuthatch
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Barbets -
Treeswifts -
Swifts -
Crab-plovers, Coursers and Pratincoles -
Bulbuls -
Frogmouths
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Larks -
Storks -
Broadbills -
Thick-knees -
Painted-snipes
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Nightjars -
Barn-owls
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Large-billed Kingfishers -
Falcons -
Pittas -
Cranes -
Whistling-ducks -
Ducks, Geese & Swans -
Hoopoe
References:
description written by:Sharmin Rahman,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;photo credit: pvidwansa (www.inaturalist.org/people/pvidwansa ),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;more information, please contact us.
description written by:Sharmin Rahman,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;photo credit: pvidwansa (www.inaturalist.org/people/pvidwansa ),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;more information, please contact us.