Olive-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris chloropygius

Olive-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris chloropygius

Male Olive-bellied Sunbird, Kakum, Ghana, May 2011 - click for larger image

Kakum National Park, Ghana
May 2011

The Olive-bellied Sunbird is distributed in tropical Africa from Senegal to southern Sudan and southwards into the Congo Basin with a disjunct population in south-west Ethiopia. See the distribution map at Birdlife International.

Female Olive-bellied Sunbird, Kakum, Ghana, May 2011 - click for larger image

It is found in forest clearings, forest edges, thickets and gardens where it frequents flowering bushes and trees. It normally feeds in pairs on nectar, spiders and insects.

The male, seen here in photo 1, is glossy green above and on the throat with a bright red breast. The female in photo 2 is dark olive above and buffy-yellow below.

The song is a series of stuttering notes rising with trills.

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