Southern Double-collared Sunbird

This sunbird is common in gardens, fynbos, forests and coastal scrub. The Southern Double-collared Sunbird breeds from April to December, depending on region. The closed oval nest is constructed from grass, lichen and other plant material, bound together with spider webs. It has a side entrance which sometimes has a porch, and is lined with wool, plant down and feathers.

The Southern Double-collared Sunbird is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

The Southern Double-collared Sunbird is 12 cm long. The adult male has a glossy, metallic green head, throat upper breast and back. It has a brilliant red band across the chest, separated from the green breast by a narrow metallic blue band. The rest of the underparts are whitish. When displaying, yellow feather tufts can be seen on the shoulders. As with other sunbirds the bill is long and decurved. The bill, legs and feet are black. The eye is dark brown. More

The female Southern Double-collared Sunbird has brown upperparts and yellowish-grey underparts. The juvenile resembles the female. The female is greyer below than the female Orange-breasted Sunbird, and darker below than the female Dusky Sunbird. Behaviour The Southern Double-collared Sunbird is usually seen singly or in small groups. Its flight is fast and direct on short wings. It lives mainly on nectar from flowers, but takes some fruit, and, especially when feeding young, insects and spiders. More

The Southern Double-collared Sunbird is usually seen singly or in pairs. Its flight is fast and direct on short wings. It lives mainly on nectar from flowers, but takes some fruit, and, especially when feeding young, insects and spiders. It has the habit of hovering in front of webs to extract spiders. It can take nectar by hovering like a hummingbird, but usually perches to feed most of the time. More

Southern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris chalybeus Cape Town, South Africa. September 2006 The beautiful Southern (or Lesser) Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris chalybeus is a common South African endemic found from the coastal scrub and fynbos around the Cape inland to the Karoo and then discontinously north almost as far as Zimbabwe. Found in good numbers at the superb Kirstenbosch Botanic Gardens, pairs are often seen zipping around from flower to flower collecting nectar. More

The Southern Double-collared Sunbird (Cinnyris chalybeus), also known as the Lesser Double-collared Sunbird, is a species of sunbird that breeds in southern South Africa. It is mainly resident, but partially migratory in the north-east of its range. This sunbird is common in gardens, fynbos, forests and coastal scrub. It was formerly placed in the genus Nectarinia. The Southern Double-collared Sunbird is 4.75 inches long. The adult male has a glossy, metallic green head, throat upper breast and back. More

Southern double-collared sunbird female on Leucaspermum cordifolium. Distribution and habitat Endemic to southern Africa, occurring from the far south of Namibia to South Africa, with the bulk of its population centered around the Western Cape extending east and north to KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland, Mpumalanga and Limpopo Province. It generally prefers fynbos and Karoo shrubland, woodland, Afromontane forest, gardens and Eucalyptus plantations. More

This Southern Double-collared Sunbird picture was taken at the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens of South Africa. It feeds off the nectar of mostly Ericas. It is a stunning sunbird and looks much like the Greater Double-collared Sunbird which is slightly larger and has more red on its chest. Kirstenbosch is one of the favourite attractions for tourists to Cape Town and has truly spectacular plant and bird life. More

Southern Double-collared Sunbird, Cinnyris chalybeus Nectariniidae (SUNBIRDS & SPIDERHUNTERS) Southern Double-collared Sunbird, Cinnyris chalybeus This photo was taken in: South Africa This photo was taken with: Canon EOS 10D Notes on this photo: Female, Kirstenbosch Gardens The photo was taken by: Bob Hawkins , South Africa reports Reports from birdtours.co. More

Southern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris chalbeus (KwaZulu-Natal race subalaris with broad breast band) that also feeds on the flowers. Our Durban species has flowers that are produced on the upper side of each branch in the same spikes that are about the size of a human little finger. The red flowers pop out of the spike a little like a snapdragon flower. The primary pollinators of this plant are the forest sunbirds like the Grey, Olive and Collared sunbirds. More

Southern double-collared Sunbird and I must have taken over a hundred photos of that very same sunbird. I had been leopard-crawling all over the garden trying to capture it, and as I took the picture it was about to fly away. Not more than a day after I sent this picture into the African Birds and Birding, the sunbird flew into our house. More

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The Southern Double-collared Sunbird is a species of gardens, Cape fynbos, forests and eucalyptus plantations. It usually seen singly or in small groups, flitting quickly in among flowering plants or flying rapidly between feeding sites. It lives mainly on nectar of flowers, as well as fruit, insects and spiders. The call is a very high pitched jumble of swirling, sizzling tinkling notes, rising and falling in pitch and tempo for 3-5 seconds or more. More

Southern Double-collared Sunbird, Cinnyris chalybeus, Kingdom: Animalia (Animals), Phylum: Chordata (Vertebrates), Class: Aves (Birds), Order: Passeriformes (Passerine Birds), "Family: Nectariniidae (Sunbirds)", Klein-rooibandsuikerbekkie, S 824, R 783, Halsband-Nektarvogel, Beija-flor-de-banda-fina, Souimanga chalyb More

Southern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris chalybeus = Described by: Linnaeus (1766) Alternate common name(s): Lesser Double-collared Sunbird Old scientific name(s): Nectarinia chalybea Photographs Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cape Town, South Africa - Nov 8, 2004 More

Male southern double-collared sunbird, Cinnyris chalybeus, pollinating Brunsvigia orientalis, and showing pollen on its forehead, Near Klawer, Western Cape, South Africa Keywords afraoides . Africa . animals . birds . brunonii . Brunsvigia . Brunsvigia orientalis . Cao . Cape . chalybeus . cinnamomeus . Cinnyris . Cinnyris chalybeus . collard . collared . dot . double . feeding . flowers . orientalis . plants . pollinating . pollination . Sour . south . South Africa . Southend . More

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