🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Green-headed Sunbird live?

Cyanomitra verticalis has 20,513 records in 31 countries and territories, from 1845 to 2026. Most records come from Uganda.

Green-headed Sunbird
Green-headed Sunbird β€” Tom Tarrant / CC BY-SA 3.0 Β· source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesNectariniidaeCyanomitra

When it is recorded

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Peak month: November. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Uganda 6,216
Kenya 4,716
Nigeria 2,629
Ghana 1,475
Rwanda 1,208
DR Congo 1,044
Gambia 570
Cameroon 509
Tanzania 393
Gabon 335
Liberia 189
Angola 174
Senegal 156
Benin 143
Congo 143
Zambia 111
CΓ΄te d'Ivoire 100
Guinea-Bissau 89
Guinea 79
Sierra Leone 57
Burundi 41
Malawi 40
Equatorial Guinea 33
Central African Republic 27
Togo 19
Burkina Faso 6
Mali 4
Sudan 3
South Sudan 2
Greece 1
United States 1

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months β€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map β€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.