Female © Ron Hoff Dollyann Myers
Immature male © Pam Rasmussen
Male © Chris Chafer
Male © Brendan Ryan
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Immature male © Pam Rasmussen
Male © Pam Rasmussen
Female © Lorenzo Vinciguerra
Male © Forest Botial-Jarvis

Magnificent Sunbird Aethopyga magnifica

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Identification

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A stunning small bird of lowland and foothill scrub and gardens in the western Visayas. Male has a bright red head, back, and chest, a purple forehead, a broadening purple mustache stripe, a purple tail, black wings and belly, and a bright yellow patch on the lower back. Similar to Purple-throated, but larger; male lacks the purple throat, and female is mainly olive with distinctive reddish wings and tail. Call is a repeated high-pitched “chik!”

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