Yellow-bellied Sunbird-Asity

Neodrepanis hypoxantha

Vulnerable

The Yellow-bellied Sunbird-Asity is a rare, tiny bird of high-altitude rainforest in eastern Madagascar. The breeding male is greenish above with a yellow belly and a vivid blue eye wattle, and it feeds on nectar and small insects in mossy montane forest. Fun fact: Once feared extinct, it was rediscovered in the 1990s and remains Vulnerable because its mountain forest home is shrinking.

Family

Philepittidae

Group

Asities

Range

Yellow-bellied Sunbird-Asity Range — High-altitude eastern rainforests of Madagascar

Population

≈ 2,500-9,999

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