Mrs. Gould's sunbird

Mrs. Gould's sunbird
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Nectariniidae
Genus: Aethopyga
Species: A. gouldiae
Binomial name
Aethopyga gouldiae
(Vigors, 1831)

The Mrs. Gould's sunbird (Aethopyga gouldiae) is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family.

Gould's Sunbird

It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Hong Kong, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

The Irish ornithologist Nicholas Vigors named the bird after the wife of the artist John Gould.

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