Aethopyga pulcherrima

Sharpe, 1876 · species

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Animalia/Chordata/Aves/Passeriformes/Nectariniidae/Aethopyga

At a glance

Occurrence records2 502

Data sources8

Biological traits21

DNA specimens2

eDNA detections2

Sources8 archives

Databases and archives Aethopyga pulcherrima's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation8 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility2 502 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI2 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics2 specimens↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗

IOC World Bird ListIOCbird checklist↗

On this page5 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements3 literature sources21 traits

Occurrence & distributionGBIF2 502 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 1 countries2 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD2 specimens

01Narrative

The metallic-winged sunbird (Aethopyga pulcherrima) is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae. It is endemic to the Philippines. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesEltonTraitsAVONETAmnioteDB

Size & morphology11

Beak depth3.1 mm

Beak length (culmen)20.5 mm

Beak length (nares)15.2 mm

Beak width3.5 mm

Body mass6.08 g

Hand-wing index16.6

Kipp's distance7.6 mm

Secondary length38.3 mm

Tail length26.8 mm

Tarsus length14.6 mm

Wing length46.1 mm

Diet & foraging6

Invertebrate50 %

Midhigh50 %

Nectar50 %

Trophic levelomnivore

Trophic nicheNectarivore

Understory50 %

Habitat & environment4

HabitatForest

Migration1.0

Primary lifestyleInsessorial

Range size210 928 km²

05DNA & barcoding2 specimens

A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Aethopyga pulcherrima has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens2

BINs1

Marker genes1

eDNA detections2

Countries1

Marker genes sequenced

★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.

★COI-5P

animal barcode

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type2 502 records

Wild obs. + sensor2 380

Museum / vouchered111

Other11

Origin

Native5

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO1 244 km²

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy60% within 1 km

≤100 m 15≤1 km 9≤10 km 5>10 km 11

40 georeferenced · 2 340 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor2 380

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy19% within 1 km

≤100 m 2≤1 km 3≤10 km 19>10 km 2

26 georeferenced · 85 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence111

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions13 of 16 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
Wuzhou, CN	29
Copenhagen, DK	17
New Haven, US	12
Honolulu, US	9
Cambridge, US	4
Ann Arbor, US	4
University of the Philippines Los Baños Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record	4
Chicago, US	3
Philadelphia, US	2
Toronto, CA	2
Denver, US	1
Geneva, CH	1
Edmonton, CA	1
Brussels, BE	1
Cincinnati Museum Centerlocation not on record	1
RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record	1

16 institutions · 92 of 111 vouchered records shown · 19 without an institution code

09Environmental DNA2 detections

Where the DNA of Aethopyga pulcherrima was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.

Signal

Detections DNA found2

Studies independent surveys1

Countries1

Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections

Where its DNA was found

0 of 2 detections have coordinates

Open the map1 country0

How strong is each trace?

DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.

Modelled climatemodelled

−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C

Temperature median25.5 °C 25.5–25.5

Seasonal swing summer↔winter1.50 °C

Max temp (day)26.2 °C

Min temp (night)24.5 °C

Precipitation147 mm/mo

Air humidity69.7 %

Moisture balance-33.8 mm/mo

Vapour deficit984 Pa

Wind speed2.00 m/s

Cloud cover30.4 %

CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 2 detection points · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche

How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.

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Aethopyga pulcherrima

At a glance

Sources8 archives

Size & morphology11

Diet & foraging6

Habitat & environment4

At a glance

Record type2 502 records

Origin

Range

Wildobservation + sensor

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Wildobservation + sensor

Holding institutions13 of 16 geolocated

Signal

Where its DNA was found

How strong is each trace?

Modelled climatemodelled

Record type2 502 records