Title
First records of Yellow-footed Honeyguide Melignomon eisentrauti and Ursula's Sunbird Cinnyris ursulae for Nigeria, plus other observations from the Cross River National Park area
Author(s)
Fishpool, L. D. C.;Gartshore, M. E.;Imong, I.;Ajagbe, A.;Brewer, D.
Published
2020
Publisher
Malimbus: Journal of the West African Ornithological Society
Abstract
An account is given of the main findings of ornithological surveys of Cross River National Park, Cross River State, southeast Nigeria. Yellow-footed Honeyguide Melignomon eisentrauti and Ursula's Sunbird Cinnyris ursulae are reported from the country for the first time, constituting for the sunbird a small westward extension to its known range, from western Cameroon. Details are also provided of a further 44 species, of which 11 (Lemon Dove Aplopelia larvata, Black Spinetail Telacanthura melanopygia, Spotted Honeyguide Indicator maculatus, Little Green Woodpecker Campethera maculosa, Grey-headed Broadbill Smithornis sharpei, Pink-footed Puffback Dryoscopus angolensis, Crossley's Ground Thrush Geokichla crossleyi, Forest Penduline-tit Anthoscopus flavifrons, Short-tailed Akalat Sheppardia poensis, Johanna's Sunbird Cinnyris johannae and Pale-fronted Nigrita Nigrita luteifrons) were previously unknown from the national park, while the remainder are rarely recorded in southeast Nigeria or from the country as a whole.
Keywords
forest reserve;bird;Zoology

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