Yellow-bellied Sunbird-Asity
Neodrepanis hypoxantha
- Vulnerable
- Card rarity: Rare
- Birds
The yellow-bellied sunbird-asity is a small species of passerine bird from the asity family. The male has black upper parts with a bluish sheen and yellow underparts, and is sometimes known simply as the yellow-bellied asity. It is found only in montane rainforests of Madagascar where it feeds on nectar that it sips from flowers, defending a good nectar source from other nectar-feeding birds. It is listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as "vulnerable" due to the diminution and fragmentation of its forest habitat.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Philepittidae
- Genus
- Neodrepanis