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spiderhunter

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spiderhunter: see sunbird sunbird, common name for tropical, Old World birds, including more than one hundred species in the family Nectariniidae. Like the unrelated New World hummingbirds, to which sunbirds are often compared, sunbirds have long and slender, highly curved bills, tube-shaped
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At the same time, the little spiderhunter, for one, is significant almost entirely in terms of direction of flight and thus has to be identified as a distinct species by sighting (consequently, being thus known by sight, sasat is also recognized as being the particular species making the little spiderhunter calls--though ironically the call of augural relevance does not seem to be the one from which the Dusun name of the bird is derived onomatopoeically).
2000 Biogeography of Avifauna and Patterns of Variation in Little Spiderhunter (Arachnothera longirostra) in Southeast Asia.
The records of Copper-throated Sunbird Nectarinia calcostetha and Red-throated Sunbird Anthreptes rhodolaema (Dennis 1994), both isolated records from atypical habitat, and those of Yellow-eared Spiderhunter Arachnothera chrysogenys need confirmation.
 
 
 
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