Mrs. Gould's sunbird (Aethopyga gouldiae) Mrs Gould's Sunbird (Aethopyga gouldiae), Royal Agricultural Station, Ang Khang, Chiang Mai, Thailand12.84447, 99.32426
Date 25 March 2013, 15:36:00
Author JJ Harrison (jjharrison89@facebook.com)
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The Gould's sunbird or Mrs. Gould's sunbird (Aethopyga gouldiae) is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. 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.
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Nectariniidae
Genus: Aethopyga
Species: Aethopyga gouldiae (Vigors, 1831)