Purple-banded sunbird

{{Short description|Species of bird}}

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| image = Purple-banded Sunbird (Cinnyris bifasciatus).jpg

| image_caption=A male at Ngwenya Resort, Mpumalanga, South Africa.

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Cinnyris bifasciatus |volume=2016 |page=e.T103801419A94562143 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T103801419A94562143.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}

| genus = Cinnyris

| species = bifasciatus

| authority = (Shaw, 1812)

| synonyms = Nectarinia bifasciata}}

The purple-banded sunbird (Cinnyris bifasciatus) is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae.

It is found in Angola, Botswana, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Eswatini, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

The Tsavo sunbird, sometimes lumped with the purple-banded, is here considered a separate species.