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Purple-rumped Sunbird (female)

Leptocoma zeylonica

Photo by SukanyaDatta
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Description:

Tiny birds with needle-like beaks that can enter deep into the flowers to take nectar. Can also hover while feeding; making many mistake these for Hummingbirds (India doesn't have any.)

Habitat:

Common in gardens, may also nest there. Here it is feeding on the nectar of Tecoma capensis, Cape Honeysuckle-a potted plant on the roof.

Notes:

This is the female. The male is gloriously...riotously colourful.

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Purple-rumped Sunbird

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