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The female has an olive-green back, yellowish breast and white tips to the outer tail feathers. In most of the range, males have a long green-blue tail, but A.s. nicobarica of the Nicobar Islands and the former subspecies A. vigorsii ( Western crimson sunbird ) of the Western Ghats of India lack the long central tail feathers.
Sunbird drinking nectar from typical bird-pollinated flower As nectar is a primary food source for sunbirds, they are important pollinators in African ecosystems. Sunbird-pollinated flowers are typically long, tubular, and red-to-orange in colour, showing convergent evolution with many hummingbird -pollinated flowers in the Americas. [ 10 ]
The splendid sunbird breeds in west and central tropical Africa. [2] One or two eggs are laid in an oval suspended nest in a tree. It is a seasonal migrant within its range. Splendid sunbirds are 15 cm long, and have medium-long thin down-curved bills and brush-tipped tubular tongues, both adaptations to their nectar feeding.
Crimson shining parrot; Crimson sunbird; Crimson topaz; Crimson-backed flameback; Crimson-backed sunbird; Crimson-backed tanager; Crimson-bellied parakeet; Crimson-bellied woodpecker; Crimson-breasted finch; Crimson-breasted flowerpecker; Crimson-breasted shrike; Crimson-browed finch; Crimson-collared grosbeak; Crimson-collared tanager; Crimson ...
Aethopyga is a genus of birds in the sunbird family Nectariniidae. Species in this genus are found in South Asia , Southeast Asia and parts of China . Many species such as the grey-hooded sunbird , Apo sunbird , metallic-winged sunbird , handsome sunbird , and Lina's sunbird are endemic to the Philippines .
The larger purple-rumped sunbird can appear very similar but this sunbird has a darker maroon on the upper side while the flanks and vent are whitish. The eclipse plumage (non-breeding) of the male has more olive on the head and velvet red is restricted to the lower mantle and wing coverts. The female is olive-brown but the rump is distinctly red.
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The iris is generally reddish in color. In the Western Ghats, it can overlap in some areas with the crimson-backed sunbird but the male of that species has reddish upperparts, a broader breast band and generally darker eyes. The female has a white throat followed by yellowish breast. The upperside is olive or brownish.