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The purple sunbird has a relatively short bill, a dark and short square ended tail with distinctive sexual dimorphism. Less than 10 cm (3.9 in) long they have a down-curved bill with brush-tipped tubular tongues that aid in nectar feeding. The male is glossy metallic bluish to purplish [2] black on the upper parts with the wings appearing dark ...
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 ]
Clockwise from top left: ruby-cheeked sunbird, collared sunbird, Loten's sunbird, little spiderhunter, fire-tailed sunbird, and malachite sunbird. Nectariniidae is a family of passerine birds in the superfamily Passeroidea, comprising the sunbirds and spiderhunters. [1] Members of Nectariniidae are also known as nectariniids. [2]
The purple-rumped sunbird is a common resident breeder in southern India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.It is found in Gujarat to the west [4] (possibly a recent expansion [5]) and extending into Assam (Hailakandi [6]) or Meghalaya [2] in the east.
Leptocoma is a genus of sunbirds found from tropical South Asia to Papua New Guinea.Its members are sometimes included in Nectarinia.. The sunbirds are a group of very small Old World passerine birds which feed largely on nectar, although they will also take insects, especially when feeding young.
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 ...
The purple-throated sunbird (Leptocoma sperata), is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae. Its natural habitats are lowland tropical forests and tropical mangrove forests of Maratua and the Philippines. The Van Hasselt's sunbird was previously considered conspecific.
The throat, is dark purple of purple-green with green at the sides. Below the throat patch is a dark chestnut or maroon band. The underparts are black with a purple gloss. The iris is dark brown and the legs are black. The female is greenish-olive above, pale yellow below and has a yellow supercilium. The Flores Sea sunbird can be distinguished ...