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| − | [[Image:Purple-rumped_Sunbird.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by Rakesh]] | + | [[Image:Purple-rumped_Sunbird.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by Rakesh <br/> Location Bangalore, India]] |
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| − | + | 10cm long. They have medium-length thin down-curved bills and brush-tipped tubular tongues, both adaptations to their nectar feeding. The adult male has a maroon breast-band, sides of the head and back. The throat and rump are bright purple, and the underparts are yellow flanked with white. There is a bright green shoulder patch. The female and juvenile are duller with an olive-green back, brown wings and yellowish breast. The call is ''ptsiee ptsit, ptsiee ptsswit''. | |
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==Behaviour== | ==Behaviour== | ||
| − | Two to three eggs are laid in a suspended nest in a tree | + | Two to three eggs are laid in a suspended nest in a tree. |
| + | Its diet includes nectar, which it will either hover or perch to take. Insects are taken when they are feeding the young. | ||
Revision as of 15:29, 26 September 2007
- Nectarinia zeylonica
Identification
10cm long. They have medium-length thin down-curved bills and brush-tipped tubular tongues, both adaptations to their nectar feeding. The adult male has a maroon breast-band, sides of the head and back. The throat and rump are bright purple, and the underparts are yellow flanked with white. There is a bright green shoulder patch. The female and juvenile are duller with an olive-green back, brown wings and yellowish breast. The call is ptsiee ptsit, ptsiee ptsswit.
Distribution
Purple-rumped Sunbird is a common resident breeder in tropical southern Asia in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Myanmar.
Taxonomy
Habitat
Scrub and cultivation.
Behaviour
Two to three eggs are laid in a suspended nest in a tree.
Its diet includes nectar, which it will either hover or perch to take. Insects are taken when they are feeding the young.
