Purple-rumped Sunbird (Female)

Leptocoma zeylonica

Sunbird in Ratnagiri with a spider in her mouth, probably caught it for her chicks.

Photographed at: Ratnagiri, Maharashtra on 2016-01-15

Family: Nectariniidae

Name in Kannada: ಹಳದಿ ಹೂಗುಬ್ಬಿ / ನೇರಳೆ ಪುಶ್ಟದ ಸೂರಕ್ಕಿ (ಗಂಡು)

Other Pictures of Purple-rumped Sunbird

(Nestling)

This sunbird family built its nest on a well covered branch of a Wrightia tinctorial tree. Unfortunately, the tree shed all its leaves and left this nestling fully exposed. Which explains that piqued look.

Sunbird,This sunbird family built its nest on a well covered branch of a Wrightia tinctorial tree. Unfortunately, the tree shed all its leaves and left this nestling fully exposed. Which explains that piqued look.

(♀)

Sunbird,

(♂)

Sunbird,