Purple-rumped Sunbird (feeding)

Leptocoma zeylonica

This sunbird took a break from feeding on nectar to get some protein.

Photographed at: Kavanapura, Karnataka on 2019-08-12

Album: The Termite Feast

Family: Nectariniidae

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

Other Pictures of Purple-rumped Sunbird

(Female)

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

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

(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,