Purple-rumped Sunbird (♀)

Leptocoma zeylonica

Photographed at: Kabini, Karnataka on 2022-03-18

Album: Kabini - 2022

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,