Sunbirds
Purple-rumped Sunbird
Leptocoma zeylonica
The purple-rumped sunbird (Leptocoma zeylonica) is a sunbird endemic to the Indian Subcontinent. Like other sunbirds, they are small in size, feeding mainly on nectar but sometimes take insects, particularly when feeding young. They can hover for short durations but usually perch to suck nectar from flowers.
- Family
- Sunbirds
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Weight
- 8.8 g
- Habitat
- Forest
- Diet
- Fruit and nectar
- Migration
- Resident
- Countries recorded
- 3
Recorded in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh.
Where to see it: Canara Bank Layout (India); Muddahalli, Nanjangud Taluka ಮುದ್ದಹಳ್ಳಿ (India); GKVK Campus (India); Kerala Agricultural University · General Area (India); Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History (SACON) (India).
