Profile
In flight
Songbirds
Purple-rumped Sunbird
Leptocoma zeylonica
- uncommon
- 48 km/h
- Least Concern
Hovers at a hibiscus like a wind-up jewel — green crown, yellow belly, a flash of purple at the rump when it twists in the light. Smaller than a hummingbird's idea of itself.
- Population
- large; common garden bird across range
- Habitat
- gardens, scrub, mangrove edge, light woodland of the Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka
- Diet
- flower nectar, tiny insects and spiders, small soft fruit
- Size
- 0.1 m
- Wingspan
- 0.13 m
