Burung kicau (Songbirds)
Fire-tailed Sunbird
Aethopyga ignicauda
- langka
- 42 km/h
- Risiko rendah
Himalayan nectar-feeder with a tail like a lit fuse. Scarlet and yellow male blazes through mountain mist above 3,000m.
- Populasi
- Number of mature individuals unknown/not quantified; population trend stable; described as very common at higher altitudes
- Habitat
- Subtropical/tropical moist montane forest and high-altitude shrubland, including rhododendron thickets and conifer forest up to ~4,000 m; descends to broadleaved forest at lower elevation in winter
- Fakta menarik
- Breeding male Fire-tailed Sunbirds grow an extravagant elongated scarlet tail that can make up nearly half their total ~15 cm length, and both parents cooperate to feed chicks in nests built within rhododendron shrubs.
- Sebaran
- Himalayas and adjoining Southeast Asia: Bangladesh, Bhutan, China (Tibet/mainland), India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Thailand; resident, not migratory
- Makanan
- Nectar and insects (opportunistic forager)
- Ukuran
- 0,15 m
- Masa hidup
- 2,2 tahun
