Burung kicau (Songbirds)
Purple Sunbird
Cinnyris asiaticus
- langka
- 42 km/h
- Risiko rendah
Looks jet-black in shade, then turns full iridescent purple in sunlight. Sings at dusk when other birds have given up.
- Populasi
- Global population size not quantified; described as common throughout most of its range (rare/local in Bhutan), with a stable population trend
- Habitat
- Subtropical/tropical moist and dry forest edge, scrubland, rural gardens, arable land, and wetland margins, including dense urban areas; sea level up to about 2,400 m
- Fakta menarik
- Male Purple Sunbirds are important pollinators — using their short down-curved bills and brush-tipped tubular tongues to probe blossoms (including acacia and mistletoe) for nectar while incidentally transferring pollen — and they build distinctive pouch-shaped nests from cobwebs, vegetation, and bark, sometimes repurposing colonial spiders' webs.
- Sebaran
- West/South/Southeast Asia: Arabian Peninsula (Oman, UAE) and Iran through Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, into Indochina (Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand) and southern China; extent of occurrence ~12,100,000 km², largely resident/non-migratory
- Makanan
- Primarily flower nectar, supplemented with small insects and spiders (especially when feeding young); also takes small berries and cultivated fruit such as grapes, sometimes via nectar-robbing (slitting flower bases)
- Ukuran
- 0,1 m
- Bentang sayap
- 0,16 m
- Masa hidup
- 3 tahun
