Purple Sunbird and Purple-rumped Sunbird. The former is more frequent and easier to approach. The latter is an uncommon arrival, taking flight whenever it sees my camera. Sometimes the sunbird ...

Most residents and bird lovers of the Tricity possess fond memories and routine observations of the purple sunbird perched daintily on tender flower stems and sipping nectar. A male Crimson ...

That’s the purple-rumped sunbird, also known as Leptocoma zeylonica ... I was looking through the view-finder and the bird took flight. It turned out to be the best picture I have taken so ...