Purple‑rumped Sunbird Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Chalcoparia singalensis
Family : Nectariniidae
Order : Passeriformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : Villages
Description : The Purple-rumped Sunbird is a small, colourful passerine with a yellow breast (length 10 cm, weight 9 g, wing 5.2 cm, bill 1.7 cm, tarsus 1.5 cm, tail 3.3 cm approximately). The male is visibly different from the female. The male has a deep chestnut-maroon back and mantle, purple rump, and dark brown wing and upper tail coverts. It has a metallic green crown and shoulder patch, maroon sides to the head, a purple throat, and narrow maroon band across the upper breast. The lower breast and belly are yellow with distinctive greyish-white flanks. The female has greyish brown upperparts with rufous-brown fringes to the tertials and secondaries, an olive rump, yellow breast and grayish-white throat and flanks. It feeds on small insects and nectar. It breeds throughout the year, peaking in March-May
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Arachnothera magna
(Ruby‑cheeked Sunbird) -
Dicaeum erythrorhynchos
(Plain Flowerpecker) -
Dicaeum chrysorrheum
(Thick‑billed Flowerpecker) -
Dicaeum agile
(Orange‑bellied Flowerpecker) -
Dicaeum ignipectus
(Little Spiderhunter) -
Cinnyris asiaticus
(Olive-backed Sunbird) -
Aethopyga gouldiae
(Crimson Sunbird) -
Arachnothera longirostra
(Streaked Spiderhunter) -
Dicaeum melanoxanthum
(Yellow‑vented Flowerpecker) -
Aethopyga siparaja
(Black-breasted Weaver)
Species groups
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Bee-eaters -
Booby -
frigatebird -
phalarope -
tropicbird -
Martins and Swallows -
Crows, Drongos & allies -
Woodpeckers -
Eared Nightjars -
Ibises & Spoonbills -
Trogons -
Coucals -
Pelicans -
Darters -
Gulls -
Warblers and allies -
Flowerpeckers & Sunbirds -
Sparrows, Wagtails, Pipits a& allies -
moonbird -
Hawks & Eagles -
Snipes, Sandpipers, Plovers & allies -
Small Kingfishers -
Cisticola & Prinia -
Plovers & Lapwings -
Rails, Gallinules & Coots -
Tits
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Parrots -
Rosefinches and Buntings -
Bustards -
Grebes -
Pheasants & Partridges -
Old World flycatcher -
Starlings and Mynas -
Hornbills -
Buttonquails -
Rollers -
Bluebirds -
Crested Kingfishers -
Cormorants -
Pigeons and Doves -
Jacanas
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Typical Owl -
Finfoots &booby -
Flamingo -
Herons and Bitterns -
Treecreepers -
Nuthatch
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Barbets -
Treeswifts -
Swifts -
Crab-plovers, Coursers and Pratincoles -
Bulbuls -
Frogmouths
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Larks -
Storks -
Broadbills -
Thick-knees -
Painted-snipes -
Nightjars -
Barn-owls -
Large-billed Kingfishers -
Falcons -
Pittas -
Cranes -
Whistling-ducks -
Ducks, Geese & Swans -
Hoopoe
References:
description written by:Sharmin Rahman,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;Photo credit and copyright:MSH Sourav (TU Dresden, Germany);taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;bird song owner:Ross Gallardy(www.xeno-canto.org/Ross Gallardy), bird sound copyright reserved according to www.xeno-canto.org rules; more information, please contact us.
description written by:Sharmin Rahman,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;Photo credit and copyright:MSH Sourav (TU Dresden, Germany);taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;bird song owner:Ross Gallardy(www.xeno-canto.org/Ross Gallardy), bird sound copyright reserved according to www.xeno-canto.org rules; more information, please contact us.