Sunbird making nest

Size: Sparrow;
Field Characters: Breeding male metallic dark blue and purple, pectoral tufts bright yellow and scarlet. At a distance the bird looks all black. Male in non-breeding pulmage like female - brown above, pale dull yellow below - but with darker wings and a broad black stripe running down middle of breast. Pairs in open lightly wooded country.
Distribution: Throughout the Indian Union, Bangaldesh, Pakistan SriLanka, Myanmar
Habits: Affects gardens, groves, cultivated and scrub country as well as light deciduous forest.
Food: Insects and spiders, and very largely flower nectar. Its slender curved bill and tubular tongue are admirably adapted for probing into flower tubes and sucking the nectar; in doing so the bird helps to cross-pollinate the blossoms.
Call: A sharp monosyllabic 'wich wich' uttered as its flits about. The breeding male sings excitedly from exposed perches, 'cheewit-cheewit-cheewit' raises and lowers his wings displaying the brilliant yellow and scarlet tufts of feathers under the ampits.
Nesting: season-elastic, mostly March to May. Nest-an oblong pouch of soft grasses, rubbish and cub webs, draped with pieces of bark, woody refuse and caterpillars' droppings, with a projecting portico above the lateral entrance hole. Suspended from the tip of a branch of bush or creeper at moderate heights often adjacent to an occupied building.
Eggs: 2 or 3, greyish or greenish white marked with various shades of brown and grey. Only the female builds and incubates, but male assists in feeding the young.

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• Purple
• Sunbird
• Nectarinia
• asiatica
• Latham
• Thenkili
• Thenkuruvi
• Phul
• soongni
• Thenkudi
• Thena
• pitta

[anieyopostcards]

Really great video, thanks for sharing :)

[SlovenCathrin]

awesome! i had one outside but didnt manage to film

[EyessOnly]

cool

[daliajoh]

gud

[Jawa2lak]

Nice video.