Crimson Sunbird

The crimson sunbird is a tiny sunbird, only 11 cm long, which feeds largely on nectar and may also take insects, especially when feeding its young. Like other sunbirds it has a medium-length thin down-curved bill and a brush-tipped tubular tongue. The adult male has a crimson breast and maroon back with black malar stripes, a yellow rump and an olive belly, while the female has an olive-green back, a yellowish breast and white tips to the outer tail feathers. In most of the range males have a long green-blue tail (Wikipedia, general species account).

It is a resident breeder in tropical southern Asia from India, through Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar to Indonesia and Brunei. Most species of the group can take nectar by hovering like a hummingbird but usually perch to feed, and the call is chee-cheewee. Two or three eggs are laid in a suspended nest in a tree.