Birds Around Me 0052 - Purple Sunbird छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी (Cinnyris asiaticus)

Purple Sunbird (छोटा शक्कर खोरा) - Cinnyris asiaticus (10 cm), is a small sunbird that has a relatively short bill, a dark and short square-ended tail with distinctive sexual dimorphism. They have a down-curve bill with brush-tipped tubular tongues that aid in nectar feeding. The breeding plumage of males is glossy metallic bluish to purplish-black with a sheen of green on the upper parts with the wings appearing dark brown. 

Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी (Cinnyris asiaticus) Sanjivini Nagar, Jabalpur
Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी (Cinnyris asiaticus)
Sanjivini Nagar, Jabalpur

The non-breeding plumage is similar to females olive-brown above, and yellowish below but with black wings and a brad black streak running down the middle of the breast. They usually go about in pairs, moving restlessly from flower to flower, inspecting by clinging upside down. You will also see them hovering around the flowers like a hummingbird, sucking nectar. Often you will see picking on insects, caterpillars, and spiders as well.

Sunbirds (शक्कर खोरा) like flowerpeckers are brilliantly metallic colored with longer and slenderer bills specially adapted for sucking nectar from flowers by tubular suctorial tongues. 
  
Identification: males appear blackish-purple & females are olive above and yellowish below.
 
Where: gardens, parks, around flowering trees, open broadleaf forests

Hindi name of the bird: Purple Sunbird (Cinnyris asiaticus) -  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी 



Female Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus Jabalpur, India, July 2022
Female Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus
Jabalpur, India,
July 2022

Female Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus Jabalpur, India, July 2022
Female Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus
Jabalpur, India,
July 2022

Female Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus Jabalpur, India, July 2022
Female Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus
Jabalpur, India,
July 2022

Female Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus Jabalpur, India, July 2022
Female Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus
Jabalpur, India,
July 2022

Female Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus Jabalpur, India, July 2022
Female Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus
Jabalpur, India,
July 2022

Female Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus Jabalpur, India, July 2022
Female Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus
Jabalpur, India,
July 2022


Female Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus Jabalpur, India, July 2022
Female Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus
Jabalpur, India,
July 2022

Female Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus Jabalpur, India, July 2022
Female Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus
Jabalpur, India,
July 2022

Female Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus Jabalpur, India, July 2022
Female Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus
Jabalpur, India,
July 2022

Female Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus Jabalpur, India, July 2022
Female Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus
Jabalpur, India,
July 2022

Female Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus
Female Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus
Jabalpur, India,
April 2022

Purple Sunbird (छोटा शक्कर खोरा) - Cinnyris asiaticus - Ashutosh Jhureley
Male Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus
Jabalpur, India,
April 2022

Purple Sunbird (छोटा शक्कर खोरा) - Cinnyris asiaticus - Ashutosh Jhureley
Male Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus
Jabalpur, India,
April 2022


Purple Sunbird (छोटा शक्कर खोरा) - Cinnyris asiaticus - Ashutosh Jhureley
Male Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus
Jabalpur, India,
April 2022


Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus
Female Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus
Jabalpur, India,
April 2022

Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus
Female Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus
Jabalpur, India,
April 2022

Purple Sunbird (छोटा शक्कर खोरा) - Cinnyris asiaticus
Female Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus
Jabalpur, India

Purple Sunbird (छोटा शक्कर खोरा) - Cinnyris asiaticus
Taken on April 10, 2016
Location: Sanjivini Nagar, Jabalpur, India (Latitude: 23.172826, Longitude: 79.881881)


Purple Sunbird (छोटा शक्कर खोरा) - Cinnyris asiaticus
Female Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus
Jabalpur, India

Purple Sunbird (छोटा शक्कर खोरा) - Cinnyris asiaticus
Female Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus
Jabalpur, India

Purple Sunbird (छोटा शक्कर खोरा) - Cinnyris asiaticus

Purple Sunbird (छोटा शक्कर खोरा) - Cinnyris asiaticus
Male Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus
Jabalpur, India


Female Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus
Female Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus
Jabalpur, India

Female Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus
Female Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus
Jabalpur, India

Female Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus
Female Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी  - Cinnyris asiaticus
Jabalpur, India

Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी (Cinnyris asiaticus) Sanjivini Nagar, Jabalpur
Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी (Cinnyris asiaticus)
Sanjivini Nagar, Jabalpur

Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी (Cinnyris asiaticus) Sanjivini Nagar, Jabalpur
Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी (Cinnyris asiaticus)
Sanjivini Nagar, Jabalpur

Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी (Cinnyris asiaticus) Sanjivini Nagar, Jabalpur
Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी (Cinnyris asiaticus)
Sanjivini Nagar, Jabalpur

Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी (Cinnyris asiaticus) Sanjivini Nagar, Jabalpur
Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी (Cinnyris asiaticus)
Sanjivini Nagar, Jabalpur

Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी (Cinnyris asiaticus) Sanjivini Nagar, Jabalpur
Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी (Cinnyris asiaticus)
Sanjivini Nagar, Jabalpur

Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी (Cinnyris asiaticus) Sanjivini Nagar, Jabalpur
Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी (Cinnyris asiaticus)
Sanjivini Nagar, Jabalpur

Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी (Cinnyris asiaticus) Sanjivini Nagar, Jabalpur
Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी (Cinnyris asiaticus)
Sanjivini Nagar, Jabalpur

Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी (Cinnyris asiaticus) Sanjivini Nagar, Jabalpur
Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी (Cinnyris asiaticus)
Sanjivini Nagar, Jabalpur

Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी (Cinnyris asiaticus) Sanjivini Nagar, Jabalpur
Purple Sunbird  छोटा शक्कर खोरा, फूल सुँघनी, थुन-थुनी (Cinnyris asiaticus)
Sanjivini Nagar, Jabalpur




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