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This impressive bird of South East Asia is the mystery of the national bird of the city-state of Singapore (includes video)

Crimson sunbird adult males,

Aethopyga

siparaja

(protonym Certhia Siparaja

), also known Sunbird as the purple, yellow backed Sunbird, the Goulpourah sunbird, red or scarlet or throat, chest Sunbird, photographed in Singapore, a Southeast Asian city-state at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula.

Image

:. Marie-Louise Ng January 26, 2011 (with permission) [velociraptorize]

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Question:

taxonomic family of this bird has been appointed to a position in the history of life held by family members. Can you identify the taxonomic family of birds? Can you identify the species?

is an adult male purple sunbird siparaja

. It is a species of Old World which is strongly dichromatic, so that adult males are undeniable, with the chest and back brown, rump and belly yellow, olive-green. The female has an olive green back, yellow breast and white tips on outer tail feathers.
nectarines are placed in the taxonomic family, Nectariniidae, which was so named because most of these birds feed on (you guessed it) nectar. Its thin down-curved bills and brush tipped tubular languages ??are specially adapted for nectivory. Flower tubes are trained to prevent access to the nectar are drilled in the base near nectaries hungry for nectarines. Like any nectar, nectarine supplement their diet with insects, especially when raising chickens, and some species also add fruit in the menu.