Common breeding resident in home gardens,
forests and cultivation from lowlands to mid hills while scarce in higher
hills. It lives in pairs and visit flowers all day long to feed on nectar. Also
it eats many small insects. Purple-rumped Sunbird breeds from February to June and probably second
brood again in August- September. The nest is a small hanging structure from a
twig, composed of soft fibers, scraps of lichens etc. bound with cobweb where hen
lays two eggs.
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