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Purple-backed Starling

Sturnus sturninus

1 Species ID Suggestions

Liam
Liam 12 years ago
Purple-backed Starling
Sturnus sturninus Purple-backed Starling


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3 Comments

Liam
Liam 12 years ago

Okay the additional photos help a lot. I've attached a suggestion.

adarsha.joisa
adarsha.joisa 12 years ago

Liam, I've uploaded some more photos of the bird. The size is much bigger than normal sunbirds, so I don't think it might be a sunbird (compare to the drongo in the 3rd photo). The 3rd photo has six of those birds in a tree. I guess there r 4 males n 2 females. The birds in all the other photos seem to be females. Also in the 5th photo, you can see the bird moving to another flower in a running-like movement. As far as I've seen, sunbirds normally fly or jump to other flowers. The movement seems different too.

Liam
Liam 12 years ago

Looks like a female Sunbird, but I can't tell which species from this photo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bir...

adarsha.joisa
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adarsha.joisa

Karnataka, India

Spotted on Jan 5, 2012
Submitted on Jan 5, 2012

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