Male © Adam Scott Kennedy eBird S74635292 Macaulay Library ML 269716321
Female © Nik Borrow
Juvenile © Nik Borrow
Female © Ross Gallardy
Male © Adam Scott Kennedy
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Female © Ross Gallardy
Male © Bernard Guévorts

Violet-tailed Sunbird Anthreptes aurantius

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Identification

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An iridescent sunbird of forest and forest edge, almost always near water. Males are distinctly bicolored: iridescent purple on their tails and heads and white on their bellies, with iridescent green highlights on the wings and orange underwing tufts. Females are more greenish-blue above with a bright white eye-line, a yellow belly, and white cheeks, throat, and chest. Distinguished from violet-backed sunbirds by its habitat, greenish wings, and iridescent female plumage. Vocalizations are not well known, but are presumably similar to those of other sunbirds.

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