Purple-breasted Sunbird

Purple-breasted SunbirdThis sunbird lives in the forests of the Albertine Rift. Breeding males show a long tail and iridescent colors, and forage at flowering trees.What does it look like?It has a long tail. In breeding males, the plumage shows iridescent bronze, violet, copper, purple, red, blue and green; the head is copper-purple and the lower body deep blue.How does it live?This sunbird lives in the forests of the Albertine Rift. Breeding males show a long tail and iridescent colors, and forage at flowering trees.It feeds from flowering trees in the middle and upper canopy. The species is also recorded at forest edges and clearings in mountains.Keeping it safeAn extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.