Wildlife & Flora
Green Tailed Sunbird
Green Tailed Sunbird (Aethopyga nipalensis) is a wildlife & flora sighting recorded around Pothana, Pitam Deurali, Landruk.
- Scientific name
- Aethopyga nipalensis
- Local name
- Nepal Bunggechara
- Category
- Wildlife & Flora
Sunbirds are the East's answer to the hummingbirds. While morphologically very similar to the hummingbirds, this is an example of convergent evolution in which two unrelated species look similar because of identical (nectar-feeding) lifestyles. Also while both hummingbirds and sunbirds can hover, the sunbirds can't reverse like their New World counterparts. The pendulous hanging nests of sunbirds made from twigs and leaves woven with spider web are rather interesting structures, ideally suited to hold just the lightweights.
