Fire-tailed Sunbird

The fire-tailed sunbird is found in the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent, primarily in the Himalayas, and in some adjoining regions in Southeast Asia, occurring in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand and Tibet. Breeding males have a scarlet nape and mantle, a yellow-orange breast and an olive-green belly, and develop a long scarlet tail, about 15cm long including the tail (Wikipedia, general species account).

Females, about two-thirds that length, have a grey-olive head and throat and a yellow belly, and are told from the similar female green-tailed sunbird by a straighter bill, a squarer tail and more noticeable olive-yellow on the rump. The birds eat insects and also nectar, and breed in rhododendron shrub, with both parents feeding the young.