Fire-tailed Sunbird

Breeding males develop a long scarlet tail and are about 15 cm long including it, with a scarlet nape and mantle, a yellow-orange breast and an olive-green belly; females, about two-thirds that length, have a grey-olive head and throat and a yellow belly. Eclipse males are like females but have brighter yellow bellies, scarlet upper tail coverts and scarlet tail sides (Wikipedia, general species account).

Its natural habitats are temperate forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. It eats insects and also nectar, breeds in rhododendron shrub, and both parents take part in feeding the young (Wikipedia, general species account).