Birds are the beautiful creation of god. Their beautiful wings are the main center of attraction. Purple birds are generally acknowledged for their beauty and ability to fly in the free blue sky. Birds are multi-colored. Every colored bird is present in the entire world. Here is the list of 21 amazing purple birds in the world,
Purple Birds In The World
1. Violet-backed starling
Violet-backed starling grows up to 7 inches long and nearly weighs 0.099 lb. It is found in the forests, woodlands, and savannas of Sub-Saharan Africa. It has a life anticipation of nearly 15 years. This small bird looks super cute and attractive with a shiny purple back, white underparts, brownish-black feathers, throat, and chin. Violet-backed starling is an omnivore species and likes to eat various insects, bees, butterflies, wasps, locusts, mulberries, figs, branches, twigs, and different fruits. However, this cute little bird is very loving but is belligerent also.
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2. American purple gallinule
American purple gallinule can grow around 10 to 14.6 inches long and weighs 25 to 27 oz. It is found in the ponds, fresh water, marshes, and swamps of Central America, South America, and Mexico. It has a life expectancy of about 22 to 25 years.
This extremely beautiful bird has a purple and blue body, purple neck and breast, light blue head, dark yellow legs, and feet, red yellow beak, red eyes, and small wings. It is a non-dangerous bird spending most of its time in its nest. American purple gallinule is an omnivore species and feeds on various insects, bees, butterflies, wasps, locusts, mulberries, figs, branches, twigs, and different fruits.
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3. Splendid sunbird
Splendid sunbird weighs around 5 to 45 grams and can grow nearly 4 to 10 inches tall. It is found in the woodlands, tropical rainforests, coastal forests, and mountain ranges, savannas of Asia, Africa, and Australia. Its average life expectancy is known to be 7 to 22 years.
Splendid sunbird is usually orange, yellow, green, blue, and red with a long beak, and beautiful long tail feathers males with bright feathers, and females have dull feathers. Despite its small size, it is a very attractive colorful bird and also is very hard working. It is an omnivore bird and feeds on insects, spiders, and mostly on the nectar of the various flowers.
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4. Cotinga
Cotinga can grow up to 22 cm tall and weighs nearly 56 to 72 grams. It is found usually in the streams, rivers, and tropical rainforests of South America, Central America, Southern Mexico, and The Amazon Basin. It has a life anticipation of about 18 years. This cute little colorful bird is usually red, orange, blue, green, or purple with shiny feathers. It is a very adorable, social, friendly, and non-dangerous bird. Cotinga is a frugivores bird as it nourishes mostly on various fruits.
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5. Purple Martin
Purple martin bird can grow about 19 to 20 cm long and weighs up to 45 to 60 grams. It is found in the grasslands, lakes, and meadows of North America and South America. It has a life anticipation of about 13 years. The purple martin has blackish-blue or bright blue feathers all over the body giving a purple shade, females have pale undersides and forked tails. It is a very sweet, calm, small, lively, and beautiful bird. The purple martin is an insectivore species and likes to feed on different varieties of insects.
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6. Varied bunting
Varied bunting grows around 11 to 14 cm long and weighs up to 11 to 13 grams. It is found in the deserts, thorny bushes, scrubby woodlands, and forests of the United States, Mexico, and Southeast Guatemala.
It has an average life expectancy of around 10 years. The male varied bunting is very colorful with a red and purple body, violent face with purple cheeks, blue foreheads, violent shoulders, black shade around the beak, and cream color around the eyes and hind crown. It is a very colorful magnificent bird with a piercing voice. It is an omnivore feeding on various insects, plants, and fruits.
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7. Violet sabrewing
Violet sabrewing can grow up to 12 to 15 cm long and females weigh around 9.5 grams and males 11.5 grams. It is found in the streams and woodland areas of Costa Rica, Panama, Central America, and Southern Mexico. It has an average life expectancy of about 3 to 5 years. This beautiful bird is dark violet, has dark blue wings, a black tail with white ends, a long beak, and mostly purple or blue eyes. It I very multi-colored beautiful bird loved by the people. Violet sabrewing is an omnivore bird feeding on various flowers, plants, nectar, flies, spiders, wasps, ants, and bees.
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8. Purple Swamphen
Purple Swamphen grows up to 51 cm long and weighs about 770 grams. It is found in the swamps, islands, damp pastures, wetlands, and lake edges of New Zealand, North Africa, and Southern Europe. It has a life anticipation of about 8 years. Purple Swamphen is of blue, purple, orange, red, or gray color, black top with a dark blue and purple collar and plumage, red beak, and reddish-orange feet. Purple Swamphen is an omnivore bird that nourishes mostly on small shoots of reeds, plants, rushes, tiny animals, and many small insects.
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9. Purple heron
Purple heron weighs about 0.5 to 1.35 kg and can grow up to 31 to 38 inches long. I found it in the mangrove swamps, lakes, lagoons, and marshes of Asia, Africa, the United States, Southern Europe, and Eastern Europe. It has a life anticipation of about 5 years.
Purple heron has a mud-colored body, reddish-brown plumage, black underparts, a yellowish-brown beak, brown legs, and yellow eyes. It flies very fast at the speed of 30 mph. Purple heron is a carnivore species and feeds on small insects, mammals, fishes, small amphibians, water beetles, snails, spiders, flies, bees, and grasshoppers.
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10. Purple Honeycreeper
Purple Honeycreeper is one of the amazing purple birds that grows about 4 to 8 inches long and weighs 19 grams. It is found in the dense forests of the Hawaiian Islands and Laysan Islands. Its life expectancy is about 5 to 12 years. Its body color can be green, blue, red, and most prominently purple. Purple Honeycreeper is an omnivore bird feeding on various plants, insects, bees, flies, fruits, small mammals, and many more.
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11. Purple Starling
The purple starling is a bird species that is a member of the starling family of birds. The body length ranges between 22 to 23 cm and comes with a metallic purple head and body along with glossy green wings, a short tail, and a yellow eye. The bird breeds in tropical Africa from Senegal and north Zaire east to Sudan and west Kenya and is commonly seen in open woodland and cultivation areas. The dietary habits are omnivorous and feed on fruit and insects.
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12. Purple Grenadier
The purple grenadier is one of the beautiful purple birds mostly found in eastern Africa. The bird prefers to thrive in subtropical and tropical (lowland) dry shrubland in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. The body length ranges upto 5.2 in length and the average weight is between 0.4 to 0.6 ounces. The birds were mostly seen in the regions of East Africa. The average lifespan for a purple grenadier is upto 7 years in the wild.
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13. Violet-crowned Woodnymph
The crowned woodnymph is one of the beautiful purple birds belonging to the family Trochilidae. They are mostly seen in the regions of Belize and Guatemala to northern Peru. The natural habitat includes subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests along with subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forests. The body length ranges upto 10.2 cm long and weighs around 4.5 grams. The body length ranges up to 10.2 cm long and weighs around 4.5 grams. It primarily feeds on nectar from a variety of flowering plants. The average lifespan of violet-crowned Woodnymph is still unknown.
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14. Violet-bellied Hummingbird
The violet-bellied hummingbird is a species of hummingbird popular for its shimmering violet belly. The rest of the body and its back is metallic green. They are mostly seen in the regions of central Panama, through Columbia, extending to southwestern Ecuador and the extreme northwestern point of Peru. The dietary habits are nectarivorous and feed on nectar from plants in the Rubiaceae, Ericaceae, Gesneriaceae (Besleria), and Fabaceae (Inga) families. They are also seen eating arthropods. The avarage lifespan of a violet-bellied Hummingbird is upto 4.2 years in the wild.
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15. Purple-bearded Bee-eater
The purple-bearded bee-eater is a passerine bird that belongs to the bee-eater family Meropidae. The bird species is an endemic resident on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia. The body length ranges between 25 to 26 cm in length and is the only member of the genus Meropogon. The scientific name is Eltio Alegondas Forsten (1811–1843) who collected in the East Indies between 1838 and 1842. The adult species can be identified with a purple head, face, beard, breast, and upper belly. The primary diet includes eats insects, including bees, wasps dragonflies, and beetles, which are caught in flight.
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16. European Starling
European Starling’s scientific name is Sturnus vulgaris is a medium-sized bird species that belongs to the family Sturnidae. These black birds of Florida are very noisy, especially in situations like communal roosts and other gregarious situations. Talking about the appearance, it has a glossy black plumage with a metallic sheen and is speckled with white at some times of the year. The legs of the bird are pink, however, the bill is black in winter and yellow in summer. The primary diet includes spiders, crane flies, moths, mayflies, dragonflies, damselflies, grasshoppers, earwigs, lacewings, caddisflies, flies, beetles, sawflies, bees, wasps and ants. It is also listed as one of the black and bluebirds in the world.
17. Costa’s Hummingbird
Costa’s hummingbird scientific name is Calypte costae which belongs to the family Trochilidae. The breeding regions of bird species are in the southwest United States and northwest Mexico, during the winter season it is in western Mexico. The body length of bird species is between 3 to 3.5 inches and the average weight is upto 3.05 g for males and 3.22 g for females. These bird species are fairly common in brushy deserts and any nearby gardens of the Southwestern United States and the Baja California Peninsula of Mexico. The avarage lifespan of Costa’s hummingbird is upto 9 years in the wild.
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18. Gray-Headed Swamphen
The grey-headed swamphen scientific name Porphyrio poliocephalus is a bird species that belongs to the family Rallidae. They are mostly found in the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent to southern China and northern Thailand. Initially, it was considered a subspecies of purple swamphen, however, it was elevated to full bird species status in the year 2015. The avarage lifespan of grey-headed swamphen is not known in the wild.
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19. Japanese Paradise-Flycatcher
The The Japanese paradise flycatcher’s scientific name is Terpsiphone atrocaudata is a medium-sized passerine bird native to southeastern Asia. It is also known as the black paradise flycatcher and comes with a glossy black, chestnut, and white bird which is slightly smaller than either the Amur paradise flycatcher or Blyth’s paradise flycatcher, however, its appearance is almost similar. The male species can be identified with the help of exceptionally long tails whereas female species are duller in appearance and have shorter tails. The exact lifespan of the Japanese paradise flycatcher is unknown.
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20. Common Scimitarbill
The common scimitarbill is one of the purple birds in the world that belongs to the family Phoeniculidae. They are found in the regions of Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic, Eswatini, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The adult species can be identified with the help of dark blue color and thier beaks are black but as juveniles, their beaks are grey.
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21. Hartlaub’s Turaco
Hartlaub’s turaco scientific name is Tauraco hartlaubi it belongs to the family Musophagidae. They are found in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. The common name comes from a Latin binomial commemorating the German physician and ornithologist Gustav Hartlaub. It is also known as Blue-crested Plantain-eater or Black-crested Turaco that reaches east Uganda at mounts Elgon, Moroto, and Morongole as a preferred habitat. The primary diet includes fruits, plant matter, and berries, but will also consume flowers, caterpillars, moths, arthropods, and beetles.
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