"In Chinese mythology, the sun is sometimes symbolized as a three-legged bird, called a Sun-Bird. There were ten of these Sun-birds, all of whom are the offspring of Dijun, God of the Eastern Heaven. The ten Sun-birds resided in a mulberry tree in the eastern sea; each day one of the Sun-Birds would travel around the world on a carriage, driven by Xihe, the Mother of the Suns" - source: Wikipedia
Today there are over 100 + species of sunbirds through out this earth probably more as some may have yet to be known/recorded by science. Purple-Throated sunbird is amongst them and like most sunbirds it is just as beautiful esp the male ones. Here are the males:
And these are the females:
Its habitat and distribution areas are believed to be along coastal shores, offshore islands, mangroves and sometimes gardens.
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