#olive backed sunbird

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Some watercolour aussie birds

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Garden Sunbird

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Olive-backed Sunbird, Queensland, Australia 

[helluvatimes]

The New Sunbird

A female Garden Sunbird (Cinnyris jugularis) slurping nectar off ixora flowers in the Gardens by the Bay. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

Well, it’s not exactly new but this sunbird has now got a new name. It’s presently called the Garden Sunbird which was previously known as the Olive-backed.

[hirocimacruiser]

Just got back from a holiday in KhaoLak Thailand. Been trying to get some good pics of these Olive-backed Sunbirds for a while. These pics are close to alright.

[qqchurch]

Birdwatching Log:

i finally got a solid vid of this small birb... 🥺

[squawkoverflow]

A new variant has been added!

Olive-backed Sunbird (Cinnyris jugularis) © Unknown

It hatches from active, blue, brown, common, female, iridescent, male, olive, plain, tiny, urban, white, and yellow eggs.

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Olive-backed sunbird on Fitzroy Island, QLD, Australia

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♥

[herpsandbirds]

Olive-backed Sunbird (Cinnyris jugularis), male, family Nectariniidae, order Passeriformes, QLD, Australia

photograph by JJ Harrison 

[birdblues]

Olive-backed Sunbird

[thaliajoy-blog]

God i've been agonizing for days about how much détails I should put in this...anyway here's the result of my endeavour to draw Daenerys with a "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind" inspiration. 😙

The front Daenerys is supposed to represent the current Dany (as a teenager in Essos, with her essosi crown with the three drago heads) while the other behind represents her future as the Queen of Westeros with a different crown. They're accompanied by a tiny sunbird (on bird Dany's shoulder), several swallows, a dove & her olive branch, and two dragonflies (I just like drawing them).

I love both Dany & Nausicaa so much, their similarities are everything ; both leaders with controversial & progressive views of the world (and peaceful dispositions), with a magical connection to the world & it's creatures, with the ability to fly in some way ; both the subject of a miracle (surviving the pyre/ being brought back to life = symbolic and literal rebirth), and both connected to a prophecy about the salvation of mankind, which is believed to be about a male hero.

Also the "breaker of chain" title of Dany // the scene where Nausicaa breaks the chains binding princess Lastelle (to give her dignity in death) - I'm obsessed with it (and how sad it is).

[helluvatimes]

High Noon Fix

An Olive-backed Sunbird, now known as the Garden Sunbird, getting its noon nectar fix on a Powder Puff tree in Sentosa. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

We weren’t really expecting to photograph birds but this male and its mate’s loud singing caught our attention.

A slow lens was then on the camera and the set aperture f/8 was where the lens performed best. And given that the sunbird was some 4 metres (about 13 feet) away, isolating the bird was no mean feat.

[todaysbird]

Little guy outside my window

What is this guy?? He looks like a sunbird/spiderhunter, he is very handsome!

Edit: TY to those who ID’d this fellow, an olive-backed sunbird! Cool!

[witchstone]

okay, birds seen at home in june round up! comes to a total of 62 species, which is oddly high for the middle of winter. the highlight was the green twinspot, which i’d only got my first ever sighting of two weeks earlier. presumably it had only found its way to our garden because of the heavy rains and flash floods (and the tornado what the fuck) a few days prior - they’re forest birds, whereas our area is more broad-leaf woodland.

full list and photos under the cut!

bar-throated apalis, black-collared + crested + white-eared barbet, cape batis, dark-capped bulbul, green-backed camaroptera*, yellow-fronted canary, fork-tailed drongo, crowned eagle*, southern black flycatcher, african dusky flycatcher, african paradise flycatcher (odd for this time of year), egyptian goose, gymnogene, southern hadeda, purple-crested loerie. speckled mousebird, black-headed oriole, rose-ringed parakeet*, black-backed puffback, red-capped robin-chat, cape glossy + black-bellied + red-winged starling, collared + greater double-collared + olive + amethyst + white-bellied sunbird, olive + kurrichane thrush, golden-rumped tinkerbarbet, southern black tit, spectacled + village weaver, cape white-eye, cardinal + golden-tailed woodpecker, red-eyed + tambourine* dove, brown-hooded kingfisher, red-backed + bronze mannikin, klaas’s cuckoo*, lesser honeyguide, grey-headed bushshrike*, familiar chat, southern grey-headed sparrow, woolly-necked stork, sombre greenbul*, green woodhoopoe, cape wagtail, southern boubou, black sparrowhawk, african palm swift, green twinspot, black cuckooshrike?, black-headed heron, little sparrowhawk?, pied crow, african goshawk

* = call heard, no visuals, ? = i’m reasonably sure it was that, but not 100%

dark-capped bulbul, taken at a nature reserve up the hill

eurytela dryope

not sure yet. maybe a mocker swallowtail judging by the body?

olive sunbird my beloved

the green twinspot!! absolutely not a great photo, but i was surprised to get a pic at all tbh. either a female or juvenile

bosduival’s tree nymph

souther hadeda. chicken sized rats and the worst dawn chorus you’ve ever heard

golden-tailed woodpecker

gold-spotted sylph. have never seen one before in my life, but it was hanging around the laundry

southern black tit!

[quibblequibblol]

some photos I took yesterday

Chestnut Munia(?)s

White-breasted Woodswallow on wire

Eurasian Tree Sparrows (Maya) eating in the feeder

A low quality snippet of a Garden Sunbird (Olive-backed Sunbird)