#olive backed sunbird

[proton-wobbler]

Great Backyard Bird Off - Asia (poll 5)

Bird Info & Submission Reasons

Garden Sunbird (Cinnyris jugularis)

[submitted as Olive-backed Sunbird] "We had a pair build a really cool hanging nest in a potted tree on our garden terrace when I was a child. It was really interesting to see them raise their young. Plus, they are really cute!"

White-spectacled Bulbul (Pycnonotus xanthopygos)

"They are beautiful and sing beautifully too. Fun fact: they inherit song tunes from their parents! So the tune is passed down with every generation!"

Image Source: sunbird (Vincent Wang), bulbul (Wojciech Janecki)

[bjekkergauken]

Some watercolour aussie birds

[birdblues]

Garden Sunbird

[helluvatimes]

The Perfect Day Drink

A female Garden Sunbird (Cinnyris jugularis) drinking from a Dwarf Ixora shrub in the Gardens by the Bay. Photo credit: Eleanor Chua.

[oceaniatropics]

Olive-backed Sunbird, Queensland, Australia 

[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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[herpsandbirds]

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

photograph by JJ Harrison 

[funniestbitchinfaerun]

WIP Whursday

Whow it's the first WIP Whatever of Wh2025! How delightful. Thanks @roguishcat. I'm writing out of order again and making myself reaaaallll emotional about Oliver and Thaniel because I would die for those weird little immortal third-graders.

I tag @vividiana, @thecubspeaks, and @the-bear-and-his-sunbird if you have anything 2 share!

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She should step back and let Halsin take over. After all, this was his childhood friend, sort of. But there was a tenuous thread of connection here, between her and this strange little boy, and if she stepped back she risked it snapping.

“You know,” she said, “I have two younger sisters at home. They’re twins, a bit like you and Thaniel.”

“Kestrel,” Gale began, “is this really…”

To Kestrel’s surprise, Halsin shushed him. “Wait, Gale,” he said under his breath. “Let her finish.”

Oliver didn’t seem to have heard them. “Twins? So they’re exactly alike?”

“They certainly were, back when they were very small. Looked just the same and liked all the same things. As they grew older, though, they became more and more different. Noretta likes wearing her hair long, and Velma likes hers short. Velma loves being outside and gardening, and Noretta prefers reading and cooking. They’re not the same anymore, but they’re still twins, and they still love each other more than anything.”

“But…but Thaniel’s been away for a long time,” said Oliver, his upper lip wobbling. “He won’t remember me.”

“Yes, he will, and he’ll be so happy to see you.” A lump had grown in her throat, and she swallowed hard to dispel it. “Just like I’ll be happy to see my sisters again when all this is done. I just need you to believe in him, and yourself. Can you do that for me, Oliver?”

[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).

[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!

[helluvatimes]

Afternoon Gleaning

One of a pair of Garden Sunbirds (Cinnyris jugularis) checking under every leaf in a hibiscus shrub on the southern shore of the Marina Reservoir. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

[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)

[margaritaartist]

“Olive back Sunbirds”. Series: “For the Love of Wild life”. Acrylic on canvas

[wobblywurm]

Just some birbs I’ve spotted recently… ;D

1. Olive-backed sunbird

2. Gray Fantail

3. Australasian Figbird