Names(L-R): Handsome Sunbird (female, endemic), Plain-throated Sunbird (male, resident), Handsome Sunbird (male, endemic), Orange-bellied Flowerpecker (male, resident), Buzzing Flowerpecker (male, endemic), Metallic Sunbird (male, endemic), Purple-throated Sunbird (male, resident) Location: Picop Timberland Forest, Bislig City, Surigao del Sur Date Photographed: January 2011 Note: Composite of eight shots/photographs, merged together. One of 70 bird photos of […]
Tag: Buzzing Flowerpecker
Flowerpeckers from the Philippines
The Philippines is home to a number of flowerpeckers, small, stout passerine birds, with short thick decurved bills designed for eating small fruits as well as to sip nectar from flowers. They are really small and very active birds and is usually found in a mixed feeding flock together with other birds such as sunbirds, […]