The male is so brightly colored,
with an amazingly iridescent crown. Such beauty however is not easy to
appreciate in the wild with the unaided eye because of the tiny size of the
bird and its very active nature. An observer is allowed only fleeting glimpses
of this diminutive avian hunk.
This particular individual was
feeding among the flowers of some birds-of-paradise plants in the lower
slopes of Mt. Makiling when I got a frame-filling capture. Available light was
very tough to control, but I shot in RAW and this allowed me to recover much
detail in the shadows and in the highlights.
The clean background, the classic
pose and the symmetry of the curves of the bird's underside and the perch place
this image among my top favorites.
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Handsome Sunbird (Aethopyga bella, a Philippine
endemic, male)
Habitat - Thickets, forest edge and forest
below 2000 m.
2 comments:
Brilliant image here!! :)
Regards from India,
Angad Achappa
It is found in Nepal too
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