Friday, July 27, 2007

Is it a plane? Is it a cloud? It is the olive-backed Sunbird!!

This bird is commonly found in Pasir Ris. Especially in my roof garden!

This species loves my ixora and bougainvillea plants.

The sunbirds has a curved beak and specially adapted tongue allow it to suck nectars from flowers.



2 comments:

Ke said...

yan hui, that's fantastic shot! i have seen this bird around my block too. i was wondering if it was a relative of the 'lovebird' species. u know, they always fly in pairs, are yellow mixed with another colour..

Anonymous said...

Great work.