The male of the Green-Crowned Brilliant, Heliodoxa jacula, to go with yesterday’s female.
Tag: bird
Green-Crowned Brilliant (female), Monteverde Cloudforest Reserve, Costa Rica, 2012
The female of the Green-Crowned Brilliant, Heliodoxa jacula, perched on a branch in the hummingbird garden at Monteverde Cloudforest Reserve.
Little Bee-Eater (Merops pusillus), Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, June 2009
A flycatcher sits on a branch by lake Tana, patiently waiting for me to take its picture.
This was identified for me as a Little Green Bee-Eater (Merops orientalis), but I have had a chance to look at Birds of the Horn of Africa, and the distribution for the Little Green Bee Eater is wrong, and the Green one has green, not yellow, at the throat. I think it is a Little Bee-Eater, Merops pusillus.
Starling, Southern Ethiopia, November 2007
A Blue-Eared Glossy Starling (?) in the rafters of an outdoor eating area.
Stilt, Lake Ziway, Ethiopia, November 2007
