Olive-backed Sunbird - Nectarinia jugularis

it's the only sunbird i was able to shoot. thou there are more type of sunbirds here in the philippine.

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playing peek-a-boo. it saw me :)
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a female gathering spider web as nesting material.
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gear used nikon d7100, D80 and tamron 150~600mm.



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What a beautiful bird, is that an orchid the bird is resting by?

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Sadly am not good in naming flowers. But it look similar to orchids. The bird sucks it nectar of that flower too

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I'm not good at naming flowers either, but it does look like it's in that family or maybe the lily family?

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I would love to see one of these beauties, but since there are none here your wonderful photos are the next best thing! Thanks for posting to the #featheredfriends community!
!Tip

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Hello @digitalis!

beautiful captures !
We appreciate your work and your post was manually curated by @barbara-orenya from the DNA team!

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