Monday, September 17, 2012

Ethiopian family This bird is the ecological equivalent of the Old World to the New World hummingbirds

shining sunbird Cinnyris habessinicus (protonym
Nectarinia habessinica

) and Ehrenberg Hemprich 1828, also known as Abyssinia sunbird, photographed by Billen Lodge in Awash National Park, at the southern tip of the Afar region in central Ethiopia (Africa).

Image: Dan Logen, 29 January 2011 (courtesy for

GrrlScientist / Guardian use

only


) [velociraptorise].

  • D300s, 600 mm lens, ISO 500, 1/800 sec, f / 9
  • question:

    This small Ethiopian mystery bird is placed in a large and fascinating birds. Can you identify this taxonomic family and species of birds and tell me something that you think is particularly interesting about this bird family?

    response: is a brilliant man adult sunbird Cinnyris habessinicus

    a small Old World sparrow standing on Nectariniidae, family and Spiderhunter sunbird. There are over 100 species of nectariniids and are scattered over a vast territory, including in Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and a little north of Australia.

    The sunbirds is the equivalent of the Old World to the New World hummingbirds, to a lesser extent, the honeyeaters of Australia. Most of nectar sunbirds hovering like a hummingbird, but usually perch to feed. As hummingbirds also eat insects and fruit. Sunbirds also share these characteristics with other hummingbirds

    long thin beak and curved

    languages ??tubular

    very small body

    dichromatic and males are often brightly colored plumage is iridescent, metallic or sometimes velvety
    Shining
    sunbirds are generally placed in the genus
    Cinnyris

    although sometimes subsumed in the genus Nectarinia
    . They are very dimorphism, the male in breeding plumage has iridescent green tops with a purple diagnostic brightness on her crown, brown wings and tail dark iridescent blue-black. Breeding males are iridescent green neck, chest bright scarlet with purple diagnostic on the chin, and the diagnosis of stomach iridescent black. The female is a little grayish brown upper and lower Buffy with wide gray-brown stripes on the neck and chest. Men like the female during the breeding season.


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