On cashew back ground! Nice!
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On cashew back ground! Nice!
The males have orange neck feathers, he is a young male. Nice shot!
Sorry , I guess throat would be a better term. They are similar to the Ruby Throated-Humming bird. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Rufous_Hummingbird/idBy "neck" do you mean gorget or nape? This one's nape (and whole dorsal side) was completely green (in contrast to most juvenile males). You may be correct, but this bird looks (to me) exactly like the drawing of an adult female in the Sibley Guide (Rufous females do have a central gorget whereas the [growing] gorget in young males is more spread out). Again, I'm not certain that it is an adult female.
Sorry , I guess throat would be a better term. They are similar to the Ruby Throated-Humming bird. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Rufous_Hummingbird/id
Alan, where did you take these photos?! I wander why the belly has that color (there are two subspecies with such/similar color but they are over East Mediterranean and Egypt). Or may be just reflection from the ground bellow/exposure? Nice, difficult shots!I went out today with the R5 and 100-500mm and as usual saw nothing but on the way back some Barnswallows swooped around for a couple of minutes. Photographing these is an Olympic athletics event rather than photography. Two shots of juveniles followed by a burst on an older bird stitched together.
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A local field. They were members of the same family, I think, with adults that were quite dark underneath and deeply fork tails and juveniles lighter with forks not developed.Alan, where did you take these photos?! I wander why the belly has that color (there are two subspecies with such/similar color but they are over East Mediterranean and Egypt). Or may be just reflection from the ground bellow/exposure? Nice, difficult shots!
Beautiful shot Dolina, glad to see you posting all of these beautiful birds again.
Scale-feathered Malkoha (Phaenicophaeus cumingi) by Paolo Dolina, on Flickr
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