Aladdin
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Dear Members and Bird Watchers!
I came back home yesterday, 6 days of bird watching in Cambodia. And I was lucky to get a sound recording of a Slender-billed Vulture. First ever in both eBird and Xeno-canto
Anyway, back in Siem Reap and I went to the botanical garden and there were several Olive-backed Sunbirds, ID by the help of the white feathers in the tail, otherwise I would not have been able to see the difference between the female Brown-throated and the Olive-backed.
Yesterday and I have time to look at my picture and the birds are eating from orange/ yellow flowers so I was taking it for granted that the bill was orange from eating.
Picture 1: Clearly orange from flowers
Picture 2+3: Clearly a yellow gape (FOR ME)
I learned from Butty that a yellow gape is a young bird. And I have had a lot of use for this knowledge so I am very grateful for this.
So the problem, Cambodia is on the Northern Hemisphere so the birds should be breeding April-August. And I see the Olive-backed Sunbirds building nests in June here in Thailand.
The birds mate between the months of April and August in the Northern Hemisphere, and between August and January in the Southern Hemisphere.
So is the bird on picture 2 and 3 a young bird? I believe that a yellow gape for 4 months is too long
Anyone that can say if it is a female or a young bird?
Kind Regards and Happy Birding
Aladdin
EDIT: I forgot to put the link to my last post regarding Siem Reap: Olive-backed Sunbird baby - Siem Reap, Cambodia yesterday This was from August 2023
I came back home yesterday, 6 days of bird watching in Cambodia. And I was lucky to get a sound recording of a Slender-billed Vulture. First ever in both eBird and Xeno-canto
Anyway, back in Siem Reap and I went to the botanical garden and there were several Olive-backed Sunbirds, ID by the help of the white feathers in the tail, otherwise I would not have been able to see the difference between the female Brown-throated and the Olive-backed.
Yesterday and I have time to look at my picture and the birds are eating from orange/ yellow flowers so I was taking it for granted that the bill was orange from eating.
Picture 1: Clearly orange from flowers
Picture 2+3: Clearly a yellow gape (FOR ME)
I learned from Butty that a yellow gape is a young bird. And I have had a lot of use for this knowledge so I am very grateful for this.
So the problem, Cambodia is on the Northern Hemisphere so the birds should be breeding April-August. And I see the Olive-backed Sunbirds building nests in June here in Thailand.
The birds mate between the months of April and August in the Northern Hemisphere, and between August and January in the Southern Hemisphere.
So is the bird on picture 2 and 3 a young bird? I believe that a yellow gape for 4 months is too long
Anyone that can say if it is a female or a young bird?
Kind Regards and Happy Birding
Aladdin
EDIT: I forgot to put the link to my last post regarding Siem Reap: Olive-backed Sunbird baby - Siem Reap, Cambodia yesterday This was from August 2023
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