Pha Taem NP Thailand - 2 x Flycatcher, Purple Sunbird...? (1 Viewer)

[Bertus]

Different day again. Found the two Flycatchers in the same minute.

3836, 3843 - Little Pied or Asian Brown or...?

3840, 3850 - Grey-headed Canary Flycatcher...?

3894, 3896 - male Purple Sunbird I would say ?

Tnx again everyone

 

[bhutjoe]

I think the first is Asian Brown, given the eye ring, the second is as you suggest and the third is an Ornate Sunbird given the yellow breast and throat. Though I don't recall ever seeing one with that should patch so as always I could be wrong
steve

 

[Grahame Walbridge]

1-2 Asian Brown Flycatcher
3-4 Yes, Grey-headed Canary Flycatcher
5-6 Male Ornate (aka Olive-backed) Sunbird, the orange pectoral tufts are invariably hidden and often not even mentioned in literature see
ML122974801 - Ornate Sunbird - Macaulay Library

Grahame

 

[Bertus]

I think the first is Asian Brown, given the eye ring, the second is as you suggest and the third is an Ornate Sunbird given the yellow breast and throat. Though I don't recall ever seeing one with that should patch so as always I could be wrong
steve

Tnx Steve and Grahame, right, I mistaked, I was so impressed by this patch, that we saw before, that I thought this is the same as before in this thread: Isan Thailand - which Sunbird species?. Awesome beautiful bird. But I missed the yellow breast, Purple Sunbirds don't have that. Meaning both species have that patch. Foresttwitcher said then: the yellow feathers you are seeing are not coverts or another part of the wing but a tuft of displaced body feathers which are usually covered by the closed wing when perched.