BT Wild ART - A unique Journey to the wilderness: Old World bird

Hello followers, I hope you explored and enjoyed the blog on Baboon. Therefore, what to offer today is a challenge in front of me for selection, so many choices and so many topics are already published, so what is new? Not to worry friends, our duty is to keep you happy with stories and pictures. With this commitment today I went out for a city birding to find something from our own city and see I found Sunbird in front of me as if requesting me to publish him on the blog 😂so taking request from Sunbird let’s get into the world of Sunbird in the next section.

The Sun Story

The little bird with a history of 1000s years belongs to the old world birds. This is a common bird found in the city as well as in the forest. The first time I saw this bird in Tadoba where I was impressed with the activity display. In Tadoaba after the safari, we were roaming around in the nearby area to do time pass and see if we get some birds, during the experiment we saw Sunbird picking up flowers/insects, it was a treat to see such activity in open. The distance was also favorable for capturing the activity clearly, little purple sunbird was shining in the sunshine and enjoying time with flower, flying from one place to another, what a lovely time! Some time such common bird surprise you with unexpected moments. Since then I started following it to understand the qualities of this little bird. After Tadoba I was lucky to get Sunbird at Jhalana and was very much surprised to see it in my own city near my home. you also need to keep your eyes open to look around for this bird near wetlands if it is near your residence. To look around this bird in the city we must know a few things about this bird so as we can recognize if it is around us, so let's move to the next section to know the fantastic facts.

Fantastic Facts

Sunbirds are small birds that belong to the family of spider hunters. There are 132 species of sunbirds that can be found in Africa, Asia, and Australia

They are small, slender passerines from the Old World, usually with downward-curved bills

1 Sunbirds are brightly colored birds, covered with various combinations of green, purple, blue, red, and yellow feathers. Males are more intensely colored than females (plumage often has metallic sheen)

1 Diet of sunbirds is based mostly on nectar. They occasionally consume fruit, insects, and spiders

1 Sunbirds can hover in front of the flowers (like hummingbirds) or perch on the branches when they extract nectar from the flowers

1 Despite the great similarity with hummingbirds, sunbirds and hummingbirds are not closely related. A similar morphology is a result of convergent evolution: unrelated species develop same morpho-anatomical features due to a similar lifestyle

1 Sunbirds play an important role in the pollination of many tubular flowers (bees and butterflies cannot reach nectar hidden on the bottom of the "tube")

Some species of sunbirds decrease body temperature and lower their metabolic rate during the night

Sunbirds produce unpleasant, insect-like calls for communication. This is one of the reasons why these birds are not popular as a caged bird

1 Cuckoos and honeyguides often lay eggs in the nest of sunbirds

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