Small Birds

This post is going to be the last one for this week since I'm going to Doi Angkang tomorrow morning and will be back on Sunday. Yesterday as I was walking around in my garden, I heard a loud voice of the Olive-backed Sunbird (Cinnyris jugularis), a usual visitor of my house, calling from a tree nearby. I later found a male perching in a bael tree singing his sweet metallic song. It is a very small bird with long curved beak adapted for nectar sucking. The name sunbird comes from the male bird's glossy feathers. For the Olive-backed Sunbird, male bird has bluish-glossed feathers on its throat and upper breast with maroon breast band and bright yellow belly. Female has glossy black throat replaced by plain yellow feathers. It is one of the few sunbirds in Thailand that can be found in gardens and cities.

Olive-backed Sunbird

Another small bird for this post is the Common Tailorbird (Orthotomus sutorius), a member of warbler family, which can be commonly seen in parks and gardens. Male bird has elongated central pair of tail feathers during this season of the year, but unfortunately I could only photographed the female, which has much a shorter tail. This bird also has loud high-pitched voice which can be recognised easily. Although very common, it is truly a difficult target to photograph.