Sunday, 27 December 2020

Dollarbird!

I saw him chasing insects from his perch on the power lines outside yesterday. He was very handsome, and he was completely new to me. He's a dollarbird (Eurystomus orientalis).

Somehow I'd never heard of him, let alone spotted one of his kind. 

The books and the birdo sites don't actually seem to indicate that dollarbirds are particularly rare in Sydney. Like the channel-billed cuckoo and the koel, they are summer visitors from New Guinea and Indonesia.

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