Birds in flowers & leaves
Top 25 Wild Bird Photographs of the Week
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Birds in flowers & leaves
Spring has begun in the Northern Hemisphere which means that birds are in their breeding plumage and flowers are beginning to bloom. In the Southern Hemisphere autumn is underway and some bird species will begin migrating to warmer areas.
Featured here is the Orange-bellied Leafbird from the Doi Pha Hom Pok National Park, Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, close to the border with Burma. This was a trip where we walked up to the Thai border checkpost and with their permission walked another 50 meters to the actual border with Burma. One step on the other side for the sake of posterity and we made our way back into the beautiful mountains of North Thailand.
Photographed: Jan 17, 2019 | Published: March 30 2019
Orange-bellied leafbird photographed in Fang, Chiang Mai, Thailand (Siddhartha Mukherjee)
The orange-bellied leafbird (Chloropsis hardwickii) is a bird native to the central and eastern Himalayas, Yunnan and northern parts of Southeast Asia. The scientific name commemorates the English naturalist Thomas Hardwicke. It is brightly coloured with an orange belly, a green back, a blue tail and flight feathers, and a black and blue patch over its throat and chest. It has a long, curved beak. It feeds on insects, spiders and nectar. Orange-bellied leafbirds make their nests from roots and fibers which are suspended from the edges of twigs at the end of a tree branch. They do not migrate.