Nasty weather... differently
It wasn't a good weather for bird photography this week. Still, I was rewarded by this unexpected appearance of a bird I'd never seen before: Crescent Honeyeater.
While looking for its ID I've found some interesting facts in Wikipedia:
The ancestor of the crescent honeyeater diverged from the lineage giving rise to the white-streaked, New Holland and white-cheeked honeyeaters around 7.5 million years ago. DNA analysis has shown honeyeaters to be related to the Pardalotidae (pardalotes), Acanthizidae (Australian warblers, scrubwrens, thornbills, etc.), and Maluridae (Australian fairy-wrens) in the large superfamily Meliphagoidea.
(Phylidonyris pyrrhopterus)
Nasty weather... differently
It wasn't a good weather for bird photography this week. Still, I was rewarded by this unexpected appearance of a bird I'd never seen before: Crescent Honeyeater.
While looking for its ID I've found some interesting facts in Wikipedia:
The ancestor of the crescent honeyeater diverged from the lineage giving rise to the white-streaked, New Holland and white-cheeked honeyeaters around 7.5 million years ago. DNA analysis has shown honeyeaters to be related to the Pardalotidae (pardalotes), Acanthizidae (Australian warblers, scrubwrens, thornbills, etc.), and Maluridae (Australian fairy-wrens) in the large superfamily Meliphagoidea.
(Phylidonyris pyrrhopterus)