Olive-backed Sunbirds are beautiful small birds living in SE Asia and surrounding islands. They eat primarily nectar from flowers but will also take insects.
The Olive-backed Sunbird was previously known as Nectarinia jugularis and is known to some as the Yellow-bellied Sunbird.
Classification
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Nectariniidae
Genus: Cinnyris
Species: C. jugularis
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Nectar drinking sunbird
Olive-backed Sunbird
Olive-backed Sunbird (Cinnyris jugularis) female
Olive-backed Sunbird (Cinnyris jugularis) female
martinalvendia posted a photo:. Olive-Backed Sunbird. UP Diliman. Read more…
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Male Olive-backed Sunbird Nectarinia jugularis. Read more…
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It’s a Olive-backed Sunbird « Visuallens
The Olive-backed Sunbird is common across southern China to the Philippines and Malaysia down to northeast Australia. They are small songbirds, at most 12cm long. The underparts of both male an… Read more…
Bird Ecology Study Group » Oriental whip snake having Olive-backed …
Johnny Wee recently documented an oriental whip snake (Ahaetulla prasina) catching and swallowing an Olive-backed Sunbird (Cinnyris jugularis). The catch was fast and sudden. Once firmly claspe… Read more…
Olive-backed Sunbird Nectarina jugularis Main features: The smallest Sunbird (11cm), bill thin… Read more…
