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Female, Sitting on Eggs
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Female, Feeding Chicks
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-hirundinaceum.JPG "Mistletoebird (Dicaeum (Dicaeum) hirundinaceum ssp hirundinaceum)") | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves) | |||
| Order: | Perching Birds (Passeriformes) | ||||
| Family: | Flowerpecker (Nectariniidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Mistletoebird (Dicaeum (Dicaeum) hirundinaceum ssp hirundinaceum) | ||||
| This Photo: | Male, Blue Sheen on Back | ||||
Thank you George Seagull for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found in the Murray Mallee SA, Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere Stunning little birds these with the female being grey-brown with cherry red rump. The male having a bright red throat and rump with dark satin blue dinner jacket. Short tail. They make their nests out of spiderweb! We have presented our photo's here in cronological order to get a perspective of their mating cycle. | |||||
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