Sunday, September 5, 2010

Wow Yummy Fruit

Sep 5 2010. For the past one week I had the opportunity photographing avian with foods in the bill (mouth). Here are some selection of the photos featuring some species of birds eating the fig fruit.

The short and stout bill of barbet is a useful
feature for fruit eating bird

Yellow-crowned Barbet



This poor Gold-whiskered Barbet with
a broken lower mandible. 


A female Red-throated Barbet swallowing a fig fruit.


Scaly-breasted Bulbul. 


Red-eyed Bulbul. Having a fruit galore.


Asian Fairy Bluebird

Thanks for viewing.

6 comments:

Tse Chien said...

Like the clean shot of the Fairy Bluebird!

Bob Bushell said...

They have a berry in their mouths, beautiful pictures.

WS said...

Fruiting trees are like bird magnets!!!

When Barbets are not using their beaks to pick fruit, they use it like a woodpecker. That could explain the broken beak.

Hawkeyes a.k.a Kiah said...

Thanks for your compliment.

Friend of HK said...

Beautiful captures! Love them!

abd. halim hadi said...

Pretty.Great job Kiah..thanks for sharing.