A Rainbow Lorikeet with its 'brush' tongue

• Where was the image taken?

  Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
• The bird in the photo

  egyéb / other
• Story of the image

  I had been photographing Rainbow lorikeets in my garden for some time before I noticed in one of my photos that they had a kind of 'brush' at the end of their tongues. It turns out that this feature helps them to extract nectar and pollen, their main food, from deep inside flowers. The Rainbow lorikeet is called Trichoglossus (which means ‘hairy tongue’) haematodus, because of this feature. The flowers in the photo belong to a Red flowering gum (Corymbia ficifolia).

  Exif adatok

  Photo capture date

  2023-12-18T15:14:00

  Exposure time

  1/640s

  Focal Length

  500mm

  Flash

  Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode

  Camera make

  SONY

  Type of camera

  ILCE-7RM5
• Category

  Madárportré