A Rainbow Lorikeet with its 'brush' tongue

• Helyszín

  Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
• A képen látható madár

  egyéb / other
• A fotó története

  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).

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  A fotó készítésének ideje

  2023-12-18T15:14:00

  Expozíciós idő

  1/640s

  Gyújtótávolság

  500mm

  Vaku

  Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode

  Kamera gyártmány

  SONY

  Kamera modell

  ILCE-7RM5
• Kategória

  Madárportré