dollarbird

After leaving the forest, Hans decided to go back to Blackbutt for another look for the parrots. En route.... I was lucky enough to get another sighting of an Oriental Dollarbird. The light was better on this one, but still not really showing off his lovely colouring.

A dollarbird on its usual perch at the top of a tall tree from where it swoops down on flying insect preys.

Moving between apartment blocks.

Dollarbird

A few people have asked how the Dollarbird got it's name . In the early 1800's the Spanish Silver Dollar and the famous Holey Dollar were still legal tender in Australia . The pale patches seen on the wings while flying reminded the early settlers of these coins and hence the name Dollarbird...

A number of these around early this morning , hawking for insects after the recent rain.

The dollarbird (Eurystomus orientalis), also known as the Oriental dollarbird or dollar roller, is a bird of the roller family, so named because of the distinctive blue coin-shaped spots on its wings. It can be found in south-west Pacific and east Asia from northern Australia to the Japan...

If you look closely you can see a mosquito-like insect near its beak.

Adult. Common winter visitor/passage migrant to Singapore. Settings: 1458mm ISO200 1/50s f/6.6 0EV.

These birds ( along with the Rainbow Bee-eaters ,Koel and Channel -billed Cuckoo ) are back in summer residence but thus far haven't been able to get a shot of them hawking insects.

Dollarbird

I think this bird was eyeing up all of the fallen trees around the Constructed Wetlands here at Wellington Point after last weekends wild weather All of the larger birds have left for the time being,Spoonbills ,Egrets ,Darters etc.

At this time of the year the bush is deafening with the sound of Cicadas and other insects. Dollarbirds were busy hawking the aerial ones all morning. Shot was a bit high to be really sharp but still shows the captured insect ok

Unusual to see them down at eye level here.

Just on my way out to school pickup on my boy's 16th birthday, when I spotted the silhouette of this bird in a dead tree in my garden... I couldn't quite see what it was, but I'm glad I delayed my trip to school & took a closer look. Birthday or no birthday, this was worth making him wait a...

I guess this is a juvenile dollarbird (?).

This looks like a dollarbird to me.

On late morning walk near a creek, found this strange looking bird perched on a dead gum tree trunk. I late identified it a dollarbird. (I hope I got it right :) Wingecarribee river, at Berrima NSW. I read that "... Dollarbirds feed almost exclusively on flying insects. They search for...