Female Beautiful Sunbird - Ethiopia October 2019 (1 Viewer)

[Aladdin]

Dear members and bird watchers

Female sunbirds and it is not easy to identify. Attached sunbird is a female that I have identified as a Beautiful Sunbird.

Reason for this, poor picture in the sun. But the reason for me to identify this bird as a Beautiful Sunbird is the white throat. At least it looks like white in the light.

Any ideas?

Kind regards and happy birding
Aladdin

 

[Larry Sweetland]

Can't help with the Id, but if you have an exact location including habitat/altitude etc, it might greatly assist anyone who is familiar with Ethiopia, or even someone who has a field guide that covers the country.

 

[Aladdin]

Can't help with the Id, but if you have an exact location including habitat/altitude etc, it might greatly assist anyone who is familiar with Ethiopia, or even someone who has a field guide that covers the country.

Thank you Larry

The bird was spotted at Awash Falls and I managed to identify two different Sunbird males, Beautiful and Nile Valley Sunbird as they were males. The females are not easy.

This female looks like a Beautiful Sunbird as, again, might be a lighting effect, but the throat looks white as the female beautiful in my book Birds of Horn of Africa

Kind regards
Aladdin