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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wolfgang" data-source="post: 261132" data-attributes="member: 18068">thank you all for your replies, this is a very friendly forum!!the museum in sydney told me aswell that is was very likely a moth.but all i can tell you is, that i had a very close look, and i saw it was a hummingbird. i think it's an undiscribed bird, native to australia, but so shy and well camoflaged it never has been reported before. australia was once part of gondwana, and the excistence of the melisuga helenae at cuba is proof that birds like the one i saw are reality.it had a typical beautyfull hummingbird shaped head and a straight dark allmost black peak, and it's not possible to mix up a tiny but solid trunk with the apendixes of a moth....  i will move away from this area soon, so other observations are unlikely, but i will try next year again once the star jasmin flowers again...i don't think that this bird often visits landscaped gardens, but lives at the river where it's moist and shady.what plants do melisuga h.or other small hummingbirds visit as a food source?knowing its food, would help me to search for it's habitat.aswell what are my chances of attracting it to an artificial feeder?</blockquote>