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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Irving" data-source="post: 464802" data-attributes="member: 31396">I think I saw one too....Hi y'all,I see that this thread is nearly a year old so I doubt if anyone is actually reading it but I thought I'd make the post anyway.I have also seen what I think is a hummingbird in Australia.It was in the outer suburbs of Darwin and, like Wolfgang's, it was visiting a flowering tree which I think was a jasmine. It was seen by three peope, all of whom identified it as a hummingbird, and was seen for about five minutes in the middle of a bright sun-shiny day as it flitted from one flowering bush to another.We are quite familiar with the insects of the Northern Territory as they really are the dominant species here and when we first saw it, we took notice because we thought it to be a hornet-like wasp. The colour was almost an orange-brown or ochre with a black tail and beak. It was about 50 to 60 mm long. I think the wings were black too but, of course, they were a blur. The closest we saw it was about 1.5 metres.I've looked at pictures on the internet of the hummingbird moth and, though I agree the colours are similar, I do not think that they are the same. Running "hummingbird moth" and "Australia" through Google also yields no results. Darwin is also a small city (pop.120,000) with the nearest large city over two thousand kilometres away. Timor, however, is less than six hundred and the Indonesian part of Papua New Guinea about four hundred away at it's closest point.A rumour circulated a year or so ago that a photograph was taken of a hummingbird in an area about 50 km from here. I am told that it was never published because the photographer was asking for money for the photos (far more than anyone was willing to pay) and naming rights.There is my bit. I'm pretty sure I saw one.Regards,       Paul Irving</blockquote>

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