We had scary names, we had onomatopoeic names – time for beautiful names. Here are 7 beautiful birds – if we believe their names. The featured imaged isn’t beautiful, it’s splendid. The Splendid Glossy Starling is by Torwall (CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons).
1. Beautiful Firetail
2. Beautiful Fruit Dove
3. Beautiful Jay
4. Beautiful Sibia
5. Beautiful Nuthatch
6. Beautiful Sunbird
7. Beautiful Francolin aka Black Francolin
Peter Penning is a sustainability management consultant who spends many weeks abroad away from his homes in The Netherlands (work) and Portugal (holidays). Although work distracts him regularly from the observation of birds, he has managed to see a great many species regardless. He firmly believes in the necessity of birders to contribute to conservation. He supports BirdLife in the Netherlands, South Africa and Portugal (SPEA – Sociedade Portuguesa para o Estudo das Aves). Peter likes to meet people and have good after-birding lunches. This has seriously hampered his ability to build up a truly impressive life list. Somehow, he doesn’t care.
And that post was a beautiful way to end my day—Thanks!
Truly beautiful!
They are amazing
So creative and inspired to try to see everyone…
Excellent.
I’ve managed to see four of Peter’s seven in the wild: the Beautiful Sunbird really does live up to its name, despite being in a family with many others that could be argued are equally beautiful. It’s interesting that there are no beautiful birds of paradise – perhaps they are all too exotic to be called beautiful. Anyway, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Astonishing birds! Thanks for sharing these photos. They are all beautiful in one way or another, but the Beautiful Fruit Dove! Wow.