Mistletoebird (male)

Description:

The beautiful male Mistletoebirds have "glossy blue-black head, wings and upperparts, a bright red throat and chest, a white belly with a central dark streak and a bright red undertail." (Birdlife Australia: http://www.birdlife.org.au/bird-profile/... )

Habitat:

This little guy was restlessly moving around (so hard to snap them when the stop...briefly) the trees around Goombaragin on the Dampier Peninsula.

Notes:

Mistletoebirds are the "only Australian representative of the flowerpecker family, Dicaeidae." (Birdlife Australia) Interesting short read by the Australian National Botanical Garden about the relationship between the bird and the plant: https://www.anbg.gov.au/mistletoe/mistle... An old(ish) article by the Sydney Morning Herald also about the relationship between the bird and the plant: https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/mis...