I'm wondering if there is anywhere in Australia that I can see bee hummingbirds?
If not Australia, then can anyone recommend my cheapest options?
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Hmmm, plugged your question into Google; first hit:
http://www.zoochat.com/24/bee-hummingbirds-where-see-389663/
Sadly, no answers on that thread!
I started the ZooChat thread 2 minutes after starting this BIBY one! :D
(Man Google is fast!!)
Yep, Google sees all.
All hail the Internets!
Can't find anything much about Hummingbirds. Perhaps there aren't any in Australian zoos, but that'd be hard to believe. Also, zoos seem to have really, really useless websites.
I have a feeling your best options are going to be either a trip overseas or to Magnetic Island for the Olive Backed Sunbirds (AFAIK, the closest Australia has to hummingbirds). Still, will be interesting to see what Zoo Chat turns up!
If you wanted Peacocks, there's some at the Coolendel campground near Nowra. Not quite the same thing
, but still quite impressive. Not caged either (or at least they weren't when I was last there).
Yeah, specifically looking for bee hummingbirds - super, super small, and a photography challenge. Plus super cute!
Sorry but if you want to see a Bee Hummingbird the worlds smallest bird your probably going to have to go to Cuba !
Humming birds are on my bucket list there are hundreds of different types found all over North and south America at different times of the year the only references I can find on Bee Hummingbirds (the one's I also most want to see ) are In cuba .
from what I have read they do not do well in captivity.
A "friend" has been in Texas for most of the year and has some photos of Hummingbirds sitting on his finger, his wife told mine that the reason he hasn't sent me the photos is that he wants to see the look on my face when he shows them to me , B-------d !
Hummingbirds are confined to the Americas. The closest things we have to hummingbirds are Olive-backed Sunbirds and some honeyeaters capable of hovering e.g. Eastern Spinebill.
also these, as seen here in one of my favourite internet posts
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=137863
here is another good read:
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=27030
Cuba, hey? One for the bucket list? :)
@zosterops - it's amazing when a moth can be mistaken for a bird, huh? And I'm sure not a few bee hummingbirds would have been mistaken for moths too!