Possibly less familiar birds

[Les Olson]

Helmeted Friarbird, Philemon buceroides. Common in dry forest around the tropical Australian and Indonesian coast, relatively large (about 40 cm) and with a variety of raucous calls that are a feature of the tropical dawn.

Olive-backed Sunbird, Cinnyris jugularis; female. A tiny (10cm) mainly nectar eating bird - in this case nectar of the Umbrella Tree, Schefflera actinophylla - native here but a weed in many areas outside its original home.

Both Z50II with 28-400 @400mm with cropping. Bird recognition works quite well on the Z50II. 

[Bent Hjarbo]

Nice, it shows the capacity of the Z50ii.

[ColinM]

Thanks for these Les
The second one , Olive-backed Sunbird, is a wonderful reminder that it's not winter in certain parts of the world

[Les Olson]

Thank you. The combination of the Z50II and the 28-400 is outstanding. f/8 over a lot of the range sounds like a problem, but these were at ISO 1600 and I didn't do any noise reduction in post. People want a Z mount D500, but I couldn't do this with the d500 and the 200-500/5.6 hand-held.

[Les Olson]

Thanks for these Les
The second one , Olive-backed Sunbird, is a wonderful reminder that it's not winter in certain parts of the world

Thank you. One of the distinctive things about Australian flowering trees and shrubs is that they flower more or less randomly throughout the year, so, blossom and nectar eating birds and mammals are much more numerous and bigger than in parts of the world where you only get flowers in spring. At night the "flying foxes" - 40 cm fruit and blossom eating bats - come and eat the flowers as well.