Chestnut-headed tiger
(Editor/Xinyuan Photo/Text/Dalian Jinzhong)
Chung Tian Yi (net name Dalian Jinzhong)
He is a member of the China Photographers Club
He is a member of the Chinese Folklore Photography Association
He is a member of Liaoning Province and Dalian Photographers Association
He is a member of Dalian Overseas Chinese Photography Association
He is the moderator, senior photographer, special photographer and international nature photographer of "China Ecological Photography Network", "Bird Network", "Bird Shooter Network", "Bird Friends Online", "Huayu Ecological Network", "Light and Shadow China", senior photographer, special photographer and international nature photographer. Many of his works have been published in many magazines, "Today's Headlines", "China Pictorial" and photography clubs.
Hummingbirds – Ornithischians, a family of Buddhist monks, consisting of three genera and twenty-six species. Medium-sized, with a slender, curved mouth, pointed apex, moderate wing length, short legs, and some species have streamers on the tail. The plumage is bright, the sexes are similar, and the young birds resemble adult birds. It lives in hilly woodlands near villages; arboreal; feeds on flying insects in the air, especially bees; digs tunnels in mountainous soil walls as a nest; is ovoidally rounded and white. It is named after the bee-eating insects.
It is found in mountainous or hilly areas, meadows or hillsides, valleys, rivers, villages and other forest trees in the middle or canopy. It inhabits overhanging rocks, steep slopes and river valleys where trees grow at the foot of mountains and open plains, and sometimes in plains jungles, shrublands, and even reed swamps in winter.
Bee tigers are typical forest birds. Individual, paired, or group activities. It flies and feeds among the branches and leaves of the canopy and in the flower bushes. When resting, it often perchs at the top of high branches. Take-off often takes off from the top of the tree, and then slides down in an arc, or hovers back over the canopy of the tree, and shouts as it flies.
Flying in the air most of the day, flying straight and fast, with wings flapping rapidly, sometimes accompanied by gliding. Sometimes he enters cottages, in front of houses and in orchards, and rests on power lines, dead branches or shrubs.
The bee tiger is agile and good at preying on the fly, but the food varies according to the location and season, in addition to the bees, it also preys on insects such as elephant beetles, elm poisons, dragonflies, termites, butterflies and crustaceans.
Each clutch lays 5-6 eggs, white with a slight pink color, about 26×22 mm in size, and the ovate shape is very spherical. The incubation period is 20 days, and the male and female take turns to take care of nesting, egg incubation and brooding tasks. The chicks are late-growing.
The above works were all photographed in Sri Lanka and Malaysia.