Photographer Captures Tiny Bird Using A Flower Petal As Her Bathtub

 “This was really a once-in-a-lifetime moment.” Rahul Singh is a wildlife photographer that has managed to a lot of amazing shots with a wide range of different animal species. These include elephants, deer, jackals, monkeys and rhinos. As beautiful as these may be, his real passion is capturing photos of colorful birds he can find nesting in his home city.

Wildlife photographer Rahul Singh has managed to a lot of amazing shots with a wide range of different animal species. These include elephants, deer, jackals, monkeys and rhinos. As beautiful as these may be, his real passion is capturing photos of colorful birds he can find nesting in his home city. This is the moment that left him stunned.

"I visited a place where there were bushes of these ornamental bananas to take photos of sunbirds sucking nectar from it." "Everything was going as usual when, suddenly, I was shocked that the crimson sunbird started taking a bath in the water stored in the banana flower petal." The red petaled flower in these photos is called the banana flower, and it collected water from the early morning drizzle in one of its petals.

The tiny crimson sunbird, which only stretches to 4 inches long made the most of the opportunity to cool down on a hot day. After filling up on nectar, the mini songbird cooled down in the petal 'bathtub'. This was a once in a lifetime moment for Rahul, in all his years of bird watching, he had never seen anything like it.

"I was literally stunned to see this unusual behavior, I kept my camera's shutter button pressed as the bird took her bath." Rahul then posted the photos onto his Instagram. He was clearly ecstatic to have been at the right place at the right time to capture this magical moment. "This was really a once-in-a-lifetime moment," said Rahul. "It's amazing how nature can surprise us." Images credit: instagram.com/rahulsinghclicks

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Scientists Have Found A Rare Half-Male, Half-Female Songbird

(CNN)It may not be one in a million, but it's pretty close.

Researchers have discovered a rare songbird that is male on one side of its body, and female on the other.

It's being described as a "once in a lifetime" discovery.

The last time the Powdermill Nature Reserve at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History found another was 15 years ago, and it's only the fifth to be discovered out of the nearly 800,000 birds that the nature reserve has seen.

To read more on this story, click here: Scientists Have Found A Rare Half-Male, Half-Female Songbird

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Canaries: These Songbirds are a Top Choice for Bird Owners

Canaries have perhaps the sweetest song of any creature on Earth. These small, puffy birds are welcome tenants at any home, whether you live in a house or an apartment. It will take your canary some time to polish his voice — these birds, like people, get better with practice.

To read more on this story, click here: Canaries: These Songbirds are a Top Choice for Bird Owners

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A Fountain Valley Man Has Been Sentenced for Smuggling 93 Songbirds from Vietnam, Only Eight Survive

Fountain Valley, California – A  man was sentenced today to six months in home detention, followed by a year behind bars, for smuggling nearly 100 tiny “good luck” songbirds — most of which died in transit — in his luggage on a flight from Vietnam.

Kurtis Law brought 93 of the colorful birds — worth an estimated $90,000 on the black market in the Southland — into the country on March 24. Investigators who searched his luggage at Los Angeles International Airport determined that the birds were at risk of extinction and were protected under the federal Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.

According to court documents, songbirds can be purchased in Southeast Asia for $1 or $2 each, but fetch as much as $1,000 apiece in the United States. The protected birds found in Law’s luggage were Bali myna, Chinese hwamei, red-billed leiothrix and silver-eared mesia. Such species are sold illegally at some Chinese markets in Southern California and are thought to bring good luck.

Prosecutors said the birds were individually wrapped and placed in Law’s suitcases under “horrific conditions” in a way “that allowed each bird little or no movement.”

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