Camilla! Where are you?

A Yellow-eared Bulbul is searching for its mate

“Camilla! Where have you got to now? I’ve got that fruit you were looking for. Why is it so difficult to find her? Surely it can’t be that hard to sight a bird with olive upperparts, yellowish underparts, yellow ear tufts, white tufts in front of the eye and a white throat? Hmmm, that’s an accurate description of me too. I guess we males and females do look alike. Never thought of it until just now. I wonder what happened to her? We aren’t the solitary types, we always travel as a pair.”

Fun Facts

“Camilla! There you are! I was so worried. Oh you heard the flock calling because they found a whole bunch of berry bushes. That’s great! Maybe we should make our nest in that area? As long as there’s plenty of moss, fine ferns and rootlets there, it would be quite easy to make a nest to hold our two babies. What was that? There’s plenty of insects and wild yellow raspberries too? Hooray, we hit the jackpot! Let’s go love, I’ll follow you.”

Story of the Photo

Visitors to Explorer by Eco Team in the Sinharaja Rain Forest are always stunned at the immense amount of birdlife found there. The Yellow-eared Bulbul is easily found here as it prefers the high altitude of the forest as well as its plentiful food sources. Dilum got this shot whilst taking a walk around the campsite.