{"id":4405,"date":"2012-02-14T17:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T00:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=4405"},"modified":"2025-09-08T10:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:17:07","slug":"bananaquit-in-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2012\/02\/14\/bananaquit-in-the-bahamas\/","title":{"rendered":"Bananaquit In The Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been fortunate to travel to many beautiful locations in my life and I have been tickled to photograph birds on some of those places. I photographed this adult Bananaquit while on the island of Half Moon Cay in the Bahamas.<\/p>\n

The island was full of these birds.<\/p>\n

\"Back Bananaquit (Corereba flaveola) –\u00a0<\/strong> Nikon D200, handheld, f8, 1\/500, ISO 250, Nikkor 80-400mm VR at 400mm<\/span><\/p>\n

There were literally hundreds of \u00a0Bananaquits on the island but it was difficult to find them out in the open and to isolate just one bird. I was walking on a sandy path when I spotted this bird but it was behind a shrub.<\/p>\n

Because I really wanted a photo of it so very slowly I pushed my lens through the shrub in front of me.<\/p>\n

Luckily the Bananaquit was busy looking at something else and not at me so I was able to get just this one image before it flew away.<\/p>\n

Bananaquits have been recorded as rare visitors to Florida, one was recorded at Fort De Soto County Park.<\/p>\n

Bananaquits<\/span><\/a> use their curved bill to take nectar from flowers and they use it to pierce fruits to feed on the juices.<\/p>\n

They\u00a0are also called\u00a0the “Sugar Bird” because they will readily come to feed at a simple bowl of granulated sugar.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Bananaquit photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I photographed this adult Bananaquit while on the island of Half Moon Cay in the Bahamas. The island was full of these birds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1228,1225],"tags":[4004,4306,4304,4021,4083,4303,2217,4104,6188,5098,16732,373],"class_list":["post-4405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bahamas","category-bananaquits","tag-adult","tag-bahamas","tag-bananaquit","tag-bird-photography","tag-birding","tag-corereba-flaveola","tag-flowers","tag-perched","tag-shrub","tag-sugar-bird","tag-tropical-island","tag-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t