male Asian fairy bluebird (Irena puella)

With a name like Irena you'd have thought this would be the female!

And puella is Latin for girl
... but of course that's not quite how taxonomy works.

Male Asian fairy bluebird

Quite a lot of us FBBirds are actually male.

Ohhhhhhhhhh, is that what the FB stands for?

Male Asian Fairy.....

I saw the abbreviation in a zoo's daily records, thought 'I'll have that'. Stunning birds also, a privilege to work with, or even share the planet with.