Stand-out colours and wonderful composition. I can't find reference to the source of the common name. It might be indicative that, of the closely-related Birdflower (same genus) it is written that "its green flowers resemble a bird attached by its beak to the central stalk of the flowerhead" http://www.australian-aridlands-botanic-garden.org/general/plants/p_spec/rbf.htm).