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Another Endemic Amazona

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Vincent Parrot began in the 1980s and have continued into the present. Sure enough, parrots were slowly awakening. Vincent Parrots gave us our first decent – albeit fleeting – view. Vincent Parrots are vividly plumaged, even for parrots. Vincent Parrot ! On the volcanic island of St.

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Yet Another New Backyard

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Orange-winged Parrots may be abundant elsewhere, but here their presence is wholly overshadowed by a tremendous mixed flock of Crested Oropendola and Yellow-rumped Cacique. Swifts are aplenty, one is likely to see Gray-rumped , Band-rumped , or Short-tailed Swift hunting insects each morning.

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Post Apocalyptic Steampunk Birding

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Noisy Yellow-crowned Parrots indicated that it was time to stop the car and get out. These large parrots are popular in the pet trade, and that’s a likely source of the population of this species on Trinidad. The subtle white edging to the gape of this bird indicates it is near breeding time. Yellow-crowned Parrot.

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A few Barbets

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Might have something to do with the fact that they were hunted here until quite recently). T he Blue-throated Barbet (Xishuangbanna and Baihualing, Yunnan, China) is probably the barbet species that is the easiest to see in Southern China.

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To Tick or Not to Tick – Exotic Birding in Miami

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The USA’s only truly indigenous parrot was wiped out by a combination of factors, although direct persecution through hunting seems to have been the major contributor. Today, if you want to see parrots in the USA you need look no further than Miami. But its not just parrots that are doing well in their adopted city.

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Survival of the Flexible

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But birds have a certain amount of flexibility buil in as well, which is very apparent in some of the smarter birds, like crows and parrots, but can still be present in other birds too. Most birds will follow a set group of behaviours, building a nest a certain way, courting a certain way, eating a certain set of food.

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Do birds avoid predators because of culture?

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In particular, birds that hang around with humans who don’t happen to hunt or eat them can become very tame. But, if you capture wild birds (to make them pets) then breed them through one generation and they get out, they are bad at avoiding predators. Presumably the humans keep away the predators.

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