10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2015

Put those binoculars into practice in places like Laguna del Lagarto , the Sarapiqui area, and the Osa Peninsula, and a day of birding might include three trogon species, two to three toucan species, several wrens, manakins, parrots, five or more woodcreeper species, etc., and the list goes on… You might see a White-ruffed Manakin.

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Costa Rica Birds Texas Cattle 175

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

Other areas of New York City where the parakeets were seen in 1970 included the upper East side of Manhattan, Great Kills, Staten Island, Ellis Island and the area around the Statue of Liberty. Monk Parakeet is the only parrot species that builds its own nest. There are a lot of pet psittacines out there that escape or are released.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

After bashing it on a branch to kill it, it did finally get it swallowed. Some of the highlights for here include my first Toucan, a Keel-billed Toucan, and the later in the day, a Collared Aracari. I had hoped to find the Sunbittern and the Sungrebes on this leg. Oh well, one out of two with this awesome Sungrebe.

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Costa Rica Tigers San Jose Woodpeckers 115

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2011

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. That said there is nothing to suggest that the Black-footed Albatross actually killed the Laysan, there was no shortage of already dead chicks around.

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Albatross Hawaii Seals Parrots 184

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2013

Anyone with more than a couple of hours to kill could easily make a quick birding foray out from the airport. Check the tops of the palms for Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot and watch for White-breasted Kingfishers on any prominent feature. Spotted Wood-owl. An island hosts the orchestra stage and some towering palms. Olive-backed Sunbird.

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Singapore Woodpeckers Parrots Zebras 161

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2022

Blog readers sharing their house with a noisy teenager may consider replacing him or her with a Brown-headed Parrot , given this statement on a pet website : “Brown-Headed Parrot boasts another very desirable trait – these are very quiet parrots! They are great for apartment settings.

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Ostriches Parrots Birds Eggs 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2022

If I was so inclined, I might think that they deserve to be killed by Pied Currawongs for their sinful behavior. This is what killed James Dean. ” Of course, as a certified cat person, I was delighted to see a Green Catbird near Brisbane. .” ” ( source ).

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Birds Australia Ducks Mountain Goats 242

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2011

They are rock stars in their family (or group of families, depending on what taxonomists have been smoking lately), a family that includes Scarlet Macaws , Crimson Shining-parrots , Golden Parakeets and Rainbow Lorikeets , and that is no mean feat. Part of it is because they are parrots, and most people really like parrots.

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New Zealand Parrots Sanctuary Family 189

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Formerly described in 1811 by Johann Matthäus Bechstein, the Cuban Macaw was a primarily red, long-tailed parrot with beautiful orange feathering around the nape and blue feathering on the wings and tail. This bird was in serious trouble by the mid-19th century due to the adults being killed for food and young being taken for pets.

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Cuba Parrots Collecting Columbus 252

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

So do parrots, some songbirds, humans, and a few other mammals. Seriema at the deepest branch of Australaves could be considered to belong to a raptorial taxon because they kill vertebrate prey and are the sole living relatives of the extinct giant “terror birds,” apex predators during the Paleogene. Where do these abilities come from?

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Family Birds Parrots 2014 279

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2016

In her book, “ On a Wing and a Prayer, “ Sarah Woods describes the bird that captured her interest when she first visited Panama: “At more than one metre tall and able to kill a monkey with a single swipe of its powerful, knife-like talons, [H]arpy [E]agles are incredibly hard to find.”

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Panama Grizzly Bear Porcupines Eagles 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

They act as farmers, eating the lerp produced by the insects on the tree without killing the bugs themselves. From a camouflage point of view, the color of the Scaly-breasted Lorikeet makes a bit more sense than that of some other Australian parrots. It feeds mainly on nectar.

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Birds Pelicans Falcons Parrots 196

10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2014

Well, Copenhagen Zoo is back in the news; a few weeks after killing a giraffe and feeding it to some lions, it went and killed some of those same lions. If the whole thing passed you by then Mother Jones did a good piece on why zoos sometimes have to kill individuals for the good of the species.

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Lions Giraffes Zoos Killing 150

10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2018

Emus roam the open areas, and surprisingly, various parrots, lorikeets or cockatoos can be found in most any major grove of trees. This Wedge-tailed Eagle was sitting along side one of the roads, eyeing a small road killed Kangaroo. But the diversity, that I have found to be Australia, remains.

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Australia Camels Kangaroos Hunting 117

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

They are also threatened by cultural beliefs that lead to killing them because they’re seen as harbingers of death and bad luck. Unlike some of her previous subjects–Ravens, Kea Parrots, Satin Bowerbirds–owls don’t do much. They are also hunted.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 224

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

As keen birdwatchers, who just happened to have found the Night Parrots in Western Australia, they were keen to look for the Fairy Pitta at first light the next day. Sadly it had recently been killed and was lying in the garden bed beside the path. Then as we moved forward Grant spotted the Fairy Pitta. They were also devastated.

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Australia Litter Geese Cats 122

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2012

There is a painfully bad song called “Drunk Bird Watching” on You Tube but the only “bird” seems to be someone saying “hello” like a caged parrot. … This post was originally published on 16 March 2010, but we hate to keep posts this good buried in the archives !

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Birds illegal Parrots 2010 262

10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2015

He meant well, but his research told him to feed them Exact parrot formula – which is NOT a diet for ravens. We released live mice into the flight so they could learn to catch and kill live prey. The caller had three baby ravens from a nest he was ordered to remove and destroy at work.

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Raised Mice Wildlife Rehabilitation Squirrels 241

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

We miss them all: the parrots, the pigeons, the moas and titan-hawks and stilt-owls and myriads of endlessly exotic avifauna we will never ever know again as they were when they graced this Earth. The Mysterious Starling – “Killed Hopping About in a Tree”. How many have we lost, have we never even known? Comebackers. 314 U.S.

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Marsupials Costa Rica Elephants Cuba 173

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2024

He subsequently leaves for Peru and gets kidnapped and killed by Sendero Luminoso – the local brand of Maoists. Long-toed Lapwing , Ashy Tit , Black-backed Cisticola , Lizard Buzzard , Meyer’s Parrot and Southern Black Tit were just some of my rewards (these were my lifers that day). It’s such a great place for birds.

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Mozambique Birds Ghana Namibia 231

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2014

So, for the Caracaras and Falcons family (photograph, American Kestrel), we learn, amongst other things, that the feet and toes of falcons “are not designed for killing prey, but for grabbing and holding it immobile”, that eastern migrants will “often fly in wind conditions unfavorable to other migrating raptors,” that recent (..)

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North America America Birds Family 178

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Australian King-Parrot – Alisterus scapularis. Turquoise-fronted Parrot – Amazona aestiva. Brown-headed Parrot – Poicephalus cryptoxanthus. Double-eyed Fig-Parrot – Cyclopsitta diophthalma. White-fronted Parrot – Amazona albifrons. Mulga Parrot – Psephotus varius.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Sparrows 113

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Australian King-Parrot – Alisterus scapularis. Turquoise-fronted Parrot – Amazona aestiva. Brown-headed Parrot – Poicephalus cryptoxanthus. Double-eyed Fig-Parrot – Cyclopsitta diophthalma. White-fronted Parrot – Amazona albifrons. Mulga Parrot – Psephotus varius.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Los Angeles 113

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2019

301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). Australian King-Parrot – Alisterus scapularis. Red-winged Parrot – Aprosmictus erythropterus. Blue-winged Parrot – Neophema chrysostoma. Elegant Parrot – Neophema elegans. Rock Parrot – Neophema petrophila.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Sparrows 113

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2018

301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). Australian King-Parrot – Alisterus scapularis. Red-winged Parrot – Aprosmictus erythropterus. Blue-winged Parrot – Neophema chrysostoma. Elegant Parrot – Neophema elegans. Rock Parrot – Neophema petrophila.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Sparrows 113

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2018

301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). Red-winged Parrot – Aprosmictus erythropterus. Blue-winged Parrot – Neophema chrysostoma. Elegant Parrot – Neophema elegans. Rock Parrot – Neophema petrophila. Mulga Parrot – Psephotus varius. Western Australia.

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2018 Australia Los Angeles Albatross 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2018

Brown-headed Parrot – Poicephalus cryptoxanthus. Double-eyed Fig-Parrot – Cyclopsitta diophthalma. White-fronted Parrot – Amazona albifrons. Mulga Parrot – Psephotus varius. Blue-winged Parrot – Neophema chrysostoma. 301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573).

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Los Angeles 101

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2018

301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). Red-winged Parrot – Aprosmictus erythropterus. Blue-winged Parrot – Neophema chrysostoma. Elegant Parrot – Neophema elegans. Rock Parrot – Neophema petrophila. Mulga Parrot – Psephotus varius. Western Australia.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Los Angeles 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2018

301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). Red-winged Parrot – Aprosmictus erythropterus. Blue-winged Parrot – Neophema chrysostoma. Elegant Parrot – Neophema elegans. Rock Parrot – Neophema petrophila. Red-capped Parrot – Purpureicephalus spurius.

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2018 Australia Los Angeles Albatross 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2024

Her teacher is assumed to have been a very young Edgar Lear, who learned the art because he wanted to produce his own book on parrots and who also did illustrations for John Gould. Elizabeth’s watercolor of the Australian Mulga Parrot, for example, was used as the basis for H.C. Issues of authorship are also explored.

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Australia Birds Europe Collecting 202

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2012

It’s easy to observe this attachment behavior in parrots, especially pets. But any mention of affection or “love” in parrots must include that other, unwelcome element: jealousy. But any mention of affection or “love” in parrots must include that other, unwelcome element: jealousy. I know one thing.

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Birds Parrots 2003 Raised 273

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Pros – it can kill you (like most proper Australian animals), is essentially a dinosaur. This awesome bird actually tried to kill me. Pros – an attractive parrot found over most of Australia, is generally popular. Cons – is almost extinct. I’m not even joking.

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Australia Chickens Birds Seals 183

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Brown-headed Parrot – Poicephalus cryptoxanthus. Double-eyed Fig-Parrot – Cyclopsitta diophthalma. White-fronted Parrot – Amazona albifrons. Mulga Parrot – Psephotus varius. Blue-winged Parrot – Neophema chrysostoma. 301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573).

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Los Angeles 100