Birds Of The World

Toucans, family Ramphastidae

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Toucans, tucancitos, and arasaríes are studied in Ramphastidae family. These birds are native to the Americas and most live in tropical forests. The location extends from southern Mexico to northern Argentina. At arasaríes also seen to be called toucan-tilingo

All members of this family have long, thick beak. Despite its rugged appearance, the peak is very light weight. Not being any disruption to the flight, and although they look a little awkward when you see them flying in the bush, do so with great skill.

The peak, as pens, is different and attractive colors. The legs are strong and spend the most time perched in trees. The diet is based mainly on fruits, being supplemented with insects and small animals, including other birds and their eggs.

The nest is made in holes in trees. Do not add any material to the nest, lay eggs in the bottom of the hole. Little is known of breeding birds, those that have been studied, the clutch is two to four white eggs.

Hummingbirds, Family Trochilidae

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Among the Hummingbirds (Family Trochilidae) are the smallest birds in the world. Some are the size of small birds like canaries; some are even smaller than the birds. The variety of colors in these little birds, and its brilliance, is unique among birds.

Besides its small size and beautiful colors are distinguished by how fast they move their wings so rapidly that they often do not see. And they can fly in all directions, forwards and other birds, or backward, or up, or down, or where they want to go, to make matters worse, you can keep the air in one place, do something like helicopters.

Hummingbirds feed on nectar, which obtained by introducing their long beaks into the flowers. All are endemic to the Americas. The species are more varied and numerous in the tropics but can be found from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego.

Pelecanus conspicillatus, Australian Pelican.

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Distribution: Spectacled Pelican, or Pelican Australian, is a native of Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea and some islands of Indonesia. Some go to New Zealand. It is considered common.

Habitat: Except for the deserts in Australia can be found everywhere where there is freshwater, brackish or salt.

Habits: He looks lonely and in large flocks. It rests on the sand banks.

Description: does length of 1.5 to 1.9 meters. The usual weight is 3.3 to 5.9 kilograms, the maximum being 8.2 kg. The wings reach a wingspan of 2.4 to 3.4 meters. The pouch under the beak can hold up to 13 liters.

The predominantly white in the plumage of the pelican, except for the wings, top and back of the body and tail.

Nesting: Nests in colonies. The nest is rudimentary; they do in high vegetation and soil. The usual clutch has two dull white eggs, but may be one to four. Incubation takes 32 to 35 days, being done by both parents.

Longevity: In nature is estimated longevity of 25 years.

Food: Like the other pelicans, pelican feeding mainly on fish glasses is supplemented with small crustaceans. The pelican uses the method to other white pelicans fish. A group of them formed a semicircle scaring the fish where they can round up and then catch.

Other names: The Glasses Pelican also called Australian Pelican. In English it is known by Australian Pelican.

Penguins

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INTRODUCTION:

Penguins are birds. There are "birds", but are definitely birds because they have feathers. Perhaps more surprising to some people is that despite spending the most time in the water and cannot fly through the air like many other birds, they are birds of flight.

Some species of penguins are kept most of the time swimming in the ocean far from land, which creates some difficulty for us to see them. Fortunately, during the breeding season come ashore to nest and raise their young. After the nesting and return to the sea shortly after returning to earth again, or a floating ice floe for a couple of weeks to molt their feathers. It is during these breaks out of the water when we can see well.

DISTRIBUTION:

Penguins live in the Southern Hemisphere. These birds are pelagic and remain the most of the year swimming in cold water temperatures under 20 ° C, except for the Galapagos penguin that lives in water of about 23 ° C.

Several species nest in Antarctica and nearby islands, the Emperor Penguin so during the austral winter. Others prefer to breed in South America, Falkland Islands, Argentina, Chile, Peru and the Galapagos penguin in these islands of Ecuador. Others go to Africa, nestling in the south of the continent, Namibia and South Africa. The remaining nests in New Zealand and southern Australia and smaller islands south of these localities.

ADAPTATION TO THE ENVIRONMENT:

Not only are the penguin sea birds, most fish in Antarctic waters of the Southern Hemisphere oceans. Many of them swimming in near-freezing waters where people cannot swim without protection against the cold, we can enter these waters and give a few strokes, but our bodies will not last long enough to say that we have swum.

These birds may remain in these cold water most of the time because your body has evolved to live in this environment. The wings have become flippers them, unable to fly in the air, but in the water. Yes, the penguins swim fins exert the same way they do the other birds keeled when they fly, which is why some zoologists considered among the most effective bird flight. The feathers form a rigid body on the outside but soft and warm on the inside, something like wadding coats inside and the outside shell.

As if the protections of the feathers off, under the skin have a thick layer of fat. This fat was because many penguins were killed by the sailors who were engaged in killing whales and other animals for oil and animal fat. Luckily this does not happen.

Other specializations of the Penguins are to compact bone. In the other bones of flying birds, though stiff, are not solid, are hollow cavities. Penguins having no such cavities bones weigh more, and this helps them stay under the water surface more easily. As a counterweight to the fat of the skin that floats.

OTHER ADJUSTMENTS:

The peak I have long, in some species is well pointed. As they feed on fish, squid, crustaceans, krill (the Antarctic shrimp) and other marine animals, the peak shape helps them catch prey. It also serves as defense. If you see a penguin in difficulty, be very careful if required to approach him to help. Some species, even those that appear to be completely harmless, we can start a strip of skin of a sting. The fins are also dangerous, the Emperor Penguin can pump up from one leg to a man, and there have been cases.

LOCOMOTION:

They have legs in the back of the body and the earth can walk and even run faster than us. They walk so upright; sometimes stagger when walking as do the ducks. At least one species, the Rock hopper Penguin, moved by giving land jumping. Also slide on the snow as slides.

As in most of the birds, on each leg have four fingers. Three front toes and one is later. The hind toe is small and is kept separate. The three forwards are long, thick and are joined by a webbing.

When swimming exercises their wings as they do other birds in flight, this action produces the force required to move. The legs and tail length varies according to species, used as a rudder.

REPRODUCTION:

Most penguins nest once a year. Usually form colonies where they congregate to millions. Both parents care for the chicks. The Emperor Penguin breeding during the austral winter in Antarctica, incubating the egg between its legs in temperatures of 40 º C below zero.

PREDATORS:

Penguins are hunted by leopard seals, sharks and orcas occasions. Eggs and chicks are often victims of the skies, gulls, ibis, foxes, lizards and snakes, depending where you are to the colony.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SPECIES:

All penguins are studied in order Sphenisciformes Spheniscidae family, but within this family is not all penguins are the same species are actually quite different in form and behavior. Vary in size from the Penguin Small, who fails the feet and weighs just over a kilogram, to Emperor Penguin which exceeds one meter high and can weigh up to 45 kg with respect to habitat, the Galapagos penguin lives in a warm area while the Adelie penguin, and others, rarely leaves the Antarctic region. However, drastic differences are found in the nest. As mentioned, the breeding of the Emperor Penguin is very peculiar, though the King Penguin is perhaps even more intriguing, and the rest of the penguins, well, this is one of the topics discussed in the species.

The Gouldian Finch

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Both sexes are brightly coloured with black, green, yellow, red and other colours. The females tend to be less brightly coloured. One major difference between the sexes is that the male's chest is purple, while the female's is a lighter mauve colour.

ldian Finches are about 130–140 mm long. Gouldian Finches' heads may be red, black, or yellow. People used to think they were three different kinds of finches, but now it is known that they are colour variants that exist in the wild.[1] Selective breeding has also developed mutations (blue, yellow and silver instead of green back) in body colour and breast colour.

Juveniles have distinctive colours. Their heads, sides and necks are grey, and their backs, wings and tail feathers are olive green. Their undersides are pale brown. Beaks are blackish with a reddish tip. Their legs and feet are light brown. Newly hatched Gouldian finches are pink and naked until about 12 days old when the beginnings of feathers start to appear. Very young birds also have blue, phosphorescent beads on the sides of their beaks to help their parents see them in the dark.

Rose-ringed Parakeet

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The Rose-ringed Parakeet (Psittacula krameri), also known as the Ringnecked Parakeet, is a gregarious tropical parakeet species that is popular as a pet. Its scientific name commemorates the Austrian naturalist Wilhelm Heinrich Kramer.

This non-migrating species is one of few parrot species that have successfully adapted to living in 'disturbed habitats', and in that way withstood the onslaught of urbanisation and deforestation. In the wild, this is a noisy species with an unmistakable squawking call.

As is the case with all Psittacula (Afro-Asian Ringnecked Parakeet) species, the Rose-ringed Parakeet is sexually dimorphic. The adult male sports a black neck-ring and pink nape-band while the hen and immature birds of both sexes either show no neck rings, or display shadow-like pale to dark grey neck-rings and light (lighter coloured than surroundings) nape-bands.

Eastern Rosella

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Description

The bird is around 30 cm long, with a red head and upper breast and white cheeks. The rest of the breast is yellow becoming more greenish toward the abdomen. The feathers of the back and shoulders are black with yellowish margins, giving rise to a scalloped appearance. The wings and lateral tail feathers are bluish while the rest of the tail is dark green. The female is similar to the male though duller in colouration.

The Eastern Rosella is found in lightly wooded country. It eats grass seeds and fruits. Breeding occurs in spring and early summer and up to seven white eggs are laid in tree hollows.

Rose-Breasted Cockatoo - Galah- Eolophus roseicapilla

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Description

Galahs are about 35 cm (14 in) long. They have a pale grey to mid-grey back, a pink face and chest, and a light pink crest. The sexes appear similar, however generally adult birds differ in eye colour; the male has a very dark brown (almost black) iris, and the female has a mid-brown/red iris. Typical birds are about 350 mm long and weigh between 300 and 400 grams.

Distribution and habitat

Galahs are found in all Australian states, and are absent only from the driest areas and the far north of Cape York Peninsula. They appear to have been self-introduced to Tasmania. They are common in some metropolitan areas, for example Perth and Melbourne, and common to abundant in open habitats which offer at least some scattered trees for shelter. The changes wrought by European settlement, a disaster for many species, have been highly beneficial for the galah because of the clearing of forests in fertile areas and the provision of stock watering points in arid zones.

Rainbow Lorikeet- trichoglossus haematodus

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The Rainbow Lorikeet, Trichoglossus haematodus is a species of Australasian parrot found in Australia, eastern Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. In Australia, it is common along the eastern seaboard, from Queensland to South Australia and northwest Tasmania. Its habitat is rainforest, coastal bush and woodland areas. The taxonomy is disputed, and it is often split into several species (see Taxonomy).

Rainbow Lorikeets have been introduced to Perth, Western Australia,[2] Auckland, New Zealand[3] and Hong Kong.[4]

Description

The Rainbow Lorikeet is very colourful. Almost every colour of the rainbow is found on the feathers of the rainbow lorikeet. They are not large birds, with a Rainbow Lorikeets length ranging from 25-30 cm (9.8-11.8 in) in size, and with a wingspan of about 17 cm (6.7 in). They vary significantly in colouration between the numerous subspecies. Their markings of the best known subspecies T. h. moluccanus are particularly striking: A dark blue or violet-blue head and stomach, a bright green back, tail and vent, and an orange breast and beak. Several subspecies have darker scalloped markings across the orange or red breast and the Weber's Lorikeet (T. h. weberi) is predominantly green.
Rainbow Lorikeet feather — photo shows both sides of the same feather

Rainbow Lorikeets travel together as pairs mostly and often pick up calls to fly as a flock, then dispersing again into pairs. Rainbow Lorikeet pairs defend their feeding and nesting areas aggressively against other Rainbow Lorikeets, and other bird species. They chase off not only smaller birds such as the Noisy Miner, but also larger and more powerful birds such as the Australian Magpie.

Although individual Rainbow Lorikeets are difficult to distinguish by their plumage they are possible to distinguish by their behaviour, size and eye colour differences at the very outside of the iris.

Victoria Crowned Pigeon

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Victoria Crowned Pigeon

The Victoria Crowned Pigeon, Goura victoria, is a large, approximately 74cm (29 in) long and weighing up to 2.5 kg (5.5 lb), bluish-grey pigeon with elegant blue lace-like crests, maroon breast and red iris. The bird may be easily recognized by the unique white tips on its crests. Both sexes are similar.

One of three superficially similar species of crowned pigeons (the others being the Western Crowned Pigeon and the Southern Crowned Pigeon), the Victoria Crowned Pigeon is distributed in the lowland and swamp forests of northern New Guinea and surrounding islands. Its diet consists mainly of fruits, figs, seeds and invertebrates. The female usually lays a single white egg.

The name commemorates the British monarch, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

There are two subspecies of the Victoria Crowned Pigeon, Goura victoria victoria, the nominate race is the smaller of the two supspecies and can be found in Yapen, Biak & Supiori. Goura victoria beccarii is found on the mainland of New Guinea

Due to continuing habitat loss, being tame and easily hunted for its plumes and meat, the Victoria Crowned Pigeon is evaluated as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is listed in Appendix II of CITES.

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Turtle dove

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Scientific name: Streptopelia turtur
Family: columbidea.
Length: 11,2 inchs.
Habitat: forests, farmland, parks and urban gardens.
Distribution: Almost all of Europe, east of central Asia, south to north Africa.
ID: Small, blond, red over mottled with dark gray head, chest and belly pinkish white. Dark flight feathers, white-black stain on both sides of the neck.

Small size, the turtle dove common in the past was much more common but their population has declined sharply in recent years and is now an endangered species in some places go during the summer, as the Iberian Peninsula. Among the possible causes of its decline are changes linked to agriculture, hunting and the pressure of an invasive species, the Turkish turtledove, whose populations appear to have prospered during the last decades at the expense of it.
The Dove hibernate common in North Africa and on their way back to Europe, while the males begin the stops in flight as a wedding claims, with characteristic lullabies, posados in trees and hedges.
The nest, built with sticks and fragile appearance, is situated on the lower branches of trees or on top of a fence. Both parents incubate the eggs and hatchlings are born to two weeks in the making and develop plumage at three weeks of life.

Short-eared Owl

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Scientific name: Asio flammeus.
Family: Strigidae.
Length: 16 inchs.
Habitat: grasslands, dunes and swamp.
Distribution: Much of North America and South Africa, northern Africa.
ID: mottled brown, with four striking bars in the queue, (((ears))) small and yellow eyes surrounded by a black.

The Short-eared Owl has about (((ears))) very small in the head.
Its appearance is similar to that of the owl guy, but the owl is something larger and have longer wings and thin. In addition, the rustic hunting owl often in broad daylight, flying low over moorland and fen in search of mice, moles, lemmings, birds and amphibians. usually hunt in flight but can also scan their prey inn. During the breeding season nest in a depression in the ground covered with grass, normally sheltered from heather, reeds and grasses. The female lays between four and six eggs that incubate for four weeks and the male is responsible for alementar during that time. The young leave the nest after two weeks of birth but not lifted until the flight 14 days later.

Southern boobook

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Scientific name: Ninox novaeseelandiae.
Family: Strigidae
Length: 33 cm.
Habitat: Different environments, from tropical rainforest to temperate forests open desert scrub, villages and suburban areas.
Distribution: Any Australia, Tasmania and some coastal islands. South of New Guinea.
ID: Upper dark brown, red-brown below the bar and stained white. Eyes big and yellow.

The southern boobook is the smallest nocturnal predator and plentiful in Australia and attend suburban areas, but is primarily nocturnal, but is more common to hear that view, with a sound similar to (((cu-cu))) Cuckoo's . Although it is nocturnal and twilight, it is possible to see it in full this cloudy day. It feeds on insects such as beetles and moths that usually grabs the fly, as well as rodents and lizards that traps in the ground. The Maori norox breeding normally from September to February, nestled in the hollow of a tree that left bare or tapestry with a little vegetation. The female incubated the making, from two to four eggs and the male seeking food. Both parents care for the offspring, leaving the nest to the five or six weeks.

Common Poorwill

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Scientific name: Phalaenoptilus nuttallii.
Family: Caprimulgidae.
Length: 8 inchs.
Habitat: Scrub arid, desert and forest scattered.
Distribution: Western United States. Winters in Mexico.
ID: Small Náttfari, gray and brown feathers and speckled with white spots on the wings of the same color collar and whiskers in its beak.

The Common Poorwill is the smallest member of the family found in North America, and is unique in its ability to overwinter. During periods of shortage in winter looking for a warm place, such as a crevice between rocks, where it enters a state of lethargy, slow breathing and heart rate, and lowers the body temperature from 40 º C. You can remain so for several days or weeks until conditions are more favorable. During the warmer months passed much of the day resting on the floor and just hike the flight to catch flying insects. They also nest in the soil around the month of June, and put two eggs on the ground.

Peregrine Falcon.

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Scientific name: Peregrine Falcon.
Family: Falconidae.
Length: 40-50 cm. man unless the female.
Habitat: open land; tundra, savannah, mountains, moors, orange groves, rocky coastlines and estuaries. Also in urban areas.
Distribution: cosmopolitan, but avoids the jungles and the colder areas of the poles.
ID: Slate Gray above, and PILE bigotera black, white spots on the cheeks and chest. Bottom white, gray bars. Cola dark gray stripes.

The peregrine falcon is a robust and large known for the incredible speed that reaches sharply. The doves and anátidas dams are often more common, but is able to apprehend birds about the size of a heron. A world rises sharply from high altitudes, which can fall into more than 200 mph, a speed that can kill the victim only with the impact. it can also capture birds or inns on the floor, and reptiles, mammals, amphibians and invertebrates large. Although this is almost everywhere in the world and is quite abundant in many areas, this species has suffered in some places a serious setback as a result of poisoning by pesticides. You can nest in buildings in urban areas, but their places are the natural rock ledges or cliffs, where the female makes a small escarbadura. You can also use old nests of other species. The setting is three or four eggs and incubation lasts some 30 days. The female cares for the offspring while the male looking for sustenance, but also leaves game after two or three weeks. Young people just feather to 40 days and two months after emancipation.

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American Bald Eagle.

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Scientific name: Haliaeetus leucocephalus
Family: Accipítridos
Length: 75-105 cm. Male smaller than the female.
Habitat: nearby rivers, lakes and coasts
Distribution: Much of North America to Mexico, but absent in some subarctic regions. Divagante in Russia and northern Europe.
ID: large, unmistakable in appearance, with brown plumage almost everywhere in the body and head, neck and tail whites. Beak and yellow claws.

The American bald eagle, the national emblem of the United States, is present in almost the entire North American continent, but more plentiful in the northern latitudes of Alaska and Canada, where their habitat has suffered less alteration of the hand of man. To inhabit very diverse environments, and in more northern populations tend to migrate in winter from freezing tundra to Mexico. He rarely leaves the water, because their diet consists of fish and other aquatic animals, mainly large fish such as salmon, but can kill anátidas the size of a goose and also catch rodents, rabbits and baby otter. besides hunter not despises carrion and also harassed raptors such as the osprey to snatch their presas.Las couples often use the same nest each year and end up creating a huge structure. Both parents incubated the placing of one to three eggs, for six weeks, and also share the care of offspring.

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Golden Eagle.

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Scientific name: Aquilar chrysaetos.
Family: Accipitridae.
Length: 75-95 cm. Male smaller than the female.
Habitat: mountainous and forested, or open and hilly.
Distribution: Much of North America, Europe, North Africa and Asia.
ID: eagle very large, dark brown plumage with light brown or yellowish around the head and back. yellow beak and claws with black edges.

The Golden Eagle, a rapacious big and powerful, often hunt in rugged and remote areas, which demonstrates their skills portent in flight falls sharply up to 320 km / h. Also hunting at ground level in the same way as the harrier. His basic diet consists of small mammals and reptiles, especially rodents and rabbits, but is capable of capturing large dams. Descriptions of attacks on livestock are largely exaggerated, and golden eagles that have been seen devours animals probably already dead from other causes. Often raising since the beginning of spring until late summer; couples establishing ties for life and reused nests, which are in high places, in rocks or trees that dominate the landscape. The female incubated almost all the time putting in two to four eggs, for 40 days. The male belongs near the nest and provides a livelihood for the family. The chicks leave to parents after four months of nacer.y topped in black.

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Caribbean Flamingo.

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Scientific name: Phoenicopterus ruber
Family: Phoenicopteridae.
Length: 145 cm.
Habitat: lakes, lagoons and coastal marshes.
Distribution: areas of Africa, southern Europe and Asia. The Caribbean, Mexico and the Galapagos Islands are known as flamingos and some American experts concideran a species.
ID: Ave aquatic very high and slender, very long neck and legs, pinkish plumage. Beak curved and finished in black.

The flamingo is one of the birds unmistakable at first sight for their physiognomy and striking color, and its bizarre peak. This, in short and straight youth, is bent on adults to host several rows of thin plates or lamellae that allow the birds get their food, seaweed and tiny invertebrates, by filtering the water with peak movements forward and back, as a sieve. It is a very sociable species, breeding colonies form bustling adults and establish lasting ties. They build nests of mud, shaped crater, where the female lays a single egg that both parents incubate for a month. The young have a gray down, but after the spring moves take on a tone brown before they appear on adult plumage.

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Indian Peafowl.

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Scientific name: Pavo cristatus
Family: Phasianidae.
Length: Male 85-210 cm bigger than the female.
Habitat: Tropical forests dense, hilly areas near water.
Distribution: India, Siri Lanka and Pakistan.
ID: Great fasián unmistakable. The male has a mottled blue, with the neck and chest royal blue, white face, a fan-shaped crest and tail feathers ornate and very long, covered with ocelli. The female is more dull, grayish brown, white throat and chest and neck green.

The Indian Peafowl is a feral species present in many parts of the world, and until it is considered a pest in some of them, but has its origins in the jungles of trees caducifolidos of certain parts of Asia. Able to fly, spends the night posing in a branch and the rest of the time walk through the jungle, in clear or open land nearby in search of food. Eat fruits, seeds and vegetables, but also invertebrates, reptiles and the odd rodent. usually alone or in small groups of up to half a dozen individuals, the males gather in places of collective stops during the breeding season and establish small territories before being displayed for females, which attract with powerful claims. The staging includes bridal PAVONE and deployment fan of the tail, is actually a set of feathers dressing emerging from the lower back. The male is polygamous and females nest alone in a hole carved, which put six eggs that hatch four weeks. pup remain with the mother for ten weeks.

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Diamon Dove.

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Scientific name: Geopelia cuneata.
Family: Columbidae.
Length: 20 cm.
Habitat: Areas arid semi-desert and desert, usually nearby bush.
Distribution: Much of Australia, including the interior, but not in the south and east.
Identification: small dove, grey top with brown spots diamond lined with black and white in the wings. Head, neck and chest blue, pale color more at the bottom. Eyes orange surrounded by a red ring.

The diamond dove is one of the world's smallest dove and the smallest of the native of Australia, but looks very attractive thanks to the diamond speckles of the wings. It's common to see it in pairs or in small groups in arid open, and often hidden in shrubs or small trees, often near a water source, who visits every day at dusk after eating. feed on grass seeds and other plants moving at the same time its long tail. The diamond tortolitas can breed several clutches each year and the male carries out a bridal procession deployed and shaking the wings. Like most pigeons and dove, the female lays two eggs in a nest of branches located in a tree, which both parents incubate for two weeks. Young people are nurtured with the "crop milk" and can eat seeds Spitting Up in a few days. They grow quickly and conclude the development of plumage in two weeks. The first domesticated copies arrived in Europe in the 1870's. Breeding in captivity with ease and is one of the most common species of turtle dove into the aviaries.

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Great Cormorant

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Scientific name: Phalacrocorax carbo.
Family: phalacrocoracidade.
Length: 91 cm.
Habitat: coasts, estuaries and inland waters.
Distribution: Much of Europe, Asia, eastern North America and parts of Africa and Australasia.
ID: Ave aquatic big, black-necked and long, with the chin and cheeks blancuzcos and bag gular ochre. The adult player has a white spot in the thigh and fine feathers on the head.

The Great Cormorant is the most widespread member of the family of cormorants and is also the most voluminous, with a wingspan of close to 160 cm. It's herd, like most of his relatives, and outside the breeding season, which brings in many colonies, met in small flocks. It is assiduous in large lakes, but also frequents the coasts and estuaries, is an excellent swimmer and can dive up to one minute in search of a dam. The Japanese fishermen exploited the skills of cormorant for more than a thousand years and trained and used for fishing. Especially piscivorous, but also eat invertebrates and amphibians freshwater. The breeding season varies with the abundance of food. The mating can occur in any season; male and female are cooperating to build the nest, brooding the eggs and care for the offspring. They tend to make the nest in trees with branches in the ground or in a rocky outgoing, and entry consists of four or five eggs.

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Andean Condor.

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Scientific name: Vultur gryphus.
Family: Cathartidae.
Length: 130 cm.
Distribution: along the Andes mountain range.
ID: huge carrion prey. Black with white feathers on the wings and white collar. The bald head is black and pink for females and males with a crest.

The Andean condor is the world's largest predator. It has a wingspan of three meters, weighs over 13 kilograms, and is also one of the most-lived because very often they reach age 50. Its huge size and its growth paused also have a slow reproductive cycle, reaching sexual maturity after eight years. The female breeding in alternate years, and hence, stocks are recovering slowly from the threats of man. Mating takes place in spring, and put the egg in a single outgoing rocky, surrounded by some branches. Both parents incubated the egg and take care of small, but that I could fly to six months, remains with the parents up to two years. The Andean condor is fed almost exclusively on carrion, but can capture live prey like rodents and reptiles, or offspring and animals dying. Also as eggs of other birds, especially the navies that nest in large colonies.

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Wild Turkey.

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Scientific name: Meleagris gallopavo.
Family: meleagrididae.
Length: Male 90-120 cm lower than the female.
Habitat: Forests open.
Distribution: Populations scattered throughout North America, from southern Canada to Mexico.
ID: Galliformes habits of land and very large. The male has a glossy feathers and copper, erasing white tips of the wings and a tuft of dark feathers on his chest. the bare head is blue and red and has a red lachrymal caruncle. Spurs large paws. The female is more muted colors and has no tuft.

Seriously threatened by hunting and habitat destruction in the past, the wild turkey, also known as guajolote in Mexico today has recovered strongly in much of its range. The populations remain isolated and scattered, which has led to the emergence of several subspecies. They all have similar habits and appearance and prefer an environment of mixed forests and open meadows: the day by feeding on the grasslands and to spend the night perching on trees. the diet is very diverse and basa in plants, nuts, fruits, seeds, flowers and small animals. For much of the year the turkey vague in groups of one sex, but males gather harems in early spring, which attract females with the peculiar and glugluteo PAVONE of tail feathers. The female digs a hole in shallow soil and puts up to ten eggs, which incubate for a month. Chickens follow a mother and small flocks return to form.

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Common Loon.

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Scientific name: Gavia immer.
Order: Gaviiformes
Family: Gaviidae
Length: 90cm
Habitat: lakes and coasts
Distribution: North America, Greenland and Iceland, Great Britain and Northern Europe.
ID: Ave aquatic sizeable, with head, neck and black back, white belly and chest, and white collar. In summer, the top and sides have many spots

This bird the loon is a large aquatic bird specifically passing much of the time in the water and this little equipped for life on land, its heavy skeleton and the position of the legs, also very rear make it a diver INAT. Its aerodynamic shape his acute hearing and let you catch fish with agility in calm waters and transparent, but can dive up to 60 m deep and can stay under water a minute. Also catch amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans and other invertebrates. During the breeding season, built a nest made of plants in the water, often on a small island, where the female usually put two eggs. incubation is borne by the male and female, and the family remained united throughout the summer. In winter usually migrate to coastal waters, but often remain at large inland lakes that are not covered by ice.

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