Bea's Bird Blog

24 . chough reintroduction field assistant & bird keeper . bird enthusiast

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Wrinkled Hornbills (Rhabdotorrhinus corrugatus), currently listed on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as Near Threatened, should be listed as Endangered according to  A reassessment of the Red List status of several Asian hornbill species

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Black-necked Stilts

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Black-billed Nightingale-Thrush (Catharus gracilirostris) - photo by Greg Lavaty

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Every time I find a pet pigeon or dove account on instagram they have videos of them feeding their pigeons lettuce and berries.

Please, I beg of you, stop giving strict seed eaters leafy greens and sugary fruits. They don’t need it.

The worst part is that I know those people got their pigeons and doves by adopting from Palomacy so they probably wouldn’t like being linked to research done by breeders.

[mad-hare]

I never use instagram but this made me curious… like… egg isn’t good for them.. is it?? :s

[sixlegnag]

that’s…  no, that’s chickens, what are they doing

breeders: pigeons eat seeds, grains, nuts, and legumes. a balanced mix of these provides them with all they need. people who don’t think you can make a fun varied diet from that for some goddamn reason: no they don’t.

[bbbbirds]

Pigeons actually love eating greens! It’s what they would eat in the wild - give them any leafy plant or bamboo, or the best is greens sprouting flowers or elder trees/berries and they’ll go to town on them like little bird grazers. Look how happy this pidge is!

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Snowy owl

Holbein acryla gouache on Strathmore toned gray mixed media paper and snow added via Adobe After Effects

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Hummingbirds are incredible acrobatic fliers, capable of hovering for more than 30 seconds at a time, even in windy conditions. Their feeding habits are equally impressive. Many species of hummingbirds have a forked tongue, each half of which curls over like a partial straw. As the bird extends its tongue, its beak compresses the space inside the tongue’s curls. Once in the nectar, both halves of the tongue re-expand, pulling liquid in along the full length of the tongue. For the birds, this is a much faster technique than simply sucking the nectar up like a straw. Hummingbirds can lick nectar more than ten times a second this way. For more gorgeous imagery of hummingbirds, be sure to check out National Geographic’s full feature. (Image credit: A. Varma, source; via Aarthi S.)

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Bizarrely, Hawaiian honeycreepers are known to have a very distinct scent, a sweet, musty, floral odour ornithologists have dubbed “Drepanidine odor” (Hawaiian honeycreepers making up the subfamily Drepanidinae).  It is theorised that this smell may make the honeycreepers distasteful to native predators.

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The annual how-many-sand-eels-can-I-stuff-in-my-beak competition.

Atlantic puffins (Fratercula arctica)

Mykines, Faroe Islands.

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Coquerel’s Coua (Coua coquereli), Madagascar

photograph by Merritt Images | Wikimedia

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Zoology of New Holland.

By Shaw, George,  Sowerby, James,

Publication info London :Printed by J. Davis: published by J. Sowerby,1794. Contributing Library: Museum Victoria BioDivLibrary

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Anatomical and zoological researches: comprising an account of the zoological results of the two expeditions to western Yunnan in 1868 and 1875

By Anderson, John, 1833-1900 Publication info London,B. Quaritch,1878. BHL Collections: Smithsonian Libraries

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A monograph of the Capitonidæ, or scansorial barbets 

By Marshall, Charles Henry Tilson, 1841-   Keulemans, John Gerard, 1842-  Marshall, G. F. L. (George Frederick Leycester), 1843-1934

Publication info-London :Published by the Authors,1871 BHL Collections: Field Museum Library

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two colourful birbs!

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A monograph of the Capitonidæ, or scansorial barbets 

By Marshall, Charles Henry Tilson, 1841-   Keulemans, John Gerard, 1842-  Marshall, G. F. L. (George Frederick Leycester), 1843-1934

Publication info-London :Published by the Authors,1871 BHL Collections: Field Museum Library

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The warblers of North America 

By Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945  Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927

Publication info New York,D. Appleton & Company,1907. Contributing Library: Cornell University Library BioDiv. Library

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The Arctic redpoll (Acanthis hornemanni), known in North America as the hoary redpoll, is a bird species in the finch family Fringillidae. It breeds in tundra birch forest. It has two subspecies, A. h. hornemanni (Greenland or Hornemann’s Arctic redpoll) of Greenland and neighbouring parts of Canada, and A. h. exilipes (Coues’s Arctic redpoll), which breeds in the tundra of northern North America and Eurasia.

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The Black-bellied Starling has an incredible trick up its sleeve… It changes eye color as its moods change! Normally a striking yellow, it can bring out this incredible red fringe when agitated or angry. Watching it change before your eyes can be quite freaky if you are not expecting it! #bird #ornithology #conservation #research #research (at Malala Lodge)