Toucans, family Ramphastidae

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

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.

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

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.

The Gouldian Finch

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.

Rose-ringed Parakeet

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

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.

Rose-Breasted Cockatoo - Galah- Eolophus roseicapilla

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.