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I kind of lost track of them over the Summer. I was not sure if they had moved on. I was quite happy to relocate this one.
Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus), breeding adult males are striking black and white with bright red triangle on breast. Nonbreeding males, females, and immatures are streaky below with a bold head pattern. Always look for the very thick, pale pinkish bill. Fairly common and widespread in eastern North America, especially in deciduous forests. Winters to northern South America.
Everyone have a safe and happy Thanksgiving. At least we still have birding to get away from all the craziness in the world. .
Orange-breasted Trogon - Cat Tien National Park, Dong Nai, Vietnam
Bird Species (# 577) that I photographed and placed on my Flickr Photostream. Overall goal is 1000.
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A classic side profile of this bird, with the tell-tale chestnut sides that make it easier to separate from the similiar Blackpoll than trying to discern leg color. In St Louis, time of year is also a strong indicator with Bay-breasts far outnumbering Blackpolls in the fall, and the reverse holding true in the spring. Glendale, Missouri.
It's always a pleasure to watch this year-round species because they are fearless and always on the go.
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Fawn-breasted Brilliant - Tandayapa Bird Lodge, Tandayapa, Ecuador
This is a better photograph of this species than the one I had previously posted. The previous post was Bird Species (# 221) that I photographed and placed on my Flickr Photostream. Overall goal is 1000.
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Stunning warblers, with rust colours that extend beyond that of a chestnut. There is something that I love about this composition with the bird placed squarely in the middle of the shot framed by the branches!
Taken in early spring.
Very difficult to photograph... always on the ground in the middle of branches and moving very quickly.
Endemic to Madagascar and classified as Vulnerable
Ankarafantsika National Park - Madagascar
Species # 1270
Another winter bathtub shot. The Nuthatches will often pause on an Oak tree about six feet behind the deck rail before coming in to grab a sunflower seed.
Edmonton, Alberta.
The lilac-breasted roller (Coracias caudatus) is an African bird of the roller family, Coraciidae. It is widely distributed in Southern and Eastern Africa, and is a vagrant to the southern Arabian Peninsula.[1] It prefers open woodland and savanna, and it is for the most part absent from treeless places. Usually found alone or in pairs, it perches at the tops of trees, poles or other high vantage points from where it can spot insects, amphibians and small birds moving about on the ground.[2] Nesting takes place in a natural hole in a tree where a clutch of 2–4 eggs are laid, and incubated by both parents, who are extremely aggressive in defence of their nest, taking on raptors and other birds. During the breeding season the male will rise to a fair height (69 to 144 metres), descending in swoops and dives,[3] while uttering harsh, discordant cries. The sexes do not differ in coloration, and juveniles lack the long tail streamers of adults.
I was watching this merganser swimming in the shadow of the fish pier when suddenly it was hit by a ray of late afternoon light. Chatham, MA
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Highland Oaks Park
The Spot-breasted Oriole (Icterus pectoralis) is a bright orange and black songbird native to southern Mexico and Central America, known for the distinctive black spots on its breast. It was introduced to southern Florida in the late 1940s and has since established a population there, inhabiting neighborhoods with flowering and fruiting trees. These orioles build long, hanging nests and feed on berries, nectar, and insects.
Another bird that is on the priority list of birders or photographers visiting Victoria. Unfortunately they are not the kind you can attract to bird feeders. You are more likely to find them digging holes in trees to get the sap as their name is indicating. I have often seen Hummingbirds following them... they too love the sap.
Wikipedia: The rose-breasted grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus), colloquially called "cut-throat" due to its coloration, is a large, seed-eating grosbeak in the cardinal family (Cardinalidae). It is primarily a foliage gleaner. Males have black heads, wings, backs, and tails, and a bright rose colored patch on their white breast. Males and females exhibit marked sexual dimorphism.
The rose-breasted grosbeak's breeding habitat is open deciduous woods across most of Canada and the northeastern United States. In particular, the northern birds migrate south through the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, to winter from central-southern Mexico through Central America and the Caribbean to Peru and Venezuela.
Conservation status: Least Concern
Wikipedia: The yellow-breasted chat (Icteria virens) is a large songbird found in North America, and is the only member of the family Icteriidae. It was once a member of the New World warbler family Parulidae, but in 2017, the American Ornithological Society moved it to its own family. Its placement is not definitively resolved.
The yellow-breasted chat is found throughout North America. It breeds from the southern plains of Canada to central Mexico, and mainly migrates to Mexico and Central America for the winter, although some may overwinter in coastal areas farther north. This species occurs in areas where dense shrubbery is common. Today, its habitat often consists of abandoned farmland and other rural areas where overgrown vegetation proliferates.
Conservation status: Least Concern
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Backyard bird
Wikipedia: The scaly-breasted munia or spotted munia (Lonchura punctulata), known in the pet trade as nutmeg mannikin or spice finch, is a sparrow-sized estrildid finch native to tropical Asia. The species is endemic to Asia and occurs from India and Sri Lanka east to Indonesia and the Philippines. It has been introduced into many other parts of the world, and feral populations have established in Puerto Rico and Hispaniola, as well as parts of Australia, and the United States of America, with a sizable population existing in Southern California.
Conservation status: Least Concern
Lilac-breasted roller (Coracias caudatus), an African member of the roller (or Coraciidae) family. Known to sit on prominent perches in open woodland and lightly-treed grasslands.
Linyanti Wildlife Reserve, Botswana.
Conservation Status: Least Concern
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