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The turquoise-browed motmot (Eumomota superciliosa) is a colourful, medium-sized bird of the motmot family, Momotidae. It inhabits Central America from south-east Mexico (mostly the Yucatán Peninsula), to Costa Rica, where it is common and not considered threatened. It lives in fairly open habitats such as forest edge, gallery forest and scrubland. It is more conspicuous than other motmots, often perching in the open on wires and fences. From these perches it scans for prey, such as insects and small reptiles. White eggs (3–6) are laid in a long tunnel nest in an earth bank or sometimes in a quarry or fresh-water well. Its name originates from the turquoise color of its brow.
Turquoise-browed motmot in Costa Rican Pacific dry forest
The bird is approximately 34 cm (13 in) long and weighs about 65 g (2.3 oz). It has a mostly green-blue body with a rufous back and belly. There is a bright blue stripe above the eye and a blue-bordered black patch on the throat. The flight feathers and upperside of the tail are blue. The tips of the tail feathers are shaped like rackets and the bare feather shafts are longer than in other motmots. Although it is often said that motmots pluck the barbs off their tail to create the racketed shape, this is not true; the barbs are weakly attached and fall off due to abrasion with substrates and with routine preening.[2]
Unlike most bird species, where only males express elaborate traits, the turquoise-browed motmot expresses the extraordinary racketed tail in both sexes. Research indicates that the tail has evolved to function differently for the sexes. Males apparently use their tail as a sexual signal, as males with longer tails have greater pairing success and reproductive success.[3] In addition to this function, the tail is used by both sexes in a wag-display, whereby the tail is moved back-and-forth in a pendulous fashion.[4] The wag-display is performed in a context unrelated to mating: both sexes perform the wag-display in the presence of a predator, and the display is thought to confer naturally selected benefits by communicating to the predator that it has been seen and that pursuit will not result in capture. This form of interspecific communication is referred to as a pursuit-deterrent signal.[5]
The call is nasal, croaking and far-carrying.
The turquoise-browed motmot is a well-known bird in its range and has been chosen as the national bird of both El Salvador and Nicaragua. It has acquired a number of local names including guardabarranco ("ravine-guard") in Nicaragua, torogoz in El Salvador (based on its call) and pájaro reloj ("clock bird") in the Yucatán, based on its habit of wagging its tail like a pendulum. In Costa Rica it is known as momoto cejiceleste or the far-less flattering pájaro bobo ("foolish bird"), owing to its tendency to allow humans to come very near it without flying away.
The Black-browed Barbet or Müller's Barbet (Megalaima oorti) is a bird belonging to the Asian barbet family, Megalaimidae.
It is 20-23.5 cm long. The plumage is mostly green apart from the head which is patterned with blue, yellow and red. There is a black stripe above the eye. The bill is black and the feet are grey-green. The Chinese name for the bird, "five-colored bird" (五色鳥) refers to the five colors seen on its plumage. Because of its colorful plumage and that its call resembles that of a percussion instrument known as a wooden fish, the species is also referred to as the "spotted monk of the forest" in Taiwan.
White-browed Scrub Wren.
I love these little birds but they're hard to catch because they hide in the bushes or scrub.
Phylloscopus inoratus. A rather poor record shot, but you can just see the diagnostic double wing-bars and yellow eyebrow. They breed in Siberia from the Ural Mountains eastwards and winter in south-east Asia. They used to be quite scarce visitors to Britain, but their numbers have increased dramatically during the last forty years. This pattern has also been recorded across northern and western Europe. There has been much speculation about the cause of their increase in Europe, with some suggesting that they are evolving a new migration route and wintering grounds. The last few years have seen a bit of a dip in numbers, but this year many hundreds arrived in Britain during late September. Most records have been on the east coast with very few inland. I photographed this one inland at Rowntree Park in the centre of York. When I arrived, the bird wasn’t in the location reported so I checked out some woodland nearby and heard it calling. The disyllabic call is quite distinctive xeno-canto.org/935200. It was flitting about in the canopy and only briefly came down to some lower branches where it was still difficult to follow and photograph. Even though it’s a poor shot I thought I’d post it as it’s one of my favourite warblers and a great bird to see in York.
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The Black-browed Barbet or Müller's Barbet (Megalaima oorti) is a bird belonging to the Asian barbet family, Megalaimidae.
It is 20-23.5 cm long. The plumage is mostly green apart from the head which is patterned with blue, yellow and red. There is a black stripe above the eye. The bill is black and the feet are grey-green. The Chinese name for the bird, "five-colored bird" (五色鳥) refers to the five colors seen on its plumage. Because of its colorful plumage and that its call resembles that of a percussion instrument known as a wooden fish, the species is also referred to as the "spotted monk of the forest" in Taiwan.
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I believe this to be a red-browed finch. This one was only about 5 cm.
First time I have come across one of these. It would seem to me this is a fairly young bird looking at the feathers. This bird was photographed in fading light (iso 800, Shutter 1/30s 400mm, hand held) - so I was quite pleased with the sharpness and clarity. I recently purchased the SAL 70400G lens and my first impressions of this lens is extremely positive (very low noise for iso 800).
A view looking down the cobbled street of Bush Brow with the Victoria Viaduct on the right and the West Coast Main Line parallel with English Damside. Building of the viaduct had commenced in 1876 and was formally opened by Her Royal Highness The Princess Louise on 20th September 1877. On the viaduct above, a former bank that was converted into a jeweller's around 1959 was reputedly haunted. Footsteps could be heard on the tall flight of steps within the building but nobody could account for them. They finally stopped when the floor was lifted and an old well uncovered. The well had been partially filled and when they were emptying it they discovered a headless skeleton. The body was removed and taken to Tullie House Museum in Carlisle. The locomotives passing under the viaduct through Carlisle Citadel station are DB Schenker's electric loco class 92 No.92031 in the company's recently applied corporate livery to some of the UK locomotives formerly owned by Englsh Welsh and Scottish Railway. The trailing locomotive in tow (in Royal train livery) is 125mph class 67 No.67006 'Royal Sovereign'. The train service was the '4M63' Mossend to Hams Hall intermodal service. Bush Brow, Carlisle, 18th January 2012.
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The newly fledged youngster still depends on the parent feeding for a while.
@bukit fraser, malaysia
We the photographers provided the free food (meal worms) for the parents to feed their young :)
A lucky day for them and for us too:)
Somehow they do not hestitate to take the food we offer, they were used to being fed :)
@fraser hill
Argentina.
Buenos Aires, Monserrat
Plaza de Mayo
The chalk-browed mockingbird (Mimus saturninus) is a bird found in most of Brazil, and parts of Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, and Suriname. It's a bird of open wooded areas, including urban and suburban gardens. It feeds on fruits, insects and small vertebrates