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Another from a brief local birding session just down the road from home.
Plenty of flowering shrubs and bushes for these little guys to play around and feed in - but tough to get a clear shot on them as they're so flighty and the bushes fairly densely bunched together!!
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Hope your weekend was great and this week is just as good!!
The Black-browed Albatross currently (May 2022) resident on the cliffs at RSPB Bempton at Flamborough Head, East Yorkshire. Normally, this species of albatross would be found in the South Atlantic Ocean but this one appears to favour the Yorkshire coast as this is the second year it has spent the summer here, along with many thousands of Gannet, Razorbill, Guillemot, Puffin and other seabirds.
Jilly Cooper has said women should “look up to” men and allow them to assert their masculinity.
Constant put-downs left husbands and boyfriends “brow beaten”, the author of novels such as the racy Riders and Rivals said.
"Oliver Reed was the most sexy man I’ve ever met,” she said.
“Nobody seems to mention the word love any more. They just talk about having sex and women are having babies and not bothering to have husbands any more.”
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Candid street shot, Germany--- but it could be anywhere in the world today, That far away stare the fixed focus and selective deafness are classic symptoms.
I had fun with the finches today. These in particular are hard to catch and hard to get close to.. but I managed to focus really well on its breast. with a short Dof. Oh well.. Try and Try again and never give up - ( Im wanting to get the face)
Chlorophonia callophrys
Rey de rualdo, rualdo, clorofonia cejidorada
Cerro Chayote, Palmita de Zarcero
Historia Natural
Reproducción
Su nido consiste en una estructura globular o en forma de horno con entrada lateral, encajada entre musgos y bromelias y otras epífitas, sobre árboles en un claro del bosque montano, a una altura de 11 a 30 m. Ponen por lo menos 3 huevos. Se reproducen de febrero a junio. Ponen 2 nidadas. Alimentan a los pichones mediante regurgitación.
Alimentación
Se alimentan sobre todo de frutos de matapalos (Gaiodendron, Psittacanthus ), bayas de Ericaceae, Araceae y otras epífitas e higos. Se agachan para atisbar debajo de las ramas en busca de insectos y arañas.
Comportamiento
Durante gran parte del año viajan en bandadas hasta de 12 individuos que luego se separan en parejas para criar.
Ciclo anual
Efectúan migraciones altitudinales.
Habitat y Distribución
Habitat
Frecuentan el dosel y los bordes de los bosques montanos muy húmedos con abundantes epífitas, y los potreros con árboles dispersos y áreas adyacentes parcialmente despejados; en ocasiones desciende a las zonas de crecimiento secundario.
Distribución
Es una especie residente común en las montañas a lo largo de ambas vertientes. Se localiza desde el nivel superior de la existencia de árboles en descenso hasta los 900 m. localmente en el lado del Caribe, y hasta los 1500 m. en el Pacífico. Puede descender mucho más, sobre todo en el lado del Caribe, durante la estación lluviosa, cuando los frutos escasean en las partes más altas.
Distribución fuera de Costa Rica
Se encuentran en Costa Rica y el oeste de Panamá.
Distribución de Area de conservación
Amistad CaribeAmistad PacificoArenalCordillera Volcanica CentralGuanacasteHuetar NorteOsaTortugueroPacifico Central
Usos y Manejos
Usos
Es apreciada por los pajareros como ave de canto, por lo que las capturan para mantenerlas cautivas en jaulas (aves de jaula).
Descripción
Descripción científica
Mide 13 cm. y pesa 25 grs. Es robusto, con el pico grueso y la cola corta; es verde brillante con azul en la coronilla y el abdomen es amarillo (ver imagen) El macho adulto presenta la frente y las cejas anchas de color amarillo dorado, y la coronilla y la nuca azul violeta pálido. Presenta una línea turquesa que le recorre el cuello desde los lados y el derredor hasta la parte posterior. El resto de la parte superior, los lados de la cabeza y el cuello, la garganta, el pecho y los flancos son de color verde brillante. El resto de la parte inferior es amarillo brillante, separado del verde del pecho por una línea negra delgada. El pico es negro, excepto la base de la mandíbula, que es gris, y las patas son grises. La hembra muestra el azul de la coronilla más opaco y menos extenso, y carece de las cejas amarillas. El verde de la parte superior es más opaco y con un tinte oliva, y se desvanece a amarillo en el centro del abdomen y las coberteras infracaudales. La base de la mandíbula es entre amarillento opaco y color cuerno. Los individuos inmaduros son similares a la hembra adulta, pero con la coronilla azul más brillante, la frente y las cejas verdes con un lustre dorado, y el verde de la cara y la garganta más brillante. Pasa su primera etapa de cría en este plumaje. Los ejemplares juveniles son semejantes a la hembra adulta, pero más opacos por encima, especialmente en la coronilla, la cual como máximo presenta un tinte azul. Por debajo es más oliva amarillento.
Información taxonómica
Reino: Animalia
Filo: Chordata
Clase: Aves
Orden: Passeriformes
Familia: Fringillidae
Género: Chlorophonia
My brows aren’t quite as good as getting them done by a makeup artist but I’m quite pleased at my attempt.
It is not often that we see these birds out in the open...
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Name: Rufous-browed flycatcher
Scientific: Anthipes solitaris
Malay: Sambar Kening-perang
Family: Muscicapidae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2016): Least Concern
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I'm back!! I've spent 5 marvelous and relaxed days in G. Canaria!! For now, I start a new phase in my life.
I'm very excited with the new change!
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Aprovecho para felicitar a las cumpleañeras de estos dias! Felicidades chicas!
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.
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