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I had two of these beauties in the yard for several days last month. Then they disappeared. I wonder if this is a different one or if he's one of my previous visitors. I just love the color of his blue.
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Wild and free - for a Peaceful Blue Monday!
The Indigo Macaw is a critically endangered resident of interior northeastern Brazil. These macaws are metallic blue throughout with a slight green tinge and have yellow on the bare orbital ring and in a semi-circular patch at the base of its lower mandible. These beautiful birds inhabit caatinga thorn scrub vegetation with stands of licurí palm (Syagrus coronata) and pastures near sandstone cliffs which they use for nesting and roosting. Although this species had been known to science through traded birds, a wild population wasn't discovered until 1978. Since then, several smaller populations have been discovered, with a final population estimate of 140 birds being made in 1994. The Indigo Macaw may have never been common, but wide scale clearing or licurí palm stands and hunting for meat and for the pet trade have decimated populations of this bird. Drastic measures are needed to save this bird from extinction.
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Two days in a row, I was privileged to see an Indigo Bunting. The second has less colour, maybe a bit less mature.
This morning, I wanted an indigo sunrise, something right off the Kelvin scale.
Nay, I needed an indigo sunrise.
Thank goodness for post-processing.
'Cause there is just no telling what a morning will bring.
The wind, the clouds, the rising sun . . . time to pick up my camera again.
Blessings,
Sheree
(Once again, I must advise that a balcony on a cruise ship is a very necessary extra expense for a photographer. This was also shot by just stepping through my balcony door.)
Indigo: Cole set single bento pose @Mainstore
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Indigo: Miles set pose pack @Mainstore
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Indigo Buntings are actually black; the diffraction of light through their feathers makes them look blue. This explains why males can appear many shades from turquoise to black.
I'm usually not a fan of getting shots of birds on wire. The pose, lighting, and bokeh were all a bit too much for me to resist.
Brazoria County, Texas
Indigo Bunting male, De Pere, Wisconsin USA
Backyard birding. Spotted him from the kitchen window and got out after him.
Indigo Buntings are somewhat rare and elusive at my location and usually move through to points north after just a couple of days during the spring migration. The good news is that more than a week after this capture I am still sighting him and his mate. Hopefully they have decided to make my locale their summer home this year.
Like all other blue birds, Indigo Buntings lack blue pigment. Their jewel-like color comes instead from microscopic structures in the feathers that refract and reflect blue light, much like the airborne particles that cause the sky to look blue.
Indigo buntings are a species that have often evaded pretty much every lens I own, camera or otherwise. While not necessarily retiring, they can be a bit wary, or at least they were whenever I tried to focus on them. However, I found out that all that wariness flies the coop at this time of year, when males are feuding with each other. The flowing testosterone probably has something to do with it, I reckon. Either way, this guy was a big fan of this perch, which yielded the best looks and photos I’ve gotten of this species to date, despite being quite common and a regular breeder.