tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39443618225820113172024-02-21T02:37:49.025-08:00birds free wallpaper 99Rizwan Ilyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12394220215119789106noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3944361822582011317.post-74860328951212367042012-06-16T08:02:00.000-07:002012-06-16T08:02:50.830-07:00Acorn Woodpecker<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Acorn Woodpecker Biography</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial";">This conspicuous clown-faced woodpecker of western oak woodlands is remarkable for its social habits, living over much of its range in communal groups of up to 4 or more breeding males and as many as 3 breeding females. These groups maintain and protect impressive granaries in which thousands of acorns are stored in holes drilled in tree trunks or utility poles for future consumption; in a study a single tree contained more than 50,000 acorn-storage holes. Acorn woodpeckers also feed by sallying for flying insects and gleaning trunks, and they often eat ants (as reflected in the species’ scientific name). Polytypic. Length 9".</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial";">A boldly patterned black-and-white woodpecker with a white patch at the base of the primaries, a white rump, black chest, streaked black lower breast, and white belly. The head pattern is striking, with a ring of black around the base of the bill, a red crown patch, a white forecrown narrowly connected to the yellow-tinged white throat, and black sides of the head setting off a staring white eye. Adult: iris white. Adult male has white forehead meeting the red crown. The adult female is similar, but the white forehead is separated from the red crown by a black band. Juvenile: resembles adult but black areas are duller and the iris is dark; juveniles of both sexes have a solid red crown like that of the adult male’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial";">Pacific coast birds, bairdi, have slightly longer and stouter bills than nominate birds of the interior West. There is considerable additional variation in the remaining range south to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Colombia</st1:place></st1:country-region>, with 5 additional.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial";">Unmistakable given its group-living habits and loud calls. White-headed woodpecker has similar white wing patch and black back, but lacks white rump and belly; Lewis’s lacks white areas in plumage.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial";">Common. Year-round: oak woodlands and mixed oak-conifer or oak-riparian woodlands. Most abundant where several species of oaks co-occur. Isolated breeding populations are found on the east side of the Sierra Nevada, <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state>; on the central Edwards Plateau, Texas; and possibly in far southern <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Colorado</st1:place></st1:state>. Vagrant: found rarely or casually, primarily in fall and winter, away from woodland habitats along the immediate Pacific coast and in western deserts; accidental north to <st1:state w:st="on">British Columbia</st1:state> and east to the Great Plains states from <st1:state w:st="on">North Dakota</st1:state> south to coastal <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Texas</st1:place></st1:state></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Acorn Woodpecker</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://www.roysephotos.com/zzAcornWoodpecker3D.jpg" width="276" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Acorn Woodpecker</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgegdqQTBE0fyOpoZBmXloxocPk3F7v1KSDs3V1kwsddmKyFOorpaKzykP19zb_jVpVMj6ItCbc5x8MAaJY-kWAH6AD2bvkpIP-dWsbzIEc1_kn5kYXj2mBUrEWjEG_km7CmNjOJx78gV0/s400/3819_Acorn_Woodpecker_09-09-2007_1.jpg" width="400" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Acorn Woodpecker</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="284" src="http://content.ornith.cornell.edu/UEWebApp/images/pub_acorn_woodpecker.jpg" width="400" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Acorn Woodpecker</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8un95Xqbx1mW_F0Yw_V2AyzFRsh9Cq_hqt6MUpafr2SZ4xFxfpoxt6DOa6wBu7JDwWcjGyqbx43OhIz6DASw-jT0kI8GpNmznZ1K2g9LOQeyq4_chTVd0gZoFSx10A3OyhHqivD1_9CM/s400/acorn-woodpecker.jpg" width="400" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Acorn Woodpecker</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Acorn_Woodpecker_(Melanerpes_formicivorus).jpg/1024px-Acorn_Woodpecker_(Melanerpes_" width="400" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Acorn Woodpecker</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000tUuCC5W41ec/s/860/860/20100420-Bannick-Acorn-Woodpecker-9658-f-T-Bannick.jpg" width="400" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Acorn Woodpecker</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://birdsflight.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Acorn-Woodpecker.jpg" width="381" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Acorn Woodpecker</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="360" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-irwmpFECg78/T0Fi1OA2wXI/AAAAAAAABGo/ewdnTydMGs0/s400/Acorn+Woodpecker+by+Jim+Garlock.jpg" width="400" /></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Acorn Woodpecker</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Acorn Woodpecker</b></span></div></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/aWe1tktK918" width="420"></iframe></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Canon PowershotSX1 HD video</b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5rG5dk9Q8J8" width="420"></iframe></div></div>Rizwan Ilyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12394220215119789106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3944361822582011317.post-55970188497738765402012-06-13T14:18:00.000-07:002012-06-13T14:18:49.964-07:00Toucan Bird<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Toucan Bird Biography</b></span><br />
The Toco toucan is at home in <st1:place w:st="on">South America</st1:place>'s tropical forests but recognized everywhere. The toucan's oversized, colorful bill has made it one of the world's most popular birds. The 7.5-inch-long (19-centimeter-long) bill may be seen as a desirable mating trait, but if so, it is one that both male and female toucans possess. In fact, both sexes use their bills to catch tasty morsels and pitch them to one another during a mating ritual fruit toss.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">As a weapon, the bill is a bit more show than substance. It is a honeycomb of bone that actually contains a lot of air. While its size may deter predators, it is of little use in combating them.But the toucan's bill is useful as a feeding tool. The birds use them to reach fruit on branches that are too small to support their weight, and also to skin their pickings. In addition to fruit, Toco toucans eat insects and, sometimes, young birds, eggs, or lizards.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Toco toucans live in small flocks of about six birds. Their bright colors actually provide good camouflage in the dappled light of the rain forest canopy. However, the birds commonly keep up a racket of vocalization, which suggests that they are not trying to remain hidden.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Toucans nest in tree holes. They usually have two to four eggs each year, which both parents care for. Young toucans do not have a large bill at birth—it grows as they develop and does not become full size for several months.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">These iconic birds are very popular pets, and many are captured to supply demand for this trade. They are also familiar commercial mascots known for hawking stout, cereal, and other products. Indigenous peoples regard the bird with a more sacred eye; they are traditionally seen as conduits between the worlds of the living and the spirits.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Toucan Bird</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Keel-billed_toucan,_costa_rica.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Toucan Bird</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="250" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01448/Toucan_1448853c.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Toucan Bird</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3k329gADJ3hccS3LSKfm1fVDxfxmupQ4EFQPt08kRc8ankl4F9dszO8CuU74e9aOBs9k0dTINq5vvLDaT6njN_q79O6K8T8sAQImcMVgcxaWEkZUym1MB2KCSjdOagA1mOWWi6gD1VOs/s400/Toucan--national-bird.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Toucan Bird</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik-rwFyS1CevXN61By5nqFOTXZ5lRICjCmzsxKTyk9CzZuUrd4FgTZumcrszjus0qt_TBxM0wzsb5xnYeUV2WXCwDPI4vXv60pwgFNYFgOeAK7eyrjh4Y5boelREzCoc_EUVVbQifm2Ls/s400/KeelBilledToucan-4.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Toucan Bird</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://cache2.artprintimages.com/lrg/20/2098/IVP2D00Z.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Toucan Bird</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r151/dixiehound/Animal%20Love/toucan-sam.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Toucan Bird</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="263" src="http://www.chaacreek.com/belize-travel-blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/toucan.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Toucan Bird</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://seancrane.com/blogphotos/toco_toucan_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://seancrane.com/blogphotos/toco_toucan_3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Toucan Bird</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Birds of Paradise-Toucan</b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5ExbebXMw1M" width="420"></iframe></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Toucan drinking out of glass</b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5F6y3ehg-JY" width="420"></iframe></div><br />
</div>Rizwan Ilyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12394220215119789106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3944361822582011317.post-22694328592566385372012-06-13T13:54:00.000-07:002012-06-13T13:54:43.185-07:00Ruby-Throated Hummingbird<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Ruby-Throated Hummingbird Biography</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">The male ruby-throated hummingbird does indeed have a striking red throat, though the female of the species does not. You would have to look quickly to see either, however, as these speedy little birds can beat their wings 53 times a second and fly in an acrobatic style matched by few other birds. They hover often, and also fly upside down and backwards. These hummingbirds have extremely short legs, so they cannot walk or even hop with any efficiency.</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ruby-throated hummingbirds live in woodland areas, but also frequent gardens where flowering plants are plentiful. They hover to feed on flowers, nectar, and sap. During this floral feeding process, the birds pollinate many plants.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">These tiny birds are omnivores, sometimes feeding on insects and spiders. An adult ruby-throated hummingbird may eat twice its body weight in food each day, which it burns up with the high metabolism necessary to sustain its rapid wing beat and energetic movements.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">This hummingbird breeds in eastern <st1:place w:st="on">North America</st1:place> and is the only hummingbird species to do so. Males establish a territory and court females who enter it with flying and diving behaviors, and by showing off their red throat plumage. Females provide all care for young hummingbirds. They lay one to three eggs, incubate them for about two weeks, and, after hatching, feed their young for about three weeks. A female may have several broods in a year. Ruby-throated hummingbirds are largely solitary outside of the breeding season.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ruby-throated hummingbirds winter in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Mexico</st1:country-region> and <st1:place w:st="on">Central America</st1:place>. To get there from their North American breeding grounds some birds embark on a marathon, nonstop flight across the <st1:place w:st="on">Gulf of Mexico</st1:place>. They may double their weight in preparation for this grueling journey.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Ruby-Throated Hummingbird</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://www.birdsofoklahoma.net/images/RTHB3603C.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;">Ruby-Throated Hummingbird</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="321" src="http://www.birdlife.org/images/sized/500/ruby-throated_hummingbird.jpg.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;">Ruby-Throated Hummingbird</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://www.stoneridgepress.com/images/Ruby-throatedHummingbirdKrenmuellerFarmsLRGVTXIMG_0736.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;">Ruby-Throated Hummingbird</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://www.the-scoop-on-wild-birds-and-feeders.com/images/iStock_000000912502Small_rubyshowgorgets.jpg" width="387" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;">Ruby-Throated Hummingbird</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="267" src="http://hanstoom.com/images/RubyThroatedHummingbird18.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;">Ruby-Throated Hummingbird</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://blog.chron.com/lazygardener/files/legacy/Ruby-throated%20Hummingbird%201%20-%20Greg%20Lavaty.JPG" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;">Ruby-Throated Hummingbird</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://10000birds.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/hummingbird-male.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;">Ruby-Throated Hummingbird</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://www.leamanphoto.com/6/imgMed/Ruby-throated_Hummingbird_and_Red_Hot_Poker_Flowers_-_Ohio__BRT0029_.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;">Ruby-Throated Hummingbird</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Ruby-Throated Hummingbird at muddy pond</b></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/JZsUG96wwXM" width="420"></iframe></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Hummingbirds-chirping their song</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3CcUO9MdFpg" width="420"></iframe></div></div>Rizwan Ilyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12394220215119789106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3944361822582011317.post-36940171024778162952012-06-13T13:27:00.000-07:002012-06-13T13:27:29.426-07:00King Vulture<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>King Vulture Biography</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Like other vultures, the king vulture is a scavenger. These large birds glide on air currents, conserving energy while searching the forests or savanna below for the corpses of dead animals. Because of their unappetizing eating habits, they fill an ecological niche, and may help to prevent the spread of disease by disposing of rotting remains.</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">King vultures have a very colorful look that distinguishes them from their vulture relatives. They are predominately white, with black tails and wing tips. They have piercing, often straw-colored eyes and multicolored (yellow, orange, and red) heads and necks<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Though brightly colored, the vulture's head and neck are bald. This may help the fastidious birds to stay clean, and ensure that bacteria-laden animal remains don't fester in the bird's plumage where they could spread disease.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sarcoramphus papa are among the bird world's largest scavengers and have powerful, hooked beaks that are excellently adapted for tearing open tough carcasses. They can often access meals that other vultures cannot, and smaller birds usually give way when they arrive to feed<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">These birds nest on the ground, and females lay a single egg—which both parents incubate. Both parents may also care for infants, bringing back dinner in their stomachs and regurgitating it for their young to enjoy.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">King vultures are found from <st1:country-region w:st="on">Mexico</st1:country-region> south to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Argentina</st1:country-region></st1:place>. Some suggest that the bird's name stems from an old Mayan legend in which this vulture was a "king" or "lord" that carried messages between humans and the Gods.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>King Vultures</b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_yllQwGMbi0" width="420"></iframe></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">King Vulture</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_MjT6TmfP7Q" width="420"></iframe></div></div>Rizwan Ilyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12394220215119789106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3944361822582011317.post-67411649253846440822012-06-13T12:52:00.000-07:002012-06-13T12:52:25.443-07:00Blue Jay<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Blue Jay Biography</b></span><br />
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div>Blue jays are natural forest dwellers, but they are also highly adaptable and intelligent birds. They are a familiar and noisy presence around many North American bird feeders. The blue jay's "Jay! Jay!" call is only one of a wide variety of sounds the bird employs—including excellent imitations of several hawk calls.<br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Blue jays are sometimes known to eat eggs or nestlings, and it is this practice that has tarnished their reputation. In fact, they are largely vegetarian birds. Most of their diet is composed of acorns, nuts, and seeds—though they also eat small creatures such as caterpillars, grasshoppers, and beetles. Blue jays sometimes store acorns in the ground and may fail to retrieve them, thus aiding the spread of forests.</span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Common in much of eastern and central <st1:place w:st="on">North America</st1:place>, blue jays are gradually extending their range to the Northwest. They are fairly social and are typically found in pairs or in family groups or small flocks. Most northern birds head south for the winter and join in large flocks of up to 250 birds to make the long journey. However, this migration is a bit of a mystery to scientists. Some birds winter in all parts of the blue jay's range, and some individual birds may migrate one year and not the next. It is unclear what factors determine whether each blue jay or family decides to migrate.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Although Brush Bronzewings often build their flimsy stick-nests in horizontal or vertical forks in the branches of shrubs, or sometimes on the ground beneath the cover of dense bushes, they occasionally build them on top of the disused nests Common Blackbirds, Little Wattlebirds, Nankeen Night-Herons and even on old dreys of small possums. The two glossy white or pinkish eggs are incubated by both sexes, and after hatching, the young birds remain with their parents until the next clutch of eggs is laid.</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Brush Bronzewing is a dark olive-brown above with rich chestnut nape and shoulders, with blue-grey underparts. There are two curved bronze irridescent blue-green bars across each wing. A dark, chestnut stripe through eyes, underlined by white and a chestnut throat patch are distinguishing features. The male has a chestnut forehead. The female lacks the forehead patch and is generally duller.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">This species occurs around the coast from <st1:placename w:st="on">Fraser</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Island</st1:placename> and adjacent mainland Qld, round to the Eyre Peninsula in SA, although absent just north of the NSW border and at the top of the <st1:place w:st="on">Spencer Gulf</st1:place> in SA. A geographically separate population occupies the southwest corner of WA, and the species also occurs in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Tasmania</st1:place></st1:state> and coastal islands.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">These birds feed exclusively on the ground on seeds of various plants. They are most commonly seen as singles or pairs, with flocking being a rarely-reported occurrence and then only of less than 10 birds at a time. They drink at dawn or dusk, alighting some distance from the water then cautiously making their way to the edge to drink.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">While October to January is the most likely time to find nests, these fragile, slightly cupped platforms of twigs and sticks have been found with eggs or chicks in every month. The female builds the nest on the ground or in trees but more commonly in dense brush. Once the two eggs are laid, the female incubates during the day. Little is known about wild birds, but those in captivity sit for 15-18 days before the chicks hatch. The chicks fledge at about 16 days and the young remain with their parents until they nest again, which can be as little as 3 to 4 weeks later.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Brush Bronzewing</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="328" src="http://worldbirdinfo.net/BirdPhotos/037%20Columbidae%20Columbina%20Gourinae%20Didunculidae/Brush%20Bronzewing.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Brush Bronzewing</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://www.birdforum.net/opus/images/thumb/4/44/28058Brush_Bronzewing_feyre.jpg/350px-28058Brush_Bronzewing_feyre.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Brush Bronzewing</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://boca.org.au/jwallpapers_files/2011/3/9b29a7445ee7bc26539eabc0e6d1371a.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Brush Bronzewing</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2231/5827793295_7b45c7057b.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Brush Bronzewing</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4143/4776750284_25ff872537.jpg" width="386" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Brush Bronzewing</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="386" src="http://www.summercloudcottage.com.au/images/birds/bronzewing.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Brush Bronzewing</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="267" src="http://morwellnp.pangaean.net/images/full_size/Phaps_chalcoptera_c.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Brush Bronzewing</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="285" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3443/3696643045_692b451709.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Brush Bronzewing</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Brush Bronzewing(Phaps elegans)</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/MttO3CO8YBE" width="420"></iframe></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Common Bronzewing</b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Dx3ULktWOFQ" width="420"></iframe></div></div>Rizwan Ilyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12394220215119789106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3944361822582011317.post-47616473181288293932012-06-13T06:50:00.001-07:002012-06-13T06:54:22.167-07:00Bourke's Parrot<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Bourke's Parrot Biography</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">When compared with other parrots, the plumage of the Bourke’s Parrot is rather sombre. Their mostly grey-brown appearance is relieved only by pale blue feathering on its rump, the sides of its tail and on its wings, while its breast and belly are the palest shade of pink. Inhabiting seemingly inhospitable semi-arid acacia woodlands of inland </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;">, they escape the heat of the day by resting in shady trees, and they are most active around dusk and dawn, when they come in to waterholes and bores to drink.</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Bourke's Parrot is not like any other parrot, but in some circumstances may be confused with the Diamond Dove, </span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Geopelia cuneata</span></em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">.</span> Bourke's Parrot is widespread across arid and semi-arid areas of the inland, from north-western <st1:state w:st="on">New South Wales</st1:state> and south-western <st1:state w:st="on">Queensland</st1:state> to the <st1:placetype w:st="on">mid-coast</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Western Australia</st1:placename>, and from the Devil's Marbles in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Northern Territory</st1:place></st1:state> south to Port Augusta, South Australia.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Bourke's Parrot is found in mulga and other acacia scrubs, and in native cypress and other open eucalypt woodla Bourke's Parrots feed mainly on the ground, and only occasionally in trees. Pairs, or small groups of four to six, feed on seeds of grasses and herbs. They need to be near a source of water, which they visit usually at dawn and dusk.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Sometimes the Banded Lapwing occurs in habitats that seem particularly inhospitable. They are often seen far from the nearest cover, in paddocks with sparse, short grass, on farmland that has been overgrazed or ploughed, on stony ground, or the bare, dry mud at the edge of swamps. This lack of vegetation assists lapwings when they are foraging, as rank cover would impede their movement and ability to search for food. They forage on the ground, taking seeds and invertebrates, which are pecked from the surface of the soil.</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Banded Lapwing is a large plover with a broad black breast band and white throat. The upperparts are mainly grey-brown with white underparts. There is a black cap and broad white eye-stripe, with a yellow eye-ring and bill and a small red wattle over the bill. The legs are pinkish-grey. These lapwings have an upright stance and a slow walk, breaking into a faster trot when alarmed. They fly with quick, clipped wing-beats - giving them the name 'lapwing'.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Banded Lapwing is much smaller than the Masked Lapwing,</span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Vanellus miles</span></em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">, with a longer tail and shorter legs. The u-shaped breast band i Banded Lapwings are endemic to (found only in) <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region> in the east, south and west of the mainland and in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Tasmania</st1:place></st1:state>. They are rarely found in northern Australia.</span>s diagnostic.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Banded Lapwings prefer open, short grasslands such as heavily grazed paddocks, agricultural lands and saline herblands in dry and semi-arid regions.</span> Banded Lapwings chase insects with short runs and darts and may eat seeds in dry times. They prefer areas with very short grass, to find insects, worms, spiders and molluscs (snails and slugs).<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Banded Lapwings need rain before breeding. The nest is a scrape on the ground, lined with dry grass and even sheep droppings. The eggs and chicks are speckled and well-camouflaged. They freeze and keep quite still at sign of danger. The parents defend their nest and young with great courage and will fly at human intruders, often with a distraction display, pretending to drag a broken wing. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Banded Lapwing</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://blog.forestandbird.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/maskedlapwing_bdonald-480x319.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Banded Lapwing</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/tilcheff/SOIKebnwhdI/AAAAAAAACb4/2AJOY3wTaEw/JMG_1661_lr.jpg" width="400" /></div><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Banded Lapwing</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="341" src="http://www.birdlife.org.au/images/sized/images/uploads/bird_profiles/Masked-Lapwing-ct580-580x495.jpg" width="400" /></div><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Banded Lapwing</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OV9QICon5o4/SUL0AvkyqtI/AAAAAAAAC5o/sM5YlpzWg2s/KMG_0936_lr.jpg" width="400" /></div><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Banded Lapwing</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/tilcheff/SKfw0qWULZI/AAAAAAAABWY/F8aRAHzh7rE/JMG_4485_lr.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Banded Lapwing</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGy6Dt66QupXdf0HoPSkWG0fEWkZhAiaBGkXbeF4RxvnfKo_VLIyYK9kbBczOrUAH_lTU4bJUzw8vQVr8kWq58cjxvp9rD8v5-AIBqpWKIqfH7pJbElmuVWRBlgVgn6uZGASBMIluuIOdk/s400/masked+Lapwing+1.jpg" width="400" /></div><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Banded Lapwing</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/tilcheff/SL_EquH5gSI/AAAAAAAABoE/or8YNhGNBTU/JMG_1662_lr.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Banded Lapwing</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="195" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_g1vDjmz1k7g/TCg7VcifzrI/AAAAAAAAErE/58szg6mmyB0/s400/maskl900IMG_7724.JPG" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Banded Lapwing</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Masked Lapwing eating ants</b></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/y0lnSE3gCSo" width="420"></iframe></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Newborn Masked Lapwing Chicks</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/JqjOd39vQz4" width="420"></iframe></div></div>Rizwan Ilyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12394220215119789106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3944361822582011317.post-19836434274830732012-06-13T05:54:00.000-07:002012-06-13T05:54:14.839-07:00Australian Pelican<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Australian Pelican Biography</b></span><br />
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Australian Pelican is often seen around the coasts, where it can be seen roosting on sandbanks, rock platforms and reefs, or swimming in lagoons, bays and estuarine waters, dipping their oversized bills into the water to catch fish. However, on the rare occasions that monsoonal rains flood the salt lakes in the arid inland of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region>, many pelicans take advantage of the conditions and flock there in their thousands to breed. When it dries out, they leave and head for other less-ephemeral terrestrial wetlands or the coast.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">There are seven species of pelicans in the world, all of which are similar in shape and, with one exception, are primarily white in colour. Males are larger than females. The most characteristic feature of pelicans is the elongated bill with its massive throat pouch. The Australian Pelican's bill is 40 cm - 50 cm long and is larger in males than females. Pelicans have large wings and a wingspan of 2.3 m - 2.5 m.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Australian Pelican is found throughout <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Papua New Guinea</st1:country-region> and western <st1:country-region w:st="on">Indonesia</st1:country-region>, with occasional reports in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New Zealand</st1:place></st1:country-region> and various western Pacific islands.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;">The bill and pouch of pelicans play an important role in feeding. The bill is sensitive and this helps locate fish in murky water. It also has a hook at the end of the upper mandible, probably for gripping slippery food items. When food is caught, the pelican manipulates it in its bill until the prey typically has its head pointing down the pelican's throat. Then with a jerk of the head the pelican swallows the prey. The bill is delicately built. The lower jaw consists of two thin and weakly articulated bones from which the pouch hangs. When fully extended, the bill can hold up to 13 litres. The pouch does not function as a place to hold food for any length of time. Instead it serves as a short-term collecting organ. Pelicans plunge their bills into the water, using their pouches as nets. Once something is caught, a pelican draws its pouch to its breast. This empties the water and allows the bird to manoeuvre the prey into a swallowing position. The pouch can also serve as a net to catch food thrown by humans, and there are sightings of pelicans drinking by opening their bill to collect rainwater.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Breeding depends on environmental conditions, particularly rainfall. Pelicans are colonial breeders with up to 40 000 individuals grouping on islands or secluded shores. Breeding begins with courtship. The female leads potential mates (two to eight or more) around the colony. As the males follow her in these walks, they threaten each other while swinging their open bills from side to side trying to attract the female's attention. The males may also pick up small objects, like sticks or dry fish, which they toss in the air and catch again, repeating the sequence several times.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Australian Pelican</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://www.mdahlem.net/img/ozbirds/4/austpel_21l_30_big.jpg" width="332" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Australian Pelican</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://media.trevorstravels.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/mallacoota_20090105_017-1024x768.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Australian Pelican</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://www.fluffyfeathers.com/images/20080706100133_12382-australian%20pelican-csw-2.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Australian Pelican</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://ih2.redbubble.net/image.4436179.1575/flat,550x550,075,f.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Australian Pelican</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://www.biodiversitysnapshots.net.au/BDRS/images/mv/species/360293.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Australian Pelican</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://www.arthurgrosset.com/ozbirds/photos/pelcon18997.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Australian Pelican</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://www.stevehapp.com/birds/images/log-0438.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Australian Pelican</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://media.trevorsbirding.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/IMG_0509-1600x1200.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Australian Pelican</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Australian Pelican close up on Kangroo island</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7hB1-SWSeaQ" width="420"></iframe></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Australische pelikan-Australian Pelican</b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8ylLP9du5Co" width="420"></iframe></div></div>Rizwan Ilyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12394220215119789106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3944361822582011317.post-30243171499406499002012-06-13T05:28:00.000-07:002012-06-13T05:28:12.858-07:00Australasian Gannet<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Australasian Gannet Biography</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Australasian Gannets are common throughout the year over inshore waters in eastern, southern and south-western </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;">. They breed in noisy colonies, usually on islands or artificial structures, such as beacons. However, a colony at Point Danger, near </span><st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city><span style="background-color: white;"> in south-western </span><st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Victoria</st1:place></st1:state><span style="background-color: white;">, is situated on a promontory that protrudes from the mainland. There are just two other mainland colonies, both in </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New Zealand</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;">. Gannets forage by plunging headlong into the water from great heights to catch fish in their bills, before resurfacing to eat their prey.</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The male and female Australasian Gannet are similar in plumage. Most of the body is white, with dark tips on the major wing feathers and the inner tail feathers. The head is buff-yellow and the bill pale blue-grey with striking black borders to the bill sheaths. In immature birds, the head and upperparts are mostly brown with scattered amounts of white spotting. Small flocks are sometimes seen soaring above the ocean, and an individual bird will suddenly fold its wings back and dive spectacularly into the water.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Australasian Gannets are found throughout southern and south-eastern <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region>, to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New Zealand</st1:place></st1:country-region>.</span> Australasian Gannets are expert fishers. Birds soar 10 m or more above the surface of the water, herding fish into dense shoals, then fold their wings back and dive into the water to catch their prey. The fish are grasped with the aid of small backward-pointing serrations along the edges of the bill. A bird only stays under the water for about ten seconds, but the fish is normally swallowed before the bird reaches the surface.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">In <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region>, the Australasian Gannet breeds in dense colonies on islands off <st1:state w:st="on">Victoria</st1:state> and <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Tasmania</st1:place></st1:state>. Breeding colonies are also found off the coast of <st1:country-region w:st="on">New Zealand</st1:country-region>, mostly off the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">North</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Island</st1:placetype></st1:place>. The young do not reach breeding maturity until about six or seven years old.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Australasian Gannet</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://www.freedesktopwallpapers4u.com/data/media/26/Diving_bird-Australasian_gannet-15.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Australasian Gannet</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="317" src="http://svana.org/sjh/images/various/gannet_swoop.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Australasian Gannet</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGYVqtJ-cV3SiRAO4sOvGboQbFktxRGuw_eMGjvxhRb-2gP-_tKuv1wA_aj5-NL7KuodQDBsZIDUFAeLr9YUWZGbeXqekn63zFeKIk2n64LNMktO4amlGMOS5gQ2ffYAsfO0sz9umAPCw/s400/Australasian+Gannet+Sula+bassana+serrator.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Australasian Gannet</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Australian_Gannet_2.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Australasian Gannet</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2727/4334600406_8a759b1bda_z.jpg?zz=1" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Australasian Gannet</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXbwRlHBqfZR5_vDbheTa65vkLYcqwPxdpTzsR5KcBQTWDlkbiPvnp3JCAIdoi1nr5ucI7c1_ohNQI61jkY8e1bGHPzeNgxZ6XLhRL5gmdSNkYqB_1LjVCP2feQ6onAYcH2HCK8EdDa48S/s400/Australian+Gannet+1.JPG" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Australasian Gannet</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://www.stanford.edu/~petelat1/00020313.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Australasian Gannet</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7059/7070286621_fa7c17a52b_z.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Australasian Gannet</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>An Australasian Gannet Colony at Cape Kidnappers II</b></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/F9jzuGaf2sI" width="420"></iframe></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Gannet diving [Amazing!!]</b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zCspWEcXdZk" width="420"></iframe></div></div>Rizwan Ilyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12394220215119789106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3944361822582011317.post-73963530701700127292012-06-13T04:50:00.000-07:002012-06-13T04:50:57.676-07:00Brown Honeyeater<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Brown Honeyeater Biography</b></span><br />
<div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Brown Honeyeater is a medium-small pale grey-brown honeyeater with a distinctive yellow tuft behind its eye. It also has yellow to olive wing patches and tail panels. It is pale grey below, darker olive brown above and has a long curved black bill. Young birds are paler with more yellow colouring and a yellow gape (open bill). It has a fast, undulating flight and is seen either singly, in pairs or small flocks in flowering trees and shrubs.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Brown Honeyeater is similar to the Dusky Honeyeater, </span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Myzomela obscura</span></em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">, in size and shape, but this species is much darker brown and lacks the tuft behind the eye and the yellowish wing patches. It could also be confused with females or young birds of the Scarlet Honeyeater, </span></span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">M. sanguinolenta</span></em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">, or Red-headed Honeyeater, </span></span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">M. erythrocephala</span></em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">, but these are smaller with shorter tails, lack the eye tuft, often have a reddish face and have very different calls.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Brown Honeyeater is widespread in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region>, from south-western <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region> across the Top End to <st1:state w:st="on">Queensland</st1:state>, and through <st1:state w:st="on">New South Wales</st1:state> on the eastern side of the Great Dividing Range to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Swansea</st1:place></st1:city> in the Hunter Region. It is rarely seen southwards from <st1:placetype w:st="on">Lake</st1:placetype> <st1:placename w:st="on">Macquarie</st1:placename> to the <st1:placename w:st="on">Parramatta</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">River</st1:placetype>, <st1:city w:st="on">Sydney</st1:city>, but is regularly recorded in suitable habitats such as <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Homebush</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Bay</st1:placetype></st1:place> and Kurnell in small numbers, and is a vagrant to the Illawarra region. It is found west of the Great Dividing Range in <st1:state w:st="on">New South Wales</st1:state> to <st1:place w:st="on">Tamworth</st1:place> and Gunnedah and south-west to Hillston. The Brown Honeyeater is also found in Bali and the Lesser Sundas, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Indonesia</st1:country-region>, <st1:placename w:st="on">Aru</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Island</st1:placetype> and in parts of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Papua New Guinea</st1:place></st1:country-region>.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Brown Honeyeater is found in a wide range of wooded habitats, usually near water. It is often found in mangroves and woodlands or dense forests along waterways. It can also be found in mallee, spinifex woodlands, low dense shrublands, heaths and saltmarshes, as well as in monsoon forests or rainforests in the Top End. It is common in parks, gardens and street trees in urban areas as well as on farms and in remnant vegetation along roadsides.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Brown Honeyeater feeds on nectar and insects, foraging at all heights in trees and shrubs. It may be seen in mixed flocks with other honeyeaters. In <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Western Australia</st1:place></st1:state>, these include the Singing Honeyeater, White-fronted Honeyeater and the Red Wattlebird, while in the Top End it is often seen with the Dusky Honeyeater. However, it will be displaced at bird feeders by larger birds.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">During the breeding season, male Brown Honeyeaters defend a nesting territory by singing from tall trees and they stand guard while the female builds the nest and lays the eggs. The small neat cup-nest is made from fine bark, grasses and plant down, bound with spiders web, and is slung by the rim in a shrub, fern or tree at up to 5 m from the ground and is usually very well-hidden by thick foliage. Only the female incubates, but both sexes feed the young. Nest predators include Pied Currawongs, snakes and cats. Brush Cuckoos, Pallid Cuckoos, Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoos and Shining Bronze-Cuckoos will parasitise nests.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Browm Honeyeater</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjar2XcBz47BRphIzwbbnNXVUcF4cSP3ZKg3bf5NsSxRbyye36Rat-svHtC0OrAL5w0PLwbqMV0ImxZIcxelqong08Zv8mbXqK2YcE6rXcVlpqkSuAsH1JuoJJjJ75LamUkiGqH8NbmvU8/s400/ZP1100532+brown+honey+eater.JPG" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Brown Honeyeater</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Brown_Honeyeater_kobble_sep05.jpg/220px-Brown_Honeyeater_kobble_sep05.jpg" width="382" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Brown Honeyeater</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://davidkphotography.com/images/20090808213533_brown-honeyeater-kamarooka.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Brown Honeyeater</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="285" src="http://71.18.4.194/images/ATR-2008/AusTripRep-009.JPG" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Brown Honeyeater</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="302" src="http://bird.net.au/bird/images/c/ca/Brown_Honeyeater.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Browm Honeyeater</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3LE_88l_BET8p3-q4onqmaiu0_YMzmd0NLQ6EponY5jiyHPBo5ZUzbRBMPTxlUoOiUPz1_w24DH2qVYVf7Q8etiLtLIyqTLzDeJmCVlVEa0SZSP40cUEZ6wthIl4j_25CXD3n_UorXI0/s400/Brown-Honeyeater-Lichmera-i.gif" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Brown Honeyeater</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3299/3653129207_26bc35942d.jpg" width="266" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Brown Honeyeater</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4125/5062712041_1187b1c1bb_z.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4125/5062712041_1187b1c1bb_z.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Brown Honeyeater</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Brown Honeyeater (Lichmera Indinsticta)</b></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/aeQl_XcVwV4" width="420"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Brown Honeyeater 2011/06/24(2)</b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/tCJuj0fwlrY" width="420"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></div>Rizwan Ilyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12394220215119789106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3944361822582011317.post-38026088271557171492012-06-13T02:58:00.000-07:002012-06-13T02:58:16.041-07:00Brown Tree creeper<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Brown Tree creeper Biography</b></span><br />
<div><span style="background-color: white;">The Brown Tree creeper is the largest of </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;">'s tree creepers. It is mostly pale brown in plumage. Birds of northern </span><st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Queensland</st1:place></st1:state><span style="background-color: white;"> are darker brown. The head, throat and upper breast are pale greyish-brown, while the lower breast and belly are strongly streaked with black and buff. In flight, a buff stripe can be seen in the wing. The sexes are similar, except females have rufous edges to the feathers of the upper breast, while in the male these edges are black. Young Brown Treecreepers resemble the adults, but are duller, have less obvious stripes on the underparts and the lower belly is a pale rufous colour.</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Other treecreeper species that overlap in range with the Brown Treecreeper include the White-browed Treecreeper, </span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Climacteris affinis</span></em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">, and the White-throated Treecreeper, </span></span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Cormobates leucophaeus</span></em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">. The White-browed Treecreeper is darker grey-brown with a more distinct white stripe above the eye (edged with red-brown in the female). The eyebrow of the Brown Treecreeper is less distinct and is more buff. The smaller White-throated Treecreeper has much darker upperparts, a contrasting white throat and little or no marks above the eye.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Found in the drier open forests and woodlands, the Brown Treecreeper stays in the same area all year round.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Brown Treecreeper climbs up the trunks and branches of trees in search of food. It probes into cavities and under loose bark with its long downward curving bill. In this way it searches for insects and their larvae. The most favoured insects are ants. Some feeding also takes place on the ground on fallen logs. Sometimes, birds can be seen diving on ground-dwelling prey from a perch in a tree. Feeding normally takes place in pairs or small group</span>s.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The nest is a collection of grasses, feathers and other soft material, placed in a suitable tree hollow or similar site. Both sexes build the nest, but the female alone incubates the eggs. Pairs often have two broods during each breeding season. Occasionally, other birds ("helpers") assist the breeding pair with building of nest and feeding the young chicks.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Brown Tree creeper</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Brown_treecreeper_jan09.jpg/250px-Brown_treecreeper_jan09.jpg" width="266" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Brown Tree creeper </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Brown_Treecreeper.jpg/250px-Brown_Treecreeper.jpg" width="266" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Brown Tree creeper</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="366" src="http://www.mdahlem.net/img/ozbirds/15/brtrcrp_6853_big.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Brown Tree creeper</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="264" src="http://canberrabirds.org.au/ConservingWoodlandBirds/Brown_Treecreeper1.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Brown Tree creeper</span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><img border="0" height="400" src="http://davidkphotography.com/images/20090830200912_brown-treecreeper-blog.jpg" width="266" /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Brown Tree creeper</span></b></b></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><img border="0" height="400" src="http://davidkphotography.com/images/20100919195751_brown-treecreeper.jpg" width="266" /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Brown Tree creeper</span></b></b></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://photogallery.canberrabirds.org.au/Web%20Galleries/Brown%20Treecreeper/thumbnails/Brown%20Treecreeper%2010%20(Julian%20Robinson).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="398" src="http://photogallery.canberrabirds.org.au/Web%20Galleries/Brown%20Treecreeper/thumbnails/Brown%20Treecreeper%2010%20(Julian%20Robinson).jpg" width="400" /></a></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><b style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"></b></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><b style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Brown Tree creeper</span></b></b></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><img border="0" height="400" src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2788/4180300275_036734246d_z.jpg" width="300" /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><b style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"></b></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><b style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"></b></b></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><b style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Brown Tree creeper</span></b></b></b></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><b style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"></b></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><b style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Brown Creeper (Certhidae:Certhia Americana) Foraging</span></b></b></b></span></div></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/JrHPgcRC7To" width="420"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Brown Creeper </span></b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/XwBwQUc-J4I" width="420"></iframe></div></div>Rizwan Ilyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12394220215119789106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3944361822582011317.post-73304852172587664952012-06-13T01:51:00.000-07:002012-06-13T01:51:47.363-07:00Australian Brush Turkey<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Australian Brush Turkey Biography </b><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Australian Brush-turkey has a mainly black body plumage, bare red head, yellow throat wattle (pale blue in northern birds) and laterally flattened tail. The Australian Brush-turkey is not easily confused with any other Australian bird. It is the largest of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s three megapodes (Family Megapodiidae). The megapodes are a distinct family of the group of fowl-like birds (Order Galliformes), which includes quails, turkeys, peafowl and junglefowl.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The smaller (45 cm) Orange-footed Scrubfowl,</span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Megapodius freycinet</span></em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">, which shares part of the Australian Brush-turkey's northern range, is entirely dark grey to brown, with the exception of bright orange legs and feet. <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s third megapode is the Malleefowl,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span></span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Leipoa ocellata</span></em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">, a largely brown bird, barred with black, white and rufous. It is found in southern and south-western <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region>.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Australian Brush-turkey's range extends along eastern <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region>, from <st1:city w:st="on">Cape York Peninsula</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Queensland</st1:state>, south to the northern suburbs of <st1:city w:st="on">Sydney</st1:city> and the Illawarra region of <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New South Wales</st1:place></st1:state>.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Australian Brush-turkey inhabits rainforests and wet schlerophyll forests, but can also be found in drier scrubs. In the northern part of its range, the Australian Brush-turkey is most common at higher altitudes, but individuals move to the lowland areas in winter months. In the south, it is common in both mountain and lowland regions.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Brush-turkeys feed on insects, seeds and fallen fruits, which are exposed by raking the leaf litter or breaking open rotten logs with their large feet. The majority of food is obtained from the ground, with birds occasionally observed feeding on ripening fruits among tree branches.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">As with other megapodes, the Australian Brush-turkey incubates its eggs in a large mound. The male usually builds a single large mound of organic matter, approximately 4 m in diameter and 1 m high. Some males have been recorded with more than one mound, but this is not common. Eggs are laid by several females in a single mound. The eggs are incubated by the heat given off by the rotting vegetation. The male maintains a constant temperature of 33 - 38°C by digging holes in the mound and inserting his bill to check the heat, then adding and removing vegetable matter as required. Before the eggs hatch, many fall prey to burrowing predators such as goannas. After hatching, the chicks burrow out of the mound, at which point they are left to fend for themselves. These hatchlings are fully feathered and are able to walk and fend for themselves immediately. Remarkably, they are able to fly just a few hours after hatching.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Australian Brush Turkey </b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="330" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Australian_Brush_turkey2.jpeg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Australian Brush Turkey</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIFF425YYU56PiQAf_1-J8utcuVVoNWnkHZv1NRQontnHxg6OPd5QRT7RNmBTTB8FGS0tFosZm-Bkftxn2rEYywws1U0BIuN2PE1F9Oqg-ox_yw-EUnATz8lkAFTIQIzj5H_iL2iy9Cos/s400/Brush-turkey_Australian_Luff.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Australian Brush Turkey</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="270" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Australian_Brush_turkey.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Australian Brush Turkey </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="272" src="http://www.anhs.com.au/images/Brush_Turkey_b.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Australian Brush Turkey </b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://birdway.com.au/megapodiidae/brush_turkey/source/image/brush_turkey_81317.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Australian Brush Turkey</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="280" src="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/bbimages/aab/images/photographers/2010_04/large/Australian-Brush-turkey.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Australian Brush Turkey</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://www.bushpea.com/bd/ph/laz/mi/australian%20brush-turkey%2001.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Australian Brush Turkey</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://ibc.lynxeds.com/files/pictures/171.JPG" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;"> </b><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Australian Brush Turkey</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Australian Brush Turkey / Scrub Turkey-With Nest </b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zqLFgHx_3Gk" width="420"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Australian Bush Turkey </b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/V-BDipgNCU8" width="420"></iframe></div></div>Rizwan Ilyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12394220215119789106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3944361822582011317.post-76494444226601096432012-06-12T16:41:00.000-07:002012-06-12T16:41:05.243-07:00Superb Fairy-Wren<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Superb Fairy-Wren Biography</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Adult male Superb Fairy-wrens are among the most brightly coloured of the species, especially during the breeding season. They have rich blue and black plumage above and on the throat. The belly is grey-white and the bill is black. Females and young birds are mostly brown above with a dull red-orange area around the eye and a brown bill. Females have a pale greenish gloss, absent in young birds, on the otherwise brown tail. The legs are brown in both sexes. Males from further inland and in the south-west of the range have more blue on the back and underparts.</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Several other species of fairy-wren are found in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region>. The males of each species are quite distinct, but the females and young birds are often difficult to separate. Of the species that overlap in range with the Superb Fairy-wren, the female White-winged Fairy-wren </span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Malurus leucopterus</span></em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> and Red-backed Fairy-wren </span></span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">M. melanocephalus</span></em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> lacks the chestnut colour around the eye, while the female Variegated Fairy-wren </span></span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">M. lamberti</span></em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> has a dull grey-blue wash. Both the Superb and White-winged Fairy-wrens are similar in size. The Variegated Fairy-wren is slightly larger in size and has a longer tail.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Superb Fairy-wrens are found south of the Tropic of Capricorn through eastern <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region> and <st1:state w:st="on">Tasmania</st1:state> to the south-eastern corner of <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">South Australia</st1:place></st1:state>.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Seen in most habitat types where suitable dense cover and low shrubs occur. They are common in urban parks and gardens, and can be seen in small social groups. These groups normally consist of one male and several females and young birds.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Superb Fairy-wrens feed on insects and other small arthropods. These are caught mostly on the ground, but may also be taken from low bushes. Feeding takes place in small social groups.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The nest is a dome-shaped structure of grasses and other fine material. It is usually placed in a low bush and is constructed by the female. The female incubates the eggs alone, but both sexes feed the young. Other members of the group will also help with the feeding of the young.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Superb Fairy-Wren</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="369" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Superb_Fairy-wren_facefan_hunter_1_smaller.jpg/220px-Superb_Fairy-wren_facefan_hunter_1_smaller.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Superb Fairy-Wren</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="303" src="http://www.chappo1.com/images/birdsfinches/2007%208943%20copy-1.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Superb Fairy-Wren</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="305" src="http://www.paperbean.com.au/blog/Superb-Fairy-Wren.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Superb Fairy-Wren</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/file.aspx?id=13590&mode=thumbnail" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Superb Fairy-Wren</span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLJrNy0tVVRCQc-tKFJW0pVZCdRmGmknU0Z4vleBIy93vLIETkL6CCH_eF53o8kZ-S-HXXlMUAgpEgV-7DGTJcRU6Apphn445eUiQkJgk5hcP8Tw_ihBTNgf6vnT9SW-oNMnleCLWc_vE/s400/wren4.jpg" width="266" /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><b style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"></b></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><b style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Superb Fairy-Wren</span></b></b></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><img border="0" height="266" src="http://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/files/2009/07/superb-fairy-wren.jpg" width="400" /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><b style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"></b></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><b style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Superb Fairy-Wren</span></b></b></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><b style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> Superb Fairy-Wren</span></b></b></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><b style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Superb Fairy Wren </span></b></b></span></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/54vqTC0R8xg" width="420"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Superb Fairy-Wren - Gladesville Hospital </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DyHcmDYjBEU" width="420"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></div>Rizwan Ilyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12394220215119789106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3944361822582011317.post-14723110594194982742012-06-12T16:13:00.000-07:002012-06-12T16:13:27.819-07:00Strong-Billed Honeyeater<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Strong-Billed Honeyeater Biography</b></span><br />
<div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Strong-billed Honeyeater is the larger of the two Tasmanian </span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">Melithreptus</span></em><em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span></span></em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">honeyeaters. It has a large, almost straight black bill with a heavy base and sharply pointed tip, as well as a strongly built neck and shoulders. The head is black, with a distinctive white crescent across the back of the neck, white-green eye-skin and a white chin and throat. The upperparts are olive-grey to green above with the underparts a dull grey-green. Young birds resemble adults, but have a lemon-yellow tinge to the back of the neck, a browner head and a yellow-orange bill and eye-skin. In behaviour, this species resembles treecreepers, moving up and down the trunks of trees in search of insects. It is often seen with other honeyeaters, especially the related Black-headed Honeyeater, as well as pardalotes and thornbills, and is very noisy and gregarious when feeding.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The only other </span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">Melithreptus</span></em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> honeyeater in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Tasmania</st1:state></st1:place>, the Black-headed Honeyeater<i>, </i></span></span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">M.</span></em><em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></em><em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">affinis</span></em><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">,</span></span></i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> can be distinguished from the Strong-billed Honeyeater by its totally black head and lack of a white neck crescent, as well as its smaller size, finer bill and shorter tail.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Strong-billed Honeyeater is endemic to <st1:state w:st="on">Tasmania</st1:state> and the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Bass Strait</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Islands</st1:placetype></st1:place>, being widespread on the Tasmanian mainland. It is restricted to the eastern parts of <st1:placename w:st="on">King</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Island</st1:placetype>, and is widespread on <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Flinders</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Island</st1:placetype></st1:place>. It is also found on <st1:placetype w:st="on">Cape</st1:placetype> <st1:placename w:st="on">Barren</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Island</st1:placetype>, as well as other offshore islands such as Hunter, Maria and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Bruny</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Islands</st1:placetype></st1:place>.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Strong-billed Honeyeater is found in old or mature wet forests with stands of Mountain Ash or Alpine Ash and a shrub understorey, especially in gullies, but it will move into drier forests on slopes during winter. It will also be found in cool temperate rainforests dominated by Antarctic Beech, as well as dry forests with mature trees and in coastal or wet scrubs near wetlands. May sometimes be seen in parks and gardens and in orchards.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Strong-billed Honeyeater, unlike other </span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Melithreptus</span></em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> honeyeaters, feeds mostly on insects. It will also eat nectar and fallen fruits on occasion. It has a short, strong bill and heavy shoulders, adapted for ripping the bark of trees. Foraging like a treecreeper, it moves at all levels, from the canopy to the ground, by hopping up and down the vertical trunks and ripping noisily at the bark. It will also feed in foliage and on flowers, as well as on the ground. Often seen in flocks of two to four during the breeding season, it will group together in much larger flocks at other times and often forms mixed flocks with the Black-headed Honeyeater.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Strong-billed Honeyeater forms monogamous breeding pairs, which may receive help with raising young from other adults and members of previous broods. Nesting often occurs in small colonies in 'traditional' areas, with colony members returning to the same general location each year. All adults help with nest-building, forming a small, deep cup-shaped nest from bark strips covered with lichen and lined with soft bark, the fuzz from tree-ferns, </span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Dicksonia</span></em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> species, and other plant or animal fibres. The nest is suspended by the rim from the outer foliage of eucalypts and shrubs or in the crown of a tree-fern. Both parents incubate and feed the young, with other adults sometimes helping with feeding and defence of the nest.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Strong-Billed Honeyeater</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://boca.org.au/jwallpapers_files/2011/4/97e07060a02e599de7ba4b109fbf98a3.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><b style="font-size: x-large;">Strong-Billed Honeyeater</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c386/moloch05/Tasmania/summary2/Hartz/Strong-billedHoneyeater1_400.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Strong-Billed Honeyeater</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="291" src="http://www.birdlife.org.au/images/sized/images/uploads/bird_profiles/Strong-billed_Honeyeater2-ct280-280x204.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Strong-Billed Honeyeater</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="291" src="http://www.birdlife.org.au/images/sized/images/uploads/bird_profiles/Strong-billed_Honeyeater-ct280-280x204.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Strong-Billed Honeyeater</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://www.birdway.com.au/meliphagidae/strong_billed_honeyeater/source/image/strongb_honeyeater_128445.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><b style="font-size: x-large;">Strong-Billed Honeyeater</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="267" src="http://www.oiseaux.net/photos/patrick.ingremeau/images/meliphage.a.bec.fort.pain.1g.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Strong-Billed Honeyeater</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://bushpea.com/bd/ph/geo/im/strong-billed%20honeyeater%2001.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Strong-Billed Honeyeater</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://i.pbase.com/o2/98/845398/1/96450573.PS5m6KVi._MG_9078.jpg" width="301" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Strong-Billed Honeyeater</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Strong-Billed Honeyeater</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/hfmjxiwBTnE" width="420"></iframe></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Honey Eater And Padelemon</b></span> </div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/f6_FKPuVXaw" width="420"></iframe></div></div>Rizwan Ilyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12394220215119789106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3944361822582011317.post-6078791815290831862012-06-12T15:43:00.000-07:002012-06-12T15:43:25.115-07:00Sooty Oystercatcher<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Sooty Oystercatcher Biography</b></span><br />
<div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Sooty Oystercatcher is a striking black shorebird with a long red bill, red eye and pink legs. Young birds are duller and browner. It is often seen with the similar Pied Oystercatcher and is only found in coastal areas.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Sooty Oystercatcher is the only all-black shorebird in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region> and is easily distinguished from the similar sized and shaped Pied Oystercatcher, </span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">H. longirostris</span></em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">, which is black and white.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Sooty Oystercatcher is endemic to <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region> and is widespread in coastal eastern, southern and western <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region>.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Sooty Oystercatcher is strictly coastal, usually within 50 m of the ocean. It prefers rocky shores, but will be seen on coral reefs or sandy beaches near mudflats. It breeds on offshore islands and isolated rocky headlands.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Sooty Oystercatcher feeds on molluscs, crabs and other crustaceans, marine worms, starfish and sea urchins, and small fish. It uses its long bill to stab at prey or to lever, prise or hammer open food items. It drinks seawater.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Sooty Oystercatcher breeds in colonies, with both members of a breeding pair incubating eggs and caring for the young. They nest in a scrape on the ground among pebbles or shells on rocky shores or cliffs.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Sooty Oystercatcher </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Sooty_Oystercatcher.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Sooty Oystercatcher</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="258" src="http://www.kemperphoto.com/galleries/Birds/OysterCatcher_9236_web.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Sooty Oystercatcher</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://www.arnhemlandbirds.com.au/images/birds/migratory/Sooty%20Oystercatcher%20on%20Haul%20Round%20Cay.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Sooty Oystercatcher</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://www.bushpea.com/bd/ph/vik/mi/sooty%20oystercatcher%2003.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Sooty Oystercatcher </b></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/20110821_Sooty_Oystercatcher_in_flight_-_3_of_3.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Sooty Oystercatcher</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/20110821_Sooty_Oystercatcher_in_flight_-_2_of_3.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Sooty Oystercatcher</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://www.dartfordwarbler.com/uploaded_images/sooty_oystercatcher-731521.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Sooty Oystercatcher</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/20110821_Sooty_Oystercatcher_in_flight_-_1_of_3.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Sooty Oystercatcher </b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Oystercatcher </b></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/X3_nG0g6Fs4" width="420"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Sooty Oystercatcher </b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/di4bs4Jq3ZA" width="420"></iframe></div></div>Rizwan Ilyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12394220215119789106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3944361822582011317.post-56712069304632106492012-06-12T15:10:00.001-07:002012-06-12T15:11:06.615-07:00Splendid Fairy-Wren<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Splendid Fairy-Wren Biography</b></span><br />
<div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The breeding plumage of the male is predominantly blue, varying from cobalt-blue in the east of its range to violet-blue in the west.It has black bands at the base of the tail (absent in the violet-blue birds), across the breast and from the beak, through the eyes to join a band across the back of its neck. Its crown and cheek patches are paler blue. Wings and long tail are brown with a blue wash. His beak is black and his legs and feet are brown-grey. In non-breeding plumage, called eclipse, he is very similar to the female, being pale brown above and buff to white underneath although he retains the blue wash on wings and tail. The female does not have the blue wash on her wings, but does have a reddish-tan line from beak to eye that extends into a ring around her eye. Her beak is reddish-tan.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The male in breeding plumage is quite distinct but in eclipse he is similar to the males of other fairy-wrens in eclipse. A faint wash of blue on male wings during eclipse distinguishes this species from others. The female is similar to females of other fairy-wren species, but has a bluer tail than most.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">These birds are widely distributed across <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region> in two areas. One area is from about <st1:placename w:st="on">Shark</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Bay</st1:placetype> south through WA, through SA except the coast to about the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Flinders</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Ranges</st1:placetype></st1:place> and the southern and central parts of NT. The eastern area include SA from the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Flinders</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Ranges</st1:placetype></st1:place>, the far north-western tip of Vic, NSW east to about Moree and Balranald and south central Qld.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">These birds live in arid to semi-arid areas, in mostly dense shrublands or woodlands of acacia, and mallee eucalypt with dense shrubs</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Like most of the fairy-wrens, Splendid Fairy-wrens eat mostly insects and forage on both the ground and in shrubs. They live in groups which forage together.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Splendid Fairy-wren female builds an oval domed nest of dry grass, strips of bark and rootlets, with an entrance two thirds of the way up one side. The female is the only member of the group to incubate the eggs, but all members of the group feed the chicks.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Splendid Fairy-Wren</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="285" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7004/6694128403_00b7384539_z.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Splendid Fairy-Wren</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="303" src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldfae1Nw3F1qeeqk5o1_r1_500.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;"> </b><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Splendid Fairy-Wren</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="273" src="http://www.dartfordwarbler.com/uploaded_images/splendid2-785497.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Splendid Fairy-Wren</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://www.kemperphoto.com/galleries/Birds/SPFR_7459.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Splendid Fairy-Wren</span></b></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://www.abc.net.au/science/scribblygum/yourphotos/comp06/img/birds.jpg" width="400" /></div><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"></b><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Splendid Fairy-Wren</span></b></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="318" src="http://www.bushtrackerownersforum.com/forum/userpix/77_Male_splendid_fairy_Wren_1.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Splendid Fairy-Wren</span></b></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://davidkphotography.com/images/20091020213122_splendid-fairy-wren.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Splendid Fairy-Wren</span></b></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="353" src="http://www.batisbirdingsafaris.com/frontpagepics/splendid_fairy_wren.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Splendid Fairy-Wren</span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Splendid Fairy-Wren Singing </span></b></div></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/0IB9CqCFGMI" width="420"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Splendid Fairy-Wren</b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/XRxXLu0406I" width="420"></iframe></div></div>Rizwan Ilyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12394220215119789106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3944361822582011317.post-77808931478398511302012-06-12T14:43:00.000-07:002012-06-12T14:43:39.712-07:00Satin Bowerbird<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Satin Bowerbird Biography </b></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Satin Bowerbirds are medium-sized birds. The adult male has striking glossy blue-black plumage, a pale bluish white bill and a violet-blue iris. Younger males and females are similar in colour to each other, and are collectively referred to as 'green' birds. They are olive-green above, off-white with dark scalloping below and have brown wings and tail. The bill is browner in colour. Young males may begin to acquire their adult plumage in their fifth year and are not fully 'attired' until they are seven.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Immature or female Satin Bowerbirds can resemble Green Catbirds, but are distinguished by a blue eye, a darker bill and a more scalloped patterning on the underbody. They also tend to be more olive-green rather than a bright green.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Satin Bowerbirds are found along most of the eastern and south-eastern coast of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region>.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Satin Bowerbirds prefer the wetter forests and woodlands, and nearby open areas, although those around the Atherton Tableland are largely rainforest inhabitants.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Satin Bowerbirds feed mostly on fruits throughout the year. During summer (breeding) the diet is supplemented with a large number of insects, while leaves are often eaten during the winter months.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The male Satin Bowerbird is perhaps the best known and well documented of all the bowerbirds in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region>. This fame partially stems from its practice of building and decorating a bower to attract females. This consists of two parallel walls of sticks, is built on the ground, and is used as a courtship arena during the breeding season. The male decorates it with bright blue coloured objects that it collects; blue clothes pegs, drinking straws and bottle tops are among the favorite stolen items, while bright blue parrot feathers, flowers and brown snail shells, make up the majority of decorations away from human habitation. A mixture of chewed vegetable matter and saliva is used to paint the walls of the bower. The bower owner meticulously maintains it throughout the year. The breeding season runs from, and both mature and immature males build bowers and display to prospective females.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">On the arrival of a female, the male Satin Bowerbird leaps into a ritualised display of exaggerated movements, such as strutting and bowing, with wings outstretched and quivering, and accompanied by a variety of mechanical-sounding calls, such as buzzing and rattling interspersed with mimicry. One of the bower decorations is usually carried in the male's bill. If impressed, the female moves into the bower avenue for mating and then leaves to perform the nesting duties on her own, while the male readies himself for courting more prospective females.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">The female places a loose nest of sticks in a tree or bush, up to 30 m – 35 m above the ground.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Satin Bowerbird </b></span></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="340" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Satinbowerbirdmale.jpg/250px-Satinbowerbirdmale.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Satin Bowerbird</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicRQIb5ULYluf1EpFKJgkFfhR9nKzkchzKTUBC-ipAk_68A-JQT6G3g1-8Q0FyU2cwWG1VcaTq8wg30aTmre851legF8sCC_GJcOKa8kc5IGGPFvMAQG4gE71vt6xSV3jY5Y372GSsOs8/s400/bowerbird-31.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;"> </b><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Satin Bowerbird</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="282" src="http://museumvictoria.com.au/forest/images/mr004868_md.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;"> </b><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Satin Bowerbird</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="292" src="http://www.graemechapman.com.au/catalogue/ausbirds3274/b/679205.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><o:p>Satin Bowerbird</o:p></span></b></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="267" src="http://cdn.lightgalleries.net/4bd5ec0079abc/images/MM7363-080815-01087-1.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><o:p>Satin Bowerbird</o:p></span></b></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="276" src="http://ih1.redbubble.net/image.8145349.0604/flat,550x550,075,f.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><o:p>Satin Bowerbird</o:p></span></b></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://cdn.lightgalleries.net/4bd5ec0079abc/images/MM7363-080906-02012-2.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><o:p>Satin Bowerbird </o:p></span></b></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://museumvictoria.com.au/pages/20994/jackah.jpg" width="303" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><o:p>Satin Bowerbird </o:p></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><o:p>Crime Of Passion </o:p></span></b></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/tJ32_ijdmLo" width="420"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Satin Bowerbird</b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ulSfdqsRnco" width="420"></iframe></div></div>Rizwan Ilyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12394220215119789106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3944361822582011317.post-45030010306550536832012-06-12T14:18:00.000-07:002012-06-12T14:18:13.771-07:00Paradise Rifllebird<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Paradise Riflebird Biography</b></span><br />
<div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Paradise Riflebird is a medium-sized, long-billed riflebird without plumes. The adult male is velvety black with a metallic oil-green sheen to crown, nape and upper breast shield. The tail is very short with iridescent (shining) blue-green central tail feathers. The remainder of under parts are velvety black with the tips of feathers an iridescent dark green. The bill long and curves strongly downwards. The female and immature have greyish-brown upperparts, rufous on the wings, a whitish eyebrow and throat. The underparts are buff with black 'horseshoe' markings.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><st1:state w:st="on"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Victoria</span></st1:state><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">'s Riflebird, </span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Ptiloris victoriaea</span></em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">, is smaller (23 cm - 25 cm) and occurs only in north-eastern <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Queensland</st1:place></st1:state>, from Cooktown to Mt Spec National Park near Townsville.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Paradise Riflebird occurs in highland rainforests of the Great Dividing Range from central-eastern <st1:state w:st="on">New South Wales</st1:state> north of Dungog to the <st1:placename w:st="on">Bunya</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Mountains</st1:placetype>, south-eastern <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Queensland</st1:place></st1:state>. The most northerly population is isolated in the <st1:placename w:st="on">Calliope</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Range</st1:placetype>, east of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Biloela</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Queensland</st1:state></st1:place>.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Paradise Riflebird is found in subtropical and temperate rainforests (including Antarctic Beech rainforest), mostly in mountains and foothills, and adjoining wetter eucalypt forests</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Paradise Riflebird is an active feeder, foraging like a tree creeper up tree trunks and along branches for insects, spiders and centipedes. The long curved bill is used to pry off large pieces of bark, to chisel into dead branches and to probe into crevices and rotten logs and stumps on the forest floor. They also feed on fruit and often feed together with other fruit eaters such as bowerbirds.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">During the breeding season, the gloriously plumaged male Paradise Riflebirds are vocal and conspicuous, spending most of the day on their display perches, which consist of one or more thick, horizontal branches high above the ground in a tall tree. They can be found both by their harsh calls in and around their display areas or by their rustling flight. Their display is spectacular, with the plumage sparkling green, blue or purple in the sunlight. The wings are fully extended and fanned upwards, and the head is thrown backwards to show the metallic, slightly erectile feathers on its throat, while the broad plumes of the belly and flanks are thrown slightly outwards in a circle. The adult females are very cryptic (hard to see) and their nests are not often found. The female alone attends to the nest which is a bulky, rough bowl of twigs, leaves, decorated with moss, orchids, sometimes snakeskin’s, placed high in dense foliage. The males are promiscuous, mating with many females.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Paradise Riflebird</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://hollywoodhatesme.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/riflebird.jpg" width="330" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><b style="font-size: x-large;">Paradise Riflebird</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="271" src="http://www.birdforum.net/opus/images/thumb/d/d2/Paradise_riflebirda.jpg/550px-Paradise_riflebirda.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b><b style="font-size: x-large;">Paradise Riflebird</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://www.pcpimages.com/Nature-and-Wildlife/Birds/regent-riflebird-1/872787205_WnyCF-L.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Paradise Riflebird</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5305/5674387490_ed808304a1.jpg" width="372" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b><b style="font-size: x-large;">Paradise Riflebird</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://www.surfbirds.com/media/gallery_photos/20110927100638.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b><b style="font-size: x-large;">Paradise Riflebird</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://rainforest-australia.com/victorias%20riflebird.jpg" width="295" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b><b style="font-size: x-large;">Paradise Riflebird</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="310" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2113/2378837992_483bd7d646.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Paradise Riflebird</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://www.craterlakes.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Victorias_Riflebird_Display.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;"> Paradise Riflebird </b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Paradise Riflebird</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/i641Fat32Dc" width="420"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Riflebird Of Paradise -- National Geographic</span></b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7XhPHWY4RuM" width="420"></iframe></div></div>Rizwan Ilyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12394220215119789106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3944361822582011317.post-79363379455110935852012-06-12T13:36:00.000-07:002012-06-12T13:36:47.327-07:00New Holland Honeyeater<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b><span style="font-size: large;">New Holland Honeyeater Biography </span></b><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The New Holland Honeyeater is mostly black and white, with a large yellow wing patch and yellow sides on the tail. It has a small white ear patch, a thin white whisker at the base of the bill and a white eye. This honeyeater is an active bird, and rarely sits still long enough to give an extended view. Sexes are similar in looks, but females are slightly smaller in size. Young birds are browner and have a grey eye.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">One very similar species is the White-cheeked Honeyeater,</span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Phylidonyris nigra</span></em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">. This species has a single large white cheek patch and a dark eye. The two species frequently occur together.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The New Holland Honeyeater's range extends throughout southern <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region>, from about <st1:city w:st="on">Brisbane</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Queensland</st1:state>, to just north of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Perth</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Western Australia</st1:state></st1:place>.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="background-color: white;">The New Holland Honeyeater is common in heath, forests, woodland and gardens, mainly where grevilleas and banksias are found. It is inquisitive and approaches humans. It also mixes with other types of honeyeaters.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">New Holland Honeyeaters are active feeders. They mostly eat the nectar of flowers, and busily dart from flower to flower in search of this high-energy food. Other food items include fruit, insects and spiders. Birds may feed alone, but normally gather in quite large groups. Most feeding takes place in lower areas of bushes and thickets.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The New Holland Honeyeater's cup-shaped nest is made of bark and grasses, bound together with spider web. It is lined with soft material and is placed in a bush or tree, anywhere from ground level up to 6 m. Both sexes feed the chicks. A pair of adults may raise two or three broods in a year.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>New Holland Honeyeater</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://th08.deviantart.net/fs21/300W/i/2007/241/e/b/New_Holland_Honeyeater_4_by_heartyfisher.jpg" width="303" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">New Holland Honeyeater</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://photogallery.canberrabirds.org.au/images/Honeyeater_New_Holland_Fullagar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://photogallery.canberrabirds.org.au/images/Honeyeater_New_Holland_Fullagar.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b><b style="font-size: x-large;">New Holland Honeyeater</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="341" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/New_Holland_Honeyeater.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">New Holland Honeyeater</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="292" src="http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs21/i/2007/249/e/1/New_Holland_Honeyeater_2_by_heartyfisher.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">New Holland Honeyeater</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://garden.canberrabirds.org.au/images/species/honeyeaters/newHollandHoneyeater.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">New Holland Honeyeater </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://www.leichhardt.nsw.gov.au/IgnitionSuite/uploads/images/New%20Holland%20Honeyeater%20%20Greg%20Miles.jpg" width="315" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">New Holland Honeyeater</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://www.knox.vic.gov.au/Page/Images/THUMBNAIL_environemnt_Honeyeater_new_holland.jpg" width="395" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">New Holland Honeyeater</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="342" src="http://www.survival.org.au/images/birds/new_holland_honeyeater_250.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>New Holland Honeyeater </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>New Holland Honeyeater</b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/hDEoOjApc1Y" width="420"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>New Holland Honey Eater</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/roR7sMN0RyI" width="420"></iframe></div></div>Rizwan Ilyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12394220215119789106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3944361822582011317.post-37569002102002390542012-06-12T11:49:00.000-07:002012-06-12T11:49:42.299-07:00Letter-Winged Kite<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Letter-Winged Kite Biography</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">In some ways Letter-winged Kites appear rather like owls. Because much of their hunting activity occurs in the twilight, they have large eyes which allow them to see in the half-light, imparting an owl-like appearance. They mostly eat Long-tailed Rats, which breed in large numbers during wet seasons in the inland, and this allows Letter-winged Kites to also breed up. However, when dry conditions return and the rat population declines, the kites are forced to disperse in search of food, when they may occur near the coast.</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Letter-winged Kite is a small to medium-sized raptor (bird of prey). It has a white head, tail and underparts, and is mostly pale grey above. The female bird has a greyer crown. A distinctive black 'W' shape across the underside of its long, broad white wings gives the bird its name. When perching, it has an obvious black shoulder patch. Its large eyes, which are a bright red, are surrounded by black eye-patches, giving it an owl-like appearance. The legs are flesh-coloured.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Letter-winged Kite is very similar to the Black-shouldered Kite, </span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">E. axillarus</span></em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">, but has a slower, deeper wing beat when flying. The Letter-winged Kite has the black under-wing 'W' pattern, and lacks the black wing tips of the Black-shouldered Kite. The Black-shouldered Kite is often seen hovering in the daytime, while the Letter-winged Kite is a nocturnal hunter.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Letter-winged Kite is an endemic species, found in the arid inland regions of western <st1:state w:st="on">Queensland</st1:state>, northern <st1:state w:st="on">South Australia</st1:state> and the south of <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Northern Territory</st1:place></st1:state>. However it is an irruptive species (has sudden population increases), dispersing to the coast when food is plentiful and there are rat or mouse plagues.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Letter-winged Kite is a bird of open country and grasslands in arid and semi-arid <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region>, where there are tree-lined streams or water courses. When food is plentiful, the species irrupts and birds may disperse to higher rainfall coastal regions. This kite roosts by day in the high canopy of leafy trees and is the only member of its family that hunts at night.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Letter-winged Kite is a nocturnal hunter, pouncing on small rodents and marsupials. Its main prey is the Long-haired Rat.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Letter-winged Kite is an opportunistic breeder. This means that the timing of breeding is variable and may be extended in good seasons. The kites may breed in colonies, from 2 to 100 pairs when conditions are right and food is plentiful. The female mainly incubates, broods and cares for the young, while the male brings food for his mate and the nestlings. If food becomes scarce, the nest and young may be abandoned. The nest is well hidden and made of small sticks and twigs, lined with leaves and often rat fur or regurgitated pellets.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Letter-Winged Kite</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://bird.net.au/bird/images/7/74/BSK-2.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Letter-Winged Kite</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://www.abberton.org/2003files/smletterwingedkiteharper.jpg" width="321" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Letter-Winged Kite</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://oklahomabirdsandbutterflies.com/uploads/Image/Birds/Mississippi_Kite_Closeup.jpg" width="338" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Letter-Winged Kite</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://leesbirdblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/37-black-shouldered-kite-elanus-axillaris-by-ian.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Letter-Winged Kite</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="285" src="http://www.vulkaner.no/n/birds/hawk/tegn/black-austr.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Letter-Winged Kite</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="286" src="http://media.knoxnews.com/media/img/photos/2011/08/09/220110809152351003_t607.JPG" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Letter-Winged Kite</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://www.vulkaner.no/n/birds/hawk/tegn/blachsh..jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Letter-Winged Kite</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://www.redorbit.com/media/uploads/2004/10/38_3330a8fc5265bdf9848d6699f390ef44.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Letter-Winged Kite</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Letter-Winged Kite</b></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Y_xl7Nxt4hQ" width="420"></iframe></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Black Shouldered Kite</b></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/mP1CuCPd-rk" width="420"></iframe></div></div>Rizwan Ilyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12394220215119789106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3944361822582011317.post-69683656550053761772012-06-12T08:13:00.000-07:002012-06-12T08:13:12.943-07:00Laughing Kookaburra<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Laughing Kookaburra Biography</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">In eastern </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;">, the raucous cackle of the Laughing Kookaburra is an essential feature of the dawn chorus. They can be heard laughing from the tip of </span><st1:place w:st="on">Cape York</st1:place><span style="background-color: white;"> south to Wilsons Promontory. The species’ occurrence in other parts of </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;">, however, is no laughing matter. Kookaburras were widely introduced into </span><st1:state w:st="on">Tasmania</st1:state><span style="background-color: white;"> and </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Western Australia</st1:state></st1:place><span style="background-color: white;"> where they breed in tree hollows that would usually be used by parrots and owls, and they prey on small reptiles, mammals and nestlings, thus placing undue pressure on those creatures.</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Laughing Kookaburra is instantly recognisable in both plumage and voice. It is generally off-white below, faintly barred with dark brown, and brown on the back and wings. The tail is more rufous, broadly barred with black. There is a conspicuous dark brown eye-stripe through the face. It is one of the larger members of the kingfisher family.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Identification may only be confused where the Laughing Kookaburra's range overlaps that of the Blue-winged Kookaburra, </span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Dacelo leachii</span></em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">, in eastern <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Queensland</st1:place></st1:state>. The call of the Blue-winged Kookaburra is coarser than that of the Laughing Kookaburra, and ends somewhat abruptly. The Blue-winged Kookaburra lacks the brown eye-stripe, has a blue tail and a large amount of blue in the wing, and has a pale eye.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Laughing Kookaburras are found throughout eastern <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region>. They have been introduced to <st1:state w:st="on">Tasmania</st1:state>, the extreme south-west of <st1:state w:st="on">Western Australia</st1:state>, and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New Zealand</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Replaced by the Blue-winged Kookaburra in central northern and north-western <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region>, with some overlap in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Queensland</st1:place></st1:state>, although this species is more coastal.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Laughing Kookaburras feed mostly on insects, worms and crustaceans, although small snakes, mammals, frogs and birds may also be eaten. Prey is seized by pouncing from a suitable perch. Small prey is eaten whole, but larger prey is killed by bashing it against the ground or tree branch.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Laughing Kookaburras are believed to pair for life. The nest is a bare chamber in a naturally occurring tree hollow or in a burrow excavated in an arboreal (tree-dwelling) termite mound. Both sexes share the incubation duties and both care for the young. Other Laughing Kookaburras, usually offspring of the previous one to two years, act as 'helpers' during the breeding season. Every bird in the group shares all parenting duties.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Laughing Kookaburra</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Laughing_Kookaburra_feb08.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Laughing Kookaburra</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://www.photographyblog.com/images/photo_of_the_week/01060408/Laughing%20Kookaburra.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Laughing Kookaburra</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Laughing_Kookaburra_Juvenile_Front.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Laughing Kookaburra</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Laughing_Kookaburra_Gravestone.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Laughing Kookaburra</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="308" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Laughing_Kookaburra_Portrait_Right.JPG" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Laughing Kookaburra</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="306" src="http://www.birdforum.net/opus/images/thumb/0/0c/Laughing_Kookaburra.jpg/550px-Laughing_Kookaburra.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Laughing Kookaburra</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GPqyzlFSFr4/TOri-AiRlsI/AAAAAAAAAec/GPXb0k_NEjM/s400/LaughingKookaburra201014.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Laughing Kookaburra</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://fluffyfeathers.com/images/20110109073603_13814-laughing%20kookaburra-sw.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Laughing Kookaburra</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Laughing Kookaburras sit on fence</b></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-bb4HITa1RA" width="420"></iframe></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Laughing Kookaburra-Sacramento zoo</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/WejAzVtG4Z4" width="420"></iframe></div></div>Rizwan Ilyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12394220215119789106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3944361822582011317.post-43866867712550060262012-06-12T07:46:00.000-07:002012-06-12T07:46:26.117-07:00Golden-Headed Cisticola<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Golden-Headed Cisticola Biography</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">The diminutive Golden-headed Cisticola usually inhabits areas of long, dense grass, where they often remain hidden, but their presence may be betrayed by their buzzing and whistling calls. Once this call is heard, it is often not too difficult to see the bird perched atop a stalk of grass. During the breeding season these tiny birds can sometimes be seen performing display flights, high above the grassland, consisting of a jerking, bouncy flight accompanied by a wheezing song, before diving back down into the long grass.</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">In breeding season, the male Golden-headed Cisticola has a golden-orange head, which is crested when calling, with a paler chin and throat, and a boldly streaked black to dark grey and golden body. The tail is black, with paler tips, and is shorter during breeding season. Females resemble non-breeding males, with buff-brown upper parts, heavily streaked black and dark brown, with a golden-buff rump and nape of neck. The underparts are cream with buff tints, the wings are black, with each feather edged buff. Young birds resemble the female but are duller.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The related Zitting Cisticola, </span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">C. juncidis</span></em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">, resembles the Golden-headed Cisticola in size and shape, but lacks the rich golden colouring on the head and rump, tending to be paler underneath, and more heavily streaked on top. The Little Grassbird, </span></span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Megalurus gramineus</span></em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">, is slightly larger, lacks the golden colouring, has streaked underparts and a longer tail.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Golden-headed Cisticola occurs from Carnarvon in <st1:state w:st="on">Western Australia</st1:state>, north-east to <st1:city w:st="on">Darwin</st1:city>, Cape York and down the east coast as far as <st1:placename w:st="on">King</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Island</st1:placetype> and <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Adelaide</st1:place></st1:city>. It is also found from <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region> and southern <st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region> to the <st1:place w:st="on">Bismarck Archipelago</st1:place>.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Golden-headed Cisticola lives in sub-coastal areas, wetlands, swamp margins, wet grasslands, rivers, and irrigated farmland. It prefers tangled vegetation close to the ground, but breeding males may be seen singing from tall weeds or other shrubs.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Golden-headed Cisticolas feed quietly and inconspicuously on insects taken from the ground amongst tall grasses. They also feed on the seeds from the grasses among which they live.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Golden-headed Cisticola builds a rounded nest with a side entrance near the top, from fine grasses, plant down and spiders' web. Leaves are usually stitched to the outer surface and the nest is lined with soft plant down. Both the male and female help in nest-building although the female incubates the eggs on her own.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Golden-Headed Cisticola</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="350" src="http://photogallery.canberrabirds.org.au/images/Cisticola_Golden-headed2_Robinson.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Golden-Headed Cisticola</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaNQavw297loqt6b6p778oOIkJukZb_KeuCezkSfc8BO6KWunH_F9ZASJrdJ9b_SkyafMtaXxALT6Bqt4q7kE-ztL2abLMPMndxZa7-rOiVtH_Nhf7u0jycedgl1gPZ5IsNEef0NKKBul5/s400/20080330144703_10133-golden-headed+cisticola-csw.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Golden-Headed Cisticola</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://www.birdwatch.co.uk/userfiles/gallery/Golden-headed%20Cisticola%20MAIN.jpg" width="353" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Golden-Headed Cisticola</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="282" src="http://www.obiobiparklands.com/species_list/birds/Golden-headed-Cisticola_Cisticola-exilis.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Golden-Headed Cisticola</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="272" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_g1vDjmz1k7g/TE07ev9HgNI/AAAAAAAAE18/4Q4zRa4EGB8/s400/tgrass800IMG_9057.JPG" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Golden-Headed Cisticola</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://www.aviceda.org/abid/images/data/1338535914.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Golden-Headed Cisticola</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="280" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_g1vDjmz1k7g/SSffJl3_BzI/AAAAAAAAAh0/xoyz2rb0tWo/s400/ghcistinsect.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Golden-Headed Cisticola</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://www.abberton.org/2009files/200911/goldenheadedcisticola091113807w.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Golden-Headed Cisticola</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Golden-Headed Cisticola</b></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/r2sk2ar5vEQ" width="420"></iframe></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Cisticola-Golden headed 3</b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kph3j8UrkiI" width="420"></iframe></div></div>Rizwan Ilyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12394220215119789106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3944361822582011317.post-35783923843682077152012-06-12T07:23:00.000-07:002012-06-12T07:23:38.202-07:00Green Catbird<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Green Catbird Biography</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">The Green Catbird of eastern </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white;"> gets its name from the cat-like wailing call that it gives at any time of day throughout the year. Catbirds are not shy, but because they inhabit lush rainforest, they are often difficult to see among the foliage in the treetops, and their characteristic calls usually alert people to their presence. Although they often occur in the canopy, catbirds forage at all levels of the forest, down to the ground, where they sometimes associate with Regent and Satin Bowerbirds.</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Green Catbird is a large, stout green bird, spotted white, with a dusky crown, nape and face and a white bill. The eye is red. Juveniles are duller in colour.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Spotted Catbird, </span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">A. melanotis</span></em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">, is extremely similar, but widely separated in its range. It tends to be much brighter green and paler below and has black markings on the head. The Green Catbird can also resemble the immature or female Satin Bowerbird, which has a distinctly blue eye, a dark bill and a more scalloped patterning on the underbody, while the upper body is a more olive-green.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Green Catbird is found along the east coast of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region>, from south-eastern <st1:state w:st="on">Queensland</st1:state> to southern <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New South Wales</st1:place></st1:state></span>. The Green Catbird is found in temperate and sub-tropical rainforest and paperbarks, and sometimes adjacent eucalypt forest.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Green Catbird eats fruit, notably figs, flowers, and other plant material. It will also kill baby birds to feed its own young during breeding season and will eat small reptiles too. They usually feed in pairs or small groups, moiving from tree to tree in the mid to upper canopy.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Male Green Catbirds do not build a bower. They pair monogamously with a female, helping her to defend an all-purpose territory and feeding her throughout the year. The nest is a bulky cup of twigs, leaves and vines, usually in a prickly shrub, treefork, tree fern or low tree.The nest has an unusual layer of wet, soft wood beneath the lining of fine twigs and leaves, making the nest very large and bulky. Both sexes feed and look after the young.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Green Catbird</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="310" src="http://www.saveourwaterwaysnow.com.au/_dbase_upl/green_catbird.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Green Catbird</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://www.bushpea.com/bd/ph/geo/mi/green%20catbird%2002.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Green Catbird</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/3IIijWSTKUA/0.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Green Catbird</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://bittsandbytes.net/BIRDS_OF_AUSTRALIA/GREEN_CATBIRD/ON_BRANCH.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Green Catbird</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://www.fullerlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Green-Catbird_20090409_Lamington-NP_b-2000.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Green Catbird</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5172/5481394967_966cdaab53_z.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Green Catbird</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="268" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3382/3265652079_ae410c2210_z.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Green Catbird</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://www.byronbaybackyard.com.au/Deb/Thumbnails%202/Green-Catbird.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Green Catbird</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Green CatBird</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ylLKHdVlMHY" width="420"></iframe></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Green Catbird</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3kYalPjmVbQ" width="420"></iframe></div></div>Rizwan Ilyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12394220215119789106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3944361822582011317.post-82150172160618971462012-06-12T06:55:00.000-07:002012-06-12T06:55:25.734-07:00Forty-Spotted Pardalote<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Forty-Spotted Pardalote Biography</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">The Forty-spotted Pardalote is a small bird with a very short bill. It is a dull olive-green above with a pale grey chest and belly. The face and under the tail are olive-yellow. The wings are black, with prominent white spots, twenty on each side, that give the bird its name.</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Forty-spotted Pardalote is similar to the Spotted Pardalote, </span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">P. punctatus</span></em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">, especially the female. However it lacks the white eye-stripe, spotted crown and red-brown rump of this species and has a distinct greenish tinge to its upperparts.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Forty-spotted Pardalote is endemic to <st1:state w:st="on">Tasmania</st1:state> but is now extremely rare, being found in fragmented populations in south-eastern <st1:state w:st="on">Tasmania</st1:state> and on Flinders, Bruny and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Maria</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Islands</st1:placename></st1:place>.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Forty-spotted Pardalote lives in forests and woodlands close to the coast. It favours forests dominated by the manna gum, </span><em style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Eucalyptus viminalis,</span></em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> foraging on it almost exclusively. It sometimes comes into the suburbs of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Hobart</st1:place></st1:city></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Pairs or small groups of Forty-spotted Pardalotes forage in the canopy of trees for insects, larvae and manna. They especially favour lerps.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Forty-spotted Pardalotes nest in hollows in the limbs or trunks of mature trees. They may also use stumps and logs, and occasionally nest in the ground. They sometimes must compete with the more dominant Striated Pardalote for nest sites, which they can more successfully defend as part of a small nesting colony. A domed or cup-shaped nest of fibrous bark and grass, lined with feathers or fur is built in the hollow. Both sexes build the nest and feed the young.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Forty-Spotted Pardalote</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="275" src="http://www.birdlife.org.au/images/sized/images/uploads/bird_profiles/Forty-spotted-Pardalote-ct580-580x400.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;">Forty-Spotted Pardalote</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Forty-spotted_Pardalote.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Forty-Spotted Pardalote</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="318" src="http://fortyspot.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/pardalote.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Forty-Spotted Pardalote</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="281" src="http://bird.net.au/bird/images/3/30/Spotted_Pardalote.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Forty-Spotted Pardalote</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_o4ejHrqbPyE/TFUVecdhLkI/AAAAAAAAA_s/35vVa2C_XZI/429_1%5B3%5D.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Forty-Spotted Pardalote</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="263" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1176/5160411297_d40d902b82.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Forty-Spotted Pardalote</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi31YtmjhPPWdQRUOVBlptBs_BeJ4TtZbOTuoev8Li9GygMuGJJOU-2s8bD6GDSMPaZWwpr2MR97VMEWWPvt5wQALTkbGu6BLFrZe6wcPUyHZ57s0bE5DnnpH_QWHSYI0mcfGuzryQTmx4/s400/DSC08779+(Medium).jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Forty-Spotted Pardalote</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="332" src="http://www.birdquest-tours.com/gallery/Forty-spotted%20Pardalote-Pete%20Morris-2639.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Forty-Spotted Pardalote</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Spotted Pardalote</b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/qo7755l20F8" width="420"></iframe></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Spotted Pardalote or Pardalotus punctatus</b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bX2q583GfL8" width="420"></iframe></div></div>Rizwan Ilyashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12394220215119789106noreply@blogger.com0