10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2013

Southern California is loaded with parrots. Red-crowned Parrot in Irvine Regional Park Despite the number of species involved only one, the Red-crowned Parrot , is considered countable by the California Bird Records Committee. And the problem isn’t limited to parrots and parakeets.

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AUGUST 11, 2011

Here’s a prediction: Parrots , falcons , and seriemas are on their way to new positions in your checklists and, eventually, field guides. In fact, the two groups appear to belong near parrots and passerines, which are now thought to be sister clades. If you’re not familiar with the South American seriemas, here’s a great image.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Few people consider the 11th hour the least bit appealing. However, with just over two hours left to go until this post is supposed to be published, here I am reading 10,000Birds and having a good chuckle here and there – while learning a thing or two.

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MARCH 22, 2012

Maybe the proposition isn’t that simple, but you can vote to allocate $40,000 from National Geographic Germany to Fundación ProAves to support conservation of the practically extinct Fuertes’s Parrot.

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JUNE 27, 2014

Parrots captivate me more than any other bird family. With their strong flight and capability to disperse, parrots have managed to colonize almost every major island group from Tahiti to Mauritius to Dominica. There seems to be a parrot for almost any ecological situation. I am a self-proclaimed psittacophile.

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

” Darwin locals say there has always been the phenomenon of drunken parrots in the streets at this time of year. . “There’s a low level (of drunken behaviour) all the year round but it reaches a peak from June to August.” They have trouble flying. They lose coordination, and they lose their fear of humans.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Last month, I wrote about hypothesized relationships between passerines, parrots, falcons, and seriemas , noting a need for further research on the subject. The post stimulated some great discussions but not really any additional commentary on the science behind these proposed relationships. Ringer Suh et al. Ringer Suh et al.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2012

A proposed runway expansion to Sunshine Coast Airport in Queensland, Australia, threatens one of only two remaining populations of Eastern Ground Parrot in the state. BirdLife International does not recognize the split to Eastern Ground Parrot and Western Ground Parrot.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Australian King Parrots are found along the east coast of Australia and we have observed them on numerous trips to Sydney. Despite their bright colour you don’t always notice Australian King Parrots in the trees if there are leaves on them. They are a large parrot and rarely fly above the tree line, but fly through the trees.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2017

But instead of picking up chronologically from where I left off I have decided to skip ahead to our last evening in Puerto Rico when we were going for the biggest prize of all the Puerto Rican endemic birds, the Critically Endangered Puerto Rican Parrot. How about some pictures of parrots? We saw a Puerto Rican Parrot !

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

10 Fun Facts About Parrots by James Alston writing for ExoticDirect pet insurance. There are nearly 400 species of parrot There are 393 species of parrots (though more are being found all the time). Parrots also like the heat … Continue reading →

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AUGUST 12, 2012

Robert Mortensen just put together a matrix of Birder Personality Profiles. Think you fall into any of these types?

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NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Since everyone loves parrots, I thought I’d post some pictures of one of New Zealand’s many interesting species. One of the small parrots in the Cyanoramphus radiation, the species was recently split from insular forms on New Caledonia, Norfolk Island and Antipodes Island.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

Parrots Over Puerto Rico is a wonderland of colors and shapes. The story of the Puerto Rican Amazon, also known as the Puerto Rico Parrot, Parrots Over Puerto Rico is illustrated with deeply hued collages created by Susan L. The parrots called as they looked for deep nesting holes in the tall trees. Other Europeans came.

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MARCH 18, 2011

UNLESS that is you get yourself down to the internationally-renowned Tambopata Research Centre in southern Peru where literally hundreds of macaws (and other parrots) congregate around a 50 meter high clay bank. At this hour I am a reluctant, under-caffeinated sherpa – and concentration must be given to the dangers of the footpath ahead.

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OCTOBER 14, 2023

Even better, just a few meters away from the food vendors, it is not too crowded, and the palm trees attract a number of birds, including two species of parrots. The first one is the Blue-naped Parrot. and Blue-Naped Parrots (Tanygnathus lucionensis)” Instead of reading that paper, maybe watch the video ?

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 5, 2018

Owning a parrot is very rewarding. However, as any parrot owner knows there is a lot more to ownership than meets the eye. ExoticDirect insurers of exotic pets have compiled a 12 point checklist offering some handy advice and guidance. … Continue reading →

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 15, 2014

The Parrot Garden is a special spot at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. Luckily, the … Continue reading → The post Rescue Spotlight: Best Friends Parrot Garden appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals. Pet birds often end up losing their homes, just like dogs and cats.

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JULY 4, 2014

The last-of-its-kind bird that may have inspired the animated movie Rio is an ex-parrot. Climate change may be affecting nesting habits in Alaska’s tundra. Feel free to weigh in, up-over Clare!). The first bird feathers may have been for showiness more than transportation.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

And with it the existence of the northernmost species of parrot in the world, the only native parrot in the United States whose provenance is not questioned, and a piece of American natural history that is so bizarre that its existence seems impossible to people living today. It was called Incas. And some I don’t think I want to.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2024

Mealy Parrots made their presence known, and we were treated with excellent views of Blue-headed Parrot that flew into a tree we were already examining. Familiar, but beautiful regardless: Blue-headed Parrot Another small parrot species landed on a tree in the distance. Meanwhile, the forest edge was awash with birds.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2012

Here is a picture of many Cobalt-winged Parakeets and Orange-cheeked Parrots sharing some good mineral water without causing any harm to the environment: Cobalt-winged Parakeet and Orange-cheeked Parrot Here is another large group of Parrots and Parakeets flying without polluting the air: Dusky-headed Parakeets – Mealy Amazon Parrots – (..)

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JUNE 12, 2012

Image by Adam Riley Rosy-faced Lovebird Africa is not endowed with as many parrots as other tropical lands, but what we lack in numbers we make up for in cuteness as in this delightful Rosy-faced Lovebird so clearly illustrates. A Rüppell’s Parrot perched in an Acacia tree near a dry riverbed in Omaruru, central Namibia.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Further afield, amidst crowds of raucous Orange-winged Parrots was a pair of Mealy Parrots. As per usual parrot protocol, they were difficult to detect once they alighted in the trees. Fortunately, they were moving around quite a bit and that helped me to locate them.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2011

Big, bold, beautiful parrots full of character and charm, macaws make us long for some of the world’s wildest places and assure us that, as long as they fly free, those magical wild places are still intact. Hyacinth Macaws © Michel Gunther / WWF-Canon Hyacinth Macaws , like parrots the world over, face threats from every side.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Parrots are also common at Laguna although only two of them tend to visit the feeder; Brown-hooded Parrot. I think I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves… Toucans make some close calls to a fruit feeding situation. Yellow-throated Toucan. Keel-billed Toucan. Collared Aracari. Orange-chinned Parakeet.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2011

They are rock stars in their family (or group of families, depending on what taxonomists have been smoking lately), a family that includes Scarlet Macaws , Crimson Shining-parrots , Golden Parakeets and Rainbow Lorikeets , and that is no mean feat. Part of it is because they are parrots, and most people really like parrots.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2022

Yellow-naped Parrot (Amazona auropalliata). Like the Great Green Macaw, in Costa Rica, this large parrot of the dry forest is fairly easy to see. When asked about the Yellow-naped Parrot, in many places, locals mention how this bird was much more common just 20 years ago but that they no longer see it.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2022

I see a flock or two of Crimson-fronted Parakeets every morning and often have flyovers of Orange-chinned Parakeets , White-crowned Parrot , and White-fronted Parrot. These are birds like Gray Hawk, Great Kiskadee, and Chestnut-capped Warblers calling from the undergrowth. Nope, none of these are escapes, all are native, wild birds.

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DECEMBER 20, 2014

So do parrots, some songbirds, humans, and a few other mammals. shocked everyone with a suggestion that passerines were most closely related not to woodpeckers and kingfishers but to parrots, falcons, and seriemas. Importantly, parrots and many songbirds (the oscine passerines) are vocal learners, like us and like hummingbirds.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Formerly described in 1811 by Johann Matthäus Bechstein, the Cuban Macaw was a primarily red, long-tailed parrot with beautiful orange feathering around the nape and blue feathering on the wings and tail. … Birds Cuba Extinction Week parrots' Painting by Jacques Barraband, ca. Come back, click through, read, learn.

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JULY 4, 2020

Other birds featured on A Guide to the Birdsong of Mexico, Central America & the Caribbean include the Zapata Wren from Cuba, the Thick-billed Parrot from Mexico, and the Keel-billed Motmot from Nicaragua. As for the music, while listening to some sample tracks, I found myself enjoying the blend of bird sounds and easy-going music.

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MAY 31, 2011

Cape Parrot The Cape Parrot is one of the world’s most threatened parrots. A light green parrot with a brown head and red shoulder patches, these birds have been threatened by the reduction of large trees like yellowwoods, disease and by illegal trapping for the cage bird trade.

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JULY 10, 2021

An optical sweep can turn up distant perched parrots, raptors and other avian niceties all brought into the realm of identification and better appreciation by the superpowers of the scope. Scoped views of parrots are a gift. This is a Red-lored Parrot from northern Costa Rica. Don’t Miss Lifers!

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MARCH 1, 2013

( When Duncan Wright contacted us back in 2010 to say that he thought we might enjoy showing some photos on 10,0000 Birds of Wellington’s big, boisterous parrots, he was 100% spot-on. Let’s revisit this gem about a nifty New Zealand parrot… ). ” Imagine parrots in your back yard!

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2024

Our main goal here was the Maroon-fronted Parrot. These parrots breed inside cavities in cliffs and they are very particular about the cliff. We now know what real estate agents reincarnate into in their next life… but unlike realtors, these parrots are rare, Nuevo Leon endemics and in need of conservation support.

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DECEMBER 12, 2012

Kea ( Nestor notabilis ) Kea are a species of alpine parrot endemic to New Zealand. They are excellent opportunists, and have developed a taste for meat to an extent almost unrivalled in the parrot order. They are famous for any number of reasons, most of which stem from their innate intelligence and curiosity.

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