Birds In Paradise

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04/25/2023

Oh no! You’ve found a baby bird on the ground, apparently alone and in distress. Its tiny chirps may pull at your heartstrings, but stopping and assessing the situation is essential. Here’s our guide on how and when to assist baby birds: https://bit.ly/3HdXnX0

04/03/2023

03/25/2023

Standing an average of five feet tall and with a wingspan of eight feet, the Jabiru stork is one of the largest bird species in the Americas. In addition to their large size, another notable feature of the Jabiru stork is its throat sac. When it expands, it communicates to other birds that they are eager and excited - an important form of expression for a social bird. When greeting one another, they turn face-to-face, hold their necks upright, and rattle their beaks very quickly while waving their necks and moving their heads up and down. Photo taken at Aviario Nacional De Colombia.

02/16/2023

These two cuties are baby little blue penguins that I photographed at Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. The smallest of all penguin species, adults measure in at approximately one foot tall and weigh only two pounds. They are also the only penguins in the world to sport blue and white feathers instead of the traditional black and white penguin “tuxedo”.

02/14/2023

Happy Valentine’s Day from these cute and cuddly four-week-old black-necked swans at Sylvan Heights Bird Park. Known as cygnets, these little ones regularly get a helping hand from mom and dad, who carry their young on their backs while swimming, ensuring that they safely make the journey to and from feeding locations. Parents will also brood their young during cold and stormy weather, keeping them safe and warm.

11/25/2022

From filling our lives with beauty, to pollinating plants and controlling pests, birds make our lives better. Today, let's give thanks for the birds and all that they do for humankind. Find out more in our Question of the Week: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/analysis-the-economic-value-of-birds/

11/21/2022

The Great Curassow is a big bird about the size of a domestic turkey and is prized by local people for its meat. Overhunting and habitat loss have made this species quite shy. A good look at a male Great Curassow reveals a handsome bird with glossy black plumage and a crest of forward-curling feathers.

This species is the largest and most northerly occurring of the mostly tropical curassow group, which includes the Critically Endangered Blue-billed Curassow of Colombia.

Great Curassows find shelter at several of the bird reserves supported by American Bird Conservancy, including the Río Canandé Reserve managed by our partner Fundación Jocotoco in Ecuador.

Learn more about this bird here: https://abcbirds.org/bird/great-curassow/

Photo: Great Curassow by Petr Simon/Shutterstock

11/11/2022

We are seeing some wonderful bird images this week.
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Here we have a Greater Roadrunner captured by John LeeWong in CA, USA. The Great Roadrunner is a long-legged bird in the cuckoo family.

Did you know?
Although the Greater Roadrunner is capable of limited flight, it spends most of its time on the ground and can run at speeds up to 32 km/h (20 mph). Cases where roadrunners have run as fast as 42 km/h (26 mph) have been reported. This is the fastest running speed clocked for a flying bird, but not nearly as fast as the 70 km/h (40 mph) of the completely flightless and much larger ostrich.

11/07/2022

Each romantic story shares every detailed feather of the dainty darlings.

10/28/2022

What a stunning and unique capture of a lilac breasted roller!

📸 Sharifa Jinnah

10/24/2022

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10/22/2022

10/21/2022

🐣 Even though the breeding season is over, we have a little latecomer yet! This cute Lear's macaw hatched yesterday. 🥳 This season's first hatch was a Spix's macaw, which is already six months old. Our new chick here weighs just 21 grams. For comparison, the heaviest Lear's macaw hatched this season already weighs over 700 grams! Our biologist, Katrin, is now back to feeding every two hours.

We wish you a relaxing weekend! 💙

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🐣 Die Brutsaison ist vorbei und dennoch haben wir einen kleinen Nachzügler! Dieser süße Lear-Ara ist gestern geschlüpft. 🥳 Der erste Schlupf dieser Saison war ein Spix Ara und ist bereits sechs Monate alt. Unser neues Küken hier wiegt gerade einmal 21 Gramm. Zum Vergleich der schwerste, in dieser Saison geschlüpfte Lear Ara wiegt bereits über 700 Gramm! Für unsere Biologin, Katrin heißt es nun wieder alle zwei Stunden füttern.

Wir wünschen euch ein erholsames Wochenende! 💙

10/19/2022

10/19/2022

Woowww!!! Impressive image.. 🦉🤎

10/17/2022

Top Wild Bird Photo Award.

This week's theme is - Birds Interacting

Seen here are a few vibrant Red-billed Leiothrix' interacting with one another, spotted and snapped by Jai Mohan in Uttarakhand, India.

Join us on Wild Bird Revolution this week to post your birds interacting images or simply to enjoy viewing the images of others.

10/15/2022

Inspired by Nature.

In the early 1900s, the Shinkansen bullet trains in Japan were conceived as a means of high-speed travel.

However, they encountered a big problem.
When the trains entered a tunnel traveling at a speed of about 320kph they generated noise levels that could be heard 400 meters away. This was due to changes in air resistance when the trains entered tunnels creating low-frequency atmospheric pressure waves.
They needed a structural redesign.
They had to identify how they could deal with abrupt changes in air resistance around them.

Cue, the Kingfisher.

The Kingfisher bird is one that eats fish and therefore has to be unnoticed by its swift-moving prey. To make this possible,
kingfishers have long, pointed, wedge-shaped beaks and heads, limiting water disruption and noise production so as to keep prey unaware.

Tests showed that objects shaped like the Kingfisher’s beak created less pressure waves, and this was therefore the perfect design for the Shinkansen trains. The new Kingfisher beak-style trains produce 30% less air pressure, use 15% less electricity, and are 10% faster.

Reference: Gene Technology Access Centre
Image: Malachite Kingfisher photographed by Kostadin Luchansky in Angola.