Birds in Bloem

02/09/2022

Sandhill Crane (Antigone canadensis) and chick by Marina Scarr

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02/09/2022

02/09/2022

With the millions of animals existing all around the globe, we are always bound to stumble upon one that looks like a Pokémon character that's worth gushing over. Couple that with the fact that a large portion of these animals is made up of birds that come in beautiful colors, shapes, and sizes, an...

02/09/2022

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The maroon-bellied parakeet (Pyrrhura frontalis) is a small parrot found from southeastern Brazil to north-eastern Argentina, including eastern Paraguay and Uruguay. It is also known as the reddish-bellied parakeet.
Conservation status:
Least Concern
📷 Ralph Antunes

02/09/2022

Blue Vanga.

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31/08/2022

A New Holland Honeyeater
(Photo taken in Australia by on Instagram)

30/08/2022

Whiskered Treeswift.

📸: Chan Icebing.

30/08/2022

Cape Batis (Batis capensis)

The Cape batis is a small, stout insect-eating passerine bird in the wattle-eye family. It is endemic to the Afromontane forests of southern Africa.

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30/08/2022

Wearing bright blue eyeliner and equally blue carefully crafted stylized sideburns, make these large jays more than a little striking in his suit of pale yellow and black.

26/08/2022

The Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo is a gorgeous bird. The vivid crest, the most prominent feature of this medium-sized cockatoo makes it stand out in its community. This crest looks like candy corn, right? This beautiful cockatoo is named for Major Sir Thomas Mitchell, an explorer and surveyor of Sout...

26/08/2022

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The trogons and quetzals are birds in the order Trogoniformes which contains only one family, the Trogonidae. The family Trogonidae contains 46 species in seven genera. The fossil record of the trogons dates back 49 million years to the Early Eocene. They might constitute a member of the basal radiation of the order Coraciiformes or be closely related to mousebirds and owls. The word trogon is Greek for "nibbling" and refers to the fact that these birds gnaw holes in trees to make their nests.
📷 Some of the Trogons Birds..
Top left to right: Narina Trogon, Amazonian Trogon, Red-headed Trogon♂️, Orange-breasted Trogon, Masked Trogon, Blue-crowned Trogon♂️..
By Casper Badenhorst

26/08/2022

The Magnificent riflebird is such an extraordinary bird! This species has velvet black plumage that makes it stand out from the crowd. More noticeably, its iridescent blue-green crown and triangle-shaped breast shield turn this bird into kings in its colony. It’s true that this riflebird is the mo...

26/08/2022

Wilson’s bird-of-paradise (Cicinnurus respublica), is a species of passerine bird in the Paradisaeidae family. The majority of species included in the bird of paradise species are found in eastern Indonesia papua, Papua New Guinea and eastern Australia. The bird of paradise family h...