Friday Night Photos Foreign Feathers Edition

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Due to the Avian flu that's been going around, many of the birds at the zoo have not been on display for almost a year. Luckily some of the more colorful birds don't seem to be effected and are still out. Hopefully the flu will pass soon and the birds in lock down can come out join the rest of their friends.

Golden-breasted Starling, Northeastern Africa
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Costa's Hummingbird, Mexico
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Male Green-backed Trogon, Equatorial South America
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Female Green-backed Trogon
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Wattled Jacana, South America east of the Andes
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Southern Carmine Bee-eater, Sub-equatorial Africa
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Pompadour Cotinga, Amazon rain forest
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dystopian's picture

Hi all, Hey SP!

Awesome photos as always man! Outstanding. GREAT subjects! Look up Lovely, and Snowy Cotingas, that group is amazing. I have seen Citreoline Trogon in Mexico that look very similar to that African one. Most Trogons are metallic green above red below, the Quetzal is a kissin' cousin to the Trogons. In SE AZ you can see Elegant Trogon without too much effort, quite the looker, a green and red one. Cave Creek or Madera Canyon easiest. We have a Jacana that occurs semi-regularly in Texas that is very similar to the Wattled, the Northern Jacana. If you want to start an argument amongst birders, just ask how that is pronounced. There are a bunch of fancy Starlings all over the world, we got screwed on them here. Love that Costa's Hummer shot. They actually nest in socal and AZ. In fact surely there are some in the inland mountains of S.D. county, and in early spring, late Feb. or March, they are arriving back on territory out in the deserts. When the Ocotillo bloom. The male makes an amazing zing of a song that rises up in pitch, it is so high pitched, many can't hear it early in life. I bet they move through your area in at least small numbers but increase inland. There have been a fair number of Costa's x Anna's hybrids known. I love those Carmine Bee-eaters. Whaddabird!

GREAT stuff SP! Thanks for sharin'! And thanks for hostin'!

Might get back to post something if dsl holds out, was shot almost all day, so now working.

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@dystopian @dystopian
As always thanks for all the bird info. We do get the Costa's Hummingbird here as well as Allen's, Anna's, Black-chinned and Rufous Hummingbirds. The Anna's are everywhere. The rest I very rarely see.
Hope your dsl holds up.

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@dystopian

seen a ton of Costa's hummers, including on the nest. Not just out in the Anza-Borrego Desert, but once all the way up at 37.71 degrees North x 122.08 degrees West, my own front yard. When I reported it to e-bird I got challenged, and had no pic, but I did point out that we had 4 experienced birders, us and our neighbors, 2 of whom have seen many of them in the wild, and who in hell could misidentify that awesome purple gorget.

Have to agree about the starlings, especially the african ones, I tell people that ours are so drab because we got them from the Brits.

Northern Jacana "walking on water" with a Limpkin standing guard, somewhere in Belize:

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@enhydra lutris Hey EL! Sorry lost dsl last night and all morning so far...

Awesome shots man! I love Limpkin. Did ya hear Limpkin call at night? Sounds like a baby being tortured. I had one here last June calling over at the river a quarter mile away. Texas got up to ten records in the last two years, they have exploded all over the U.S. 10 states got their first records last summer. Common in the tropics, they were only an Apple Snail specialst in Florida the last century until a couple years ago. Totally unique one of a kind gene pool they are.

Who couldn't love Jacanas on lily pads! That Pheasant-tailed Jacana is a bucket-list bird for some.

I would go with Slaty-tailed Trogon on that one... Looks a good ID to me.

Have to get the Parrots of the World out to make that ID. Forshaw and Cooper, 1973, still the best. I glanced at Field Guide to Birds of Oz, it's not theirs.

GREAT shots man!

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thanks for the images!
here's one for you
Abubilla or Hoopoes

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Hoopoes make seasonal movements in response to rain in some regions such as in Ceylon and in the Western Ghats. Birds have been seen at high altitudes during migration across the Himalayas. One was recorded at about 6,400 m (21,000 ft) by the first Mount Everest expedition.

Upupa and ἔποψ (epops) are respectively the Latin and Ancient Greek names for the hoopoe; both, like the English name, are onomatopoeic forms which imitate the cry of the bird.

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@QMS
What a cool looking bird. Thanks for the photo and info.

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@QMS

Saw one out in the bush in Kenya, but didn't get a picture, and it wasn't that well lit or clear anyway.

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Those Jacanas have a weird ability. Look at the size and shape of those feet - if there are any lily pads or even moderate amounts of aquatic grasses breaking the surface of the water they will walk along on top of it because that foot distributes their weight over such a large area.

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@enhydra lutris
in the aviary that the Jacanas resides in has lily pads that they walk on.

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@enhydra lutris Hey EL! GREAT shots man! oops I put a response partially to this in above comment... That Rufous-tailed Jacamar is awesome... in 70's had one embroidered on my levis. LOL

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to flickr, don't know if I've posted them here before or not:

Bad pic of a Jacamar, something of a rarity
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I've not only mental blocked what this is but also where it was
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Trogon (slate tailed?) from Belize
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and an ocellated turkey that I know I've posted before, also belize
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@enhydra lutris
I don't remember what the second bird is but I've seen it before at the zoo. The other three are all new to me. Thanks for sharing them.

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@enhydra lutris oops again... trying to hurry with my shaky flaky dsl... see two reply comments above...

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However, made it. That Hoopoe stands out with its crest. Rec'd!! Smile

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