Art 365/045: flame bowerbird

I like how this one turned out.

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Indian Cuckoo

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Sleek and slender gray-and-white cuckoo. Loud, far-carrying song is unique: four hooting notes, often likened to “onemore-boh-tul!” or “crossword-puh-zuhl.” Adult is similar in size and coloration to Oriental, Himalayan, and Common Cuckoos, but note dark eyes and darker back and wings. Juvenile patchy-looking, often showing a whitish crown and collar and white edging to the wing feathers. Favors forests, forest edges, and parklands. Lays its eggs in the nests of a wide range of birds, including magpies, shrikes, and drongos.

Photographer: Adrian Silas Tay

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Art 365/044: Fischer's turaco

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Art 365/043 - Fischer's Lovebird

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Ringed Storm-Petrel

807 👁, 618 🖼, 11 🔉, 1 🎬

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Handsome small seabird of Humboldt Current; not seen from shore, but breeds inland in Atacama Desert where it visits colonies at night to avoid predators. Plumage unlike all other storm-petrels, with black cap and collar, and white underparts contrasting with dark underwings. Upperparts also striking, with black cap, strong upperwing pattern, and gray tail (no contrasting white rump). Larger than most storm-petrels in its range, but size similar to Markham’s and Black Storm-Petrels, with which it readily associates.

Photographer: Mike Andersen

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Striated Grasswren

1788 👁, 1054 🖼, 74 🔉, 14 🎬

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Small, long-tailed bird with black moustache and rufous-brown upperparts, found only in the Murray-Mallee region of South Australia and Victoria, where it is the only expected grasswren. Found in mallee woodland and dunes with large spinifex clumps, where it scurries around on the ground and low branches. Upperparts rusty-brown, with a white throat and buff-colored underparts.

Photographer: Cary Lewis

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Art 365/042: Fire Throat. Tomorrow's bird will be a lovebird. I am done for now with little blue birds with red-orange chests.

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Makira Honeyeater

187 👁, 38 🖼, 38 🔉, 3 🎬

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Large. Light brown above, white with diffuse black streaks below. White face frames a beady black eye. Bill long and decurved. Common in most habitats. Voice includes a mix of harsh loud whistles, honks, croaks, and whines.

Photographer: John C. Mittermeier

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Art 365/041: 10 Fire-throated flowerpecker - a similar name and look to Sunday's bird.

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Buff-throated Warbling Finch

4652 👁, 1113 🖼, 38 🔉, 1 🎬

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Medium-sized gray and orange finch from montane forests, including Araucaria forests. Note the black and pale eyebrow. Gray above with a buff throat and breast turning cinnamon on the sides with a white patch on the center of the belly. The call is a fast monotonous repetition of “tseep” notes.

Photographer: Knut Hansen

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