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27 Aug 2010, 6:40 pm
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27 Aug 2010, 9:50 pm
Big Bird's popular.
here's a bird i occasionally see in a tree outside my window.
(hooded oriole)
also, great film ---> wild parrots of telegraph hill
27 Aug 2010, 9:53 pm
You Aussies sure have some gaudy birds!! !
27 Aug 2010, 10:35 pm
katzefrau wrote:
Big Bird's popular.
here's a bird i occasionally see in a tree outside my window.
(hooded oriole)
also, great film ---> wild parrots of telegraph hill
here's a bird i occasionally see in a tree outside my window.
(hooded oriole)
also, great film ---> wild parrots of telegraph hill
I've seen that film....we have flocks of the exact same species (Red-masked Conure...aka... Cherry-headed Conure) all over South Florida. We also have other parrots species (none of which are native), but none are as common as this one. They make an incredible racket and they are quite the nuisance because they chew up everything from electrical wires to exterior window sills. All the exterior window sills in the apartment complex I used to live at in Miami needed to be replaced because of these parrots. Still...I enjoyed seeing them and watching their antics. They used to wake me up every morning with their squawking.
These conures can endure cooler temps considering they can found at elevations of up to 8500ft in their native Ecuadorian and Peruvian habitats. While the climate in S. Florida is considered humid subtropical/tropical, we still get cold fronts here in the winter sometimes and nighttime lows can occasionally drop into the 40's (or even more rarely, 32F or a few degrees below). I was at the post office in Miami one day and I saw a blue and gold macaw flying over. There is apparently a breeding population of these macaws in Miami-Dade county. We now have exotic animals and plants from all over the world which have pretty much been naturalized here. This is hardly a positive situation for our native wildlife, but we can thank globalization for it.
27 Aug 2010, 11:12 pm
27 Aug 2010, 11:33 pm
28 Aug 2010, 12:25 am
katzefrau wrote:
Horus wrote:
I've seen that film....we have flocks of the exact same species (Red-masked Conure...aka... Cherry-headed Conure) all over South Florida. We also have other parrots species (none of which are native), but none are as common as this one. They make an incredible racket and they are quite the nuisance because they chew up everything from electrical wires to exterior window sills. All the exterior window sills in the apartment complex I used to live at in Miami needed to be replaced because of these parrots. Still...I enjoyed seeing them and watching their antics. They used to wake me up every morning with their squawking.
These conures can endure cooler temps considering they can found at elevations of up to 8500ft in their native Ecuadorian and Peruvian habitats. While the climate in S. Florida is considered humid subtropical/tropical, we still get cold fronts here in the winter sometimes and nighttime lows can occasionally drop into the 40's (or even more rarely, 32F or a few degrees below). I was at the post office in Miami one day and I saw a blue and gold macaw flying over. There is apparently a breeding population of these macaws in Miami-Dade county. We now have exotic animals and plants from all over the world which have pretty much been naturalized here. This is hardly a positive situation for our native wildlife, but we can thank globalization for it.
These conures can endure cooler temps considering they can found at elevations of up to 8500ft in their native Ecuadorian and Peruvian habitats. While the climate in S. Florida is considered humid subtropical/tropical, we still get cold fronts here in the winter sometimes and nighttime lows can occasionally drop into the 40's (or even more rarely, 32F or a few degrees below). I was at the post office in Miami one day and I saw a blue and gold macaw flying over. There is apparently a breeding population of these macaws in Miami-Dade county. We now have exotic animals and plants from all over the world which have pretty much been naturalized here. This is hardly a positive situation for our native wildlife, but we can thank globalization for it.
what are the most common birds you see in Florida?
i'm in southern california and the ones i see most here (besides pigeons) are house sparrows and northern mockingbirds. the sparrows are all over the place outside of cafes and hop around under and on people's tables eating their crumbs, almost tame. i think a lot of people are annoyed by this (and my bird book calls them pests), but i love them.
Well.....aside from common birds like seagulls, sparrows, jays, crows, etc...I see alot of herons, egrets, sandpipers and doves right around my area. Once in awhile I see the occasional White Ibis as well. It's always a treat to go out to the Everglades where you'll see less common and more colorful birds like the Roseate Spoonbill and Purple Gallinule.
[img][800:1292]http://en.academic.ru/pictures/enwiki/82/Roseate_Spoonbill_-_Myakka_River_State_Park.jpg[/img]
28 Aug 2010, 12:40 am
Horus wrote:
It's always a treat to go out to the Everglades where you'll see less common and more colorful birds like the Roseate Spoonbill and Purple Gallinule.
[img][800:1292]http://en.academic.ru/pictures/enwiki/82/Roseate_Spoonbill_-_Myakka_River_State_Park.jpg[/img]
[img][800:1292]http://en.academic.ru/pictures/enwiki/82/Roseate_Spoonbill_-_Myakka_River_State_Park.jpg[/img]
nothing that cool here!
my brother saw a purple gallinule in ohio (!?)
28 Aug 2010, 12:58 am
28 Aug 2010, 1:13 am
Rose-crowned Fruit Dove from Australia:
Spangled Cotinga from the neotropics:
I haz posted most colorful birdies so far! 
28 Aug 2010, 1:15 am
Horus wrote:
katzefrau wrote:
I have some doubts it was a purple gallinule as even their summer range doesn't extend north of
S. Carolina.
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my brother saw a purple gallinule in ohio (!?)
I have some doubts it was a purple gallinule as even their summer range doesn't extend north of
S. Carolina.
he said the same, but seemed sure.
is a common moorhen (below) the same as a common gallinule? much more likely either way.
28 Aug 2010, 1:22 am
katzefrau wrote:
Horus wrote:
katzefrau wrote:
I have some doubts it was a purple gallinule as even their summer range doesn't extend north of
S. Carolina.
Quote:
my brother saw a purple gallinule in ohio (!?)
I have some doubts it was a purple gallinule as even their summer range doesn't extend north of
S. Carolina.
he said the same, but seemed sure.
is a common moorhen (below) the same as a common gallinule? much more likely either way.
Yes it is the same...i'm guessing he saw the common moorhen/gallinule. I mean anything is possible....but even the northernmost extent of the purple gallinule's summer range is probably 600 miles south of Ohio.
28 Aug 2010, 5:01 am
