Bird's Paradise

Yellow Streaked Lory

The yellowish-streaked lory (Chalcopsitta scintillata), also known as the streaked lory or yellow-streaked lory, is a species of parrot in the Psittaculidae family. Copyright : Irawan S

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The Blue Winged Parakeet known as Malabar Parakeet is endemic to the Western Ghats of India. The Malabar Parakeet has beautifully colored plumage, female Malabar Parakeet has a grey face, a black beak and a single black collar.

Asian paradise flycatcher bird

The Asian paradise flycatcher is a medium-sized passerine bird native to Asia. Males have elongated central tail feathers, and in some populations a black and rufous plumage while others have white plumage. Asian paradise flycatchers feed on insects.Paradise-flycatchers used to be classified with the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae, but are now placed in the family Monarchidae together with monarch flycatchers.

Fischer's Lovebird

The Fischer's Lovebird (Agapornis fischeri) is a small parrot species of the Agapornis genus. Fischer's Lovebirds are native to a small area of east-central Africa, south and southeast of Lake Victoria in northern Tanzania.

Orange-cheeked Waxbill

The orange-cheeked waxbill lives in small family parties or flocks of thirty of more individuals. Their high-pitched peeps are the best clue of their presence. Like most estridids, they are very acrobatic in their movements on twigs and grass stems, "climbing" up and down verticals and hanging upside down while feeding. Males usually have brighter orange patches on the abdomen.

Spanish Wildlife Kingfisher

This is the first of a series of shorts about spanish wildlife. Just image and sound, 90 seconds into our natural world.
Featuring: The European Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis).
We spent several days with this female trying to document its amazing hunting skills. It was really a pleasure to work with such cooperative individual.

Photography: Alberto Saiz & Nacho Ruiz
Editon: Nacho Ruiz
Postproduction: Alberto Saiz
Shot on the Red Epic.
Special thanks to Paco Segarra & César Pastor.
Produced by NaturaHD Films for Fundación Aquae.

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WILDLIFE IN 90 SECONDS:The European Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) from NaturaHD Films on Vimeo.

Nuthatch

A common feeder bird with clean black, gray, and white markings, White-breasted Nuthatches are active, agile little birds with an appetite for insects and large, meaty seeds. They get their common name from their habit of jamming large nuts and acorns into tree bark, then whacking them with their sharp bill to “hatch” out the seed from the inside. White-breasted Nuthatches may be small but their voices are loud, and often their insistent nasal yammering will lead you right to them.

Green-headed Tanager

Green-headed Tanager is a bird found in the Atlantic forest in south-eastern Brazil, far Eastern Paraguay,and far north-eastern Argentina. It is a small colorful bird measuring an average of 13.5 centimeters (5.3 in). While essentially a bird of humid forests, it is also common in orchards and parks,as its apparently flashy blue-green coloration camouflage it will among the foliage.

The eclectus parrot

The eclectus parrot (Eclectus roratus) is a parrot native to the Solomon Islands, Sumba, New Guinea and nearby islands, northeastern Australia and the Maluku Islands (Moluccas). It is unusual in the parrot family for its extreme sexual dimorphism of the colours of the plumage; the male having a mostly bright emerald green plumage and the female a mostly bright red and purple/blue plumage. Joseph Forshaw, in his book Parrots of the World, noted that the first European ornithologists to see eclectus parrots thought they were of two distinct species. Large populations of this parrot remain, and they are sometimes considered pests for eating fruit off trees. Some populations restricted to relatively small islands are comparably rare. Their bright feathers are also used by native tribes people in New Guinea as decorations.

Blue-Crowned Motmot

The blue-crowned motmot (Momotus momota) is a colourful near-passerine bird found in forests and woodlands of eastern Mexico, Central America, northern and central South America, and Trinidad and Tobago. As presently defined, it includes several taxa that possibly should be recognized as valid species, including the Andean motmot (or highland motmot), Momotus aequatorialis.

Horned Sungem,

Horned Sungem,a South American Hummingbird, the only species of the genus Heliactin. A wingbeat is one complete up and down movement ,which means that the horned sungem moves its wings muscles at a rate of more than 10,000 per minute. It occurs in Bolivia, Brazil and Suriname. It prefers fairly dry open or semi-open habitats,such as savanna and Cerrado. It avoids dense humid forest.

Kingfisher Bird

Kingfishers are a group of small to medium-sized brightly colored birds in the order Coraciiformes. They have a cosmopolitan distribution, with most species found outside of the Americas.

Toucan Bird

Toucans are members of the family Ramphastidae of near passerine birds from the Neotropics. The Ramphastidae family is most closely related to the American barbets. They are brightly marked and have large, often colorful bills.

White-Headed Buffalo Weaver

Known as the White-headed Buffalo Weaver (the Buffalo bit is derived from their tendency to follow buffalos in order to prey on any insects that they flush), this East African species occurs in Acacia woodland and other wooded habitats in Kenya, Tanzania, Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia and parts of Uganda. Markus photographed this bird in Kenya.