The New Neotropical Companion
three stork species (plate 14- 28), four ibis species, and a dozen species of herons and egrets, most of which can be found on a ...
The Pampas In extreme southern Brazil continuing southward through Patagonia is a region termed the pampas. In human history, th ...
Birds draw many visitors to the Neotropics. Many come to augment their life lists, wanting to add more parrot species, more tana ...
Chapter 15 Neotropical Birds: The Bustling Crowd the new classification and taxonomy, so if you have a keen interest in birds, t ...
deep brown, russet, or gray, often with heavy black barring. Some tinamous inhabit savannas, pampas, and mountainsides, but most ...
Plate 15- 3. A Great Tinamou quietly going about its business. Photo by Gina Nichol. Plate 15- 5. Female Bare- faced Curassow (C ...
Plate 15- 8. Male (left) and female (right) Great Curassows (Crax rubra). Where they enjoy protection from hunting, such as arou ...
bright blue and gold eyelike markings that give the bird its name (from ocellus, or eyespot). Ocellated Turkeys are easy to see ...
Large forest pigeons are most easily observed when they sit conspicuously atop a tree or tree snag (plate 15- 14), though this o ...
Trogons tend to sit upright with tail pointed vertically downward. They remain still and so are often overlooked. The easiest wa ...
Trogons feed on fruits from palms, cecropias, and many other species, which they take by hovering briefly at the tree, plucking ...
Plate 15- 20. A Blue- crowned Motmot (Momotus momota) showing its racket- like tail. Photo by James Adams. Plate 15- 21. A motmo ...
Plate 15- 25. Toco Toucan (Ramphastos toco) in flight. Photo by John Kricher. Plate 15- 26. The Toco Toucan of South America is ...
Toucans, Aracaris, and Toucanets Perhaps more than any other kind of bird, toucans (family Ramphastidae) symbolize the American ...
ebony body feathers offset by white or yellow throats and scarlet on the rump or under the tail. Most species have a colorful pa ...
seem awkward, the birds seem to have little difficulty. The long bill may be adaptive in permitting the relatively heavy bird to ...
The Toucan Barbet (Semnornis ramphastinus; plate 15- 35) and its close relative the Prong- billed Barbet (Semnornis frantzii) ar ...
Hummingbirds are highly active and fly forward and backward and hover. Hummingbirds accomplish their remarkably controlled fligh ...
has two long central tail feathers with bare shafts but feathered tips, somewhat like those of a motmot. The Crimson Topaz (Topa ...
superciliosus) are both abundant and vocal throughout Central and South America. Males gather in courtship areas called leks (se ...
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