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Amazon Birds
By Rhett A. Butler [citation]
More than 1500 bird species are found in the Amazon Basin, while South America as a whole is home to roughly one-third the world's birds.
- Many birds found in the Amazon are northern or southern migrants, wintering in or passing though the rainforest at certain times of the year.
- Macaws are famous for gathering by the hundreds, even thousands, along the clay cliffs of the Amazon river where they feed on minerals which help the birds process toxins found in the seeds they eat.
- The world's rarest bird is Spix's macaw, a beautiful bird with a dark blue head, a blue body, and a greenish belly with a black mask and bright yellow eye. It has always been rare, limited to palm groves and river edges in small area near the center of Brazil, but recent deforestation, importation of Africanized bees-which took their tree hollows, and over collection for the hobbyists caused this species' demise. In 1987 only four birds remained in the wild
Pictures of Amazonian Birds:
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Parrot
Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna), Yellow-crowned parrots (Amazona ochrocephala), and Scarlet macaws feeding on clay
Scarlet macaw (Ara macao)
Scale-crested Pygmy-tyrant (Lophotriccus pileatus)
Scarlet macaw (Ara macao) headshot
Chestnut Eared Aracari (Pteroglossus castanotis)
Lafresnaya lafresnayi hummingbird in mid-flight
Coeligena (inca) torquata hummingbird
Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera)
Macaws feeding on clay wall
Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera) in flight
Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera) in flight
Pair of red-and-green macaws fighting in a tree as parrots watch
Mealy Amazon Parrot (Amazona farinosa)
Pteroglossus torquatus Aracari
Mealy Amazon Parrot (Amazona farinosa)
Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
White-throated Toucan (Ramphastos tucanus)
Spix's Guan, Penelope jacquacu, on clay lick
Scarlet ibis (Eudocimus ruber)
Gray-winged Trumpeters (Psophia crepitans)
Short-tailed Nighthawk (Lurocalis semitorquatus)
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Blue-and-yellow macaws flying toward clay lick
"Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera) in flight
Hummingbird feeding on Heliconia flower
Green macaw
Blue and yellow macaw (Ara ararauna)
Rufous-tailed Jacamar (Galbula ruficauda)
Close-up on face of a Red-and-green macaw
Blue-and-yellow macaw flying in front of purple flowers
Fiery Billed Aracari
Scarlet Macaws green macaws (Ara chloroptera) in flight
Pair of Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna) flying
Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera)
Red-and-green macaws
Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna), Yellow-crowned parrots (Amazona ochrocephala), and Scarlet macaws feeding on clay
Red-and-green macaw in flight
Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera)
Pair of Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna) flying
Red-and-green macaw (Ara chloroptera) on clay lick
Blue-and-yellow macaws, Scarlet macaws, and parrots on clay lick
Cobalt-winged parakeet (Brotogeris cyanoptera) feeding on Kapok seeds
Emerald toucanet (Aulacorhynchus prasinus)
Keel-billed Toucan (Ramphastos salfuratus)
Scarlet macaws (Ara macao) pair
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Macaws feeding on clay lick
Flock of Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna) flying toward clay lick
Harpy Eagle at Summit Park
Harpy Eagle, Harpia harpyja, in Colombia
Rufous-tailed Jacamar (Galbula ruficauda)
Collared Aracari (Pteroglossus torquatus)
Harpia harpyja at Summit Park
Neotropic cormorant (Phalacrocorax olivaceus) in Oxbow lake
Chestnut Eared Araçari (Pteroglossus castanotis)
Hyancinth Macaws
Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) in vegetation along oxbow lake
Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) in vegetation along oxbow lake
Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) in vegetation along oxbow lake
Blue and Gold Macaw (Ara ararauna)
Captive harpy eagle
Red Bill Toucan (Ramphastos tucanus)
Blue-and-gold Macaw
Scarlet macaw
Brown-throated Parakeet (Aratinga pertinax)
Blue-and-yellow Macaw
Spectacled Owl (Pulsatrix perspicillata)
Harpy eagle
Tropical Kingbirds in flight
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