Singing Quail

8153 👁, 571 🖼, 206 🔉, 7 🎬

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Small, retiring quail of forest understory. Rarely seen, but can be located by listening for noisy rustling in the leaf litter as birds scratch like chickens. Prefers to run away rather than flush. Loud song often reveals its presence, given mainly early and late in the day: first few notes similar to Little Tinamou song, but then breaks into rollicking choruses that can be almost deafening if close by. Male has rusty face and gray body, female colors reversed, with gray face and rusty body.

Photographer: Blair Dudeck

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03 - Art 365/154 - Great grey owl

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White-bellied Bustard

12259 👁, 3680 🖼, 48 🔉, 28 🎬

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A small, tawny-backed bustard with a reddish base to the bill and a strongly demarcated white belly. The male has a blue-gray neck and dark facial markings. Small groups strut through open grassland and bush at elevations below 2000 m. Often first detected by a characteristic, continuous, croaking, nasal “anghara-anghara”, as well as by other similar calls. Female White-bellied Bustard strongly resembles female Black-bellied Bustard, but White-bellied has a shorter neck and legs and white rather than black foreparts to the underwing.

Photographer: Luke Seitz

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Striolated Manakin

14352 👁, 1182 🖼, 259 🔉, 21 🎬

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Chunky little, short-tailed bird of lowland and foothill forest. Male is distinctive with bright red crown and bold white stripes on reddish belly. Female lacks red crown but shows faint streaking on sides unlike any other manakin. Inconspicuous; elaborate display dance infrequently seen. Found in the lower to middle levels of forest. Listen for its high-pitched, quiet, whistled “ch-peew” song across much of range.

Photographer: Pablo Ortega

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June 01 - Art 365/152 - Eurasian pygmy owl

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Art 365/151 - Snow Goose

Today is the last of the "birds near me" month. Tomorrow starts owl month.

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