Uhu am Morgen nach erfolgreicherJagd inc Frühstück.

Uhu in the morning after successful hunting inc breakfast.


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Das war ein toller Tag im November im Tinamú Birding Nature Reserve. Wir hatten unglaublich tolle Vögel sehen können. Eines der Highlights war dieser Goldbandpipra (Golden-collared Manakin).
In Costa Rica hatten wir schon ein schönes Bild vom Gelbhosenpipra (Red-capped Manakin) machen können.
Insgesamt gibt es 55 Arten im tropischen Amerika. Alle leben sie in Wäldern und sind echt schwer zu finden. Also noch genug zu tun für uns.

Tiere sind Freunde und kein Essen oder eine Plage.

Bleibt gesund, glücklich und verliebt.

M@rcel
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It was a great day in November at Tinamú Birding Nature Reserve. We were able to see some incredible birds. One of the highlights was this Golden-collared Manakin.

In Costa Rica we had already been able to take a nice picture of the Red-capped Manakin.
There are a total of 55 species in tropical America. They all live in forests and are really hard to find. So there's still plenty for us to do.

Animals are friends, not food or a nuisance.

Stay healthy, happy and in love.

M@rcel

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Ende November waren wir auf 4450m Höhe auf dem Vulkan Kumanday, bekannter unter Nevado del Ruiz. Kumanday ist die nicht spanische Bezeichnung des Berges. Höher ging es leider nicht, da der Vulkan aktiv ist und immer wieder Rauchwolken auspustet.

Aber unser Ziel war auch nicht der Krater sondern ein ganz besonderer und seltener Vogel, der Violettbart-Helmkolibri (Buffy-Helmetcrest).
Er ist erst seit 2012 eine eigene Art und ist an diesem Vulkan endemisch.
An andren Bergen gibt es noch drei andre Helmkolibris, mit andersfarbigen "Bärten".
Viel bekannt ist über den Vogel nicht, das Brutverhalten ist z.B. nicht erforscht. Als Vogel des Páramo ernährt er sich aber nicht voranging von Nektar wie andere Kolibris sondern von Insekten(larven).

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At the end of November, we were at an altitude of 4450 metres on the Kumanday volcano in Colombia, better known as Nevado del Ruiz. Kumanday is the non-Spanish name of the mountain. Unfortunately, we couldn't go any higher as the volcano is active and keeps blowing out clouds of smoke.

But our goal was not the crater but a very special and rare bird, the Buffy-helmetcrest.
It has only been a separate species since 2012 and is endemic to this volcano.
There are three other helmet hummingbirds on other mountains, with different coloured ‘beards’.
Not much is known about the bird, e.g. its breeding behaviour has not been researched. As a bird of the Páramo it does not feed primarily on nectar like other hummingbirds but on insects (larvae).

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This is a Crested Tit, one of the latest in my series of bird images. I'll be using this as a greeting card, part of a calendar, and eventually in a coffee table book!

On a side note about something completely unrelated:

I would LOVE to leave Instagram behind, but the Pixelfed importer stubbornly refuses to work for me... I'm waiting patiently for a fix, but the one guy doing all the development programming keeps taking on more projects for his Fediverse database site (because Lemmy and KBin seem to be darlings right now...).

Eventually Pixelfed will let me load my past posts from Instagram and I'll be out. But until then, I'll keep making new posts and hope that eventually changes will happen. I've been told the importer doesn't like videos or multi-image posts, and I have several of those. Nor does it like apostrophes in the text, apparently? So if you're going to use the importer tool, keep those things in mind and select the posts you want to import carefully.

Regardless, I guess fixes will happen when they happen. I'm not going to stop posting here! :)

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