Art 365/109 - Red-tailed tropicbird

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White-browed Tit-Spinetail

840 👁, 210 🖼, 32 🔉, 4 🎬

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Small, active bird found locally in the southern Peruvian Andes. Brownish gray with a red cap, a white-streaked face, breast, and back, and a white eyebrow. Note its tiny, thumbtack-like bill and its fairly long, pointed tail. Forages in and near Polylepis patches, where it makes quick, short hops through dense bushy vegetation. Its song is a dry, rapid descending trill of chips.

Photographer: Luke Seitz

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Art 365/108 - Silver gull

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Elegant Quail

5418 👁, 601 🖼, 94 🔉, 2 🎬

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Fairly common small game bird of open brushy woodland and overgrown weedy fields in tropical lowlands and foothills of northwest Mexico, sometimes near human settlement. Occurs in coveys for much of year, usually of 5–15 birds, which often feed along quiet roadsides early and late in the day. Flushes explosively with shrieks when disturbed. Both sexes have a short, upright fan-shaped crest and bold white spotting on the belly. No other quail in most of its range and habitat; endemic.

Photographer: Simon Best

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Art 365/107 - South polar skua

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