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Posts Tagged ‘bird’
Animals, Videos & Documentaries, Weird Stuff, Wildlife & Flora, May 22nd, 2012,
I stumbled upon this amazing video while ‘YouTubing’ last night in search of funny and fascinating animal clips. After watching a few old favorites including the stylish interior decorating skills of the bowerbird and the lyrebird, which can imitate all the other birds in the forest as well as camera noises, chainsaws and car alarms with near perfection, I found a story about a bird that dances like Michael Jackson. In my opinion, he dances more like James brown than MJ, shuffling back and forth and sliding sideways down the branch, but far be it from me to quibble over…
Tags: bird, dance, manakin, video
Science & Technology, Videos & Documentaries, Wildlife & Flora, Sep 26th, 2010,
A recent study of crows in the French overseas territory of New Caledonia in the South Pacific shows that the birds use tools to catch their food. From an article in the New York Times: The crow uses twigs to poke at a beetle larva until the larva becomes so agitated that it grabs onto the stick with its mandibles, at which point the crow yanks out the twig, having successfully captured its prey. For the family of birds known as corvids – which includes ravens, magpies and jays – the term ‘bird brain’ has no proper meaning. The brain…
Tags: bird, brain, clever, corvids, crow, magpies, ravens
Conservation, Nature, Weird Stuff, Wildlife & Flora, Jul 28th, 2010,
This week’s Creature Feature takes us to Africa and the Middle East, where you’ll find a rather odd member of the Ibis family. The Northern Bald Ibis (aka the Hermit Ibis or Waldrapp) is a decent sized member of the Ibis family (about 28-31 inches or 70-80 cm). Once found across northern Africa, southern Europe, and the Middle East, this critically endangered bird is now limited to Morocco (about 500) and Syria—where less than 10 remain. Although there have been some semi-wilding breeding colonies or reintroduction programs added to a few countries, including Turkey, Austria, and Spain, these birds are…
Tags: Africa, bird, Creature Feature, critically endangered species, Europe, Hermit Ibis, Middle East, Northern Bald Ibis, spiritual, Thoth, Waldrapp
Nature, Weird Stuff, Wildlife & Flora, May 5th, 2010,
This little bird is a type of hummingbird and part of the Trochilidae family. It’s only found in Honduras and is currently listed as a Critically Endangered species. Relatively small in size and mostly green in color, Honduran Emeralds live in the arid interior valleys of Honduras. Their range has included Yoro, Olanchito, the Agalta valley, and Valle de Telica. Surveys conducted in late 2008 also found the bird sparsely throughout 6 sections of forest in the Santa Barbara department. Although they choose scrub and thorn-forests as their home, their habitat is severely under threat. Most of the thorn-forest area…
Tags: bird, Creature Feature, critically endangered species, Honduran Emerald, hummingbird, spotlight
