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Maui Parrotbills
The Maui Parrotbills Males have more intense yellow colouration, especially on the head. In the picture, the oversized head and massive beak of this finch-sized bird are visible to advantage.…
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Incubating Birds
Incubation period of birds Useful Information: Breeders’ Resources … Egg Incubation – pdf format … Incubation Information (html) Incubating Data for Parrots / Psittacines Species Days Canaries 13-14 Chickadees Incubation…
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Birds
Crimson-rumped Toucanets
The Crimson-rumped Toucanets (Aulacorhynchus haematopygus) is also known as Chestnut-billed Emerald-Toucanet, Crimson-rumped Aracaris or Red-rumped Green-Toucanet. This South American toucanet is closely related to the Blue-banded Toucanet (Aulacorhynchus coeruleicinctis) and…
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Birds
Groove-billed Toucanets
The Groove-billed Toucanets (Aulacorhynchus sulcatus) is a toucan found in mountains of northern Colombia and northern Venezuela; where they inhabit subtropical and upper tropical humid forest and woodland, occasionally also occurring…
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Endangered Species
The Tiger
Four subspecies of tiger—the Caspian, Javan, Balinese, and South China tigers—have already gone extinct due to habitat loss and relentless hunting by humans Five subspecies remain: the Amur, or Siberian,…
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Asian Wildlife
The Saola
The saola (pronounced sow-la) scientific name Pseudoryx nghetinhensis has been referred to as the Asian unicorn because it is so rare and seldom seen. It is also Critically Endangered, with…
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African Wildlife
The Northern Sportive Lemur
It is very difficult to say that one lemur species is more endangered than another. There are around 100 species of these primates, all of which live on the Island…
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