Wonderful World of Birds
I came across a great website today. Mangoverde has a World Bird Guide with photos, videos and sound recordings of birds from all around the world.
Today's photo on my page-a-day bird calendar had a group of steamerducks, which the caption said are flightless. I'd never heard of flightless ducks before, so did a search and found the Mangoverde site. Not only did I find out about steamerducks, but learned that there is a group of birds called flowerpeckers. Now woodpeckers I've heard of (and seen a few), but flowerpeckers is a new one.
Here are a couple photos I copied from the site:
This one seems to be caught in the act of flowerpecking...
This one is remarkably colorful.
There are many more great photos there; the site also has a dragonfly/damselfly page and a butterfly page, both also with many photos, if you prefer colorful flying insects.
Today's photo on my page-a-day bird calendar had a group of steamerducks, which the caption said are flightless. I'd never heard of flightless ducks before, so did a search and found the Mangoverde site. Not only did I find out about steamerducks, but learned that there is a group of birds called flowerpeckers. Now woodpeckers I've heard of (and seen a few), but flowerpeckers is a new one.
Here are a couple photos I copied from the site:
This one seems to be caught in the act of flowerpecking...
This one is remarkably colorful.
There are many more great photos there; the site also has a dragonfly/damselfly page and a butterfly page, both also with many photos, if you prefer colorful flying insects.
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