New Birds

[Tony Buzolich]

Here's a couple of new ones you guys might not have seen before. With Jay's unusual collection of Wisconsin birds I thought I'd throw in a couple that we don't see very often around here either.
Have fun guessing, Tony

[jbird]

The first one looks like a yellow warbler, but its hard to tell for sure. The second one is easy. Youre in Hawaii you dog! That's a Brazilian Cardinal

[Tony Buzolich]

Right on Jay Kona to be exact.

The first one is a Saffron Finch. The other is a Yellow Billed Cardinal which originally came to the islands from Brazil. If you think about it everything on the island except the lava did come from somewhere else.

Aloha, Tony

[DLJeff]

Time for more bird pics. This guy decided the juniper outside our kitchen window was a good spot to wait for dusk and nap away the day .

[DLJeff]

Here's a few photos from a recent trip into the Amazon basin. Not the best photos - I blame the moving boat and the distance, heh heh. But you can still get a good view of some tropical birds and animals we saw.


Amazon kingfisher female


Amazon kingfisher male


black-collard hawk


great black hawk


black vulture (this guy walked right up to our beached boat as we ate lunch and took siesta)

[DLJeff]

A few more ...


channel billed toucan (they always land in the high canopy)


jabiru stork


juvenile rufescent tiger heron


pair of little blue herons (these are the same species, just two color morphs)


pied lapwing

[DLJeff]

A third set ...

Green kingfisher, female


Roadside hawk


Roseate spoonbill


Black skimmers (we watched them teaching babies to skim, the babies would walk and skim)


Sunbittern (I tried and tried to get one with its wings open, really gorgeous feathers)

[DLJeff]

And a few animals to keep things interesting ...


Black caiman on a sandbar (this is a big lizard, pushing 17ft)


Goofing around one day I caught this little caiman on a popper, we laughed our butts off trying to get it to hand and trying to retrieve my popper


A very healthy giant river otter population


brown bearded saki monkey (also saw white faced capuchins and squirrel monkeys; heard howler monkeys but they stayed too far from the river)


Nice tapir sighting late one afternoon

The absolute best sighting from our week was one boat watched a giant anteater clamber up a sandy bank one afternoon. Watched it for maybe 10 minutes. That is an extremely rare sight. Wished I'd been there.

[jbird]

Hey Doug! Too cool! Those kingfishers look like killing machines! That bill is one helluva a weapon!

The heron and bittern have some really tempting feathers for our craft dont they?

[Tony Buzolich]

Doug,
Quite a variety of fauna. I've been to Belize numerous times and have never been able to see a Toucan or any kind of monkey though they're there.
Tony