Happy New Year 2016! by BertrandoCampos

A new year is like a blank book. The pen is in our hands and it’s our chance to write a better story for ourselves. Let’s celebrate a new beginning. Happy New Year!

Pileated Finch (Tico-tico-rei-cinza).

The Pileated Finch is a resident of arid scrubland and forest edge in Venezuela, Colombia and eastern Brazil. Male Pileated Finches are gray above with a white eyering, black crown, concealed flame red crest and are greyish-white below. Females have duller upperparts than males and have brownish-grey crowns, a greyish-brown streaked breast and a white belly. Pileated Finches are rather quiet and unobtrusive, and often forage on or near the ground for seeds and insects, only occasionally perching in the open. These birds are often encountered alone or are loosely associated with mixed species flocks.

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Guira Tanager by BertrandoCampos

Guira Tanagers are small, brightly colored tanagers that occur is South America from Colombia south to Argentina. There are four subspecies recognized, all of which inhabit lowland forest and tall scrub. Their diet consists of various insects, fruits and seeds. They are mostly seen in small groups or flocks up to 25 individuals; often in mixed species flocks.

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Rufous-tailed Jacamar by BertrandoCampos

The Rufous-tailed Jacamar is a beautiful inhabitant of forest edges and clearings of Central and South America. The six recognized subspecies of Rufous-tailed Jacamar vary slightly in the amounts of black on the chin and in the number of green central rectrices, but in general males are an iridescent coppery/golden green above with a white throat and cinnamon-rufous underparts. Females are a slightly duller green and have a cinnamon-buff throat. Rufous-tailed Jacamars feed almost exclusively on flying insects, especially dragonflies, butterflies and moths. These birds forage from a perch on an exposed branch 1 to 3 meters from the ground, and sally out to catch insects on the wing. After the jacamar has caught an insect it beats it several times against a branch to stun it and remove the insect’s wings before it swallows.

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Swallow-tailed Hummingbird by BertrandoCampos

The Swallow-tailed Hummingbird is a large, spectacular denizen of open savanna-like vegetation in the southern and northeastern tropics of South America. It is easily recognizable as a large violet and green hummingbird with an impressive long, deeply forked tail. It is readily seen in defense of dense nectar resources such as those found on flowering trees, but it will also feed on insects in the air. It is divided into five subspecies, four of which occur in the southern disjunct portion of the specie’s range and often intergrade.

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Frilled Coquette by BertrandoCampos

6,5 cm, 3g. The ornate green and white fanning cheek feathers set the male Frilled Coquette apart from most hummingbirds. Male Frilled Coquettes boast a long, rufous crest and both sexes have a light rump band. Common throughout their range, this species is a denizen of a variety of habitats in central eastern Brazil—humid forest edges, secondary growth, coffee plantations, and cerrado. They feed on both arthropods and nectar and may exhibit seasonal movements after the breeding and flowering seasons. In interactions with larger hummingbirds, Frilled Coquettes are considered subordinate.

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Many-colored Rush Tyrant by BertrandoCampos

Papa-piri (Tachuris rubrigastra).

The Many-colored Rush Tyrant is truly a well-named bird. Among a family of frequently dull-plumaged and similar birds, it is positively gaudily attired, and it is wholly dependent on reedy marshes and lake edges for breeding. It forages alone, in pairs, or small family parties, searching acrobatically for insects that are perch-gleaned. The underparts and supercilium are entirely yellow, except for the white throat, the mantle is olive-green, the tail and wings are black with a bold white pattern on the coverts and tertials; there is a black bar on the breast sides, and a red patch on the nape, and another on the undertail coverts. Many-colored Rush Tyrant is resident over much of Chile and Argentina, with smaller extensions of its range north to southeast Brazil in the east, and western Peru in the west, and it occurs from sea level to altitudes above 4000 m.

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Swallow-tailed Hummingbird by BertrandoCampos

The Swallow-tailed Hummingbird is a large, spectacular denizen of open savanna-like vegetation in the southern and northeastern tropics of South America. It is easily recognizable as a large violet and green hummingbird with an impressive long, deeply forked tail. It is readily seen in defense of dense nectar resources such as those found on flowering trees, but it will also feed on insects in the air. It is divided into five subspecies, four of which occur in the southern disjunct portion of the specie’s range and often intergrade.

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