Birds Birds Birds

[Margossa]

Thank you all for the amazing pictures.

I found web page with list of the squirrels in the world.
http://www.squirrels.org/names.html

Photos squirrels are on this web page http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/view ... t=squirrel

Pictures and videos with squirrels http://www.arkive.org/explore/species?q=Squirrel

[Olga]

Margossa

I moved my reply to the Finnish thread. Wrote it here but I did it by mistake - I believed that I was there while writing my reply..
viewtopic.php?p=180387#p180387

[Chimega]

Here are a couple of little starlings that came onto my deck one day last week, just after sunrise, to take a bath and have some fun.

[Felis silvestris]

How nice, the starlings! I had a crow sitting on the next building in the morning (usually no really exciting birds here in the middle of the city, I fear)

[Manu]

The starlings are so cute and nice picture of the crow .

[Felis silvestris]

Birds - I have local ones and I have exotic birds:

First the local:

A crow


Sparrow, posing for me

[Felis silvestris]

A raven who talked with me when I clucked to him



But I did not understand what he said ... (one predecessor could say a very bad word!)

Forgot this one:



Can you guess what it is? Was going very fast, so no good one. A nuthatch in the snow leopard's cage ...

Kestrel



and Harris' hawk (not really local)



getting a wing stretch after the show. I had a nice chat with the two ladies though

[Felis silvestris]

Some ducks, geese

[Felis silvestris]

Glossy ibis



Black Stork



Great Grey Owl

[Felis silvestris]

And those who are not really local:

American rhea



Different weaver birds (extremely difficult to take a picture, they keep on moving)

[fireblade1]

Some ducks, geese

"Trauerschwan" and "Streifengans" I know, but the others ..?

[Felis silvestris]

A white zebra finch



Marabou



Ostriches



Emu portrait



And those I don't have to introduce?

[vainamoinen]

"Trauerschwan" and "Streifengans" I know, but the others ..?[/quote]

Schwarzhalsschwan, Kolbente, Brautente

[Felis silvestris]

Yes, Schwarzhalsschwan - Cygnus melancoryphus
Kolbenente - Netta rufina the one with the golden head, Brautente - Aix sponsa - is the one preening on the piece of wood. There were many more, but I can't post them all!

[Manu]

Beautiful pictures of beautiful birds... And Felis, now I know which "Bear" you mean in the Alutaguse-topic

[Felis silvestris]

You found the bear, Manu?

[Margossa]

Thank you all for the amazing photos.
I love of birds very much.

Felis sivestris: I have a question.
What are difference between the crow and the raven?
I think that your pictures crow and raven are the same, but I'm not sure.

[Margossa]

What is bird on my video from Animal Rescue Center in Makov?
It's Willow tit (Poecile montanus) or Marsh tit (Poecile palustris) with Blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus)?





http://www.makov.cz/?action=webcam

[vainamoinen]

What is bird on my video from Animal Rescue Center in Makov?
It's Willow tit (Poecile montanus) or Marsh tit (Poecile palustris) with Blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus)?



http://www.makov.cz/?action=webcam

I think it's Marsh tit but not completely sure. These species are very similar and record is short.

[Felis silvestris]

Thank you all for the amazing photos.
I love of birds very much.

Felis sivestris: I have a question.
What are difference between the crow and the raven?
I think that your pictures crow and raven are the same, but I'm not sure.

Quite simple, the crows are much smaller! They look much the same, as the species living here, where I live in Southern Germany, Carrion Crow (Corvus corone) is completely black like the raven - Common Raven, in German Kolkrabe (Corvus corax), which does not live in my part of Germany anymore. The one on my photo is in the zoo! It's difficult to see as there are no benchmarks to see their different size. The raven is bigger than a buzzard, 54 - 67 cm long, the crows here are about 47 cm long, which is also quite big.
But a lot of people don't know this, they think the crows are ravens, I hear many people telling each other about the "ravens" around.

I have a previous photo of one of the two ravens:



Unfortunately I have not made any photos where you can see the size difference, but I'll keep that in mind for the future. The ravens are a bit difficult to photograph as they have a very tight mesh in their cage and the light has to be good to eliminate this while photographing.

and two crows