PEACHFRONT SPEAKS

the bird list from my bolivia bird of prey october trip

2009-11-02 - 11:06 a.m.

all photos © 2009 by elaine radford

chestnut-fronted macaw, this one is actually a restaurant mascot in bolivia, the wild ones don't pose so patiently, but the wild ones look the best when they fly above you to show the vivid color beneath the wings -- no photo to capture it, maybe you'll just have to go and see for yourself

1. Greater Rhea
2. Red-winged Tinamou
3. Least Grebe
4. Pied-billed Grebe
5. Neotropic Cormorant
6. Anhinga
7. Cocoi Heron
8. Great Egret
9. Little Blue Heron
10. Snowy Egret
11. Striated Heron
12. Black-Crowned Night-Heron
13. Rufescent Tiger-Heron
14. Wood Stork
15. Maguari Stork
16. Roseate Spoonbill
17. White-faced Whistling-Duck
    

    into every life a little purple gallinule cuteness must fall

18. Brazilian Teal
19. Black Vulture
20. Turkey Vulture
21. Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture
22. Greater Yellow-headed Vulture
23. Andean Condor
24. King Vulture
25. Hook-billed Kite
26. Swallow-tailed Kite
27. White-tailed Kite
28. Snail Kite
29. Double-toothed Kite
30. Rufous-thighed Kite
31. Mississippi Kite
32. Plumbeous Kite
33. Savanna Hawk
34. Black-collared Hawk
35. Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle
36. Solitary Eagle
37. Gray Hawk -- note, "Gray-Lined" Hawk
38. Roadside Hawk
39. White-rumped Hawk
40. Short-tailed Hawk
41. Variable Hawk
42. Black-and-chestnut Eagle
43. Mountain Caracara
44. Southern Crested Caracara
45. Yellow-headed Caracara
46. Laughing Falcon
47. Barred Forest-Falcon
48. American Kestrel
49. Bat Falcon
50. Peregrine Falcon
51. Speckled Chachalaca
52. Limpkin
53. Gray-necked Wood-Rail
54. Purple Gallinule
55. Common Moorhen
56. Sungrebe
57. Wattled Jacana
58. Southern Lapwing
59. Band-tailed Pigeon
60. Plumbeous Pigeon
61. Eared Dove
62. White-winged Dove
63. White-tipped Dove
64. Military Macaw
65. Chestnut-fronted Macaw
66. Golden-collared Macaw
67. Mitred Parakeet
68. White-eyed Parakeet
69. Green-cheeked Parakeet
70. Yellow-chevroned Parakeet
71. Blue-fronted Parrot
72. Squirrel Cuckoo
73. Smooth-billed Ani
74. Guira Cuckoo
75. Burrowing Owl
76. White-collared Swift
77. Sparkling Violet-ear
78. Black-throated Mango
79. Fork-tailed Woodnymph
80. Giant Hummingbird
81. Ringed Kingfisher
82. Blue-crowned Motmot
83. Rufous-tailed Jacamar
84. Black-fronted Nunbird
85. Chestnut-tipped Toucanet
86. Chestnut-eared Aracari
87. Channel-billed Toucan
88. Toco Toucan
89. Green-Barred Woodpecker
90. White-wedged Piculet
91. Yellow-tufted Woodpecker
92. Crimson-crested Woodpecker
93. Rufous Hornero
94. Plain-brown Woodcreeper
95. White-tipped Plantcutter
96. Amazonian Umbrellabird
    

    golden-collared macaw, easy to see in the area around cochabamba, but they still make you gasp at their beauty every time

97. Tropical Pewee
98. Black Phoebe
99. Great Kiskadee
100. Social Flycatcher
101. Streaked Flycatcher
102. Tropical Kingbird
103. Eastern Kingbird
104. Fork-tailed Flycatcher
105. Masked Tityra
106. Blue-and-white Swallow
107. House Wren
108. Chalk-browed Mockingbird
109. Chiguanco Thrush
110. Purplish Jay
111. Plush-crested Jay
112. Tropical Parula
113. Magpie Tanager
114. Silver-beaked Tanager
115. Blue-gray Tanager
116. Sayaca Tanager
117. Palm Tanager
118. Red-crested Cardinal
119. Rufous-collared Sparrow
120. Bay-winged Cowbird
121. Giant Cowbird
122. Yellow-rumped Cacique
123. Crested Oropendola
124. Russet-backed Oropendola
125. Chopi Blackbird
126. Hooded Siskin
127. House Sparrow

flocks of mitred parakeets may be seen in the wilds or in the city courtyards, here are some lively visitors to a city courtyard in cochabamba

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