Image Gallery - Image gallery: amazon birds

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Blue and yellow macaw (Ara ararauna) Scarlet macaw (Ara macao) headshot Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru) Red Bill Toucan (Ramphastos tucanus) Andean Cock-of-the-rock Location: Machu Picchu Pueblo (Peru) Green macaw Chestnut Eared Aracari (Pteroglossus castanotis) Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru) Harpy Eagle; Harpia harpyja; in Colombia Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna); Yellow-crowned parrots (Amazona ochrocephala); and Scarlet macaws feeding on clay Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru) Green heron (Butorides striatus) Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru) Scarlet macaw (Ara macao) Local name: Guacamayo escarlata Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru) Harpy eagle; profile head shot Blue-and-yellow macaw flying in front of purple flowers Ara ararauna. Local name: Guacamayo boliviano Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru) Parrot Close-up on face of a Red-and-green macaw Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru) Cobalt-winged parakeet (Brotogeris cyanoptera) feeding on Ceiba seeds Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru) Red-and-green macaw in flight Ara chloroptera (Local name: Guacamayo cabezÛn) Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru) Captive harpy eagle juvenile Yellow-headed Caracara, Milvago chimachima Blue-and-yellow macaws flying toward clay lick Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru) Blue-and-gold Macaw Scarlet macaw Pair of Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna) flying Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru) Blue-and-yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna) Brown-throated Parakeet (Aratinga pertinax) Red-and-green macaws in flight above clay lick Scientific name: Ara chloroptera Local name: Guacamayo cabezÛn Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru) Harpy Eagle; Harpia harpyja Green macaw Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera) Macaws; parrots; and other birds feed on clay for mineral and salt supplementation and to counter dietary toxins they ingest from seeds. The clay lick also serves as a social setting for the birds Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru) Neotropic cormorant (Phalacrocorax olivaceus) in Oxbow lake Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru) Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna); Yellow-crowned parrots (Amazona ochrocephala); and Scarlet macaws feeding on clay Birds and other animals feed on clay to neutralize dietary toxins which are ingested during the comsuption of young seeds. Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru) Scarlet macaw (Ara macao) headshot Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru) Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera) Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru) juvenile Yellow-headed Caracara, Milvago chimachima Black vulture (Coragyps atratus) Wattled Jacana (Jacana jacana) in the Amazon Parrot Blue and gold macaw (Ara ararauna) Face of a Harpy Eagle; the world's largest eagle Parrot Harpy eagle with its beak open Green parrot Roadside Hawk (Buteo magnirostris) in Colombia Yellow bird Blue and gold macaw juvenile Yellow-headed Caracara, Milvago chimachima Harpy Eagle; Harpia harpyja; at a rehabilitation center Turkey vulture (Cathartes aura) Comorant drying its wings Black vulture (Coragyps atratus) in Colombia Blue-and-yellow Macaw Scarlet macaw Green parrot Brown bird amazon birds: Page 1