Image Gallery - Image gallery: birds

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Woodland kingfisher with Rwenzori mountains behind (Uganda)	Count Raggi's Bird of Paradise (Paradisaea raggiana)	African darter (Anhinga rufa) in Chobe National Park	Brown pelican (Pelicanus occidentalis) in flight (Belize)
Rufous-tailed Jacamar (Galbula ruficauda) (Belize)	Black-fronted Nunbird (Monasa nigrifrons) (Brazil)	Resplendent Quetzal (Pharomachrus mocinno)	Bateleur eagle (Terathopius ecaudatus) (Kenya)
Female giant kingfisher (Megaceryle maxima) (Gabon)	Yellow-fronted Canary (Serinus mozambicus) (Kenya)	Giant kingfisher (Megaceryle maxima) eating a catfish on the Mpivie river in Gabon (Gabon)	Hamerkop (Scopus umbretta) in flight (Gabon)
Scaly Francolin (Francolinus squamatus) (Kenya)	Macaws feeding on clay wall Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru)	Red bird (pan02-1835)	Javan Hawk-eagle (Nisaetus bartelsi)
Heron on bank at Lake Tempe	Great Egret (Ardea alba) (Costa Rica)	Pied crow flying above Isalo (Isalo)	Scarlet macaw (Ara macao) headshot Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru)
Male ostrich defending chicks (Tanzania)	Neotropical cormorants in a line (Costa Rica)	White-winged Swallow (Tachycineta albiventer) (Brazil)	Pale-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus guatemalensis) (Costa Rica)
Green-backed heron (Butorides striatus) (Costa Rica)	Madagascar Bee-eater (Merops superciliosus)	Yellow-billed stork (Mycteria ibis) (Gabon)	Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) in vegetation along oxbow lake Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru)
Single red-and-green macaw (Ara chloroptera) on branch preparing to feed on clay wall Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru)	Great hornbill (Thailand)	Scarlet macaws in flight (Costa Rica)	Oriental Pied Hornbill (Antbracocerus albirostris)
African open bill stork (Anastomus lamelligerus) searching the mud for food	Grey-headed kingfisher; Halcyon leucocephala; on a Euphorbia plant (Uganda)	Egret (unidentified) flying over the Kinabantagan River in Sabah Malaysia	African Pygmy-falcon (Polihierax semitorquatus)
Red lored parrots in flight (Costa Rica)	Ringed Kingfisher (Megaceryle torquata) (Costa Rica)	Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera) Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru)	White-browed sparrow weaver (Plocepasser mahali)
Purple heron (Ardea purpurea) in flight over forest in Gabon (Gabon)	White-faced whistling duck (Dendrocygna viduata) and black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus) on the Chobe River	Blacksmith Plover (Vanellus armatus) (Tanzania)	Gray-winged Trumpeters (Psophia crepitans) (Suriname)
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)	Broad-billed Motmot (Electron platyrhynchum) (Costa Rica)	Scale-crested Pygmy-tyrant (Lophotriccus pileatus) (Costa Rica)	Green bird
White-gray bird in tree (Indonesia)	Pair of Marabou Stork (Leptoptilos crumeniferus) (Kenya)	Crimson-breasted shrike (Laniarius atrococcineus)	Great blue heron (Alaska)
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)	Pair of Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna) flying Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru)	Swainsonís Toucan (Ramphastos swainsonii) (Costa Rica)	Galah (Eolophus roseicapilla)
Blyth's Hornbills (Rhyticeros plicatus); local name: kokomo	Black Asian chicken / gamecock (Indonesia)	Hyacinth Macaws (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus) in flight (Brazil)	Brown bird
Cocoi Heron (Ardea cocoi) (Brazil)	White heron wading in a rice field in Bali (Indonesia)	Blue-and-black Tanager (Tangara vassorii)	Heron in flight
Wild Scarlet macaw (Ara macao) Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru)	Orange-backed Woodpecker (Reinwardtipicus validus) (Malaysia)	Northern Cassowary (Casuarius unappendiculatus)	Heron in the Loango lagoon esuary in Gabon (Gabon)
Pair of Blue-throated Piping-guan, Aburria cumanensis (Brazil)	Blue-headed parrots and Yellow-crowned parrots Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru)	Petulu heron (Indonesia)	African Penguins - Spheniscus demersus (Monterey Bay Aquarium)
Pair of Chestnut-fronted Macaw (Ara severus) near a tree hollow (Brazil)	Stork-billed Kingfisher (Pelargopsis capensis) along the Tembeling River (Malaysia)	Rufous Motmot (Baryphthengus martii) (Costa Rica)	Male peacock displaying to a female
Hornbill (unidentified species) in tree at dusk in Tabin Wildlife Reserve, Sabah, Malaysia