Birds
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Turn a Gourd into a Bird House
How to Turn a Gourd into a Bird House for the Purple Martin (or other birds): Choose a gourd that is 8″ – 14″ in diameter with a skin that…
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Breeding Golden Pheasants
The Golden Pheasant or Red Golden Pheasant is one of the best known and easiest pheasants to keep and breed in backyard aviaries. Some can become quite confiding, taking treats…
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Toco Toucans
The Toco Toucans (Ramphastos toco) is the largest and most recognized of all toucan species because of the bird’s iconic use in advertising. It appears heavy but it is not. It…
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Hill Mynas
Hill Mynas are endemic to tropical southern Asia from India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka east to Indonesia, and the Common Hill Myna, a popular cage bird, has been introduced to…
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Crimson-rumped Toucanets
The Crimson-rumped Toucanets (Aulacorhynchus haematopygus) is also known as Chestnut-billed Emerald-Toucanet, Crimson-rumped Aracaris or Red-rumped Green-Toucanet. This South American toucanet is closely related to the Blue-banded Toucanet (Aulacorhynchus coeruleicinctis) and…
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Green Toucanets
The Green Toucanets (genus Aulacorhynchus) are South American toucans that occur in humid forests and mountain woodlands, but a few also occur in adjacent lowlands. [ez-toc] Subspecies: Blue-banded Toucanet (Aulacorhynchus…
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Many-banded Aracaris
The Many-banded Aracaris (Pteroglossus pluricinctus) are South American Aracaris that are found in north-western Brazil, eastern Colombia, Ecuador, eastern Peru and southern Venezuela. They inhabit subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and sandy-soil woodland. Aracaris generally roost…
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