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