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Bird name: Golden Parakeet
Latin: Guarouba guarouba
Other: Golden Conure • guaruba (Br)
Family: Psittacidae - Parrots, Parakeets
Range: N Brazil
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Record shot of a bird in a zoo.

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Bird name: Demoiselle Crane
Latin: Anthropoides virgo
Other: Grue demoiselle (Fr), grulla damisela (Es), Jungfernkranich (De), damigella di Numidia (It), 蓑羽鹤 (Ch), Журавль-красавка (Ru) gकूंज (Hi), کونج (Ur), ਕੂੰਜ (Pu)
Family: Gruidae - Cranes
Range: Turkey, Black Sea through Eurasia, India, Pakistan to Mongolia, NE China
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Record shots of Demoiselle Cranes in a bird zoo in Iguaçu.More photos...

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Bird name: Red and Green Macaw
Latin: Aratinga chloropterus
Other: Arara-vermelha (Br)
Family: Psittacidae - Parrots, Macaws
Range: Amazonia to central South America
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The beautiful Red-and-green Macaw, a popular zoo bird. In the wild though found in the forested parts of Amazonia and central South America.

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Bird name: Hartlaub's Turaco
Latin: Tauraco hartlaubi
Other: Touraco de Hartlaub (Fr), Seidenturako (De), Turaco di Hartlaub (It), Hartlaubturako (Sv),
Family: Musophagidae - Turacos
Range: East Africa
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A heavily reworked record shot of a Hartlaub’s Turaco in Madeira zoo.

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Bird name: Black Stork
Latin: Ciconia nigra
Other: Cigogne noire (Fr), Schwarzstorch (De), cigüeña negra (Es)
Family: Ciconiidae • Storks
Range: Central Europe to China, migrating to tropical Africa, India
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A record shot of a Black Stork at the Camargue bird park.

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Bird name: Scarlet Ibis
Latin: Eudocimus ruber
Other: Guará (Br) • Ibis escarlata (Es)
Family: Threskiornithidae • Ibises
Range: Brazil, Guyanas, Venezuela, Trinidad, coast.
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A record shot of a stunning Scarlet Ibis at the bird park (sanctuary?) at Itatiaia, a long way from home.

In fact in Brazil they only live in a couple of coastal stretches, so are typically difficult to see unless you make a special trip. The national bird of Trinidad.

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Bird name: Blue Headed Parrot
Latin: Pionus menstruus
Other: Blue-headed Pionus (Pet) • Loro cabeciazul (Es) • Maitaca-de-cabeça-azul (Br)
Family: Psittacidae - Parrots
Range: Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, to Brazil
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The Blue-headed Parrot below was seen at Finca Hartmann in the Chiriqui province of western Panama in May.

The Blue-headed Parrot has a distinctive blue head, with small patch of red at base of bill and on chest, difficult to see in the field. Otherwise green with reddish under tail.

More seen in the Upper Napo region of the Amazon Basin in Ecuador below in “more photos”.

Below, a Blue-headed Parrot at Finca Hartmann, Panama, March 2010.
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Bird name: Black headed Parrot
Latin: Pionites melanocephalus
Other: Caique de cabeza negra (Es) • Marianinha-de-cabeça-preta (Br)
Family: Psittacidae - Parrots
Range: N Amazonia: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyanas, Peru, Venezuela.
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A shot of a captive Black-headed Parrot. In the wild, found in northern Amazonia.

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Bird name: Cinnamon Teal
Latin: Anas cyanoptera
Other: Pato colorado (Es) • Marreca-carijó (Br)
Family: Anatidae • Ducks
Range: W North America to S South America

Cinnamon Teal are found in the Americas but a male zoo bird is pictured here, for the record.

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Bird name: Indian Peafowl
Latin: Phasianus colchicus
Other: Peacock (En) • Pavo real (Es) • Paon bleu (Fr) • Pavone comune (It) • Blaue Pfau (De)
Family: Phasianidae • Pheasants
Range: India originally, but introduced and bred worldwide.

What most of us know as a Peacock (stricly speaking the male) is an Indian Peafowl, originally from India and Sri Lanka but kept worldwide in parks and zoos. Peahens lack the spectacular colours and display. These were seen in Perth. The White Peacock is the same species and not an albino but leucistic and created through selective breeding.

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Bird name: Zebra Finch
Latin: Taeniopygia guttata
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Family: Estrildidae • Estrildid Finches
Range: Lesser Sundas, Central Australia
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The Zebra Finches pictured are zoo birds, but their natural habitat is Australia and neighbouring Indonesia. The orange cheek above indicates an adult male. Females lack the orange patch but so do some males.More photos...

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Bird name: Bengalese Finch
Latin: Lonchura striata domestica
Other: Society Finch, White-rumped Munia, White-rumped Mannikin, Striated Finch
Family: Estrildidae • Estrildid Finches
Range: Domestic
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This is a domestic hybrid Munia, descended from the White-rumped Munia L. striata.