Chilean Flamingos

Chilean Flamingos - Spc. Name: Phoenicopterus chilensis

They are pink in colour but immature birds are grey before they get their full adult plumage. They have long, grey legs with pink knees.

Chilean Flamingos

Their large bill is downward curving and more than half of it is black in colour. They have narrow wings with their primary and secondary flight feathers being black and their wing coverts being red. 

Chilean flamingos live in warm, tropical environments in South America. 

They live in colonies that can range vastly in size from a few dozen birds to thousands of individuals. 

Chilean Flamingos feed upon aquatic invertebrates, diatoms and algae. They mainly feed during the day and they sweep their bill upside down through shallow water picking up food as they go.

They will defend their nest during the breeding season, otherwise they are non-territorial.

Eastern Towhee

Eastern Towhee, Spc. Name: Pipilo Erythrophtalmus

The Eastern Towhees are a large kind of sparrow, with strong beaks, thick body and long rounded tail.

Eastern Towhee (F)

Males are handsome with black above and on the throat, warm rufous sides and white on the belly. They have red eyes when mature.

Females are similar in pattern but are rich brown where the males are black.

Their habitat: Anywhere in brushes or thickets along forest edges.

They do their feeding exclusively on the ground, never fly to any feeders to eat.

I’ve observed that they do not walk, instead they hop around and flash the white feathers of their under-tail for signaling position to their partner.

Eastern Towhee (M)

The Eastern Towhees are not aggressive and act very independently from other birds. I’ve never seen these birds confronting any other species.

Blue Grosbeak

Blue Grosbeak, Spc. Name: Passerina Caerulea

Blue Grosbeak (F)

Medium size songbird, the male species have back, chest and shoulders intense blue, very bright. Their wings have brown edges and brown bars with some white and black borders. Conical beak black with lower part silvery color. Black mask covers around eyes and face.

Females grosbeak are similar in size and shape however the plumage colorations are quite different; in their case the body is mostly cinnamon brown with wings bars pale brown and dark brown. Their beak same as the males but they have no mask.

Blue Grosbeak (M)

Grosbeaks nest in shrubs, and eat seeds as well as insects. They are migratory birds. Living mostly in the Southern States of the USA.

They physically resemble the Northern Cardinals with exception of color.