A - Z Game: Everything Related to Birds
I just love these A-Z games and didn't see one on everything having to do with Birds and Bird Watching (Birding): bird names, bird habitat, bird body parts, bird nesting materials, foods birds eat, types of bird feeders, accessories used with bird feeders, items used to attract birds to your yard, categories of birds (such as predators, flightless, waterfowl, etc.), enemies/predators of birds, birding lodges, birding equipment (such as binoculars, etc.), birding tours, popular or famous birding areas, bird listing etc.
So .....here we go!
I will start with a Spanish word that begins with "A", then you post a Spanish word that starts with "B", then "C" and so on. Please include an English translation of your Spanish word.
My word:
A = (el) alpiste = birdseed
Be sure to click on N E W E S T before posting your answer.
Have fun!
127 Answers
Gralaria Jocotoco = Jocoto Antpitta
(a recently described species in extreme southeastern Ecuador)
At the Tapichalaca Reserve, a family of three of these birds will come to one of the reserve's guides when he calls them to come and get pieces of worms or grubs. Observers can sit on a bench nearby and the birds will come within 5 to 10 feet of them.
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Wetmorethraupis sterrhopteron, nombre científico, scientific name
Tangara Golinaranja (Orange-throated Tanager)
These birds live in a very remote area in extreme south-eastern Ecuador and also in an even more remote area in Peru.
Vanellus cayanus, nombre científico, scientific name
La avefría de Cayena ( Cayenne Lapwing)
Pied Lapwing
M
Molleja - gizzard
Cantar -- to sing like a bird
el zorzal común - song thrush
Falcon - Falcón
E - emú
Dibujos de las aves por Audubon = drawings of birds by Audubon
B
Buscando para comer
Looking for food
Yanayacu Lodge
An eco tourism lodge on the Yanayacu River in Peru's Amazonia
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A great Web site with information on birding throughout the world is:
Birdingonthe.Net
Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (M. O. U.) = La unión de ornitólogos de Minnesota
Every state in the U. S. A. has some type of statewide birding organization with a Web site for that organization.
On the Web sites, you can find information about rare birds seen recently in each state as well as general birding information for the state.
Here is a photo of a bird that appears in northern MN in the winter!
I
(el) invierno = winter
The time of year when many birds have left Minnesota and flown south to Mexico or Central and South America.
Quebrantahuesos = Lammergeier
Distribution / Range
It breeds on crags in high mountains in southern Europe, Africa, India and Tibet, laying one or two eggs in mid-winter which hatch at the beginning of spring. The population is resident. The Lammergeier has been successfully re-introduced into the Alps, but is still one of the rarest raptors in Europe.
