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Burrowing Parakeet (2)

Cyanoliseus patagonus

cotinga

Argentina

Date taken: Oct 16 2013

Details: male, adult

Flying past the bluffs at the world's largest colony near San Antonia del Oeste.

Date uploaded: Jun 24 2014

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Galapagos Dove (1)

Zenaida galapagoensis

cotinga

Ecuador (Galapagos)

Date taken: Jan 17 2009

Details: adult

An endemic to the Galapagos Islands, I caught up with this individual early one morning on Isla Espanola.

Date uploaded: Jun 24 2014

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Prairie Warbler (3)

Dendroica discolor

cotinga

United States (Michigan)

Date taken: Jul 3 2011

Details: male, adult, summer plummage

While all the weekenders were partying on the beach, I tracked down this singing male in the dunes at Warren Dunes State Park.

Date uploaded: Jun 24 2014

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Magellanic Penguin (7)

Spheniscus magellanicus

(Near-threatened)

cotinga

Argentina

Date taken: Oct 13 2014

Details: male, adult, summer plummage

Two penguins sleeping at the world's largest colony at Punta Tombo.

Date uploaded: Jun 24 2014

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Indigo Grosbeak (1)

Cyanoloxia glaucocaerulea

cotinga

Argentina

Date taken: Nov 5 2013

Details: male, adult

We got lost trying to find a Saffron-cowled Blackbird a few hundred kilometres north of Buenos Aires. No luck with the blackbird, but a pair of grosbeaks flew into a hedgerow by the side of the road. The unexpected finds are often the best!

Date uploaded: Jun 24 2014

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Magellanic Woodpecker (1)

Campephilus magellanicus

cotinga

Argentina

Details: male, adult

After a morning searching for the woodpecker, this one showed up right by the side of the trail at Llao Llao Park, near Bariloche. My external flash was broken so I had to rely on natural light.

Date uploaded: Jun 24 2014

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Apolinar's Wren (1)

Cistothorus apolinari

(Endangered)

cotinga

Colombia

Date taken: Jun 20 2014

Details: adult

A mediocre photo of the rarest bird I've ever photographed. According to a recent paper (http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1675/063.035.0310), the population has declined precipitously and this subspecies only remains in a single, small marsh the size of a couple of football fields.

Date uploaded: Jun 21 2014

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Pigeon Guillemot (11)

Cepphus columba

cotinga

Canada (British Columbia)

Date taken: Apr 6 2021

Details: male, adult, summer plummage

These guillemots nest each year under the car ramp on the ferry from Queen Charlotte City to Moresby Island. One member of the pair would forage while the ferry went across and back, then they would switch off (they don't start incubating for another couple of weeks, so in these photos they are together). It was an innovative approach to a lack of nesting locations on that part of the coast!

Date uploaded: Jun 21 2014

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