Uploads from PriscillaBurcher, tagged ngc

Dione glycera (Andean silverspot/Mariposa espejo)

nobody@flickr.com (PriscillaBurcher) — Fri, 17 May 2013 07:36:08 -0700

Taken in La Ceja, Antioquia; Central Andes; 2.300 meters above sea level.

"Andean silverspot" is found in Colombia and Venezuela in cloudforests at altitudes between about 1600-3500m. The underside of the hind wings have striking silver spots, lending them their common name.

Ramphocelus flammigerus male (Flame-rumped Tanager)

nobody@flickr.com (PriscillaBurcher) — Fri, 17 May 2013 06:49:23 -0700

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"Ramphocelus flammigerus" occurs from western Panama south through Colombia to western Ecuador. This is a sociable bird, being typically found in monospecific flocks, which inhabit shrubby semi-open areas.
Source: Neotropical Birds Online; Cornell Lab of Ornithology:
neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p...

Andean motmot on a rainy day in my garden

nobody@flickr.com (PriscillaBurcher) — Thu, 16 May 2013 07:41:15 -0700

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Taken in La Ceja, Colombia; Central Andes; 2.300 meters above sea level.
The Andean Motmot, as the English name implies, is the Andean representative of the "Blue-crowned Motmot" complex. For many years, all members of this group were considered to be conspecific, but this group now is reclassified as representing five different species. The Andean Motmot occurs in humid montane forests of the Andes mountains of South America, from Colombia south to Bolivia.
Source: Schulenberg, Thomas S. 2011. Andean Motmot (Momotus aequatorialis), Neotropical Birds Online

Carpels of Magnolia grandiflora

nobody@flickr.com (PriscillaBurcher) — Tue, 14 May 2013 08:43:45 -0700

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"Magnolia grandiflora" is a tree native to the southeastern United States. Reaching 27.5 m (90 ft) in height, it is a large striking evergreen tree with large dark green leaves and large white fragrant flowers. It is named after French botanist Pierre Magnol.
Magnolia is an ancient genus. Appearing before bees did, the flowers evolved to encourage pollination by beetles. To avoid damage from pollinating beetles, the carpels of Magnolia flowers are extremely tough.
Source: Wikipedia

Pitangus sulphuratus (Great Kiskadee/Bichofué gritón)

nobody@flickr.com (PriscillaBurcher) — Tue, 14 May 2013 08:06:16 -0700

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The Great Kiskadee is a large and strikingly colored flycatcher that inhabits much of Central and South America. Great Kiskadees reside in a variety of habitats from forest edges to grasslands to busy residential areas. These birds can often been seen hawking insects from an open perch or dropping to the ground feeding on insects and small reptiles.
Source: Neotropical Birds Online: neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p...

Hemerocallis sp. (Daylily/Lirio de un día)

nobody@flickr.com (PriscillaBurcher) — Mon, 13 May 2013 07:49:13 -0700

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Hemerocallis (hem-er-o-kal-lis), the botanical name for daylily means in Greek ''beautiful for a day'. Each flower only opens for one day. After it is spent, it is succeeded by the next day's blossom. Established clumps bloom vigorously for weeks and weeks.

Tangara heinei female (Black-capped Tanager)

nobody@flickr.com (PriscillaBurcher) — Mon, 13 May 2013 07:07:10 -0700

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The Black-capped Tanager (Tangara heinei) is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest. It is one of the few species in the genus that shows obvious sexual dichromatism, with males primarily grey-blue in color with a distinctive black cap, and females yellow-green without a black cap.

Hippeastrum argentinum (lily/azucena)

nobody@flickr.com (PriscillaBurcher) — Sun, 12 May 2013 14:47:17 -0700

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"Hippeastrum argentinum" is native to Tucuman, Catamarca, and Salta, northwestern Argentina. It is one of the white trumpet species that are commonly known as "azucenas" or "lilies"

Hippeastrum is native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas from Argentina north to Mexico. For many years there was confusion amongst botanists over the generic names Amaryllis and Hippeastrum, one result of which is that the common name "amaryllis" is mainly used for cultivars of this genus, which are widely used as indoor flowering bulbs. The generic name Amaryllis applies to bulbs from South Africa, usually grown outdoors.
Source: Wikipedia

Piranga rubra male (Summer tanager/Piranga abejera)

nobody@flickr.com (PriscillaBurcher) — Sun, 12 May 2013 11:30:24 -0700

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Taken in La Ceja, Colombia; Central Andes; 2.300 meters above sea level.

The breeding habitat of Summer Tanager is open wooded areas, especially with oaks, across the southern United States, extending as far north as Iowa. These birds migrate to Mexico, Central America and northern South America. They are often out of sight, foraging high in trees, sometimes flying out to catch insects in flight.
Source: Wikipedia

Young Red bellied grackle harassing her mom for food

nobody@flickr.com (PriscillaBurcher) — Sat, 11 May 2013 17:21:13 -0700

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The Red-bellied Grackle is a distinctive rare blackbird of cloud forest in the Colombian Andes.

Piranga rubra female (Summer tanager/Piranga abejera)

nobody@flickr.com (PriscillaBurcher) — Sat, 11 May 2013 07:58:15 -0700

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Kalanchoe fedtschenkoi (Lavender Scallops)

nobody@flickr.com (PriscillaBurcher) — Thu, 09 May 2013 18:23:00 -0700

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"Kalanchoe fedtschenkoi" is a succulent native to Madagascar. The specific epithet "fedtschenkoi" honors botanist Boris Alexeevich Fedtschenko (1873-1947), who was director of the Imperial Botanic Garden at St. Petersburg. The tubular flowers are carried in corymbs, often multi-layered in good conditions. Each flower has a short calyx edged with delta-shaped segments, the calyx is shorter than the tubular corolla. The corolla is an orange/coral/apricot colour. The flowers hang down.
Source: Wikipedia

Piranga lutea female (Hepatic Tanager)

nobody@flickr.com (PriscillaBurcher) — Thu, 09 May 2013 17:54:08 -0700

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Taken in La Ceja, Colombia; Central Andes; 2.300 meters above sea level.

Piranga lutea ranges from Costa Rica to northern and western South America in highland forest edges. Its English name is based on the liver-red color of the adult male. A characteristic of the genus Piranga is a marked sexual dichromatism.

Miltoniopsis vexillaria (Josefinas)

nobody@flickr.com (PriscillaBurcher) — Wed, 08 May 2013 09:27:52 -0700

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"Miltoniopsis vexillaria" is a species of epiphytic orchid. It is found in isolated patches in the central mountain region of Colombia and on the western slopes of the Cordillera Occidental from the department of Antioquia in the north and also further south in northern Ecuador. It grows on the margins of montane forests at between 3,600 feet (1,100 m) and 7,250 feet (2,210 m).
Source: Wikipedia

Ortalis columbiana (Colombian Chacalaca/guacharaca)

nobody@flickr.com (PriscillaBurcher) — Tue, 07 May 2013 07:47:15 -0700

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Endemic to Colombia, as its name would suggest, and the only chachalaca within its now relatively limited range in the central (Cauca and Magdalena) valleys of the country. It is found in both humid and deciduous forests, but the species’ range and population are both almost certainly declining, and it survives only in pockets.
Source: Neotropical Birds Online: neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p...

Xerochrysum bracteatum (Strawflower/Inmortal)

nobody@flickr.com (PriscillaBurcher) — Mon, 06 May 2013 20:54:08 -0700

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Xerochrysum bracteatum, commonly known as the golden everlasting or strawflower, is native to Australia. The species name bracteatum is Latin, and refers to the papery bracts (often mistakenly called petals) of the flower heads.
Source: Wikipedia

Myiarchus cephalotes (Pale-edged flycatcher/Atrapamoscas montañero)

nobody@flickr.com (PriscillaBurcher) — Mon, 06 May 2013 20:31:25 -0700

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The Pale-edged Flycatcher is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest.
Source: Wikipedia

Anthurium (anturio)

nobody@flickr.com (PriscillaBurcher) — Sun, 05 May 2013 16:14:29 -0700

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Anthurium has neotropical distribution, mostly in wet tropical mountain forest of Central and South America. The spathe may be a single color (yellow, green, or white) or possibly multicolored including burgundy and red. That sometimes colorful, solitary spathe is a showy modified bract.
Source: Wikipedia

Momotus aequatorialis (Andean motmot/Barranquero)

nobody@flickr.com (PriscillaBurcher) — Sun, 05 May 2013 15:58:56 -0700

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Molothrus bonariensis female-juvenile- (Shiny Cowbird/Chamón)

nobody@flickr.com (PriscillaBurcher) — Thu, 02 May 2013 14:38:54 -0700

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The Shiny Cowbird is a small, sexually dimorphic, brood-parasitic icterid. The male is entirely glossy violet blue-black or purplish black or (wings and tail) glossy greenish blue. The female dull grayish brown above. The Shiny Cowbird breeds in most of South America. It has recently reached the USA, where it is probably breeding in southern Florida.
Source: Neotropical Birds
(There is a distant bouganvilla shrub behind the shiny cowbird)