#glistening-green tanager

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Glistening-Green Tanager (Chlorochrysa phoenicotis),

Mashpi Amagusa Reserve, Ecuador,

© Nicolas Reusens / Bird Photographer Of The Year

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“Glistening Green”

Glistening-green Tanager (Chlorochrysa phoenicotis), Mashpi Amagusa Reserve, Ecuador.

© Nicolas Reusens

Bird Photographer of the Year

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[Image Description: a photograph of a bright green bird clinging to a branch. End image description.]

Glistening-green Tanager (Chlorochrysa phoenicotis), family Thraupidae, order Passeriformes, Reserva Mashpi-Amagusa, Ecuador

photograph by Dušan Brinkhuizen 

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fluorescent Glistening Green Tanager by @Jlynpphotography

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it's a fun hc of mine that during dick's robin days, he went through the "omg i wish i had a cool secret language so i can have secret conversations with my friends" phase all kids go through. but one of his closest friends at the time also happened to be the batman, a guy with possibly the most bizarrely diverse arsenal of skills in the world. bruce sees the merit in the entire idea of a coded language to communicate rudimentary information when they can hear but not see each other. so why not make a code built on bird vocalizations? it's pretty much incomprehensible to anyone without a trained ear or comprehensive knowledge of birding and impossible to even passably mimic without proper training, so while the chances of interception are high, the chances of someone understanding it enough to interrupt during the middle of a bird-convo and feed false information are not.

it also, batman and robin come to realize, feeds into the "holy fuck our vigilantes are cryptids" idea. bird sounds that come from seemingly no determinable location (ventriloquism) come to mean batman and robin are nearby. to the goons of gotham, bird song becomes inextricably connected to getting your ass kicked by the dynamic duo. the real reason why criminals don't operate during the day is because they get skittish and jumpy about if the sounds of birds chirping are real birds or some masked vigilantes lying in wait to rock your shit, and it's just easier to commit crimes during the night when all the birds are asleep so you know for sure.

ornithologists have boards on their bedrooms dedicated to the bird-bats of gotham. they've written dissertations.

the bird language becomes a bit of a batfamily bonding connection. teaching each other how to do different clicks and whistles, making up slang so bruce and barbara can't complain of clogging up comms with non-mission relevant talk, searching up birds to associate them with different people, psychologically terrorizing the criminal populace of gotham by chirping at them...

how the bird code works is that there's a bird assigned to each one of gotham's major heavy hitter criminals and vigilantes, and a few assigned to heroes out of the city (by which i mean the ones the bats associate with often enough to have a sign to address by). the only birds i've got so far are the robin (for robin. self-explanatory) and the glistening-green tanager (for the joker). i only have one for the joker bc i wanted to reference this hc in one of my fics and so searched up green birds to find the most eye-searingly annoying-to-look-at green bird i could find, and the glistening-green tanager was the closest one to fit the bill.

[frostyblustar]

Your post about liking cats but not being able to have them came across my dash, so I thought I'd share this pic of a cat who came into my work (an animal shelter) this week. He's doing well and is so sweet. We are fighting over what to name him <3

AWWWW OH MY GOD

Okay my first thought was Tanager, because I was looking at birds recently and saw a Glistening-green tanager, and his eyes are green. I also thought, though this one sounds a bit more goofy, Stone. In that same vein, Boulder or Pebble lol.

This is such an adorable cat >-<

[cognitivejustice]

With hundreds of highly prized species, bird tourism is thriving in the country – and farmers are increasingly turning their land into nature reserves

“Wildlife tourism is far more profitable than farming but that’s not the only reason we made the change,” says Ajila’s son, Luis Jr. “We wanted to save not just the umbrellabird, but all the special creatures here, and safeguard them for future generations.”

Projects such as this are eligible for funding from the Ecuadorian government. Launched in 2008, the Socio Bosque scheme offers “the poorest private and communal forest landowners annual payments for each hectare of forest cover maintained”, with sums of between $30 (£23) and $60 a hectare.

The Ajila family: Luis Jr, Alejandra and Luis Sr. Photograph: Dr Stephen Moss

But the income provided by birders alone has been enough to propel some farmers to take up the nature reserve model.A few years ago, Favián Luna decided to convert his 120-hectare tomato farm in the Tandayapa Valley, north-west of Quito, into a cloud-forest reserve and lodge called Alambi Reserve. Visitors go to photograph many species of hummingbirds, including the Andean emerald, native to the Chocó bioregion of the Ecuadorian Andes.

Nearby, at Mashpi Amagusa, former farmers Doris Villalbaand Sergio Basantes have created a reserve, lodge and garden, which attracts 260 species of sought-after birds. Highlights include glistening-green, flame-faced and beryl-spangled tanagers, and the rare, endemic rose-faced parrot.

At Finca La Victoriana in Pichincha, the owner Jacqui bought the house and land, and began to reforest the site while growing crops to feed herself. But during lockdown, when she was stuck in nearby Quito, all her crops were stolen. She was saved from having to sell up by a visiting friend, who heard an unusual sound from lower down the valley and realised this was one of South America’s most charismatic birds: the Andean cock-of-the-rock.

Male Andean cocks-of-the-rock (Rupicola peruvianus) lekking to attract a mate. Photograph: Jiri Hrebicek/Alamy

Since 2005, Ángel Paz and his younger brother Rodrigo have transformed their former dairy farm in Mindo into a bird reserve. At first, things didn’t go to plan: it took a month for the first visitor to arrive, and he paid just $10 for a four-hour tour. Since then, however, thousands of people have made the pilgrimage.

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A glistening-green tanager sits in the crook of a leaf. Nicolas Reusens / Bird Photographer of the Year 2023

from https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-ten-stunning-images-from-the-bird-photographer-of-the-year-awards-180982955/

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Glistening Green Tanager by Naser Mojtahed Via Flickr: Captured in Ecuador.

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jota is a violet-green swallow

hijinks is a roseate spoonbill

valentina is a mourning dove

winston is a tawny owl

screech is a house crow

is this anything

[ i'm a glistening-green tanager, i think screech would be a purple martin, but yes, this is something, a pet-shop au where we're all taken care of by anons or what-have-you. ]

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Glistening green Tanager

📷@ nicolasreusens

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[Image description taken from alt: Image 1: A scarlet ibis, a bird with bright red plumage Image 2: A glistening-green tanager, a bird with bright green plumage Image 3: A grandala, a bird with bright blue plumage

Image 4: Tags that read: "now do one for printing"

Image 5: A mountain bluebird, a bird with bright cyan-ish blue plumage Image 6: A galah, a bird with bright pink and gray plumage Image 7: A domestic canary, a bird with bright yellow plumage Image 8: A black vulture, a bird with pitch black plumage. End description.]

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me: man i sure wish i could view images on a digital screen using an efficient 24-bit color display

the nefarious RGB tri-color LEDs:

[allthenewzworld]

Photographer in Ecuador captured breathtaking images of two birds resting on a leaf: the Glistening-green Tanager and the Moss-backed Tanager. 🦜☘️

The Glistening-green Tanager, admired for its shimmering green plumage, also has striking blue wings and tail feathers.

The Moss-backed Tanager, with its blend of mossy-green and yellow hues, features a distinctive dark eye mask and a contrasting blue-green crown.

(📸 by @nicolasreusens)

#birds #wildlife #nature #plant #plants #trending

[herpsandbirds]

Glistening-green Tanager (Chlorochrysa phoenicotis), family Thraupidae, order Passeriformes, Mindo, Ecuador

photograph by Manuel Seda

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Bird Photographer of the Year 2023 Highlights Avian Attitudes and Winged Wonders Around the World | Colossal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023 KATE MOTHES Nicolas Reusens, “Glistening Green,” Glistening-green Tanager (Chlorochrysa phoenicotis), Mashpi Amagusa Reserve, Ecuador. Gold Award Winner: Best Portrait. All images © the photographers and Bird Photographer of the Year 2023 The judges of the Bird Photographer of the Year competition sifted through more than 20,000 images this year. The judges of the 2023 Bird…

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Nicolas Reusens' photograph of a glistening- green tanager in the Mashpi Amagusa Reserve, Ecuador, won the award's best portrait category. "After hours of waiting, Nicolas Reusens saw the vivid green bird on a perfect heart shaped leaf. Its shimmering feathers reflected a dazzling array of colors."

Credit: Nicolas Reusens