#racket tail

[herpsandbirds]

Peruvian Racket-tail (Ocreatus peruanus), male, family Trochilidae, order Apodiformes, Ecuador

Some ornithologists consider the Peruvian Racket-tail to be a subspecies ofthe Booted Racket-tail, O. underoodii.

photograph by James Gan

[fromtraveldiaries]

Greater racket-tailed drongo, Nagarahole national park, March, 2023

[lowcountry-gothic]

Booted racket-tail hummingbird (Ocreatus underwoodii) in Ecuador. Photo by Nicolas Reusens.

[wayti-blog]

The Peruvian racket-tail (Ocreatus peruanus)

A species of hummingbird in the "brilliants", tribe Heliantheini in subfamily Lesbiinae. It is found in Ecuador and Peru (x).

[psikonauti]

Booted Racket-tail

[drawbauchery]

I drew more kitties

MORE KITTIESSS!?!?

[mochibiscuit]

Left-hand-training journal entry #8: Not a Wikipedia article this time, but a webpage from American Bird Conservancy about booted racket tails

[subparpicturesofbirds]

thats one hell of a fluffy boy

[colorsoutofearth]

Hummingbirds by Rolf Nussbaumer

Top: Booted Racket-tail (Ocreatus spp.) and Green-Crowned Woodnymph (Thalurania colombica)

Middle: Buff-bellied Hummingbird (Amazilia yucatanenensis)

Bottom: Red-billed Streamertail (Trochilus polytmus)

[arulia108]

Day 25

[herpsandbirds]

Peruvian Racket-tail (Ocreatus peruanus), male, family Trochilidae, Peru

photograph by Jeyaramsankar Gurusamy

[sophisticatedchaoss]

crawling out the other end of a month inactivity with media i have a love-hate relationship with (do not ever look at the media tag)

[therianuserboxes]

Can you do a racket tail hummingbird with green outside/inside and white text?? also a blue jay wirh blue inside/outside and white text? and finally a panther with black inside/outside and grey or white text? <3 tyyyyyyyy

[proton-wobbler]

Racket-tailed Roller (Coracias spatulatus)

"Cutie! Love his tail plumes"

Found in Southeast Africa, this roller is similar to other members of its genus in most manners. They hunt from perches, swooping down to grab invertebrates before returning to their perch to watch anew. They nest in cavities, often created by woodpeckers or barbets. The defining feature of this species is their tail, sporting two club-like plumes that extend past their typical tail feathers.

Sources:

Image Source: eBird (Nige Hartley)

[the-puffinry]

today's sketch is of a Blue-headed racket-tail/kinawihan (prioniturus platenae) parrot, maybe the most beautiful parrot I've ever seen -- their strange tailfeathers and green bellies remind me of luna moths or hummingbirds. They're endemic to the Palawan islands in the Philippines. Neocolor II wax pastels + marker 05/003/2023. :)

Here's a link to their entry on the ebird site.

Unfortunately they are threatened by habitat loss, and there are only an estimated 700-1500 of them left. Oil palm plantations and mining operations are rapidly destroying the forests in which they live.

There is a local organisation working to preserve the birds in this area (link to their general site), but their site looks straight out of 2000 and they haven't exactly made their donation link easy to find-- there really isn't an obvious one. You download a form to sponsor an aspiring warden on their cockatoo-specific site. It's a very oldfashioned kind of site, but they seem to be doing good work? If you click the bolded part of the text I copied on the actual site it downloads the contribution form. "The core project of the Philippine Cockatoo Conservation Programme is a wardens scheme to guard the cockatoos, particularly during the breeding season. Former poachers were recruited as wildlife wardens because of their profound knowledge of the species. They are indigenous people of Palawan: the Pala’wan from the south, the Tagbanua tribes and the Cuyunin from the northern part of the province. In return for their dedication and commitment to the project, KFI implements livelihood activities to augment their income. You too can help our wardens through sending their children to school."

[bird-identifier]

White-booted Racket-tail (Ocreatus underwoodii)