It is very friendly towards humans and is known on various islands as cling-cling, chango, chinchilín, and iguana bird. Enjoy!!!
The Greater Antillean Grackle (Quiscalus niger) is a grackle found throughout the Greater Antilles and the Cayman Islands as well as smaller, nearby islands. Like all Quiscalus grackles, it is a rather large, gregarious bird.[2] It lives largely in heavily settled areas. It is very friendly towards humans and is known on various islands as cling-cling, chango, chinchilín, and iguana bird. Enjoy!!! Puerto Rican Woodpecker (Eng.), Carpintero de Puerto Rico (Sp.), Melanerpes portoricensis (Sci.), endemic of the islands of Puerto Rico and Vieques. Melanerpes portoricensis is the only common woodpecker found on the island of Puerto Rico. It is rare on the island of Vieques. The Puerto Rican Woodpecker has a black upper body with bright red throat and breast and a white forehead and rump patch. Lower body is buff (light yellow) Like most woodpeckers, M. portoricensis uses its chisel-like bill, long, barbed tongue and sticky saliva to glean food from bark and holes it drills in trees. It eats beetle larvae, earwigs, ants and other insects. It will also occasionally eat spiders, frogs and lizards as well as berries and fruit. Using its bill, the male bird chisels-out nesting cavities in trees (and sometimes even power poles!) so that the female can lay 1 to 6 white eggs. When flying it flaps its wings several times, pauses, and then flaps again giving it a distinctive undulating, wavy flight pattern. Enjoy!!! Puerto Rican WoodpeckerHere we can see a newly wedded couple smiling for the lens. I was hired to operate a photo booth at their wedding and with their consent I did a background replacement of one of their pictures taken in the photo booth. When I showed them the results, lets say they were really happy. Enjoy!!! NewlyWedsHere you can see the highly evasive Troupial perched on a Tamarind tree. This little fellows are a little bit difficult to photograph and they get spooked fairly easily. This one was feeding and climbed to the top to catch the sun rays. I was really careful not to make any noise because I only had a 200mm lens with me so I had to get really close to get this shot. Hope you like it, enjoy!!! I See YouHere you can see a fungus the grew in my front lawn. I wanted to try a different approach and photographed it straight from the top. Enjoy!!! From The Top |
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