By Jake Richter (Moderator - Post #4173) on Sunday, April 6, 2003 - 4:50 pm: |
Linda and I found our conversation nearly drowned out by bird squawks and coos yesterday evening thanks to a large flock of Loras positioned across the street. Loras are Bonaire's resident parrot - Amazonis Lorensis, I believe - the red shouldered amazon parrot (I may be wrong on the details - don't have my Bonaire bird book handy). These were in a tree/shrub right next to the road. There are at least four that I can see in this picture. In the full resolution version of this picture (2560x1920) I counted over 15 loras, including one oddly colored one. Here's a close-up of the so-called fabled "blue lora". We also found the Kibrahacha in bloom once we made our way up to our friends (the Orlovskys, visiting from Milwaukee - Mark O. is an occasional BT poster), who are staying at a rented house in Sabadeco. And while not a bird, here's another cool shot from yesterday evening.
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By Jake Richter (Moderator - Post #4174) on Sunday, April 6, 2003 - 4:53 pm: |
Sorry for the larger picture sizes but I wanted to make sure to provide as much detail as possible (You may notice some of the images are also larger than 50KB - good to be a moderator sometimes :-) ).
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By Martin de Weger (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #2353) on Sunday, April 6, 2003 - 4:53 pm: |
Nice Pictures Jake. In the first picture I count 5 birds...
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By Meryl Virga (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3190) on Sunday, April 6, 2003 - 7:33 pm: |
Jake..great pictures! You know I love them! A Blue Lora! got to research that one!
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By Susan Taft (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #158) on Sunday, April 6, 2003 - 8:34 pm: |
Beautiful pictures Jake! Just what I needed to take my mind off the snow and ice we got this weekend with more promised for tomorrow. I'll be looking at these often! Susan
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By Michelle Mouton (BonaireTalker - Post #72) on Sunday, April 6, 2003 - 9:07 pm: |
Wow - nice pics - Takes my mind off of the impending snow storm tonight and puts it right back into Bonaire!
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By Glen Reem (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1387) on Sunday, April 6, 2003 - 10:24 pm: |
This discussion reminds a New Englander of blue lobster (Yeah, I know...). Genetic quirks in singular individuals produce various degrees of blue, some quite bright, with less or none of the red/dark green usual natural color. Loras similar??
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By Carole Baker (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #2254) on Sunday, April 6, 2003 - 10:57 pm: |
Beautiful shots of beautiful subjects, Jake. Must be nice to hear such lovely creatures outside your door. Thanks again. Carole
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By bob neer (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #913) on Sunday, April 6, 2003 - 11:35 pm: |
must be spring in bonaire ;)
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By Marc @ CrystalVisions (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #960) on Monday, April 7, 2003 - 12:44 pm: |
Great shots Jake... 2 Comments:
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By Linda Richter - NetTech (Moderator - Post #1387) on Monday, April 7, 2003 - 12:53 pm: |
The latest guess on the origin of the Blue Lora is that it is a Lora that for some reason lacks the Yellow pigment. There were several article in the Bonaire Reporter back a couple months when the Lora count was being done.
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By Marc @ CrystalVisions (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #962) on Monday, April 7, 2003 - 1:49 pm: |
That would make sense... green - yellow = blue, I learned that in kindergarten
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By sherry baker (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #456) on Monday, April 7, 2003 - 4:00 pm: |
so the blue parrot may be a color phase, just like albino is an absent of color?.. just missing the yellow. that is cool. has anyone ever seen an albino parrot there? i am sure it would be rare as albino's usually are.
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By Jake Richter (Moderator - Post #4176) on Monday, April 7, 2003 - 4:42 pm: |
Marc - yep - you're right - Bonairean yellow shouldered parrot.
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By Marc @ CrystalVisions (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #966) on Tuesday, April 8, 2003 - 1:41 pm: |
An albino parrot would have a fair chance of surviving here, since the island doesn't have any predators that would hunt it. I'd go to great lengths to get it in front of my telelens, if one was to be spotted!
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By Kitty @ CrystalVisions (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #229) on Tuesday, April 8, 2003 - 4:51 pm: |
There *would* be one type of predator for that albino parrot: humans....
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By Karin van Veen (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #7) on Monday, April 21, 2003 - 9:07 am: |
Albino parrots would have a lot of trouble with the sun, though!
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By Jake Richter (Moderator - Post #4230) on Monday, April 28, 2003 - 11:54 pm: |
I happened to mention the blue Lora to a bird expert at Seaworld last week and she confirmed that albinism (lack of pigmentation) in birds can happen in just a single color.
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