passerines

Do note that this image was taken yesterday (02/09/2025), at the Orlando Wetlands Park in Christmas, Florida, USA.

Do note that this image was taken yesterday (02/09/2025), at the Orlando Wetlands Park in Christmas, Florida, USA.

Ianthocincla ocellata. Location: Adj. carpark entrance to Walled Garden.

Ianthocincla ocellata. Location: Adj. carpark entrance to Walled Garden.

Heidelberg Zoo 2021 This Aviary is Home to Turtle Dove, Corncrake and some Bluethroat.

Heidelberg Zoo 2021 This Aviary is Home to Turtle Dove, Corncrake and some Bluethroat.

Heidelberg Zoo 2021 This Aviary Houses some of the Zoos rarest Animals. The Reed Buntling can only be found in 3 Other european Zoos. The Bluethroat can even be found only in the Plzen Zoo and of course in Heidelberg.

Quelea quelea. Also known as: red-billed weaver, red-billed dioch.

Lamprotornis superbus.

I was looking through the gallery earlier at some of the images zoochatters had taken of passerines and was struck by how beautiful many of these birds truly are. Doing a bit of background reading on a couple of these I was also struck by just how many of these are endangered and at risk of...

Recent studies show that small passerines are an important part of a young Tiger Shark's diet: Giant tiger sharks eat backyard birds, surprising study reveals

British jay, Garrulus glandarius rufitergum.

Happy New Year everyone! And with a new year comes a new challenge, and for this competition's fifth installment @devilfish (the 2016 Challenge winner) and myself have settled on Passerines. This is a very large and variable group which is well-represented in zoos across the world so should make...

I have been reading a guide to the manakins and cotingas of South and Central America and it occurred to me that aside from a few tanagers, there are probably few if any songbirds from that part of the world to be seen in European zoos at least. Zootierliste has a few zoos with manakins and...