| Inhabitant of
all the skies of Chile. It drifts in circles and with their
excellent view it watches over the holes where the mice hide
. Then they rushes in having itched as the speediest in the
projectiles and it catches their prey with good blow. Predator
bird that dominates in the high mountain, looks for the peaks,
cliffs and gulches to make its nest. It deposits two eggs
of whitish color there with reddish stains. The Eaglet, proud
of the domain of the solitude of the heights, he / she passes
the time in the time of the reproduction executing audacious
air acrobatics.
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| Wader of paws and lengthened pick.
Inhabitant of all the regions of Chile, it can be seen in cultivated
fields and prairies. But they made their nest next to the lagoons,
in cliffs that pick up the fresh waters of the mountains or
in leafy trees. they Murmur making choir with the slow trip
of the creeks, in marshy waters of hirsute aquatic vegetation.
In their nests it deposits from two to three whitish eggs, with
spots of gray color and clear grizzly coffee. |
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| Mr. of the mountain. It is considered
the biggest flying bird in the world. It is big bird, it usually
weighs up to twelve kilos and the extension of its wings can
arrive to more than three meters. Predator bird , absolute sovereign
of the skies in the Chilean mountains. With great ability it
drifts on the sharp cliffs of The Mountain range of The Andes.
To counteract the turbulences and to maintain the stability
of their impressive flight, it inclines their powerful feathers
rowers.They chooses their nest in the Andean high summits, where
it deposits a white, opaque egg. The male and the female take
turns to incubate the breeding that is born after 56 days. It
possesses a slow development, abandoning to the six months the
nest and it reaches the maturity to the eight years. The Condor
eats with voracious appetite until gorging; then their displacement
becomes slow and painful; it is the occasion in that the hunters
capture him. The Condor is part of the national shield and it
is ingrained deeply in the culture of the Andean towns. It is,
therefore, the Chilean bird par excellence. |
| In the somber forests of the south,
humid and impenetrable, very few birds live. The black Carpenter
prefers those spaces impressively silent. There their penetrating
and persistent picks, in thick trunks of old trees , awake the
solitude of the deep forests. The Carpenter extracts larvas
v worms with those that he feeds. Beautiful bird of strong pick
and grizzly black plumage. The male differs of the female for
his distinguished scarlet crest. The black Carpenter is a victim
more than the decrease of the native forests, of the forest
fires and of the substitution of the autochthonous arboreal
species of our southern earth. |
Migratory bird
that remains in the country, contrary to other species that
visit these lands in summer. Beautiful bird of color dark
blued neck and whitish in the stomach. Of stylized silhouette,
especially for their wings long and pointed forked line, what
allows him to exhibit in summer audacious and speedy acrobatic
figures in the sky.
Their weak and thin paws force her to remain in flight without
rest after the insects that it captures in their vertiginous
displacement. It builds their nest in the holes of the cliffs,
walls, trees and in the cavities of the tiles and attics .
They inhabit between the III and XII Region. Their eggs that
it puts from four to six in a year, they are of white color.
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| The Parrot Tricahue,
call also Parrot Barranquero for their habit of nesting in deep
caves It puts there from two to three eggs of white color. This
typical parrot of Chile is a beautiful bird copy that suffers
for many years a dangerous decrease; for such a reason, he/she
is considered a bird in extinction in the country. The peasants
accustom to be taken down with lines by the ravines and with
long sticks they dig in the caves to capture their breedings,
those that then they tame with easiness and they teach them
some words that the parrots repeat without more problems. The
plumage of the Parrot Tricahue is very showy. The head, leaves
later of the neck and back they are of dark olive color, the
abdomen is of an alive yellow, the paws of a pale reddish color,
the black and curved pick. They inhabit scarcely between the
III and VIII Region. |
The owls, for their
strange aspect, in which stand out their fixed eyes surrounded
by a crown of feathers, besides the startling sound that emits
in the solitary nights, have caused fears in many towns of
the past. Numerous legends associate them with the witchcraft
and the wrong, especially because this rapacious bird prefers
the night life. On the other hand, the old ones Greek and
for similar reasons, they considered it symbol of the study
and of the wisdom.
The white owl lives in the cities where old and demolished
buildings exist, they look for the attics to nest and to put
between five and eleven white eggs. The breedings of the white
owl is born with several days of difference, because this
rapacious bird goes incubating egg after egg, as it puts them,
with several days of difference. The white owl is very beneficial
since she feeds almost exclusively of rodents. It locates
them thanks to their fine one heard and once captured, it
swallows them to him whole.
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| The same as the Swans
and the Geeses, are very good swimmers, and they pass great
part of their life in the water. Their coat is made of feathers,
which are had of an oil that it maintains them sheltered and
protected of the drops temperatures. They inhabit the heaths
bordering especially to the Villarrica Lake . They feed of tiny
animals aquatic and small fish. They are very friendly birds,
and it is common to see them share with people in the sector
of La Poza in Pucón. They are migratory birds that always
choose a populated habitat of abundant food, without caring
the climate or the temperature. |
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| Contrary to other
night predators (Tucúquere, white owl , Common Chuncho),
the Pequén can be active so much by day as at night.
To live they prefer the sandy lands of the area of the coast
with scarce vegetation. It also penetrates in the forests between
Biobío and Valdivia, but only in robbed lands. They prepare
their nest in caves, where it puts from four to eight white
eggs, between October and December. The Pequén is a very
singular bird, easily recognizable for the farmers. The whole
superior part of their body, including wings and line, it is
of clear brown color with white spots that give him an black
aspect . It possesses a blackish necklace with spots of a yellowish
white color, the abdomen and legs are of a creamy target. The
Pequén accustoms to stop to the entrance of a cave or
envelope a post, where it fixes its big eyes without blinking
at least; it remains this way, immobile, for long time. It is
able to rotate the head without to move the rest of the body
and to return to the normal position with such a speed that
the human eye is not able to perceive it. This rapacious bird
feeds of small rodents and insects and he likes scorpions a
lot. It is possible to find the Pequén among the regions
I and X, whenever the conditions of the place are the appropriate
ones to their customss. |
| In Chile seven hummingbird
species exist, being distinguished all for their beautiful coloring
of alive tones with metallic shines. The pointed pick and the
extremely long and expandable language are appropriate to extract
the nectar of the flowers that constitutes their food. The hummingbird
is recognized with easiness by their express flight and the
form like he/she stays in suspension in front of the flowers;
it beats the wings with such a speed that the human eye doesn't
reach to distinguish its movement, producing a characteristic
and unmistakable buzzing. The hummingbirds make their nests
in three different forms according to the species: hanging the
nest that is an entire work of art in miniature, under the horizontal
branches of some tree; placing it above a branch or, in the
case of the species that you/they inhabit the mountain range,
hitting the nest with saliva or nectar from the flowers to the
vertical wall of the rocks. It puts two white eggs. |
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