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If a bird flew straight through a rainbow, it might come out looking like the Gouldian Finch. This prism of a bird was named by βThe Bird Manββthe 19th century ornithologist John Gouldβin honor of his late wife, Elizabeth, who made many of the drawings in Johnβs famous naturalist books. (Her credit for this work was lost to history for many years, but thatβs another story.)
Both sexes of the Gouldian Finch are brilliantly colored in maturity, though males have royal purple chests while femalesβ chests are more rosy.Β
Fun fact: These birds were once the most exported Finch in the world in the 1930s, sold by the tens of thousands by the Perth Zoo. It is now illegal to take them from Australia.
Give a Hoot
Three birding bits you should know about this week.
π¬οΈBlown away Wind turbines are using cameras and AI to save birds New technology from Australia helps detect bird flight patterns when theyβre headed toward a wind turbineβwith enough time to pause the blades and avoid deadly collisions.
π¦Special delivery Hargila This half-hour documentary from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology tells the story of the Greater Adjutant Stork and those helping to protect them in Assam, India. There are only 1,200 of these storks alive, making them the rarest stork in the world.
A Product We Love
Unique and worthy products from the wide world of birding you might enjoy.
Flying Colors makes premium organic wild bird food, offering ethically sourced, toxin-free seeds and nuts of the highest quality toΒ nourish wild birds of all types and inspire birders of all ages. Each specialty blend and single origin creation is rigorously sourced & researched, and every jar is produced with love & packaged by hand in small batches in New York's Hudson Valley and tested in our own backyards.
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