Featured Lear's Royal Aracari - 1834

Well, my parrot is a Patagonian Conure. They all look alike. If you meet one, please take a picture!!!!!!!!!

 

I used to raise and show Pigeons. Frillbacks, rollers, tumblers, and fantail

 

Any pictures, pleeeeeeeeeeeease, Mr. Fun?????
I love pigeons. And doves. I have known a few pet doves... so sweet, so beautiful. I love that head-bobby walk! I'm Googling those pigeon types now. Edward Lear loved to do pigeons. A whole volume of the Naturalist's Library was devoted to them. I bet you'd enjoy leafing through that... or just Google Edward Lear pigeons and I bet you'd get an eyeful.
OMG I love how everybody is talking birds to me!

 

I also had a pair of ring-neck doves. I also had a parrot Unfortunately, I knew nothing much about parrots and the one I got was rather sickly and unfortunately died not long after I bought him. (It was small Green parrot, but damned if I can remember what type)

Oh, and I have also owned Finches

And sorry, no pictures of any of them

 

Hi,
Living here in Jersey is a hoot. Our community pool is heated from the middle of April. Every year a couple of mallard ducks decided to use our pool for their own. We do not get to use the pool except from Memorial day. Finally several years ago someone with some sense strung fishing line crisscrossing the pool. The mallards have now nested in the tiny stream behind my house. Though I imagine
they still talk about the warm water pool that they had.
greg

 

I know my finches, too, Mr. Fun, including canaries. Love them.
I bet your little green guy was one of the small conures. My 30-year-old is a Patagonian Conure (the largest of the conures).
Ring-neck doves are beautiful. I also am partial to the humble little Mourning Doves that are so familiar out West.
Bird-keeping (legal and otherwise) is a big Mexican thing... parrots, passerines, pigeons, even some raptors. Roadrunners are frequently "lawn pets"... friendly, curious, and they love to beg for barbecue scraps.
Are you kind of a bird-perv too, Mr. Fun?

 

HA!!!!! Just retire and you won't know where the devil the time has gone from one minute to the next.........trust me!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Love that string of emoticons!!!!!

 

I'm a fan of the Wood Duck....ever since I came across a few of them in Stanley Park.

Here's a RARE White Raven from Vancouver Island.......alas not taken by me.

 

Magnificent. Superstitious Mexicans call white ravens and crows "pajaros espectros"... spirit birds or ghost birds.
He's one.

 

The 1st Nations of the Pac NW...also view these as spirit birds. !

 

Then they're right! I mean, look in that eye... I would love to know a bird like that personally.

 

OMG........have NEVER seen a white Raven before!!!! But then that makes sense....

 

Hi,
Have seen one white crow here. Also have seen TWO solid black deer.
greg

 

I've seen a white squirrel !........twice !....years apart..

 

I've seen a white rabbit!
Oh, wait...

Edit - Okay. I've seen a white rat. No. Nevermind.

 

Gila, Sorry I didn't post the toucan print yet! I am now at work and will try to get to it tonight. Meanwhile, this site has the same one. I found it in my researches. Mine is framed, but it's definitely an original print from the period.

http://piclib.nhm.ac.uk/results.asp?image=415921

The frame on mine is relatively recent. It isn't really to my taste, but it's in great condition so I probably won't do anything to change it.

 

It's a beauty!!!! The toucans are just such eye candy!!!!!!
I love that pose, too. Thanks, Gif!! Did you say you have it on a wall? May I ask where?

 

It is not on the wall right now. I bought it almost a year ago and have not put it up yet. Right now it is leaning against a wall, on the floor. It is not really large. I just need to get around to redecorating.

 

Ahhhhhhhhhhh... well, it was nice to meet your toucan!