Showing posts with label Emberizinae. Show all posts
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El omnipresente pinzón


“¿El pinzón?” se está preguntando. “¿Me van a mostrar fotos de un pinzón?”

Bueno, hay que admitir que el pinzón es bastante omnipresente.  Los gorriones están en la misma familia, así que entre los dos hay pinzones en cualquier rincón del planeta, excepto en la gélida Antártida. Son algo como nuestras queridas palomas, ¿no? Sin embargo, aunque quizá no piensa que el pinzón sea un ave excitante, ¿sabía que hay setenta y siete especias de ellos? Y tan solo en el departamento de Tarija viven treinta y dos de estas. Ahora, entonces, debe decirse: “Ah, bueno, entonces me pregunto cuál pinzón me van a enseñar.”

Le presentamos el Jilguero Amarillo.
 

Nos emocionaba ver este pájaro de amarillo brillante revoloteando, y tomamos

The Ubiquitous Finch


“The finch?”, you’re saying to yourself. “They’re going to show pictures of a finch?”
 
Okay. Admittedly the finch is rather ubiquitous. Sparrows are also in the finch family, so between the two of them there are finches in every corner of the globe, except frigid Antarctica. They’re rather like our friend the pigeon, right? However, while you may not think of the finch as being an exciting bird, did you realize that in southern South America alone, there are at least 77 species of finches? And just in the department of Tarija, Bolivia, it is possible to see 32 of these. So now you should be saying: “Oh, well then I wonder which finch they will show?”

Meet the Saffron Finch.



We were excited to see this bright yellow bird flitting around so we got quite a few