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Flamingos are gregarious wading birds, usually 3 to 5 feet (0.9 to 1.5 m) tall, found in both the Western and Eastern Hemispheres. Flamingos filter-feed on shellfish and algae. Their oddly shaped beaks are specially adapted to separate mud and silt from the food they consume and, uniquely, are used upside-down. American flamingo, Phoenicopterus ...
The yellow grosbeak (Pheucticus chrysopeplus), also known as the Mexican yellow grosbeak, is a medium-sized seed-eating bird in the same family as the northern cardinal, "tropical" or "New World" buntings, and "cardinal-grosbeaks" or New World grosbeaks.
Mexican ornithologist Rafael Martín del Campo proposed that the northern caracara was possibly the sacred "eagle" depicted in several pre-Columbian Aztec codices, as well as the Florentine Codex. This imagery was adopted as a national symbol of Mexico , but it is not the bird depicted on the flag , which is a golden eagle ( Aquila chrysaetos ...
West Mexican chachalaca In Mexico Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Galliformes Family: Cracidae Genus: Ortalis Species: O. poliocephala Binomial name Ortalis poliocephala (Wagler, 1830) The West Mexican chachalaca (Ortalis poliocephala) is a species of bird in the family Cracidae, the ...
The influence of American fast food on Mexican street food grew during the late 20th century. One example of this is the invention of the Sonoran hot dog in the late 1980s. The frankfurters are usually boiled then wrapped in bacon and fried.
The great-tailed grackle or Mexican grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) is a medium-sized, highly social passerine bird native to North and South America. A member of the family Icteridae , it is one of 10 extant species of grackle and is closely related to the boat-tailed grackle and the extinct slender-billed grackle . [ 2 ]
A different version of bird flu — H5N1 — has been infecting poultry flocks over the last several years, leading to millions of birds being culled. It also has been spreading among all ...
Mexican parrotlets are highly social and gregarious birds, most often found in flocks of 4–30 individuals made up of pairs and family groups. [4] When flying in these flocks, they fly quickly and in relatively tight formations. [3] They create a variety of squeaky, excited-sounding chirps while perched or in flight. While feeding, they make ...