Beautiful birds

Suggest you familiarize yourself with photographs of the ten most amazing birds. Naturally, the notable birds - thousands, and they are all so different, each in its own stands.

Lorisidae parrots - are small parrots with bright color in a rainbow of colors. They live in Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia and the Philippines. On these beautiful birdies go strange stories: that every spring they start to fall, forcing the Australians to carry them in veterinary clinic.





American Kestrel - strangely enough it is the most elegant and small birds of prey. They can be found throughout the Western Hemisphere, from Canada in the north to the Falkland Islands in the south.



Atlantic Puffin - surprisingly trusting birds for this reason, and got its name. These birds feed on small fish and marine invertebrates. The birds nest in groups or colonies on steep sea shores of the North Atlantic. Man badly crippled the population of these birds comely.



Crowned Crane - this is a very romantic bird. Place its habitat is West and East Africa. In the mating season may be accompanied by mutual grooming dances that include bouncing, dashes, flapping wings, tossing bundles of grass or shake of the head. Beauty courtship and appearance of these birds could not get over our "Top 10».



Red Cardinal - a beautiful bird that lives mainly in the eastern United States, as well as in the south-eastern Canada and Mexico. Colouring male bright crimson, with a black "mask" on his face. In females predominate color is grayish-brown tones, with reddish feathers on the wings, breast and tuft, with a less pronounced "mask" than the male.



Kingfisher. Widespread - moved only by means of wings, as the legs are short and are not intended for long-term displacement. The plumage of a kingfisher near dim; its brightness is achieved due to the refraction of light feathers. Kingfishers love of solitude, to see them - a rarity. Voice - intermittent squeak "tiip-tiip-tiip».



Red Macaw - king parrots. Despite the magnificent and colorful look at the macaw was a hard fate. They have long been hunted Indians. The meat they use for food and feathers - feathers for arrows and adornments.



Mandarin - bird of the family Anatidae. Her flight fast and maneuverable, it is easy to take off, sometimes almost straight up. Unlike most ducks, mandarin can often be seen sitting on the branches of trees or on the cliffs. Hunting is prohibited in the tangerine, she entered into the Red Book of Russia as a rare species. This duck bred in parks as decorative birds.



Paradise tanager lives in eastern Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil, French Guiana and Guyana. Looks very specific. Light green with a blue muzzle breast, as if the beard and purple chin can not leave anyone indifferent from who saw this beauty.



Peacock - is the only bird in our "Top 10" domesticated by man. A characteristic feature of the male is a strong development of the upper coverts that might be mistaken for a tail. Peacocks has long been revered in the East and also cherished them are in the West. In Hindu mythology, when Krishna and Radha - two incarnation of the god Vishnu - dance and amuse themselves in the eternal joy of love, they look peacocks.