Tracy Aviary Destination Argentina Birds

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Guira Cuckoo

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Elegant Crested Tinamou

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Red Legged Seriema

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These birds have been donated by people who did not want it anymore. These birds are much louder than people might anticipate.

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Monk Parakeet

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Tracy Aviary took in these birds in 2009 after it had been discovered that they were used in Connecticut in an illegal fighting ring

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Saffron Finch

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The male of this bird incubates and raises the chicks just as it would in the wild.

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Elegant Crested Tinamou

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These birds mate for life.

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Black Necked Swan

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These birds arrived in 2005 and since then have only produced two chicks between the 14 of them!

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Chilean Flamingos

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These birds do fine in the cold winters and can be found at altitudes of 14,000 to sea level

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Chilean Flamingo

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These volcanic shaped nests are built by these birds

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Chilean Flamingo

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These birds creed communally, laying up to 20 eggs in a platform nest made from sticks and lined with green leaves, which they roplenish

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Guira Cuckoo

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These birds forage in groups of 6-20 birds for grasshoppers, cicadas, termites, frogs, small reptiles and eggs of other species.

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Guira Cuckoo

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This bird lives in large groups to deter predators and to stay warm on cold nights. They huddle together as a group.

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Guira Cuckoo

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This bird has a long tail that provides stability and maneuverability during ground movements.

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Guira Cuckoo

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This bird has benefited from deforestation because it likes open areas and does not nest in trees.

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Guira Cuckoo

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These birds practice eggicide and infanticide, probably to encourage survival of the fittest

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Guira Cuckoo

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If a chick of this bird species falls out of its nest it can climb back up with the help of its wings.

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Guira Cuckoo

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The long tail of this bird moves in all directions

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Guira Cuckoo

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These birds can live up to 20 years

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Monk Parakeet

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These birds originated in Argentina and Brazil but now, due to release by pet owners or escape have become common across the US, including Chicago

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Monk Parakeet

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THis bird does well in open woodlands, palm forests and palm groves and urban landscapes

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Monk Parakeet

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These birds create apartment houses for communal nesting, although each pair of birds has its own space within the intricately woven complex

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Monk Parakeet

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These birds eat mostly seeds, nuts, fruits, blossoms, grasses and parts of trees but will sometimes eat small insects

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Monk Parakeets

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This bird has a foot that is called zygodactyl, or a climbing foot. It has two toes in front and two in back which enables it to hold objects, climb and even hang upside down

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Monk Parakeet

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THis birds beak is small but powerful, allowing it to crack seeds, eat nuts, peeling fruit and defending their nest

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Monk Parakeet

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This birds bright green coloring allows it to hide in sunny forest or palm landscapes

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Monk Parakeet

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This bird is a gregarious social animal, but do not make good pets unless one has the time to give it daily attention and proper socialization

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Monk Parakeet

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This bird can mimick humans but must be trained early or will be squawkers

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Monk Parakeet

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It is the only bird of the parrot species that builds a nest out of sticks and not nest in a tree cavity

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Monk Parakeet

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This bird lives in marshes, open water and grasslands

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Southern Lapwing

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This bird defends its nest agressively, because it is built in a ground depression supported with twigs and therefore easy access for predators

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Southern Lapwing

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This bird is usually solitary or in pairs, feeding mainly at night on insects and other invertebrates

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Southern Lapwing

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This bird has bony extensions, called spurs, underneath its wings that are used to intimidate predators

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Southern Lapwing

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This bird is very aggressive and uses its loud call to express the aggression

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Southern Lapwing

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This bird uses its long legs to wade in water and through short grasses searching for its meal, then quickly running toward it and catching it with its beak

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Southern Lapwing

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This bird is the national Bird of Uruguay

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Southern Lapwing

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Because this bird has a loud and alarming call, South American farmers will use this bird as a guard

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Southern Lapwing

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This bird can survive 10 years in captivity but only two years in the wild

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Red-crested Cardinal

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This bird can be found in most of South American and has been introduced in Puerto Rico and Hawaii

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Red-crested Cardinal

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This bird prefers semi-open areas with scattered trees, vegetation and water. It especially likes the lawns, parks and dry thickets in Hawaii

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Red-crested Cardinal

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The female bird of this species chooses the nest site, but the male constructs the open, cup--shaped nest composed of plant material that is pliable.

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Red-crested Cardinal

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Both male and female care for their chicks until they fledge at which time the male assumes responsibility for feeding and guarding the chicks

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Red-crested Cardinal

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These bird create a monogamous pair during breeding, nesting and hatching until fledged

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Red-crested Cardinal

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This bird may lay up to three clutches per breeding season

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Red-crested Cardinal

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the male and female of this bird rarely lose sight of each other and keep in contact by vocalizing

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Red-crested Cardinal

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The juveniles of this bird depend on the adults (the father) to feed them, even though they are as large as the adult bird

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Red-crested Cardinal

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These bird travel in family groups

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Red-crested Cardinal

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This bird was introduced to Hawaii in the 1930's

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Red-crested Cardinal

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The average lifespan of this bird is usually seven years

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Saffron Finch

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The male of this bird species tends to be a brighter yellow than the female

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Saffron Finch

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This bird likes the open lowlands outside of the Amazon Basin

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Saffron Finch

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This bird is a secondary cavity nester since it relies on other animals or natural formations to make its nest

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Saffron Finch

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This bird is mostly herbivorous and only occasionally eat small insects.

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Saffron Finch

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The female bird incubates the eggs while the male provides protection but both will feed the young once hatched

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Saffron Finch

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This bird has feet that are perfect for perching on branches and flies in a wing beat and glide pattern

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Saffron Finch

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This bird is well know in South America for its beautiful melodic song, leading to it being kept as a caged bird

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Saffron Finch

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Since males are so aggressive, this bird is employed by humans in blood sporting or cage fighting

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Saffron Finch

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This bird was introduced to Hawaii in the 1960s where it now resides year round

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Saffron Finch

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A group of these birds is called a charm, company or trembling

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Saffron Finch

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This bird was first found and documented in 1766 by Carolus Linnaeu

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Saffron Finch

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This bird is a ground bird wit a slender neck, small head, short wings and a short slender bill that curves downward,

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Elegant crested Tinamou

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This bird lives in the arid and semi-arid grassland, dry savanna, open woodland and bare hills with patches of brush

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Elegant crested Tinamou

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The eggs of this bird are laid in nests made of plant matter on the ground.

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Elegant crested Tinamou

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The female bird incubates the eggs while the male provides protection but both will feed the young once hatched

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Saffron Finch

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This bird has feet that are perfect for perching on branches and flies in a wing beat and glide pattern

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Saffron Finch

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This bird is well know in South America for its beautiful melodic song, leading to it being kept as a caged bird

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Saffron Finch

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Since males are so aggressive, this bird is employed by humans in blood sporting or cage fighting

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Saffron Finch

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This bird was introduced to Hawaii in the 1960s where it now resides year round

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Saffron Finch

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A group of these birds is called a charm, company or trembling

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Saffron Finch

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This bird was first found and documented in 1766 by Carolus Linnaeu

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Saffron Finch

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This bird is a ground bird wit a slender neck, small head, short wings and a short slender bill that curves downward,

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Elegant crested Tinamou

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This bird lives in the arid and semi-arid grassland, dry savanna, open woodland and bare hills with patches of brush

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Elegant crested Tinamou

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The eggs of this bird are laid in nests made of plant matter on the ground.

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Elegant crested Tinamou

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The female bird mates with several males and lays eggs in several nests. The males incubates the eggs, leaving only in the morning in search of food. Unlike most birds the male is also responsible for parenting and rearing the chicks.

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Elegant crested Tinamou

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The clutch of eggs of this birds usually includes 5-9 oval or elliptically shaped eggs that shine like porcelain in colors such as green turquoise blue, purple, chocolate or dark red and is uniform in its color with no blotches

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Elegant crested Tinamou

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This bird tend to be insectivorous in the summer and herbivorous in the winter

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Elegant crested Tinamou

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Although its capacity for flight is limited, this bird can take off quickly when approached by predators

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Elegant crested Tinamou

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This bird is common but its populations have declined due to loss of habitat and hunting. Besides humans, its main predators are skunk, fox, cats and some raptors

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Elegant crested Tinamou

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These birds are members of a primitive bird family that may be closely related to an ancestral group of flightless birds

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Elegant crested Tinamou

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These birds have a ridge down their sternums for strength and their sternum is flat.

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Elegant crested Tinamou

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The females of this bird are larger and more aggressive than males. The female pairs off with another female and harasses the male she wants. The male then mates with both of them. This is a rapid egg producing strategy as the female pari can produce up to 60 eggs in one season

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Elegant crested Tinamou

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This bird lives in open savannas and lightly wooded areas in Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and Central Argentina

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Red Legged Seriema

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The most dense populations of this bird lives in the grassy savannas of Brazil which is covered in termite mounds which it uses to look for food.

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Red Legged Seriema

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This bird is very territorial and very slow to move from its territory

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Red Legged Seriema

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The male bird attracts a mate by showing off his flight feathers extended to one side with his head down and his crest up

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Red Legged Seriema

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As a monogomous pair, these birds build the nest together with twigs, lining it with mud in which are laid two eggs. Both of these parents incubate the eggs

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Red Legged Seriema

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This bird eats more meat than anything else, including grasshoppers, beetles, small rodents, lizards, frogs, birds and sometimes snakes

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Red Legged Seriema

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If the prey is small enough this bird will eat it whole...otherwise it will throw its prey onto the ground or against a rock to kill it.

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Red Legged Seriema

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This birds sharp claws and raised hind toe are used to hold prey down while it uses its hooked beak to tear the flesh

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Red Legged Seriema

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This bird uses its speed as a ground dwelling runner to outrun predators instead of immefiately flying away

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Red Legged Seriema

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This is one of the few birds (and the only bird at destination Argentina) that has eyelashes

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Red Legged Seriema

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When this bird is dust bathing or sun bathing it lies on its side and appears to be dead

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Red Legged Seriema

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This birds call can be heard from several miles away and is often compared to puppy yelping

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Red Legged Seriema

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This bird is the smallest species of swan

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Black-necked Swan

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This bird inhabits the marshes, lagoons and lake shores in Southern South America such as Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands

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Black-necked Swan

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This bird lays 4-7 eggs in a nest that is either close to the water of floating on the water. The female covers the eggs with vegetation and down feathers to aid incubation which last about 36 days

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Black-necked Swan

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This male bird is protective of the female and her eggs, guarding the nest for long periods, sometimes going for days without eating.

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Black-necked Swan

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The young bird will stay close to their parents, sometimes riding on one of the parents' backs

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Black-necked Swan

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This bird spends the majority of its life in water because its hindward placement of its legs makes traveling on land difficult

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Black-necked Swan

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This bird is one of two native swan species to South America

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Black-necked Swan

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This bird has 24 or 25 vertebrae in its neck while humans only have 7

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Black-necked Swan

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This birds call is not the expected honk but a weak wispy whistle

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Black-necked Swan

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This bird can live up to 50 years in the wild

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Chilean Flamingos

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This bird has an extremely flexible neck for dipping its curved bill into the water to filter food

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Chilean Flamingos

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This bird lives in wetlands, including coastal mudflats, estuaries, lagoons and salty lakes from sea level to 14,000.

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Chilean Flamingos

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These birds rarely visit freshwater lakes where fish compete for their food source.

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Chilean Flamingos

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This bird feeds with its head upside down

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Chilean Flamingos

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THis bird strains water through its beak. THe many rows of horny plates lining the inside of their beaks allows them to strain out lots of food

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Chilean Flamingos

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This bird feeds on anything it can strain through its beak that isnt too large for it to swallow

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Chilean Flamingos

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This bird often stand on one leg by using a locking "knee" joint (which is actually the bird
s ankle) then tucks the other leg under its feathers to conserve heat

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Chilean Flamingos

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This bird is well suited to withstand cold temperatures, even those here in UTah

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Chilean Flamingos

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This bird uses its webbed feet for swimming, wading in mud and stirring up food from the bottom of the wetland it is in and then filters the muck through its beak

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Chilean Flamingos

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This bird has few predators because it lives in remote, inhospitable places

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Chilean Flamingos

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This bird's tongue was considered to be a delicacy and its feathers were used for ornamentation

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Chilean Flamingos

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This bird belongs to an ancient group of birds. Fossil records date back to the Miocene epoch, about 10 million years ago

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Chilean Flamingos

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These birds have the longest legs in proportion to their bodies of all birds

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Chilean Flamingos

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In many languages, this bird's name means red goose

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Chilean Flamingos

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White Faced Whistling Duck

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These birds are widespread and common east of the Andes south to Uruguay and northern Argentina and west of the Andes south to Northern Peru

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White-Faced Whistling Ducks

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This bird is also indigenous to Africa

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White-Faced Whistling Ducks

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These birds feed mainly at night and the mainstay of their diet is vegetation such as grass, seeds and rice as well as aquatic invertebrates. They are particularly fond of the seeds and fruit of water lilies.

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White-Faced Whistling Ducks

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These birds prefer the rainy season for mating. Their nests are built on the ground out of leaves or in hollow trees

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White-Faced Whistling Ducks

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The adult birds undergo a post-breeding flightless moult period lasting 18-25 days during which they are particularly vulnerable and seek the cover of densely vegetated wetlands

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White-Faced Whistling Ducks

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This bird behaves more like a goose or a swan rather than its counterparts

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White-Faced Whistling Ducks

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This bird is able to vocalize with distinctive high-pitched, multi-syllabic whistles which is uncharacteristic for this species.

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White-Faced Whistling Ducks

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Male and female of this bird may stay together for several breeding seasons and use their distinct calls as a bonding mechanism.

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White-Faced Whistling Ducks