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Loros y cacatúas

Nivel de destreza

2

Año

2001

Version

01.12.2024

Autoridad de aprobación

Asociación General

1

Nombrar 15 especies de loros y 5 especies de cacatúas que son comunes en Australia y ser capaz de identificarlas en la vida real o de fotografías.

2

Nombrar dos especies de loros que construyen sus nidos en un montículo de termitas y decir dónde se encuentran.

Grey-cheeked Parakeet

The Grey-cheeked parakeet (Brotogeris pyrrhoptera), less commonly known as fire-winged parakeet, is a species of parrot in the Psittacidae family.

3

En qué lugar de Australia se podría encontrar cada uno de las siguientes cacatúas y describir la dieta natural de cada una.

3a

Cacatúa Picofina (Cacatua tenuirostris)

3b

Cacatúa Enlutada (Probosciger aterrimus)

3c

Cacatúa Gang-Gang (Callocephalon fimbriatum)

4

¿Cuáles tres especies de cacatúas son conocidas como las más raras?

5

¿Cuál es la especie más grande en la familia de las róselas? ¿De dónde viene y cuál es la comida de costumbre?

6

Cada estado de Australia tiene una rósela que es común en ese estado. Algunas son encontradas en más de un estado pero hay una que es asociada con su estado. ¿Cuál es?

7

Cuando el loro eclecto fue encontrado por primera vez, se pensó que el macho y la hembra eran de diferentes especies. ¿Por qué fue esto? ¿Dónde se encuentran y cuál es su dieta de costumbre?

8

¿Qué cacatúa australiana es considerada como la más bonita en el mundo? Describir cómo se ve y dónde se encuentra.

Major Mitchell's Cockatoo

Range of Major Mitchell's Cockatoo

With its soft-textured white and salmon-pink plumage and large, bright red and yellow crest, Major Mitchell's Cockatoo is generally recognised as the most beautiful of all cockatoos. It is named in honour of Major Sir Thomas Mitchell, who wrote "Few birds more enliven the monotonous hues of the Australian forest than this beautiful species whose pink-coloured wings and flowing crest might have embellished the air of a more voluptuous region".

It is restricted to arid and semi-arid inland areas of Australia (see map).

9

Nombrar cuatro diferentes loris y mencionar por qué todos ellos tienen lenguas como escobas.

Lories and lorikeets are small to medium-sized arboreal parrots which comprise the subfamily Loriinae. They are widely distributed throughout the Australasian region, including south-eastern Asia, Polynesia, Papua New Guinea and Australia, and the majority have very brightly colored plumage.

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  Black-winged Lory

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  Green-naped Lorikeet (subspecies of Rainbow Lorikeet)

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  Scaly-breasted Lorikeet

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  Olive-headed Lorikeet

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  Yellow-streaked Lory

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  Musk Lorikeet

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  Dusky Lory

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  Blue-streaked Lory

Tongue of a Lory

Lories and lorikeets have specialized brush-tipped tongues for feeding on nectar and soft fruits. They can feed from the flowers of about 5,000 species of plants and use their specialised tongues to take the nectar. The tip of their tongues have tufts of papillae (extremely fine hairs), which collect nectar and pollen.

10

Ser capaz de describir el nido de cualquiera de los loros o cacatúas mencionados anteriormente y también el color de los huevos.

Here are a couple examples.

The Musk Lorikeet breeds mainly from August to January. Their nest are usually built in a hollow limb of a tree. Two white 25 mm × 20 mm (0.98 in × 0.79 in) eggs are laid.

Golden-shouldered Parrot lives in open forest. An important habitat requirement is the provision of terrestrial termite mounds, which the bird uses for nesting. This has led to the parrot also being known as the Antbed Parrot. They will preferentially seek out taller mounds (up to 2 m high), and will dig a burrow into them when the mound has been softened by the rains. A long tunnel is dug down into the mound, and capped off by a nesting chamber. The mound regulates the temperature in the chamber, keeping it high enough that the eggs can be left unattended while the parents feed. A borrow and nesting chamber are dug from a termite mound, normally by the female, between March and June. Mounds are usually only sufficiently large enough for nesting when they are 30 to 50+ years old, and are rarely occupied more than once, possibly due to the persistence of nest parasites, such as lice, or because mounds repaired by termites are difficult to excavate. Thus there are problems in some areas where most mounds of a suitable size have already been used The clutch size is between 3-6 eggs which are white and almost spherical and incubated for 20 days.

11

Hacer una lista de todos los loros y cacatúas que son comunes en su área.

If there are no parrots and cockatoos in your area, make a list for an area where they do live.

References

• http://vtpb-www2.cvm.tamu.edu/brightsmith/Wild%20Parrots.htm