White-throated treecreeper

Cormobates leucophaea (Photo from Flickr) Common name:white-throated treecreeper (en); trepadeira-austral-de-garganta-branca (pt); échelet leucophée (fr); corretroncos gorjiblanco (es); weißkehl-baumrutscher (de)Taxonomy:Order PasseriformesFamily ClimacteridaeRange:This species is endemic to eastern Australia, being found from north-eastern Queensland south to Victoria, and west into south-eastern South Australia.Size:These birds are 13-17 cm long and have a wingspan of 19-26 cm. They weigh…

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Pileated parrot

Pionopsitta pileata (Photo from Instituto Rã-bugio) Common name:pileated parrot (en); cuiú-cuiú (pt); caïque mitré (fr); lorito carirrojo (es); scharlachkopfpapagei (de)Taxonomy:Order PsittaciformesFamily PsittacidaeRange:This species is found in south-eastern Brazil, along the coast from south-eastern Bahia to Paraná, west to southern Paraguay and south to Rio Grande do Sul and extreme north-western Argentina.Size:These birds are 22 cm…

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Ten Good Foods, Ten Bad Foods

In This Chapter Feeding your Dachshund good people food (occasionally) Avoiding dangerous people foods Plenty of people can’t resist giving their Dachshunds just a little bite of this and just a tiny smidgen of that. After all, how can you turn down those pleading, hungry faces! A little bit of healthy people food won’t hurt…

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