Most Beautiful Bird in the World, Hummingbird

Male Ruby-throated Hummingbird.

Hummingbird has more to offer more than how it’s look, even the smallest bird in the world coming from the family of hummingbird. There’re many species of hummingbird around the world. In the North and South America only there are more than hundreds of them. So what we’re looks up too? The Ruby-throated Hummingbird:

Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) easily recognize from its throat’s color of iridescent red, this type of color also possessed by Anna’s Hummingbird whilst the throat is more to purple-pink. They’re nectar’s eater and will travelling around the garden to find flowers to get its nectar. Peoples also feed them from a feeder made suitable for them by mixed some sugar ¼ with water. They always prefer their feeder to be in red.

Female Ruby-throated Hummingbird at man made feeder.

This small bird also a migrating species during the winter they will travel to South by crossing the Mexican Gulf in a single flight. In order to do this they must store their energy before the flight begins. The whole journey will take around 800 km (500 mi). So the hummingbird will stored this energy in the form of body fat.

The Ruby-throated Hummingbird size is around 7 to 9 cm (2.8 – 3.5 in) long and has 8 to 11 cm (3.1 to 4.3 in) wingspan. Their weight can range from 2 to 6 g (0.071 to 0.212 oz.). With males averaging 3.4 g (0.12 oz.) and the females is average at 3.8 g (0.13 oz.). The males as me already know have beautiful iridescent ruby red in their throat with mostly greyish green vest and greyish white below. Their head also in iridescent color green. The females have simple color of green back, black mask with white behind and white underparts.

Female feeding on nectar from flower.

Perhaps one of the most interesting things about hummingbird is their ability to float in the air. Instead of moving forward they can stay in the same place or moving backward. During the courtship display they will perform a special talent of flying this wills includes dive and rise and also horizontal arcs. Meanwhile the Ruby-throated Hummingbird is polygynous soon after the mating the male will fly away and the females will take care all of the parental care.

Since the size is quite small so hummingbird can easily be a pray for another species of birds, cats, lizards, snakes, bullfrogs, green frogs and also many other animals that feed on small birds. Instead for hummingbird itself they don’t just consumed on nectars but sometimes also catch insects for protein.

Well, maybe I hope that’s good enough for you to get interested to know more about this hummingbird and will look after them during the summer. Remember the different between the Ruby-throated Hummingbird than Anna’s Hummingbird they’ll looked almost exactly the same.

Most Beautiful Bird in the World, Cardinal

Beautiful Northern Cardinal/ Red Cardinal.

Cardinal one of the most recognized bird in the North and South America. Even though there are many species of Cardinal, perhaps the most beautiful one will be the Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) for its bright red plumage. They also have something to offer instead of just beautiful appearances; their nice songs of calls – that totally will lift-up your moods.

There are 19 subspecies of Northern Cardinal alone and there many other in same family. The names of the Northern Cardinal refer to the cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, where the plumage color looks similarly to the red robes and caps. Northern Cardinal known as pet bird before it was protected by the ‘MigratoryBird Treaty Act of 1918, in the United States.

The female Northern Cardinal.

Pair of Northern Cardinal during winter.

With the size can be 20-23.5cm (7.9-9.3 in) in length and a wingspan of 25-31 cm (9.8-12.2 in) the Northern Cardinal is not the smallest in its family. Their colors are mostly red and also some black and darker colors on the back and wings compared to the females that has mostly grayish-brown tones and a slight reddish tint on the wings, crest and their tail feathers.

Northern Cardinal is very good in singing (they has a great songs). There’re numerous of Northern Cardinal calls and these calls also vary according to their region. There also different calls between male and females. You can find samples of their calls from some websites.

Northern Cardinal feed the female beak to beak.

When it comes to family, Northern Cardinal will mate for life. They will shows such great behavior such as offering food by the male and feeding her beak to beak, travelling together and sing together too. What such a wonderful bird after all?

For their diet mostly Northern Cardinal will prefer on seeds. They also prefer insects, beetles, cicadas, grasshoppers, snails, wild fruit and berries, corn and oats, sunflower seeds, the blossoms and bark of elm trees and maple sap. Their diets are mostly depending on the availability of the food source. Anyway Northern Cardinal always prefers to feed their young with insects.

Northern Cardinal in Angry Bird.

Northern cardinals are very popular to human. We can see it used in many logos, mascots and also in popular video games such as ‘Angry Birds’. 

Most Beautiful Bird in the World, Mandarin Duck

Mandarin Duck have such a beautiful plumage.

Mandarin Duck (Aix galericulata) also known as Mandarin, not like an ordinary duck they have a very beautiful plumage and choose to live in the wild than in captivity. The species of Mandarin Duck once widespread in eastern Asia include Russia, China, Korea and Japan. Today there also some wild Mandarin Ducks in Europe and United States after several of them escaped to the wild.

The size of mandarin duck can get around 41 – 49 cm long with 65 – 75 cm wingspan their size not as big as domesticated duck since they’re also migrating during the winter season. Chose to live in the tree hole near the water where they can easily bring their chicks soon after they hatched. This hole can be up to 10 meters (30 feet) high.

Symbolized as good marriage and fidelity.

Mandarin Duck will stay together for many mating seasons – in Chinese traditional, Mandarin Ducks symbolized a long marriage and fidelity. In fact the plumage of male and female duck is totally different in colors – and the male is exactly have the one who have the beautiful plumage and features. They also symbolized an “odd couple” – or the mixture of two different types of the same category.

There’re few main features in the Mandarin Duck that make it so special and the main feature is the “sail” in the back of their body, the orange crest, cream feathers and the eye-stripe. Their “sail” can easily be seen when they swimming in the pond. Compared to the female, the color is duller but still has the white eye-stripe just like the male but thinner.

Mandarin Duckling.

Their diets are pretty much the same like any other ducks such as water plants, rice, and other grains. Peoples try to breed them and most of them get escape and turn to be wild again. This is how the Mandarin Duck of Europe and United States came from.

Most Beautiful Bird in the World, Gouldian Finch

Beautiful group of Gouldian Finch.

Gouldian Finch (Erythrura gouldiae) also known as the Lad Gouldian Finch, Gould’s Finch or the Rainbow Finch is another beautiful mid-size bird. With combination of bright beautiful colors the Gouldian Finch can easily captures your intention to know more about them.

Native to Australia, Gouldian Finch origin is in the Northern Territory. Most of Gouldian Finchs were breeds in captive – since peoples love to keep them since long time ago. Their population decreases sometimes ago due to the diseases and the conservation process try to understand how they can help in order to put them back in numbers.

Beautiful bright colors of Gouldian Finch.

Medium in size Gouldian Finch measures around 13 – 14 cm long, that quite nice to put in your palm. They have variation in colors even though both male and females can have the same plumage. The male have a bright color of purple in their chest though. That’s how the male always have the brighter colors or shinier plumage.

There’re two types of most significant different between types that is their head’s color. Some have the bright red color or black. The young Gouldian Finch has different colors from their adult. The mature plumage will soon come out when they’re ready for the mating period.

Relaxing on the twig.

Diet mostly from various types of seeds can range from grass seeds to sorghum seeds. There’s also an evidence of insect consumption – found in their stomach. These seeds can be varies since their availability differs during seasons such as dry and raining. So Gouldian Finch chooses their seeds depend on the seasons too.

Become one of the beautiful birds peoples admire them and try to keep them as pet. Instead some companies use them as their logo – such as ViewSonic. Perhaps their also appear in the movies sometimes. 

Most Beautiful Bird in the World, Blue Jay

Blue Jay on the branch of tree.

Photo Credit: hoganphoto

Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) can be easier to see for peoples who live in the eastern and central United States and southern Canada. With and adaptation to the live among peoples population this bird don’t have much problems to survive until today – they also choose to stay near residential areas sometimes.

Blue jay has a great blue in color with a remarkable blue crest with a white chest and underparts. With some black color that form U-shaped around its neck, on their wings and the bright white color in mixing. Both male and female have the same plumage – in this case usually the male will have shinier plumage than the female.

Their sizes can get to 22 – 30 cm (9 – 12 in) from bill to tail and weighs 70 – 100 grams (2.5 – 3.5 oz) and the wingspan of 34 – 43 cm (13 – 17 in) wide. That’s pretty big for a bird actually. So in the ecosystem they can be both the predator and the prey at the same time. They can be a predator for other small birds while they also become a prey for an eagle.

Blue Jay during the winter.

They’re many types of Blue Jay across the United States and they’re also migrating between north and south. Anyway their migrating is not persistent each year. So they will migrating or not are up to them. Some of the types of Blue Jays are northern Blue Jay, coastal Blue Jay, interior Blue Jay and Florida Blue Jay. Most significant different between types is sizes.

Blue Jay’s diets are varies from fruits and nuts to insects and even other small birds. They also have different calls with loud sounds with capability to imitate other birds call such as hawk. This ability is used whether to check on if there’s another hawk around or scaring other birds for foods – pretty clever!

When it comes to parenting issues, Blue Jay will choose the same mate for their entire life, so both of them will work together for their nest. As many other birds that live among peoples population, Blue Jay also can make their nest almost anywhere they find safe – this can be in abandoned mailbox too. Even though Blue Jay is considered as a common bird they still looks attractive for most of peoples. 

Most Beautiful Bird in the World, The Blue Bird of Paradise

Blue Bird of Paradise hanging on the tree.

Photo Credit: tenseofthousands.blogspot.com

Bird-of-Paradise consists of many types of birds and all of them are stunningly beautiful.  The Blue Bird of Paradise is one of the species that have eyes catching properties in many ways. Perhaps one of the most profound factors is the tails.

Blue bird-of-paradise living in the same continent where all others bird-of-paradise can be found in the deep forest of Papua New Guinea. This remote island is the only home of these miraculous species where they can’t ever be found in somewhere else.

There’re rumors in surrounding islands about these birds. Taking them as mythical creatures with superstitious power of healing or story such as, they even didn't ever touch the ground. While some travelers might had caught them and bring it home, but they never told their folks of the original stories. In fact they use it to gain something from the peoples. Well, I hope the myths should be gone now.

Back to our blue bird plumage are pretty much likes the peacock with the properties of ‘optical interference Bragg reflection’. You can see the color changes depend on the light hit the feathers, but the main color is still looks blue. There also black color that dominant in their features and yellowish brown fluffy feathers in its tails. These characteristics are rare in other species that we can find in any other places that make it really ‘out of this world’. They also not a migrating type – so we can only see it in their homeland (don’t let the birds’ trafficker get the ideas).

Blue bird of paradise getting ready for the mating calls.

The beautiful plumage used in spectacular dance for the mating calls. All types of bird-of-paradise have their own specials dance ritual for their mating calls. While for the blue bird they are not going just to show their plumage but also dance and sings – yes, they’re irresistible unless there’s other competence males around.

We should take a look at more of bird-of- paradise in later articles. To see more of them is only by conserve their territories from human invasion. Sure beautiful things are better let untouched.

Most Beautiful Bird in the World, Scarlet Macaw

Pair of beautiful Scarlet Macaws.

Scarlet Macaw not just beautiful in colors but they also have more interesting things to offer for human to love them. With the size slightly bigger than ordinary birds they can be great companion as pet. They often caught in videos playing with others domestic pets such as cats and dogs.

Pet macaw can be as gentle as any other pets. More surprising some of them even can say simple words such as “hello”, “good morning” and even any other words trained to them. Everything they do will be nice to watch. Most of the time they have the happy expression in their face that making you want to touch it and give pat at their back.

Macaws are native to tropical forest of South America deep in the jungle from south-eastern Mexico to Amazonian Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela and Brazil. They usually found at gathering spot for a claylicks in a large group, while actually scarlet macaw mate for life and making their nest in the tree cavity. They often fly in pair looking for fruits in the dense jungle canopy.

With a size up to 81 centimeters (32 in) long that included with their tail and the average weight is about 1 kilogram (2.2 lb.). The main color for the plumage is scarlet where it’s got its name from, but there also shades of blue for its tail and wings with mixing of yellow. These bright colors combination make the scarlet macaw the most stunning in the macaw’s family.

Macaw feeding on jungle fruits.

Macaws prefer fruits in their diet. Most jungle fruits, nuts and seeds even large hard seeds as you can see that macaw’s beak are built to crack even the hardest shell of nuts. This also will remind you to avoid from touching this birds in shock or you’ll need to bear the price of their powerful beak or claws. Anyway they always look lovely and beautiful – so keep it that way.

The populations of macaws are getting smaller caused by the illegal birds trafficking. Even though they can easily keep in captivity that doesn't mean that we should let their home being destroyed. There’re many things that we can’t provide them as what their natural home can.

So if you really want to know how beautiful and gentle is the scarlet macaw is? Maybe you can pay them a visit at the local zoo or somewhere that keep this birds in live. By knowing them, maybe you’ll understand how important is for us to ensure that they’ll never get extinct. 

Most Beautiful Bird in the World, Peacock

The amazing display of peacock's feathers.

Photo Credit: pravin indrekar

For most of the peoples will agree to say that peacock will be among the most beautiful bird in the world. Despite of their natural glimmering colorful feathers they also can turn into stunning showcase of huge beautiful fan. You’ll find them more beautiful when you meet them during this showcase.

Beautiful colors of peacock consist of many colors but most of the time we will see them in blue/green in mixing. There also have brown in color feathers under their wings and under their body. Their colors turn with the direction of light hitting it so you can see more colors in between. This type of coloration also exists for some other birds and insects.

Up-close of peacock's feather.

The beauty colorful feathers only for the male and the female have natural ordinary colors. The female also little bit smaller in size. It always the male who has the beautiful colors in order to attract female in nature, only in some species of birds where the females has the brighter colors than the males. So the showcase is all about for attracting purpose too.

Since peacock has very heavy feathers they also can’t fly as high as any other birds. Perhaps their little leap helps them to get away a little bit further from their predators. In most of the places where they live peoples always admires for their beauties and use their feathers for decoration purposes. They also often rose for their feathers.