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  • Voon points out a little bird called the black-breasted fruit hunter.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Voon points out a little bird called the black-breasted fruit hunter.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Voon points out a little bird called the black-breasted fruit hunter.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Birds found here and in only few other places include white-bellied seedeaters Sporophila leucoptera, grassland yellow-finches Sicalis luteola, chalk-browed mockingbirds Mimus saturninus, tropical peewees Contopus cinereus, rufous-throated antbirds Gymnopithys rufigula, black-breasted puffbirds Notharchus pectoralis, and plain-bellied emeralds Amazilia leucogaster.

    Marajó varzea 2008

  • It is probably called yellow-legged black-breasted lesser piper/plover or something along those lines*.

    Archive 2007-11-01 AYDIN 2007

  • Turf cutters pausing to point at the summers last black-breasted flight, across the dark eddies and whirlpools, the silver line of the river beneath;

    Archive 2007-03-01 Geraldine Moorkens Byrne 2007

  • Turf cutters pausing to point at the summers last black-breasted flight, across the dark eddies and whirlpools, the silver line of the river beneath;

    Night Chorus Geraldine Moorkens Byrne 2007

  • It is probably called yellow-legged black-breasted lesser piper/plover or something along those lines*.

    What is this bird? AYDIN 2007

  • My dog crept softly up to it, when suddenly an old black-breasted sparrow threw himself down from a neighboring tree and let himself fall like a stone directly under the dog's nose, and, with ruffled feathers, sprang with a terrified twitter several times against his open, threatening mouth.

    Bird Day; How to prepare for it Charles Almanzo Babcock

  • Kingdom and empire rode upon the shoulders of young men, and their voices of enthusiasm and hope have sounded through many a black-breasted midnight and trumpeted the dawn through skies of thickest darkness.

    A Fleece of Gold; Five Lessons from the Fable of Jason and the Golden Fleece Charles Stewart Given

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