gp@picuxa.UUCP (Greg Pasquariello X1190) (12/28/87)
This happens to be a rather appropriate article (I think) considering the latest content of the net. While driving to the inlaw's house (yecch!) this Christmas, I spied two rather long tailed birds in a tree near a cornfield along a major highway (208 in Fairlawn NJ). Upon closer inspection (which consisted of cutting across 2 lanes of traffic, making an illegal U-turn, and parking on an on-ramp to the highway), they turned out to be a pair of Black-headed Nanday. A ploy by the parrot owners perhaps :-) ?
dob@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Daniel M. O'Brien) (01/03/88)
In article <431@picuxa.UUCP>, gp@picuxa.UUCP (Greg Pasquariello X1190) writes: > ... they turned out to be a pair of Black-headed Nanday. Ah, the rare and elusive Nanday Conure, Nandayus nenday. The only representative of its genus. "General plumage green, paler and more yellowish on underparts; head black; throat and upper breast washed with blue; thighs red; rump, lower back, and under wing-coverlets yellowish-green; outer webs of flight feathers blue; upper side of tail olive-green tipped with blue; undersides of flight and tail feathers grey; bill black; iris dark brown; legs brownish-pink." (_Parrots of the World_, Joseph M. Forshaw, T.F.H. Publications, Inc, 1977, pg 407.) How lucky you are to be able to report a sighting. Their natural habitat is in Argentina, SA. -- Daniel M. O'Brien (ihnp4!ihlpa!dob) AT&T Bell Laboratories Room IH 1B-237 Naperville-Wheaton Road, Naperville, IL 60566
gp@picuxa.UUCP (Greg Pasquariello X1190) (01/04/88)
> [Stuff about the field marks of the nanday... > > How lucky you are to be able to report a sighting. Their natural habitat is in > Argentina, SA. I'm not sure if this is supposed to be sarcastic or not. If it is, well they really were Black-headed Nanday (yes, from SA), probably released, doubtfully stray. And yes, I know what I am talking about. If this is not sarcastic, then I apologize for the above flame, and say that the description fits to a 'T'.