Molossidae Gallery

White-bellied Caique

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White-bellied Caique
Dist: South America
Piontites leucogaster
Dennis Avon
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Cacti, chromolithograph, published in 1897

Cacti: 1) Crassula coccinea; 2) Fishbone cactus; (Epiphyllum anguliger, or Phyllocactus anguliger); 3) Houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum); 4) Mesembryanthemum; 5) Devilshead (Echinocactus horizonthalonius); 6) Bitter aloe (Aloe ferox); 7) Texas rainbow cactus (Echinocereus dasyacanthus, or Cereus dasyacanthus); 8) Mammillaria pectinata (Mammillaria solisioides); 9) Star flower (Orbea variegata, or Stapelia variegata); 10) Plains prickly pear (Opuntia macrorhiza, or Opuntia filipendula); 11) Turk's cap cactus (Melocactus, or Melocactus communis); 12) Saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea, or Cereus giganteus); 13) Opuntia cochenillifera (or Opuntia coccinellifera) with fruit (left); 14) Agave mitis (or Agave Celsii); 15) Chalk agave (Agave titanota, or Agave horrida nana). Chromolithograph, published in 1897

Brown Kiwi - adult one poking in the ground with its long beak searching for food in native Kauri forest with fallen Kauri twigs visible

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Brown Kiwi - adult one poking in the ground with its long beak searching for food in native Kauri forest with fallen Kauri twigs visible
Trounson Kauri Park Scenic Reserve, Northland, North Island, New Zealand
Apteryx australis
The kiwi is New Zealand's most ancient living bird and a biological oddity. Flightless and largely nocturnal its one-off evolutionary design holds all sorts of biological records. Kiwi build burrows and lay a huge egg that produces a mature fully-feathered independent chick. And that's where they are at their most vulnerable. Introduced predators and ferral cats or dogs kill the chicks and can erradicate a whole generation of kiwi. That's why special programs to protect the kiwi are in place. Eggs and chicks are removed from the bush to return them again to the wild when they gained enough weight to be big enough to fight off predators. The kiwi is highly threatened and also the icon of New Zealand.
Steffen & Alexandra Sailer
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