I wrongly assumed that the best time for shooting these parrots would be at sunrise, as it usually happens with birds. Early in the morning monk paraklets would sit on their favorite dried tree making the specific noise, for the morning cleaning. They did not prey at the time and were quite skittish. Several attempts to shoot them resulted in a poor effect. How much surprised I was when in the heat of midday or afternoon parrots were able to come up to tourists to a distance of one, two meters. They did not behave as fearful as in the morning. This species naturally occurs in South America, on Fuerteventura it is a reintroduced species. The monk’s wingspan reaches less than 0.5 meter while its weight is not more than 150 grams. It is certainly an interesting and colorful variety for fauna of the island, though not common nor widespread one. When they were flying across there was always a piercing sound the more intensive when the lesser kestrel appeared in the area. Although they were not attacked they  always had an eye on it, and the whole flock bustled about.
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The first time I photographed a monk parakeet was on Fuerteventura, where it is an artificially introduced species. This time I photographed it in its natural habitat, which is South America. It occurs almost all over the continent. I took my pictures of monk parakeets in Buenos Aires.
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FUERTEWENTURA – introduction -  Canarian Houbara
New galleries:
BIRDS : 1. Canarian Houbara. 2. Hadeda ibis. 3. Ruddy shelduck. 4. Black-bellied sandgrouse. 5. Monk parakeet. 6. Southern grey shrike.  7.Berthelot's pipit.  8.Spectacled warbler.  9. Canary island blu tits. 10. Barbary partridge. 11. Village weaver. 12. Spanish sparrow. 13. Canary Islands stonechat. 14. Rock pigeon. 15.  Lesser short-toed lark.16. Atlantic canary.
INSECTS : Monarch butterfly.
MAMMALS: Barbary ground squirrel.
REPTILES: Green iguana
And changes in the galleries1.Common kestrel.  2.Cattle egret.  3.Rose-ringed Parakeet. 4.Raven. 5.Eurasian collared dove.
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List of newly gallery birds:
1.Toco Toucan 2.Imperial Shag 3.Crested Caracara. 4.Blue Manakin.5.Black-Throated Mango. 6.Upland Goose.7.Patagonian Sierra-Finch. 8.Southern Lapwing. 9.Austral thrush.10.Field Flicker. 11.White-Throated Caracara. 12.Red-Crested Cardinal.13.Rock Cormorant. 14.Dolphin Gull. 15. Violaceous Euphonia.16.Chestnut-Bellied Euphonia.17.Thorn-Tailed Rayadito.18.Rufous-collared Sparrow.19.South American Tern.20.Black Vulture.21.Chestnut-eared Aracari. 22.Swallow-tailed hummingbird. 23.Chimango Caracara.24.Surucua Trogon.25.Violet-Capped Woodnymph. 26.Great kiskadee 27.Tufted tit-tyrant. 28.Hooded Siskin. 29.Wattled Jacana. 30.Ochre-Collared Piculet. 31.Green-Barred Woodpecker. 32.Magellanic Woodpecker. 33.Blond-Crested Woodpecker.34.Picazuro Pigeon. 35.Guira Cuckoo.36.Bare-Faced Ibis. 37.Black-faced-ibis. 38.Chilean Swallow. 39. Yellow-billed cardinal.40.Black-Hooded Parakeet. 41.Tropical Parula.42.Kelp Goose. 43.Black Jacobin.44.Chalk-Browed Mockingbird.45.House Wren.46.Gilded Hummingbird.47.Versicoloured Emerald. 48.Dark-Bellied Cinclodes. 49.Golden-Billed Saltator. 50.Crested duck.51.Black-and-rufous warbling-finch. 52.Rufous-Bellied Thrush.53.Black-Banded Woodcreeper.54.Lineated Woodpecker. 55.Yellow-Fronted Woodpecker. 56.Rufous Hornero. 57.Plain-Breasted Ground-Dove.58.Black-Necked Swan. 59.Ruddy-Heded Goose. 60.Least Grebe. 61.Scaly-headed parrot. 62.Magpie Tanager. 63.White-winged parakeet. 64.Baywing. 65.Saffron Finch. 66.Eared Pygmy-Tyrant. 67.South American Snipe. 68.Ringed Teal. 69.Chequered woodpecker.70.Yellow-bellied elaenia.71.Plumbeous Kite. 72.Red-Crested Finch. 73.Roadside hawk. 74.Swallow-Tailed Hummingbird.75Turkey Vulture. 76. Austral Blackbird.77.Sayaca Tanager.78.Bananaquit.79.Swallow-tailed kite.80.Straight-billed hermit. 81.Andean Condor. 82.White-eyed Parakeet. 83.Pied-billed Grebe. 84.Austral Pigmy-Owl.85.Double-Collared Seedeater. 86.Blackish Oystercatcher. 87. Austral negrito.88.Ruddy ground dove. 89.Speckled Teal.90.Grey-rumped Swift. 91.Fuegian steamer duck.92.Chilean Skua. 93.Greenish Elaenia. 94.Black-baked gull.95.Common Gallinule.
List of mammals newly gallery: 1.South American coati. 2.South American sea lion. 3.Brazilian guinea pig.
List of reptiles newly gallery:  Argentine gigant tegu.
Changes in the galleries birds: 1.Monk parakeet. 2.Sand martin.
Changes in the galleries insect: 1.Butterflies. 2. Other insects.
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