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Similar to other toucans, Northern Emerald-Toucanets (Aulacorhynchus prasinus) eat mostly fruit, capitalizing on the wide diversity of fruit-bearing trees in the humid forests of their home in Central America. These birds mostly swallow their food whole, including some larger-seeded fruits, which they repeatedly regurgitate and swallow until the flesh is consumed. Whether by regurgitation or defecation, these birds spread the seeds of their food trees throughout the forest. Many tropical trees have evolved to bear fruit specifically for this purpose, taking advantage of birds’ wings to spread their seeds far

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Any season of the year, the Mountain Chickadee (Poecile gambeli) is a delight to encounter. In their breeding season, they form neighborhoods of adjacent territories in the conifer forests of western Canada and the U.S., which ring in the early spring dawn with dozens of cheerful whistled songs. In winter, groups of Mountain Chickadees are joined by other birds — nuthatches, woodpeckers, creepers, kinglets — to form large dispersed flocks that move together through the forest, following the chickadees’ namesake rallying call.

Mountain Chickadees are social birds, living in groups

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“A wonderful bird is the pelican; his bill can hold more than his belly can,” begins the limerick by Dixon Lanier Merritt. And it’s true — a pelican’s pouch can hold up to three times more than its stomach. This multi-purpose structure serves as a scoop, a cooling mechanism in hot weather, and as a trough for young pelicans, which retrieve food from their parents’ pouches.

Although the Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) is the smallest of the world’s eight pelican species, it’s still a big bird at about four feet