THE PECKING ORDER DAY ELEVEN

Palawan peacock pheasant Red crested turaco Polyplectron napoleonis Tauraco erythrolophus

+ This is named after + This is the national bird of the island of Palawan in Angola and is a striking the Philippines where it red and green colour originally comes from + Their feathers contain a + The bright male bird colour pigment containing can cleverly hide in the copper. If you stirred a undergrowth, by altering glass of water with a red his body shape to blend in turaco feather, the water with his surroundings would turn pink!

+ This bird eats small + Males and females are invertebrates, seeds, ‘monomorphic’, which fruit and berries means they both look alike

Size (cm): 50 Size (cm): 43 Weight (g) 550 Weight (g) 400 Intelligence: 10 Intelligence: 10 Lifespan (years): 15 Lifespan (years): 10

Risk of Extinction: 3 (VU) Risk of Extinction: 1 (LC) Bird Wow Factor: 167 Bird Wow Factor: 133 HAREWOOD HAREWOOD HAREWOOD HAREWOOD BIRD GARDEN BIRD GARDEN BIRD GARDEN BIRD GARDEN

Pagoda mynah Brown lory Sturnia pagodarum duivenbodei

+ It is thought that this + Harewood Bird Garden is bird’s name comes from one of only a few zoos in their tendency to perch on Europe where you can see temple pagodas in their this bird native habitat + They have a special + They can eat the fruit of tongues with small the yellow oleander, a ‘brushes’ on the tip which plant highly toxic to most they use to get nectar vertebrate from owers

+ They are often found in + Their -shaped beak dry forests and scrub is used for climbing in jungle trees to search for nectar

Size (cm): 20 Size (cm): 31 Weight (g) 40 Weight (g) 200 Intelligence: 20 Intelligence: 40 Lifespan (years): 25 Lifespan (years): 35

Risk of Extinction: 1 (LC) Risk of Extinction: 1 (LC) Bird Wow Factor: 121 Bird Wow Factor: 162 HAREWOOD HAREWOOD HAREWOOD HAREWOOD BIRD GARDEN BIRD GARDEN BIRD GARDEN BIRD GARDEN