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I think this may be a juvenile Mistletoe ...
Parasitic green plant in large clusters or hanging bunches.
Hemi-parasitic shrub, which grows on the stems of other trees. Mostly dispersed ...
Eating mistletoe berries on mesquite
Vocalizing on mesquite, guarding mistletoe ...
With medium-sized paired soft grey elliptical leaves this
birds to shame!). They are found wherever ...
10-11cm. Glossy blue-black above, throat, breast, & undertail coverts bright ...
The Mistletoebird eats a variety of different foods. It commonly eats the ...
Red breasted with pinkish red under tail coverts. Male with black stipe in ...
Mistletoe in a stand of Bradford pear ...
A male Mistletoe
I found this bird near my house, it was ...
Host plant mesquite. Painopepla birds and ...
its current scientific name.[2] The English name refers to its
birds, the mistletoebird has no gizzard - ...
A crested songbird of the deserts and arid woodlands of the southwestern United ...
Small bird , about 13 cm , found in Panama ...
close to 40. They went from tree to tree eating all the berries off the
This great purple hairstreak was perched on an arrowweed bush near mesquite ...
A work mate spotted this fella pretending to be a knarled branch amongst the ...
oaks (this on on Quercus pubescens). Spread by
(chiefly mistletoe) and also some insects.
Desert mistletoe is an essentially leafless ...
Black (male) with bluish tint, bright white wing patches in flight. Crest, and ...
This little plant seems to have landed on this banana leaf as a seed within a ...
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numerous, spherical, translucent, white, pink, or red berries that are adored ...
This gorgeous little guy has a bright, red chin, throat and breast. Down the ...
by small, round, white, pinkish, or reddish berries.
A medium honeyeater with a black bordered, yellow facial stripe. Grey-brown ...
Male: black red and white. Female: pastel/lighter colors of the male. Adults ...
7-7 3/4" (18-20 cm). Larger than a sparrow. A slender, elegant
abandoned nesting and roost holes provide shelter for
. Young birds resemble females but are ...