Jonathan Cohen's photos with the keyword: Little Mountain

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"I’m sitting on top of the world, Just rolling along Just rolling along. I’m quitting the blues of the world, Just singing a song Just singing a song." - Popular Song from 1925

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The Cordon Bleu finch is a delicate songbird. They are also called Cordon Bleu Waxbills, so named for their cone shaped bill that is often bright red, similar to the colour of sealing wax. Unlike other finch species, both males and females will sing. During their courtship dance, the male will hold a piece of nesting material in its beak while singing a beautiful song to the female. All the while he jumps up and down, then back and forth on his perch. The female will follow his lead, by jumping up and down and encouraging him by taking the nest material. They will then take this material and weave a tunnel shaped nest to lay and incubate their eggs.

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Unlike other parrots, wild African Greys have been documented imitating the calls of several other species. Dr. Irene Pepperberg’s research with captive African Greys, most notably with a bird named Alex, has scientifically demonstrated that they possess the ability to associate simple human words with meanings, and to intelligently apply the abstract concepts of shape, colour, number, zero-sense, etc. According to Pepperberg and other ornithologists, they perform many cognitive tasks at the level of dolphins, chimpanzees, and even human toddlers. One notable African Grey is N’kisi, who in 2004 was said to have a vocabulary of over 950 words and, like Pepperberg’s Alex, was noted for creative use of language. For example, when Jane Goodall visited N’kisi in his New York home, he greeted her with "Got a chimp?" because he’d seen pictures of her with chimpanzees in Africa.

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The Eclectus Parrot, Eclectus roratus, is a parrot native to the Solomon Islands, Sumba, New Guinea and nearby islands, northeastern Australia and the Maluku Islands (Moluccas). It is unusual in the parrot family for its extreme sexual dimorphism of the colours of the plumage; the male having a mostly bright emerald green plumage and the female a mostly bright red and purple/blue plumage. Joseph Forshaw, in his book Parrots of the World, noted that the first European ornithologists to see Eclectus Parrots thought they were of two distinct species.

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