Una gaviota come una urraca. One for sorrow - a seagull tucks into a tasty magpie.
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Usualmente, las aves de Barcelona son una fuente de placer, no desgusto para mí. Desde las lavanderas blancas (Motacilla blanca), no menos encantadoras y delicadas por sean tan comúnes, hasta las cotorras monjes (Myopsitta monachus), graznido y con plumaje verde chillón.
Pero lo más especial es el sonido de las aves veraneante volviendo al barrio por pasar los meses más calorosos aqui. Son tres - los aviones communes (Delichon urbica - izquierda) y los vencejos (Opus opus - derecha, arriba) - muy semejantes- y por supuesto las golodrinas (Hirundo rustica - derecha, abajo).
Birds Compete For Airspace
It was a somewhat ironic sight I witnessed as I walked down Montjüic on my way home. A Magpie (Pica pica) - a well-known comsumer of carrion - was being eaten by a Herring Gull (Larus argentatus). This was surely one of the ugliest faces of the avian population I've seen in Poble Sec.
Usually the bird life in the barri is a great source of pleasure, rather than disgust - from the Pied Wagtails (Motacilla blanca) - no less charming for being a very common sight - to the Monk Parakeets - squawking away in their garish green plumage.
But the most alluring bird calls of the year come with the return of the three principle summer visitors to the city and its surroundings: the very similar Martins (Delichon urbica - left, top) and Swifts (Opus opus - top right) - and of course the Swallows (Hirundo rustica - bottom right).
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Birds Compete For Airspace
It was a somewhat ironic sight I witnessed as I walked down Montjüic on my way home. A Magpie (Pica pica) - a well-known comsumer of carrion - was being eaten by a Herring Gull (Larus argentatus). This was surely one of the ugliest faces of the avian population I've seen in Poble Sec.
Usually the bird life in the barri is a great source of pleasure, rather than disgust - from the Pied Wagtails (Motacilla blanca) - no less charming for being a very common sight - to the Monk Parakeets - squawking away in their garish green plumage.
But the most alluring bird calls of the year come with the return of the three principle summer visitors to the city and its surroundings: the very similar Martins (Delichon urbica - left, top) and Swifts (Opus opus - top right) - and of course the Swallows (Hirundo rustica - bottom right).
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