Purple-throated Fruitcrow (Querula purpurata) |
Pictures (click on them to enlarge) | ||
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© Carl Beel | © Ward Vercruysse | © Ward Vercruysse |
© Foek Chin Joe | © Klaas de Jong | At Carolinakreek © Alexander Elias |
The Purple-throated Fruitcrow is a common bird in Suriname, in savanna forest and rainforest, where it is met with in small noisy groups. They eat fruit and insects. The beautiful photo of a male Purple-throated fruitcrow was made by Foek Chin Joe in Suriname. Then photos of a male and a female made by Ward Vercruysse made in July 2009 at Babunhol and a photo made by Carl Beel at Overbridge in June 2010. The purple color of the male is often difficult to see (not in these pictures of course, they have been selected on color). The female fruitcrow is totally black, with a white bill, like the bill of the male. Dominiek Plouvier made the video of a fruitcrow in the savanna forest near Zanderij. |
Video (click the link or the 'play'-button to see) | ||
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Video recording of a Purple-throated Fruitcrow © ; |
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Observations through the year | Observations of breeding through the year |
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The 500 reported observations of this bird in Suriname, mainly for the last 50 years up to 2018, have been grouped by month. More birds on one day are counted as one observation. Of course, if the graph should depict the total number of birds seen, the differences between the months could be much more pronounced. | The 7 reported breeding observations of this bird in Suriname. Most observations are about nest with eggs, some about fledglings, or feeding at a nest or the building of a nest. Of the about 5000 nests and eggs found for all species together, about 1/3 comes from the egg collection of Penard between 1896 and 1905. For some reason most collecting then was done in the first half of each year, so the shown distribution does not necessarily reflect the actual breeding preferences. The main dry season in Suriname is reckoned to be from half August to the end of November, the main wet season from half April to half August, but the the timing of begin and end does vary from year to year. Around March a second dry season often occurs. |