Ecotasia's video: Birds of the Amazon Rainforest and How to Find Them

Explore the Birds of the Amazon Rainforest, particullarly how to identify bird orders and families. The Continent of South America is home to about a third of the world’s living birds, a third of those are in the Amazon Basin, and about half of the birds in the Amazon basin can be found in south-east Peru where I am now, which is a total of over 500 species. These birds represent many of the world’s bird orders, meaning that by showing you a bunch of birds from this area I can create an educational video that will expose you to a lot of different bird taxa and their jizz, which means this video can both serve as an introduction to avian taxonomy and to birding, which you know is efficient. Birding can be made much easier if you know what taxonomic group a bird might be in, and this is where the jizz comes in. Jizz or giss is basically the overall impression a bird gives by its plumage, shape, movements, behavior, habitat choice, and any other aspect of a bird one can observe. Let's Go Birding! Corrections (Because Taxonomy is a mess) parrots and falcons are not sister orders, parrots and passerines are sister orders with falcons being the sister to that super-order. the taxonomy of Strisores (hummingbirds, swifts, potoo, nightjars) is a mess, molecular evidence suggests hummingbirds and swifts are nested among the other groups so cannot exist in their own order, unless all the birds are in their own orders. Tyrannidae is also larger than Thraupidae. 00:00 Introduction 01:11 What is Jizz/Giss? 02:43 Tinamiformes (Tinamou) 03:24 Psittaciformes (Parrots, Macaws) 04:20 Piciformes (Woodpeckers, Toucans, Jacamar) 05:02 Trogoniformes (Trogons) 5:39 Trochilidae (Hummingbirds) 06:03 Cathartiformes (Vultures) 06:29 Accipitriformes (Birds of Prey) 07:01 Falconiformes (Falcons and Caracara) 07:19 Cracidae (Chachalaca and Guans) 07:43 Anseriformes (Horned Screamer) 08:03 Opisthocomiformes (Hoatzin) 08:56 Suliformes (Anghina) 09:08 Coraciiformes (Kingfishers and Motmots) 09:24 Pelecaniformes and Ciconiiformes (Herons and Storks) 09:50 Charadriiformes (Lapwings and Skimmers) 10:24 Gruiformes (Pale-winged Trumpeter) 10:55 Caprimulgiformes (Nightjar and Potoo) 11:54 Passeriformes (Perching Birds) 12:40 Thraupidae (Tanagers) 13:19 Mixed Flocks 14:01 Tyrannidae (Flycatchers) 14:32 Cotingidae (Screaming Piha and other Contigas) 15:33 Furnariidae (Woodcreepers) 16:11 Thamnophilidae (Antbirds) 17:26 Save the Amazon Rainforest 18:59 End Card I try to achieve the most well researched content I can, that said it is impossible to create content that is exhaustive on a given topic and therefore I implore you to investigate a given topic further. Welcome to Ecotasia! On this channel you can find wildlife footage and short documentaries on the natural world. I am an early career biologist who was inspired by the likes of the BBC Natural History unit, PBS, and Animal Planet as a child and then more recently by various nature YouTube channels to share my love for animals and nature. My goal is to document and highlight the interesting ecology and behavior of organisms I encounter, as well as cover and elucidate conservation and biological topics. Please Subscribe so you can join me to marvel and to learn twice a month. Thanks to Ana Sapp for filming me on a boat in the jungle Underwater Worlds https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYx5OP7sbAZAJNusnxcNoHUx_sNDYT92k Journey through the Undergrowth (Macro footage of insects and Arachnids) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYx5OP7sbAZC-4h2hpK09I-FF563TQzlc Bird Playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZqNM9k7OoY&list=PLYx5OP7sbAZACa11LD1wDQhn0SI2-SV1f Birding Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYx5OP7sbAZAYjq78IuGJI4wc0GXDRHTd Conservation Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYx5OP7sbAZAIUm5UCl84q2KU2nI3YLpx