Blue-naped Parrot
Scientific name:
Tanygnathus lucionensis
Habitat: Forest and Forest edge.
Location: Subic Bay, Zambales
Length:
31 cm (12 ins)
Distribution: Luzon and Mindoro in the Philippines
Description:
General plumage green; back of brown, back of head and nape blue
bend of wing blank; lesser wing-coverts black tinged with blue;
middle wing-coverts black, each feather with broad duff
orange-yellow edging; shoulder feathers and secondary-coverts blue
with yellow-green edging; back and particularly rump feathers
pronounced pale blue edging varying from bird to bird; tail
underside dirty yellow; skin to narrow periophthalmic ring grey;
bill red with paler tip; iris pale yellow; feet grey. Female as
male, but on average with less intensive wing markings. Immature
with less blue on head; plumage generally duller; wing-coverts
green, feathers with green-yellow edging; only rump area with blue
tinge; bill dark reddish-brown; adult plumage attained at 10 12
months.
Monitor Lizard
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Sauria
Family: Varanidae
Genus: Varanus
Physical Characteristics:
Monitors belong to the family Varanidae. Some are small reptiles of less than a foot in length, while the Komodo dragon, the largest living lizard, grows to 364 lb. All monitors are tropical reptiles. They are active lizards, that may be very hostile, lashing out with their tails upon the slightest provocation. Even a small monitor can produce a stinging lash with its tail.
The claws of monitors are long and sharp. The jaws are very strong. Once they bite something it is very difficult to get them to let go.
Monitors are carnivorous and will devour anything they are capable of dismembering and gulping down. Species which live in or near water will readily eat fish.
Monitors do not divest themselves of their tails, like some other lizards. Once lost, the tail of a monitor does not grow back.
DIET:
Monitors tend to swallow their prey whole, like snakes. Monitors are daytime lizards and most species actively search for food. Some species eat carrion, giant land snails, grasshoppers, beetles, whip scorpions, crocodile and birds; eggs, crabs, fish, other lizards, snakes, nestling birds, shrews and squirrels.
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