My collection of open-book birds 2019 /2022/2023/2024

Here are two new faces for my collection!
Two magnificent Papo that I bought in duplicate, to give a new species for my collection!
the magpie and the robin.  
Here is the result

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A pirolle from Taiwan and a nightingale from Japan

I didn't know these 2 species but it's very well done and gives me some ideas!

Wonderful again

Thanks very much

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Oh, that Taiwan blue magpie is absolutely perfect! The same for that little guy, the robin mould has a lot of potential and you can turn it into loads of different species but again, your blue magpie just kills me.

I love these!!

Clever elections. Before reading the text under the photo I tought it was the much better known red-billed blue magpie (Urocissa erythrorhyncha), but you chose the Formosan blue magpie (U. caerulea) that is much less known, despite that it's casually the first of the two that I saw in captivity (in 2006) but I didn' get a photo of it for my collection. I find intriguing the name "pirolle" for the Formosan blue magpie. Also very curious the use of "nightingale" for the Pekin robin, because it's exactly the same common name that we use in Spanish ("ruiseñor japonés") in avicultural circles for this so extremely well known and common cagebird species, despite not being related with nightingales nor being native to Japan.

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Clever elections. Before reading the text under the photo I tought it was the much better known red-billed blue magpie (Urocissa erythrorhyncha), but you chose the Formosan blue magpie (U. caerulea) that is much less known, despite that it's casually the first of the two that I saw in captivity (in 2006) but I didn' get a photo of it for my collection. I find intriguing the name "pirolle" for the Formosan blue magpie. Also very curious the use of "nightingale" for the Pekin robin, because it's exactly the same common name that we use in Spanish ("ruiseñor japonés") in avicultural circles for this so extremely well known and common cagebird species, despite not being related with nightingales nor being native to Japan.

the real name is The Yellow Leiothrix (Leiothrix lutea) Pardofelis
I was inspired by this image

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Thank you very much Rogerio and Jolie

Yes I obviously knew that the only real name of an animal (or plant or whatever) is the scientific name, but we was talking only about common names here :)


Very neat image of the Pekin robin, it's a gorgeous bird that I like a lot, tough I always like much more the other species of the genus :)

The use of a robin sculpt for this species is very clever, they share the same stocky, "neckless" built and the small, straight bill :)

Yes Pardofelis and the chalange was the colors of this little guy    
Here is the shelf of my latest repainted and home made!  
And a taste of the next personal achievements

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Wonderful!! especialy the first shelve for me!

Caracal wrote:

Wonderful!! especialy the first shelve for me!

Thank you very much Alain

Very nice adds and very nice customs Jean-Luc 

Kikimalou wrote:

Very nice adds and very nice customs Jean-Luc 

Thank you very much Christophe my friends

Absolutely amazing

Thank you very much Andreas!    
Thing promised thing due and here is my display of Calao.      
I finally found the time to make the new displays, I hope you will enjoy finding them!  
Either an aviary of 20 species of Bucorvidae and Bucerotidae, they will be well represented.

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That's my most wished group of birds and brands never release these. Lucky Luc who has a complete collection of them.
I have the Bullyland keychain our macaque gave me.

So many beautiful calaos so wonderfuly displayed!

Thanks for this nice information about the calaos

Thank you very much Rogério, Alain and Fernando.      
Happy for Rogerio that he has this hornbill keyring from Bullyland!    
Here are some new updated shelves.

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Some species of aracaris and woodpeckers on the 5th shelf

Mostly double repaints !

Wonderful dio-shelves!

Caracal wrote:

Wonderful dio-shelves!

Thank you very much Alain!
Today I started painting my first homemade miniatures 2022 Five in total for the moment Since I'm off and the weather is gloomy

Woodpeckers display so nicely, I'm surprised Chap Mei never released a battery operated pecking woodpecker. I think the closest they made was a toucan. Looking forward to see your 2022 new projects.

Very very colourful and interesting :)