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PaleoAeolos β Pehuen-cracker
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For the Speculative Dinosaur ProyectThe Pehuen-cracker (Pillan araucana) its the most austral xenornithinean bird and one of the best adapted bunglebirds to cool forest. The name of this bird comes of the seed of the Araucaria tree (genus Araucaria). The seed of this tree are bery rich on almidon and are the base of the diete of many animals on the cool Araucarias forest, common in occidental Patagonia and the south of Los Andes montains in South AmΓ©rica. This forest are the home of the Pehuen-cracker, that eating the araucaria seed and lived on the same tree. This birds lived on group of six to nine individues and only make the nest on summer. The comonal nest are built with branches of araucaria and coverd with mosses and leaves of ferns. The putrefaction of the mosse liberates heat that helps to maintain the eggs on the apropiate temperature. Two femes of the group feel alternately the nest. On winter the group moved to the central valley of Chile.
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Ah ha! Some new Spec stuff. I like it (it's a lot better than any of the bunglers I made). From what I remember, though, the bunglers were Asian and North American, not South American. The idea was that parts of China (I think it was) acted as refugia for the old confuciusorniformes. Anyway cool critter.
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Thanks Daniel.... well....the distribution of the linages are not very clair in the web of Spec....and South America dont have many birds...
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yeah, no kidding.
As far as I remember, South American birds in Spec are actually not so different from South American birds in Home Earth, with the exception of the lack of passerines. In their place are piciforms related to toucans and woodpeckers, in addition to hummingbirds (many of which eat insects, rather than nectar), swallows and swifts, and some twitiavians.
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