Aves (birds)
The Crested Guan (Penelope purpurascens), is a member of the bird family Cracidae. It is found in the lowlands from south Mexico and the Yucatán Peninsula to western Ecuador and northern Venezuela at up to 6000 feet in altitude. Its habitat is fore...
The Rusty-margined Guan (Penelope superciliaris), is a species of bird of the Cracidae family of chachalacas, guans, and curassows. It is found in the dry regions of northeast and southeast Brazil. It is also found in the southeast Amazon Basin, Paragu...
The Black Guan (Chamaepetes unicolor), is a species of bird found in Costa Rica and Panama. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist mountains. It is threatened by loss of habitat. Adults are about 25 inches in length and weigh about 33...
The Crane Hawk (Geranospiza caerulescens), is a bird of prey found in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, the ...
The African Harrier Hawk (Polyboroides typus), or Gymnogene, is a bird of prey found in Africa south of the Sahara Desert. Its natural habitat is woodland with palm trees and often near water. Adults are about 23.5 to 26 inches in length. The upper...
The Madagascar Harrier Hawk (Polyboroides radiatus), is a species of bird of prey endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitats are subtropical and tropical moist lowland forests and moist mountain forests. It has a gray head and back, black wing tips...
The Pied Harrier (Circus melanoleucos), is a species of harrier found in south and south-east Asia. The male is a slim, long-winged raptor of contrasting black and white plumage. It has more white than black. The wings are white with black tips. The f...
The Cinereous Harrier (Circus cinereus), is a bird of prey found in South America. Its breeding range extends from the Tierra del Fuego through Argentina and Chile to Bolivia, Paraguay and southern Brazil, and across the Andes north to Colombia. Its ha...
The Spotted Harrier (Circus assimilis), also known as the Smoke Hawk, is a large bird of prey that is found in Sulawesi, the Lesser Sunda Islands and is sparsely distributed throughout mainland Australia. It inhabits open country, especially in arid an...
The Long-winged Harrier (Circus buffoni), is a species of bird of prey native to South America. It is commonly found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Falkland Islands, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Urug...
The Swamp Harrier (Circus approximans), also known as the Marsh harrier, Australasian Harrier, KÄhu, Swamp-hawk or New Zealand Hawk, is common through Australasia and many islands in the south-west Pacific region, including much of Australia (except...
The Australasian Shoveler (Anas rhynchotis), is a species of dabbling duck found in Australia. It is a protected species under the National Parks and Wildlife Act, 1974. Adults are 18 to 21 inches in length. Males have a blue-gray head with a verti...
The Red Shoveler (Anas platalea), is a species of dabbling duck found in southern South America, mainly in Argentina. It migrates to Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil in winter. It is a rare vagrant to the Falkland Islands. Its habitat is shallow lake...
The Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster), is a large seabird that breeds on islands and coasts in the pan-tropical areas of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. They frequent the breeding grounds of the islands in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. It win...
The Nazca Booby (Sula granti), is a species of booby found in the eastern Pacific ocean, mainly on the Galápagos Islands and Clipperton Island. The northernmost limit of its breeding range is Baja California where it can also be spotted on the Revil...
The masked Booby (Sula dactylatra), is a large seabird of the gannet family, Sulidae. This is a bird of tropical waters and breeds on islands in all tropical oceans except the eastern Atlantic. This is a fairly sedentary bird that winters at sea and is...
The Brown Creeper (Certhia americana), also known as the American Tree Creeper, is a songbird found in North America. It is the only American member of treecreepers in the family Certhiidae. Its breeding habitat is mature forest in Canada, Alaska and t...
The Hodgson's Treecreeper (Certhia hodgsoni), is a small passerine bird from the southern rim of the Himalayas. Its habitat is coniferous woodlands, but may over-winter in lower oak/rhododendron woodlands. This bird is about 5 inches in length. It i...
The Blue Nuthatch (Sitta azurea) is a species of bird that is found in subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist mountains. It is found in Indonesia and Malaysia. It is a part of the Sittidae family of nuthatches. ...
The Velvet-fronted Nuthatch (Sitta frontalis) is a small passerine bird found in southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to South China and Indonesia. Its habitat is all types of woods, although open evergreen forest is optimal. This bird has a ...
