Birds
Eurasian Curlew
The Eurasian Curlew, (Numenius arquata), is a species of wading bird in the Scolopacidae family. It is one of the most widespread species of curlews, breeding across much of temperate Europe and Asia. This bird is commonly known as just “the Curlewâ€...
Cook’s Petrel
Cook’s Petrel, (Pterodroma cookii), is a species of seabird and a member of the gadfly petrels. The breeding habitat of this species is limited to three small islands in New Zealand: Little Barrier Island, Great Barrier Island, and Codfish Island. It...
Christmas Shearwater
The Christmas Shearwater, (Puffinus nativitatis), is a species of bird found throughout the tropical Central Pacific islands, including the Hawaiian Islands, Tuamotu, the Marshall Islands, Kiritimati and Sala-y-Gómez. It has become locally extinct on ...
Cocoi Heron
The Cocoi Heron, (Ardea cocoi), is a species of heron in the Ardeidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela. It can also be found dur...
Maccoa Duck
The Maccoa Duck, (Oxyura maccoa), is a species of duck found in two main breeding areas: one in eastern Africa from Sudan and Ethiopia to Tanzania and west to eastern Zaire; and a second in southern Africa from Zimbabwe to Cape Province, South Africa. ...
Gray-headed Kite
The Gray-headed Kite, (Leptodon cayanensis), is a species of bird of prey found in open woodland and swamp forests. It breeds from eastern Mexico and Trinidad south to Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, and northern Argentina. It is one of two species within its g...
Bufflehead
The Bufflehead, (Bucephala albeola), is a species of sea duck of the goldeneye family. It was first described by Linnaeus in 1758 as Anas albeola. This is a migratory species with most populations wintering in protected coastal waters, or open inland w...
Bristle-thighed Curlew
The Bristle-thighed Curlew, (Numenius tahitiensis), is a species of bird found in Alaska during the breeding season, and throughout the tropical Pacific islands in the winter, including Micronesia, Fiji, Tuvalu, Tonga, Hawaiian Islands, Samoa, and Fren...
Black Turnstone
The Black Turnstone, (Arenaria melanocephala), is a species of wading bird in the sandpiper family Scolopacidae. It was formerly placed in the plover family Charadriidae. It is one of two species in the genus Arenaria; the other being the Ruddy Turnsto...
Aplomado Falcon
The Aplomado Falcon, (Falco femoralis), is a species of bird of prey of Central and South America. It is found from Northern Mexico and Trinidad to southern South America, although it has been exterminated in many areas of its range, including almost a...
Grey Hawk
The Grey Hawk, (Buteo nitidus), also known as the Grey-lined Hawk, is a species of bird of prey of the Accipitridae family of eagles, hawks and Old World vultures. It is sometimes placed in the genus Asturina as Asturina nitida. It is found in open...
Double-toothed Kite
The Double-toothed Kite, (Harpagus bidentatus), is a species of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family, which includes eagles, hawks and Old World vultures. It is found in Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Gui...
Cuban Black Hawk
The Cuban Black Hawk, (Buteogallus gundlachii), is a species of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family. This family includes eagles, hawks and Old World vultures. It is endemic to the island of Cuba, where it is only found along the coastal areas. The...
Crested Eagle
The Crested Eagle, (Morphnus guianensis), is a species of bird of prey found from Guatemala through Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay, and Bolivia to n...
Caribbean Coot
The Caribbean Coot, (Fulica caribaea), is a species of waterbird of the family Rallidae. It is found in the Caribbean and parts of Venezuela. There have been unconfirmed sightings of this bird in North America, which cannot be authenticated since some ...
Red-throated Caracara
The Red-throated Caracara, (Ibycter americanus), is a species of bird of prey in the Falconidae family. It is the only member of its genus Ibycter. It is sometimes incorrectly placed in the Daptrius genus with the Black Caracara. It is found in Bolivia...
Black Hawk-Eagle
The Black Hawk-Eagle, (Spizaetus tyrannus), also known as the Tyrant Hawk-Eagle, is a species of bird of prey found from Central Mexico to eastern Peru, the south of Brazil, and far northern Argentina. Its habitats include humid and moist forests close...
Bat Falcon
The Bat Falcon, (Falco rufigularis), is a species of bird of prey found in Mexico, Central and South America and Trinidad. It was formerly known as Falco albigularis. Its habitats are open woodlands and forest clearings. The adult female Bat Falcon...
Shy Albatross
The Shy Albatross, (Thalassarche cauta), also known as the Shy Mollymawk, is a species of albatross found off the coast of Australia and New Zealand’s sub-Antarctic islands. Its range extends across much of the Southern Ocean. It is also known as the...
Black Rail
The Black Rail, (Laterallus jamaicensis), is a species of bird in the Rallidae family. It is found in scattered regions of North America and the Pacific area of South America. In North America its largest populations are in Florida and California. It i...
Barred Hawk
The Barred Hawk, (Leucopternis princeps), also known as the Black-chested Hawk, is a species of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, and Peru. Its habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowlan...
Ash-throated Crake
The Ash-throated Crake, (Porzana albicollis), is a species of bird in the Rallidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its habitat is subtrop...
Black-capped Petrel
The Black-capped Petrel, (Pterodroma hasitata), also known as the Diablotin, is a species of seabird native to the West Indies. Once widespread throughout this region, it is now far less common. It is an uncommon vagrant to the southeastern United Stat...
Crested Duck
The Crested Duck (Lophonetta specularioides) is a species of duck native to South America. It is the only species in its genus Lophonetta. It is often included in the Anas genus of birds, but it actually belongs to a South American group that diverged ...
Cape Shoveler
The Cape Shoveler, (Anas smithii ), is a species of dabbling duck native to South Africa. It is also commonly found further north in Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, southern Angola, Lesotho, Mozambique, and Zambia. Its habitats are open wetlands such as g...
Gambel’s Quail
The Gambel’s Quail (Callipepla gambelii) is a species of small ground-dwelling bird in the New World quail family. It is found in desert regions of Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Texas in the United States; and Sonora, and C...
Pacific Diver
The Pacific Diver (Gavia pacifica), also known as the Pacific Loon, is a species of bird in the loon family Gaviidae. Its habitat is on deep lakes in the tundra region of Alaska and northern Canada as far east as Baffin Island, and in Russia east of th...
Plain Chachalaca
The Plain Chachalaca (Ortalis vetula) is a large species of bird in the Cracidae family. It is found in tropical and subtropical environments from mezquital thickets in the Rio Grande Valley in southeastern Texas to northernmost Costa Rica. In Central ...
Hooded Merganser
The Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus) is a small species of duck and the only living member of its genus. Its habitat is swamps and wooded ponds on the northern half of the United States or southern Canada. A common species in captivity in Europ...
Brandt’s Cormorant
Brandt's Cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus), is a species of marine bird of the cormorant family of seabirds. It inhabits the Pacific coast of North America. Its summer range extends from Alaska to the Gulf of California. The populations north of V...
Black-headed Duck
The Black-headed Duck, (Heteronetta atricapilla), is a species of stiff-tailed duck from the subfamily Oxyurinae and the family Anatidae. It is the only member of its genus Heteronetta. Its habitat is swamps, lakes and marshes in Northern Chile, Paragu...
Sooty Grouse
The Sooty Grouse (Dendragapus fuliginosus) is a species of grouse native to North America’s Pacific Coast Ranges from southeastern Alaska and Yukon south to California. Its habitat includes edges of conifer and mixed forests in mountainous regions. I...
Orinoco Goose
The Orinoco Goose (Neochen jubata) is a species of bird in the Anatidae family of ducks, geese and swans. It is also in the shelduck subfamily Tadorninae. It is the only living member of the genus Neochen. The Orinoco Goose is found in the forests of t...
Highland Guan
The Highland Guan (Penelopina nigra) is a species of bird in the Cracidae family. It is found in the highlands of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, southern Mexico, and Nicaragua. Its habitat includes subtropical or tropical moist mountain forests. ...
Tawny-faced Quail
The Tawny-faced Quail (Rhynchortyx cinctus) is a species of bird in the Odontophoridae family. It is the only bird in its genus. It is found throughout Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. Its habitat includes subtropical or ...
White-tailed Ptarmigan
The White-tailed Ptarmigan, Lagopus leucura, is the smallest bird in the grouse family. It is found in the mountains of western United States, Canada and Alaska. This is an alpine species, a permanent resident of the high mountains above the timberline...
Western Grebe
The Western Grebe, Aechmophorus occidentalis, also known as the dabchick, swan grebe, and swan-necked grebe, is a species of water bird found in western North America. They are commonly found in colonies numbering in the hundreds on large island lakes ...
Trinidad Piping-guan
The Trinidad Piping-guan, Aburria pipile (sometimes called Pipile pipile), is a species of bird in the chachalaca, guan and curassow family Cracidae. This bird is found only on Trinidad and is close to extinction. It evolved in mainland South America a...
Band-rumped Storm Petrel
The Band-rumped Storm Petrel, (Oceanodroma castro), also known as the Madeiran Storm Petrel or Harcourt’s Storm Petrel, is a species of storm petrel in the family Hydrobatidae. It is found in the warmer parts of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. In th...
Baer’s Pochard
Baer’s Pochard, (Aythya baeri), is a species of diving duck found in southeast Russia and northeast China. It migrates in winter months to southern China, Vietnam, Japan and India. Its habitat is lakes with rich aquatic vegetation. It nests in dense ...
African Black Duck
The African Black Duck, (Anas sparsa), is a species of duck. Though it is a member of the genus Anas, it is genetically close in relation to the mallard group. Even with some peculiarities in behavior and plumage, it has been placed in the subgenus Mel...
Sooty Grouse
These permanent residents of the mountainous mixed forest regions from southeastern Alaska south to California are a native species to this region. The Sooty Grouse (Dendragapus fuliginosus) used to be considered a single species, labeled The Blue Gr...
Dusky Grouse
The Dusky Grouse (Dendragapus obscurus) is a species of grouse native to the Rocky Mountains in North America. It is a forest-dwelling bird, with a breeding habitat along the edges of conifer and mixed forests in western North America, from southeaster...
Black-throated Loon
The Black-throated Loon (Gavia arctica) is an aquatic bird found in the northern hemisphere. In North America this species is known as the Arctic Loon. In Eurasia it is known as the Black-throated Diver. Its current name is a concession of both other n...
Ferruginous Duck
The Ferruginous Duck (Aythya nyroca) is a medium-sized species of diving duck found in Eurasia. Its breeding habitat is marshland and lakes with water depth of at least 3-4 feet. It breeds in southern and eastern Europe and southern and western Asia. I...
Crested Bobwhite
The Crested Bobwhite (Colinus cristatus) is a species of bird in the family Odontophoridae. It is found in northern South America, from Panama to Costa Rica. It also occurs on Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles. Its habitats are subtropical and tropica...
Barrow’s Goldeneye
Barrow’s Goldeneye (Bucephala islandica) is a medium-sized species of sea duck. Its breeding habitat is wooded lakes and ponds in northwestern North America, but also in scattered locations in eastern Canada and Iceland. In Iceland it is commonly kno...
Amsterdam Albatross
Amsterdam Albatross or Amsterdam Island Albatross, (Diomedea amsterdamensis), is a species of albatross belonging to the Diomedeidae family. It was first described in 1983 and was originally believed to be a subspecies of the Wandering Albatross. BirdL...
Atitlán Grebe
The Atitlan Grebe (Podilymbus gigas), also known as the Giant Grebe, Giant Pied-billed Grebe, and Poc, is an extinct species of water bird. It was endemic to Lago de Atitlan in Guatemala at an altitude of 5,600 feet above sea level. Before the bird bec...
White-winged Fairy-wren
The White-winged Fairy-wren (Malurus leucopterus) is a unique species of passerine bird in the Maluridae family. This bird can be found from the middle of Queensland and South Australia to the other side of Western Australia. Similar to other fairy-wre...
Supurb Fairy-wren
The Superb Fairy-wren (Malurus cyaneus), is an ordinary passerine bird of the fairy-wren family Maluridae. This bird is also known as the Superb Blue-wren or informally as Blue wren. It can be found throughout southeastern Australia, and is territorial...
Red-winged Fairy-wren
The Red-winged Fairy-wren is a passerine bird in the fairy-wren family Maluridae. The southwestern edge of Western Australia is the native land to this lazy bird. The males of this species express a strong intensity of sexual dimorphism; their feathers...
Red-backed Fairy-wren
The Red-backed Fairy-wren (Malurus melanocephalus) is a passerine bird in the Maluridae family. It is found only in Australia along the coasts of rivers. These rivers are the Hunter Valley in New South Wales and the Kimberley which is the northern port...
White-breasted Nuthatch
The White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis) lives in the woodlands across much of North America. It is a small, stocky songbird which measures 5"“6 inches long. Its wingspan is 8-11 inches in width, and it has a powerful bill and strong feet b...
Short-toed Treecreeper
The Short-toed Treecreeper, (Certhia brachydactyla), is a small bird found mainly in warmer regions of North Africa and Europe. This bird belongs to the largest order of perching songbirds, which includes more than half of all bird species. They encom...
Himalayan Quail
The Himalayan Quail, (Ophrysia superciliosa), is feared extinct as it was last verified in 1876. By 1904, this quail was considered very scarce, and to add to its scarecity, only two locations (northwest India and the western Himilayas) of the species...
Common Gallinule
The Common Gallinule (Gallinula chloropus) is a bird that is a member of the rail family. This bird can be found primarily scattered outside of Australasia as well as many tropical rain forests, deserts, and the polar regions. In other parts of the wor...
American Coot
The American coot (Fulica americana) is a member of the Rallidae bird family. This bird makes its home in open bodies of waters and wetlands. The coot can grow to be about 16 inches in length and weight about 1.4 pounds. Adult coots have a white fronta...
Splendid Fairy-wren
The Splendid Fairy-wren (Malurus splendens) is also called the Splendid Wren or Blue Wren and is one of the 12 species from the genus Malurus, commonly known as fairy-wrens. These birds are small at 5.5 inches in length. The tail of the adult male S...
Variegated Fairy-wren
The Variegated Fairy-wren (Malurus lamberti) lives in diverse habitats spread across 90% of continental Australia, which is a wider range than that of any other fairy-wren. Fairy-wrens were initially thought to be a member of the old world flycatcher ...
Tasmanian Native-hen
The Tasmanian Native-hen (Gallinula mortierii) is a flightless rail, one of twelve species of birds common to the Australian island of Tasmania. Other common names include Narkie, Native-hen, and Waterhen. Locally, the bird is often referred to as a '...
Fiery-billed Aracari
The Fiery-billed Aracari (Pteroglossus frantzii) is a species of toucan that is found on the Pacific slopes of southern Costa Rica and western Panama. Its binomial name commemorates the German naturalist Alexander von Frantzius. Its habitat is lowland ...
Eastern Phoebe
The Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe) is a species of passerine bird that is found in eastern North America. It is a migratory species and winters in the southern USA and Central America. It is a rare visitor to western Europe. Its breeding habitat is o...
Great Kiskadee
The Great Kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus) is a species of passerine tyrant flycatcher found from southern Texas and Mexico south to Uruguay and central Argentina. They are also found on Trinidad. They have been introduced to Bermuda in 1957, and Tobago...
Toco Toucan
The Toco Toucan (Ramphastos toco) is a species of bird that is found in semi-open habitats through much of central and eastern South America. It occurs in north and eastern Bolivia, southeastern Peru, northern Argentina, central Paraguay, and parts of ...
Blue-fronted Amazon
The Blue-fronted Amazon (Amazona aestiva), also known as the Turquoise-fronted Amazon and Blue-fronted Parrot, is a species of parrot that is found in eastern Brazil, northeastern Bolivia, Paraguay and northern Argentina. Its preferred habitat is fores...
Blue-winged Parrotlet
The Blue-winged Parrotlet (Forpus xanthopterygius) is a species of parrot found throughout most of South America. The Turquoise-rumped Parrotlet (Forpus xanthopterygius spengeli) is sometimes considered a separate species (rather than a subspecies). Th...
Hyacinth Macaw
The Hyacinth Macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus), or Hyacinthine Macaw, is a species of parrot that is found in South America. It exists in three main colonies: the Pantanal region of Brazil, the Cerrado region of eastern Brazil, and around the Tocantin...
Pink Pigeon
The Pink Pigeon (Columba mayeri) is a species of bird of the Columbidae family, which includes doves and pigeons. It is endemic to Mauritius and is very rare. It is found only on the Mascarene Island of Mauritius. Once being found on the larger Reunion...
Swallow-tailed Gull
The Swallow-tailed Gull (Creagrus furcatus) is a species of seabird of the gull family. It is found in the equatorial seas where it spends most of its time hunting on the open ocean. Its main breeding grounds is on the cliffs of the larger Galápagos...
Red-shouldered Macaw
The Red-shouldered Macaw (Diopsittaca nobilis), also known as the Noble Macaw, Long-wing Macaw, and Hahn's Macaw, is a species of parrot native to Venezuela, the Guianas, Bolivia, Brazil, and far south-eastern Peru. It is found mostly in tropical lowla...
Blue-winged Macaw
The Blue-winged Macaw (Primolius maracana) is a species of parrot found in central and eastern South America. In the pet trade, this species is known as Illiger's Macaw. It is found in eastern and southern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, and formerly (not co...
Green-winged Macaw
The Green-winged Macaw (Ara chloropterus), also known as the Red-and-green Macaw, is a species of parrot found throughout northern South America. Although this is the most common macaw in the wild, its numbers are declining due to habitat loss and ille...
Blue-and-gold Macaw
The Blue-and-yellow Macaw or Blue-and-gold Macaw (Ara ararauna), is a species of parrot that is found in tropical South America from Trinidad and Venezuela south to Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay. In Central America, it is restricted to Panama. In Trini...
Grey-headed Lovebird
The Grey-headed Lovebird (Agapornis cana) also known as the Madagascar Lovebird, is a species of parrot that is native to the island of Madagascar and the only lovebird that is not native to the African continent. This mainly green parrot is about ...
Maroon-bellied Parakeet
The Maroon-bellied Parakeet (Pyrrhura frontalis) also known as the Reddish-bellied Parakeet, is a species of parrot native to southeastern Brazil to northeastern Argentina, including eastern Paraguay and Uruguay. Other names for this bird that are comm...
Barred Antshrike
The Barred Antshrike (Thamnophilus doliatus) is a species of passerine bird of the antbird family. It is found in the neotropics from Mexico, through Central America, Trinidad and Tobago, and a large part of South America east of the Andes as far south...
Collared Aracari
The Collared Aracari (Pteroglossus torquatus) is a species of toucan that is found from southern Mexico to Panama; also Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. Its breeding habitat is lowland forests and slightly more open woodland. The adult is about 16....
Eastern Kingbird
The Eastern Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus) is a species of tyrant flycatcher. They are found in open areas across North America. They are migratory and travel in flocks to over-winter in South America. The adult is gray-black on the upperparts and li...
Chestnut-eared Aracari
The Chestnut-eared Aracari (Pteroglossus castanotis) is a species of bird belonging to the Toucan and Aracari family Ramphastidae. It is native to central and south-eastern South America. The actual range of this species is the southern Amazon Basin, e...
Tropical Kingbird
The Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus) is a species of bird that breeds from southern Arizona and the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas through Central America, South America as far as south as central Argentina and western Peru, and on Trinidad...
Western Wood Pewee
The Western Wood Pewee (Contopus sordidulus) is a species of bird found in western North America. It is migratory and winters in South America. It breeding habitat is open wooded areas. California Black Oak makes a suitable nesting habitat for this spe...
Yellow-chevroned Parakeet
The Yellow-chevroned Parakeet (Brotogeris chiriri) is a species of bird native to tropical South America south of the Amazon River basin from central Brazil to southern Bolivia, Paraguay and northern Argentina. Some birds that have been released into t...
Burrowing Parakeet
The Burrowing Parakeet (Cyanoliseus patagonus), also known as the Patagonian Conure, is a species of bird that is mainly found in Argentina. There is a reduced population that exists in Chile as well. Some Argentine populations migrate to Uruguay for t...
Masked Water-tyrant
The Masked Water-tyrant (Fluvicola nengeta) is a species of bird found in eastern and southeastern Brazil in the caatinga (an ecoregion characterized by vegetation in the northeastern part of Brazil) and extreme eastern cerrado (a vast tropical savanna...
Cliff Flycatcher
The Cliff Flycatcher (Hirundinea ferruginea) is a species of bird found in Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, sub...
Red-rumped Parrot
The Red-rumped Parrot (Psephotus haematonotus), also known as the Red-backed Parrot, Red-winged Parrot, Crimson-winged Parrot, Blood-winged Parrot or Grass Parrot, is a species of bird commonly found in south-easternAustralia, particularly in the Murra...
Vernal Hanging Parrot
The Vernal Hanging Parrot (Loriculus vernalis) is a species of bird that is found from India eastwards to Southeast Asia. In Sri Lanka, it is replaced by the very similar endemic Sri Lanka Hanging Parrot, (L. beryllinus). It is not migratory, but does ...
Topknot Pigeon
he Topknot Pigeon (Lopholaimus antarcticus) is a species of bird native to Australia. It is often spotted over rainforests and valleys, but can also be found around palm trees, figs, eucalyptus forests and other woodlands. They are completely arboreal....
Victoria Crowned Pigeon
The Victoria Crowned Pigeon (Goura victoria) is a species of bird that is found in northern New Guinea and surrounding islands. Its natural habitat is lowland and swamp forests. Two subspecies are recognized: G. v. victoria, can be found in Yapen, Biak...
Brown Noddy
The Brown Noddy or Common Noddy (Anous stolidus) is a species of tropical seabird with a worldwide distribution. It ranges from Hawaii to the Tuamotu Archipelago and Australia in the Pacific Ocean, from the Red Sea to the Seychelles and Australia in th...
Caspian Tern
The Caspian Tern (Hydroprogne caspia, formerly Hydroprogne tschegrava) is a species of bird with an extensive range, but scattered distribution. It is found in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. In North America it is foun...
Blue-crowned Parakeet
The Blue-crowned Parakeet (Aratinga acuticaudata), also known as the Blue-crowned Conure, or Sharp-tailed Conure, is a species of bird native to parts of South America, from eastern Colombia in the north to northern Argentina in the south. Its natural ...
Peach-fronted Parakeet
The Peach-fronted Parakeet (Aratinga aurea), also known as the Peach-fronted Conure, is a species of bird found in eastern Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, northern Argentina and southern Suriname. It is widespread and occurs in semi-open and open habitats. ...
Plum-headed Parakeet
The Plum-headed Parakeet (Psittacula cyanocephala) is a species of bird that is found in Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. It is native to the Indian subcontinent. This bird's natural habitat is forest and open woodland. Though not exploited h...
Red-crowned Parakeet
The Red-crowned Parakeet (Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae) is a species of bird native to New Zealand. It was once widespread across the islands and mainland of New Zealand. During the latter half of the 1800s it was extremely abundant. It is now extinct o...
Red Lory
The Red Lory (Eos bornea) is a species of parrot that is native to Indonesia. Its natural habitats are tropical moist lowland forests and tropical mangrove forests. This bird is intelligent, playful and has a colorful plumage. The adult is mainly d...
Blue Bonnet
The Blue Bonnet (Northiella haematogaster) is a species of bird native to Australia. It is the only member of the genus Northiella. Its habitat includes open woodland, scrub, river forest, spinifex (a type of Australian grass), and farmlands. It is fou...
Musk Lorikeet
The Musk Lorikeet (Glossopsitta concinna) is a species of bird that is found in south-central and eastern Australia. It was first described by ornithologist George Shaw in 1790 in the vicinity of Port Jackson in what is now Sydney. Common names for thi...
Double-eyed Fig Parrot
The Double-eyed Fig Parrot (Cyclopsitta diophthalma), also known as the Blue-faced Fig Parrot, Red-faced Fig Parrot, Dwarf Fig Parrot, and the Two-eyed Fig Parrot, is a species of bird found in the forests of New Guinea and nearby islands. It is also f...
Rifleman
The Rifleman (Acanthisitta chloris) is a species of passerine bird that is native to New Zealand. This bird's habitat is thinly wooded forests. It is the most widespread species in the genus Acanthisitta. It occurs on the two islands New Zealand, howev...
Black-fronted Nunbird
The Black-fronted Nunbird (Monasa nigrifrons) is a species of bird placed in the Bucconidae family of puffbirds. It is found in Amazonian Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It is also found in the regions of eastern and southeastern Brazil....
Rufous-tailed Jacamar
The Rufous-tailed Jacamar (Galbula ruficauda) is a species of bird which breeds in southern Mexico, Central America and South America as far south as southern Brazil and Ecuador. Its habitat is dry or moist woodlands or scrub. This is a brightly co...
Greater Yellownape
The Greater Yellownape (Picus flavinucha) is a species of bird found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest...
Eurasian Wryneck
The Eurasian Wryneck (Jynx torquilla) is a species of bird that is part of the family of woodpeckers. It breeds in the temperate regions of Europe and Asia. It is a migratory species and winters in tropical Africa and southern Asia. Its habitat is open...
Black-collared Barbet
The Black-collared Barbet (Lybius torquatus) is a species of bird found in sub-Saharan Africa. Its range extends through Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swa...
Bearded Barbet
The Bearded Barbet (Lybius dubius) is a species of bird that is found in tropical west Africa. It is found mostly in trees around wooded country and also gardens. The barbets get their name from the bristles which fringe their heavy bills. The adul...
Red-breasted Toucan
The Red-breasted Toucan (Ramphastos dicolorus), also known as the Green-billed Toucan, is a species of bird found in southern and eastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay and far northeastern Argentina. It is a fairly common species and is considered to be of ...
Double-banded Plover
The Double-banded Plover (Charadrius bicinctus) is a species of wading bird that is fairly common in southern New Zealand. It is not often seen in northern New Zealand. Its habitat is beaches, mud flats, grasslands and bare ground. It is also known as ...
Great Crested Flycatcher
The Great Crested Flycatcher (Myiarchus crinitus) is a species of passerine bird that is widespread throughout North America. It is found largely over the eastern and mid-western portions of the continent. Its habitat is mainly treetops of deciduous or...
Boat-billed Flycatcher
The Boat-billed Flycatcher (Megarynchus pitangua) is a species of passerine bird that breeds in open woodland with tall trees from Mexico south to Bolivia and Argentina, and Trinidad. The adult is 9 inches long with a black head, white eye stripe a...
Vermillion Flycatcher
The Vermillion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus) is a species of passerine bird that is found in the southwestern United States, Central America, and northern and central South America. It is also found further south to central Argentina. It is the onl...
Acadian Flycatcher
The Acadian Flycatcher or Green-crested Flycatcher (Empidonax virescens) is a species of bird that breeds in deciduous forests across eastern United States and southwestern Ontario, Canada. They are migratory and winter through eastern Mexico and the C...
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
The Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (Empidonax flaviventris) is a species of bird that is found in wet northern woods and spruce bogs across Canada and the northeastern United States. It is migratory and winters in southern Mexico and Central America. Th...
Northern Royal Flycatcher
The Northern Royal Flycatcher (Onychorhynchus mexicanus) is a species of passerine bird found in Mexico, south through most of Central America, to northwestern Colombia and far western Venezuela. Its habitat is subtropical and tropical moist lowland fo...
Amazonian Royal Flycatcher
The Amazonian Royal Flycatcher (Onychorhynchus coronatus) is a species of passerine bird found in forest and woodlands throughout most of the Amazon basin in northern Bolivia, eastern Peru , eastern Ecuador, eastern Colombia,Venezuela, the Guianas, and...
Common Tody-flycatcher
The Common Tody-flycatcher or Black-fronted Tody-flycatcher (Todirostrum cinereum) is a species of passerine bird that breeds from southern Mexico to northwestern Peru, eastern Bolivia and southern Brazil. It is commonly found in gardens, shady plantat...
Yellow-bellied Elaenia
The Yellow-bellied Elaenia (Elaenia flavogaster) is a species of bird that breeds from southern Mexico and the Yucatán Peninsula through Central and South America as far as northern Argentina, and on Trinidad and Tobago. Its habitat is semi-open woo...
Long-wattled Umbrellabird
The Long-wattled Umbrellabird (Cephalopterus penduliger) is a species of bird found in western Colombia and Ecuador. Its habitat is the humid forests. It is sensitive to habitat destruction, and because of its large size it is easy to hunt. Only a few ...
Three-wattled Bellbird
The Three-wattled Bellbird (Procnias tricarunculata) is a species of bird native to Central America from western Honduras south to eastern Panama. They are found primarily in the Costa Rican highlands in the breeding season and migrate to lower elevati...
Helmeted Manakin
The Helmeted Manakin (Antilophia galeata) is a species of bird found in Brazil, northeast Paraguay, and the border region of northeast Bolivia. In Brazil it is mainly found in the Pantanal (a tropical wetland in South America) and Cerrado (a vast tropi...
Indian Pitta
The Indian Pitta (Pitta brachyura) is a species of passerine bird that is found mainly in the sub-Himalayas. It is migratory and winters in southern India and Sri Lanka. It is not often found in drier parts of the country. Its breeding habitat is the f...
Long-tailed Broadbill
The Long-tailed Broadbill (Psarisomus dalhousiae) is a species of bird found in the Himalayas, Southeast Asia and Indonesia. It is the only bird in the genus Psarisomus. It's scientific name commemorates Christina Broun, Countess of Dalhousie (1786-183...
Green Broadbill
The Green Broadbill (Calyptomena viridis) is a species of bird found in the evergreen forests of Borneo, Sumatra and Malay Peninsula. This species is evaluated as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species due to ongoing habitat loss. ...
Black-headed Gull
The Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) is a species of bird that breeds in most of Europe and Asia, and coastal Canada. Most of the population is migratory and winters further south. There are some year round resident populations in western...
Ivory Gull
The Ivory Gull (Pagophila eburnea) is a species of bird that breeds in the high arctic and typically found through Greenland, northernmost North America, and Eurasia. It is a short distance migratory species with most of the population wintering furthe...
Laughing Gull
The Laughing Gull (Leucophaeus atricilla) is a species of bird found in North and South America. It breeds on the Atlantic coast of North America, the Caribbean, and northern South America. The northernmost populations migrate further south in the wint...
Great Black-backed Gull
The Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus) is a species of bird that is found on the European and North American coasts and islands of the North Atlantic. It is mainly a resident species, but some birds may move further inland to large lakes and reser...
Kelp Gull
The Kelp Gull (Larus dominicanus) is a species of bird that is found on coasts and islands throughout much of the southern hemisphere. There are two subspecies: L. d. vetula occurs around southern Africa, and L. d. dominicanus is found around South Ame...
Collared Pratincole
The Collared Pratincole or Common Pratincole (Glareola pratincola) is a species of wading bird found in open country in the warmer parts of Europe, southwest Asia and Africa. It is a migratory species and winters in tropical Africa, and is rare north o...
Cream-colored Courser
The Cream-colored Courser (Cursorius cursor) is a species of wading bird found in the Canary Islands, north Africa and southwest Asia. The habitat of this species is dry open country, preferably semi-desert. They are partially migratory, with northern ...
Red Knot
The Red Knot (Calidris canutus), or Knot in Europe, is a species of bird found in the tundra and Arctic mountains in the far north of Canada, Europe and Russia. North American birds migrate to coastal Europe and South America, while European birds migr...
Dunlin
The Dunlin (Calidris alpina) is a species of wading bird found in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of northern Europe, Asia, Alaska, and northern Canada. Europe and Asia populations migrate south to Africa and southeast Asia. Alaskan and Canadian bird...
Whimbrel
The Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) is a species of wading bird found across most of sub-Arctic North America, Europe and Asia as far south as Scotland. In the British Isles it breeds in Scotland, particularly around Shetland, Orkney, the Outer Hebrides a...
Jack Snipe
The Jack Snipe (Lymnocryptes minimus) is a species of wading bird found in northern Europe and northern Russia. They are migratory and winter in Great Britain, Atlantic and Mediterranean coastal Europe, Africa, and India. Its breeding habitat is marshe...
Common Crane
The Common Crane (Grus grus), also known as the Eurasian Crane, is a species of bird found in the northern parts of Europe and Asia. It has a global population of 210,000 to 250,000 individuals. The largest number of these birds nest in Russia and Scan...
Brolga
The Brolga (Grus rubicunda), formerly known as the "ËœNative Companion', is a species of bird found in tropical and eastern Australia. The bird has also been given the name "Australian Crane", a term coined in 1865 by well-known ornithological artist J...
Siberian Crane
The Siberian Crane (Grus leucogeranus), also known as the Siberian White Crane or Snow Crane, is a species of bird found in arctic Russia in Yakutia and western Siberia. It is a migratory species. Eastern populations winter on the Yangtze River and Lak...
Sarus Crane
The Sarus Crane (Grus antigone) is a species of bird found in northernPakistan and India, Nepal, Southeast Asia and Queensland, Australia. It is a permanent resident of freshwater marshes and plains with little seasonal movement. This species is classi...
Gray-crowned Crane
The Gray-crowned Crane (Balearica regulorum) is a species of bird found in Africa south of the Sahara. Although it occurs in dry savannah, it nests in somewhat wetter habitats. Two subspecies are recognized: The East African Crested Crane (B. r. gibber...
Red-crowned Crane
The Red-crowned Crane (Grus japonensis), also known as the Japanese Crane or Manchurian Crane, is a species of bird found in Asia. In the spring and summer it is commonly found in Siberia and occasionally in northeastern Mongolia. In the fall, it migra...
Sungrebe
The Sungrebe (Heliornis fulica) is a species of bird that is found in tropical Central and South America from southern Mexico to northeast Argentina and southern Brazil. Its habitat is swamps and marshes. It is the only member of the genus Heliornis. I...
African Finfoot
The African Finfoot (Podica senegalensis) is a species of aquatic bird found in the rivers and lakes of western, central, and southern Africa. It has a range of habitats where rivers, streams and lakes have good cover along the banks. This range includ...
Masked Finfoot
The Masked Finfoot (Heliopais personata) is a species of aquatic bird found in fresh and brackish waters in southeastern Asia, Indochina, Malaysia and Indonesia. Its habitat includes forest, wooded savannah, flooded forest, and mangrove swamps. This is...
Purple Swamphen
The Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio), also known as the African Purple Swamphen, Purple Moorhen, Purple Gallinule, or Purple Coot, is a species of bird compromising of at least six subspecies: P. p. porphyrio in Europe, P. p. madagascariensis in A...
American Purple Gallinule
The American Purple Gallinule (Porphyrio martinica) is a species of bird of the family Rallidae. It is found in the southeastern states of the USA and the tropical regions of Central America and the Caribbean. In southern Florida and the tropics it is ...
Takahē
The Takahē or South Island Takahē (Porphyrio hochstetteri) is a species of flightless bird native to New Zealand. It was thought to be extinct after the last four known specimens were taken in 1898. However, the bird was rediscovered by Geoffre...
Baillon's Crake
The Baillon's Crake (Porzana pusilla) is a species of water bird found in Europe and across Asia. In Europe it mainly is found in the east. Populations in Great Britain and western Europe declined through the mid-19th century. This species is migratory...
Water Rail
The Water Rail or European Water Rail (Rallus aquaticus) is a species of bird found across Europe and Asia. Its habitat is marshes and reed beds. Birds from northern and eastern areas are migratory and winter further south. They are permanent residents...
Buff-banded Rail
The Buff-banded Rail (Gallirallus philippensis) is a species of bird in the rail family Rallidae. It comprises of several subspecies found throughout much of Australasia and the south-west Pacific region, including the Philippines, New Guinea, Australi...
Virginia Rail
The Virginia Rail (Rallus limicola) is a species of water bird of the family Rallidae. It is found from Nova Scotia to California and North Carolina. It is also found in Central America and South America. Its preferred breeding habitat is marshes. Nort...
Okinawa Rail
The Okinawa Rail (Gallirallus okinawae) is a species of bird in the rail family Rallidae. It is endemic to Okinawa Island in Japan. It is found only in Yambaru, the northern part of Okinawa Island in the Ryukyu Islands of southern Japan. Its range is o...
Corn Crake
The Corn Crake (Crex crex) also known as Landrail, is a species of bird in the family Rallidae. It is found across Europe and western Asia. Unlike most crakes, it is found in meadows and arable farmland, rather than marshes. This species is in decline ...
Sunbittern
The Sunbittern (Eurypyga helias) is a species of bird found in the tropical regions of the Americas. Its habitat is wooded streams or creeks at elevations of up to 3000 feet. This bird is a close relative to the Kagu and both species are considered a s...
Red-legged Seriema
The Red-legged Seriema or Crested Cariama (Cariama cristata) is a species of bird found from Brazil south of the Amazon to Uruguay and northern Argentina. The area over which this species occurs is estimated at 3.6 million square miles. The bird is not...
Subdesert Mesite
The Subdesert Mesite (Monias benschi) is a species of bird native to Madagascar. It is restricted to spiny thickets with open areas from sea-level to 425 feet. Populations may be dense within its extremely restricted range. It is vulnerable due to habi...
Malaysian Plover
The Malaysian Plover (Charadrius peronii) is a species of wading bird found in Southeast Asia. Its habitat is sandy beaches and salt flats. This species is classified as near-threatened, with about 10,000 individuals left in the wild. The main causes o...
Galapagos Hawk
The Galápagos Hawk (Buteo galapagoensis) is a bird of prey native to the Galápagos Islands. It is the only original predator on the islands and is fearless towards humans. It has inhabited the Galápagos archipelago for over 300,000 years. The ...
Black-collared Hawk
The Black-collared Hawk (Busarellus nigricollis) is a bird of prey found inArgentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, ...
Harris Hawk
The Harris Hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus) is a bird of prey found from southwestern USA south to Chile and central Argentina. There are three subspecies: P. u. superior from Baja California, Arizona, Sonora, and Sinaloa, P. u. harrisi from Texas, eastern ...
Common Black Hawk
The Common Black Hawk (Buteogallus anthracinus) is a bird of prey found in the warmer climates of the Americas, from southwestern United States through Central America to Venezuela, Peru, Trinidad and the Lesser Antilles. It is mainly a coastal, reside...
Besra
The Besra (Accipiter virgatus) is a bird of prey found in dense forests throughout south Asia from Pakistan and India to south China and Indonesia. Though mainly resident year-round, in winter it will move to more open woodland. The Besra is 11.5 t...
Savanna Hawk
The Savanna Hawk (Buteogallus meridionalis) is a bird of prey found from Panama and Trinidad south to Bolivia, Uruguay and central Argentina. Its habitat is open savanna and swamp edges. The adult is 18 to 24 inches in length and weighs close to 30...
White Hawk
The White Hawk (Leucopternis albicollis) is a bird of prey that is found in the tropical New World. It ranges from southern Mexico through Central and South America to Peru, Bolivia and Brazil. It also breeds on Trinidad. The White Hawk's range in cen...
Red-capped Plover
The Red-capped Plover (Charadrius ruficapillus) also known as the Red-capped Dotterel, is a species of bird closely related to the Kentish Plover. It is widespread throughout Australia and sometimes may visit New Zealand. Its habitat is coastal estuari...
White-fronted Plover
The White-fronted Plover (Charadrius marginatus) is a species of wading bird found in much of Africa south of the Sahara. Its habitat is rocky, sandy or muddy coasts and large inland rivers and lakes. The adult is 6.25 to 7 inches in length. It is ...
Kentish Plover
The Kentish Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) is a species of wading bird found in most tropical and subtropical regions of the world, from southern Europe to Japan and in Peru, Chile, the southern US and the Caribbean. The American race is known as the...
Three-banded Plover
The Three-banded Plover or Three-banded Sandplover (Charadrius tricollaris) is a species of wading bird resident in much of eastern and southern Africa and Madagascar. It is found mainly on inland rivers, pools and lakes. The adult is 7 inches in l...
Southern Lapwing
The Southern Lapwing (Vanellus chilensis) is a species of wading bird that is a common resident throughout South America, except in dense forested regions, higher altitudes of the Andes, and the arid coast of western South America. It is fairly common ...
White-tailed Lapwing
The White-tailed Lapwing or White-tailed Plover (Vanellus leucurus) is a species of wading bird found in Iraq, Iran and southern Russia. Birds from Iraq and Iran are mostly resident, but Russian birds are migratory and winter in south Asia, the Middle ...
Sociable Lapwing
The Sociable Lapwing or Sociable Plover (Vanellus gregarius) is a species of wading bird found in Russia and Kazakhstan. It is migratory and winters further south throughout Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Armenia, Iran,...
Masked Lapwing
The Masked Lapwing (Vanellus miles), formerly known as the Masked Plover and often called simply "Plover", is a species of bird native to Australia. It hails mostly from the northern and eastern regions of the continent. It is most common around the ed...
Upland Sandpiper
The Upland Sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda) is a species of shorebird found in open grasslands and fields across central North America and Alaska. It is migratory and winters in South America. It is a very rare visitor to Europe, and mostly only occurs...
Wood Sandpiper
The Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola) is a species of wading bird that breeds in sub-Arctic wetlands from the Scottish Highlands across Europe and Asia. It is migratory and winters in Africa and southern Asia, including India. Its preferred winter habit...
Marsh Sandpiper
The Marsh Sandpiper (Tringa stagnatilis) is a species of wading bird that breeds in open grassy steppe and taiga wetlands from eastern Europe to central Asia. It is migratory and most of the populations winter in Africa, and India. Smaller populations ...
Solitary Sandpiper
The Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria) is a species of wading bird that breeds in the woodlands across much of Alaska and Canada. It is migratory and winters in Central and South America. It is very common in the Amazon River basin, and the Caribbea...
Green Sandpiper
The Green Sandpiper (Tringa ochropus) is a species of wading bird that breeds across sub-Arctic Europe and Asia. It is migratory and winters in southern Europe and Asia, and tropical Africa. This bird has a dark green back, grayish head and breast ...
Lesser Yellowlegs
The Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes) is species of shorebird found from Alaska to Quebec. It is found in clearings near ponds in boreal forest. It nests on the ground, mainly in open dry areas. It is migratory and winters along the Gulf Coast of the...
Spotted Greenshank
The Spotted Greenshank or Nordmann's Greenshank (Tringa guttifer) is a species of wading bird of eastern Russia. It is found along the south-western and northern coasts of the Sea of Okhotsk and on Sakhalin Island during the breeding season. Its non-b...
Greenshank
The Greenshank (Tringa nebularia) is a species of wading bird of the family Scolopacidae. It is a sub-Arctic bird, breeding from northern Scotland east across northern Europe and Asia. It is migratory and winters in Africa, south Asia, and Australia. I...
Common Redshank
The Common Redshank (Tringa totanus) is a species of wading bird of the family Scolopacidae. It is closely related to the Marsh Sandpiper and more closely related to the Wood Sandpiper. It is a widespread breeding bird across much of Europe and norther...
Spotted Redshank
The Spotted Redshank (Tringa erythropus) is a species of wading bird that occurs in the Arctic regions. It is found across northern Scandinavia and northern Asia. It is migratory and winters around the Mediterranean, the southern British Isles, France,...
Wandering Tattler
The Wandering Tattler (Tringa incana (formerly Heteroscelus incanus)), is a species of wading bird found in Alaska and northwestern Canada in summer. It nests in rocky areas along mountain streams. At other times, it is found on rocky islands in the so...
Gray-tailed Tattler
The Gray-tailed Tattler (Tringa brevipes (formerly Heteroscelus brevipes)), is a species of shorebird found on stony riverbeds in northeast Siberia. Though it nests on the ground, it is often found perching in trees. It is a strongly migratory bird and...
Red Pharalope
The Red Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius), known as the Grey Phalarope in Europe, is a species of wading bird that is found in the Arctic regions of North America and Eurasia. It is migratory and winters mainly at sea on tropical oceans. The Red Ph...
Austrailan Painted-snipe
The Australian Painted-snipe (Rostratula australis) is a species of wading bird native to Australia, though its distribution is scattered and any particular area is unpredictable. It was previously very common in the Riverina. Its habitat includes shal...
Greater Painted Snipe
The Greater Painted Snipe (Rostratula benghalensis) is a species of wading bird found in the marshes of Africa, India and southeast Asia (Sulawesi). Its preferred habitat are fringes of reed beds along shorelines of marshes, swamps, ponds and streams. ...
Inland Dotterel
The Inland Dotterel (Charadrius australis) also known as the Australian Dotterel, is a species of plover native to southern and central Australia. Its habitat is open, arid country, and distribution of the species is bound to regions with equal rainfal...
Shore Plover
The Shore Plover (Thinornis novaeseelandiae) is a species of bird native to New Zealand. It is an endangered species with a world population of less than 250 individuals. It was once commonly found across the South Island in New Zealand, but is now ext...
Mountain Plover
The Mountain Plover (Charadrius montanus) is a species of ground bird found in the high plains of North America from southeastern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan to northern New Mexico and the Texas panhandle. There is an isolated population that...
Caspian Plover
The Caspian Plover (Charadrius asiaticus) is a species of wading bird that breeds on open grassland in central Asia. It is most common to the north and east of the Caspian Sea. It is a migratory species and winters in east Africa, normally on grassland...
Lesser Sand Plover
The Lesser Sand Plover (Charadrius mongolus) is a species of wading bird found in the Himalayas and infrequently across the bare coastal plains of northeastern Siberia. It has also been found in Alaska. It is migratory and winters on sandy beaches in E...
Red-wattled Lapwing
The Red-wattled Lapwing (Vanellus indicus) is a species of wading bird in the family Charadriidae. It is found from West Asia eastwards across South Asia. A sub-species of this bird occurs further east in Southeast Asia. In areas where this species is ...
African Wattled Lapwing
The African Wattled Lapwing or Senegal Wattled Plover (Vanellus senegallus) is a species of wading bird of the family Charadriidae. It is found in most of sub-Saharan Africa outside the rainforests. Although it is mostly a resident species, it does sho...
Crowned Lapwing
The Crowned Lapwing (Vanellus coronatus), also known as the Crowned Plover, is a species of bird that occurs from the Red Sea coast of Somalia to southern and southwestern Africa. Its preferred habitat is short dry grassland that may even be overgrazed...
White-headed Lapwing
The White-headed Lapwing (Vanellus albiceps) also known as the White-headed Plover or White-crowned Plover, is a species of wading bird resident throughout tropical Africa. It is most common around large rivers. This is a striking bird with its win...
Yellow-wattled Lapwing
The Yellow-wattled Lapwing (Vanellus malabaricus) is a species of wading bird of the family Charadriidae. It is a resident breeder that is restricted to the Indian Subcontinent. Its habitat is dry, stony and open grasslands or scrublands. It is common ...
Black-headed plover
The Black-headed Plover or Black-headed Lapwing (Vanellus tectus) is a species of wading bird of the family Charadriidae. It is found across sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal to Ethiopia. Although not migratory, there is some seasonal movement. Its habit...
River lapwing
The River Lapwing (Vanellus duvaucelii) is a species of bird that is found in Southeast Asia from northeastern India to Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. It is an entirely sedentary (non-migratory) species. This species was formerly called the Spur-winge...
Spur-winged Lapwing
The Spur-winged Lapwing or Spur-winged Plover (Vanellus spinosus) is a species of wading bird in the family Charadriidae. It is found in the eastern Mediterranean and in a wide area from sub-Saharan west Africa to Arabia. Populations from Greece and Tu...
Blacksmith Lapwing
The Blacksmith Lapwing or Blacksmith Plover (Vanellus armatus) is a species of bird found from Kenya through central Tanzania to southern and southwestern Africa. It occurs in wetlands of all sizes. It is even attracted to water troughs and places wh...
Krüper's Nuthatch
The Krüper's Nuthatch (Sitta krueperi) is a species of nuthatch found in southeast Europe and southwest Asia. It occurs in Turkey, Georgia, Russia and on the Greek island of Lesvos. It inhabits pine forest at lower altitudes, and it is also found in...
Jungle Bush Quail
The Jungle Bush Quail (Perdicula asiatica) is a species of quail found native to South Asia, specifically India and Sri Lanka. It has been introduced to the Réunion Island. The preferred habitat is dry grasslands or wooded areas. It is common throug...
Blue-billed Curassow
The Blue-billed Curassow (Crax alberti) is a species of bird of the family Cracidae. It is found only in Colombia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. The adult is 32.66 to 36.66 i...
Northern Lapwing
The Northern Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus) also known as the Peewit, Green Plover, or just Lapwing, is a species of bird in the plover family. It is found in temperate Europe, and across temperate Asia. It is an occasional vagrant to North America. Usual...
Red-kneed Dotterel
The Red-kneed Dotterel (Erythrogonys cinctus) is a species of bird found in Southern New Guinea and mainland Australia. It is a common vagrant to Tasmania and New Zealand. Its habitat is shallow ephemeral and permanent freshwater wetlands, occasionally...
Variable Oystercatcher
The Variable Oystercatcher (Haematopus unicolor) is a species of wading bird in the Haematopodidae family. It is endemic to New Zealand. This bird is locally known as the "Ëœred bill'. Their breeding habitats are the North Island, South Island, Stewart...
South Island Pied Oystercatcher
The South Island Pied Oystercatcher (Haematopus finschi) is a species of bird that is found in New Zealand. It is one of two species of oystercatchers found there. This bird breeds inland on the South Island, after which most of the population moves to...
Pied Oystercatcher
The Pied Oystercatcher (Haematopus longirostris) is a species of wading bird found commonly along the coastline of Australia. They prefer sandy coasts, where they feed on bivalve mollusks and other invertebrates. Despite its name, they rarely eat oyste...
Eurasian Oystercatcher
The Eurasian Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus) sometimes known as the Common Pied Oystercatcher, is a species of wading bird in the family Haematopodidae. It is found in western Europe, central Eurasia, Kamchatka, China, and the western coast of Ko...
African Black Oystercatcher
The African Black Oystercatcher (Haematopus moquini) sometimes known as just African Oystercatcher, is a species of wading bird that is found along the rocky coasts and islands of southern Africa. This species has a population of less than 5000 adults....
American Oystercatcher
The American Oystercatcher (Haematopus palliatus), also known as the American Pied Oystercatcher, is a species of bird of the family Haematopodidae. It is found on the Atlantic coast of North America from New England to northern Florida. In Florida, it...
American Black Oystercatcher
The American Black Oystercatcher or Western Black Oystercatcher (Haematopus bachmani) is a species of bird found on the shores of western North America. Its range extends from the Aleutian Islands of Alaska south to the Baja California peninsula. It is...
Black-winged Stilt
The Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus) is a species of bird in the avocet family, Recurvirostridae. This species is widely distributed. Its preferred breeding habitat is marshes, shallow lakes and ponds. Some populations are migratory and move ...
Andean Avocet
The Andean Avocet (Recurvirostra andina) is a species of bird belonging to the avocet and stilt family, Recurvirostridae. It is found in the Andes, breeding above 11,400 feet in northwestern Argentina, western Bolivia, northern Chile and southern Peru...
Magellanic Plover
The Magellanic Plover (Pluvianellus socialis) is a rare and unique species of bird found only in southernmost South America. As its relationships to other plovers are uncertain, this bird is placed in its own family, Pluvianellidae. It is not migratory...
Isisbill
The Ibisbill (Ibidorhyncha struthersii) is a species of bird related to the waders, but merits its own family Ibidorhynchidae. It is found on shingle riverbanks of the high plateau of central Asia and the Himalayas. The taxonomic position of the Ibisbi...
Black-faced Sheathbill
The Black-faced Sheathbill (Chionis minor) also known as the Lesser Sheathbill or Paddy, is a species of bird that is restricted to the sub-Antarctic islands in the southern Indian Ocean. This includes the South African territory of the Prince Edward ...
Snowy Sheathbill
The Snowy Sheathbill (Chionis alba) also known as the Pale-faced Sheathbill, is a species of bird that is mostly terrestrial (ground dwelling). It is Antarctica's only permanently land-based bird species. It occurs in Antarctica, the Scotia Arc, the So...
Beach Stone-curlew
The Beach Stone-curlew (Esacus giganteus) also known as the Beach Thick-knee, is a species of bird found in Australia and the islands of South-east Asia. It is a resident of undisturbed open beaches, exposed reefs, mangroves, and tidal sand flats. Its ...
Double-striped Thick-knee
The Double-striped Thick-knee (Burhinus bistriatus) is a species of Stone-Curlew. It is a resident breeder in Central and South America from southern Mexico south to Colombia, Venezuela and northern Brazil. It is also found on Hispaniola and on some Ve...
Stone Curlew
The Stone Curlew or Eurasian Stone-curlew (Burhinus oedicnemus) is a species of bird that occurs throughout Europe, north Africa and southwestern Asia. In summer, it is found in the more temperate European and Asian regions, and in winter it migrates s...
Bush Stone-curlew
The Bush Stone-curlew (Burhinus grallarius) is a species of ground-dwelling bird native to Australia. Although related to waders such as the oystercatchers, avocets and plovers, it is a more terrestrial predator and is more like the roadrunners of Nort...
Pheasant-tailed Jacana
The Pheasant-tailed Jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus) is a species of bird of the jacana family Jacanidae. It is found in India, southeast Asia, and Indonesia. It is resident in much of its range, but northern populations from south China and the Himal...
Laughing Kookaburra
The Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae) is a species of bird of the Kingfisher family and is found in Australia. It is found throughout eastern Australia, and has been introduced into the southwest corner of Western Australia, Tasmania, Flinders ...
Cuckoo-roller
The Cuckoo-roller (Leptosomus discolor) is the only species of bird in the family Leptosomatidae. It is usually placed in the order Coraciiformes, which includes kingfishers, bee-eaters and rollers. Some evidence actually places this bird within or nea...
Indian Roller
The Indian Roller (Coracias benghalensis) is a species of bird in the roller family. It is found in tropical southern Asia from Iraq to Thailand. It is not migratory, but does have some seasonal movements. Its habitat is warm open country with some tre...
European Roller
The European Roller (Coracias garrulus) is a species of bird found in Europe. It is the only member of the roller family that breeds there. Its range extends into the Middle East and Central Asia and Morocco. The habitat of the European Roller is warm,...
Elegant Trogon
The Elegant Trogon (Trogon elegans), formerly known as the Coppery-tailed Trogon, is a near passerine (belonging to the order Passeriformes) species of bird in the trogon family, Trogonidae. It is found in the southeastern region of Arizona in the Unit...
Black-throated Trogon
The Black-throated Trogon (Trogon rufus) is a near passerine (belonging to the order Passeriformes) species of bird in the trogon family Trogonidae. It is also known as Yellow-bellied Trogon, but as it is not the only trogon with a yellow belly this sh...
Common Merganser
The Common Merganser (Mergus merganser), also known as the Gulaund or Goosander, is a species of duck that is found in Europe, North Asia and North America. It is most commonly found on lakes and rivers. North American birds migrate south in small grou...
Smew
The Smew (Mergellus albellus) is a species of small duck that is somewhat-related to typical mergansers and the goldeneyes; it is more closely related to the goldeneyes. It breeds in the northern taiga (the coniferous evergreen forests of sub arctic la...
Sword-billed Hummingbird
The Sword-billed Hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera) is a species of hummingbird found in South America. It occurs in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. It is noted as the only species of bird to have a bill longer than the rest of its body. T...
Bee Hummingbird
The Bee Hummingbird (Mellisuga helenae) is a species of hummingbird, and the smallest of all birds, being only 2 inches long and weighing 1.8 grams (0.06 oz). It is found in Cuba where it is called the Zunzuncito. It is also found on the Isle of Youth....
Versicolored Emerald
The Versicolored Emerald (Amazilia versicolor) is a species of hummingbird from central and eastern South America. It occurs in northern Bolivia, eastern Paraguay, far north-eastern Argentina, and eastern, southern and central Brazil, being absent from...
Violet Sabrewing
The Violet Sabrewing (Campylopterus hemileucurus) is a species of hummingbird native to southern Mexico and Central America as far south as Costa Rica and western Panama. Its habitat is understory (the shrubs and plants growing under the main canopy of...
Standard-winged Nightjar
The Standard-winged Nightjar (Macrodipteryx longipennis) is a species of bird that is a resident breeder in Africa from Senegal east to Ethiopia. It is found in dry savannah habitats, with some scrub. This bird is 7.9 to 9 inches long. This nightja...
Paraque
The Pauraque (Nyctidromus albicollis) is also known as the Common Pauraque to distinguish it from similar species. It is a species of nightjar and the only bird in the genus Nyctidromus. It breeds in the warmer parts of the New World from southern Texa...
Oilbird
The Oilbird (Steatornis caripensis) also known as the Guácharo, is a species of bird related to nightjars. It is found in the northern areas of South America from Guyana and the island of Trinidad to Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. I...
Lesser Potoo
The Lesser Potoo (Nyctibius griseus) also known as the Gray Potoo or Common Potoo, is a species of nocturnal bird which breeds in tropical Central and South America from Costa Rica to northern Argentina and northern Uruguay. Its habitat is open woodlan...
Common Hawk-cuckoo
The Common Hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus varius) also commonly called the Brainfever bird, is a species of cuckoo that occurs in Punjab, Pakistan east across much of the Indian peninsula, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. It is found at altitudes of 2600 feet in the H...
Great Spotted Cuckoo
The Great Spotted Cuckoo (Clamator glandarius) is a species of Cuckoo that is widespread through southeast and southwest Europe and western Asia. It is migratory and winters in Africa. It prefers areas of warm open country with trees. The adult has...
Pied Cuckoo
The Pied Cuckoo (Clamator jacobinus) also known as the Pied Crested Cuckoo or Jacobin Cuckoo, is a species of bird in the cuckoo family which includes roadrunners, anis, and the Hoatzin. It is found in Africa south of the Sahara Desert east to India, S...
Great Blue Tauraco
The Great Blue Tauraco (Corythaeola cristata) is a species of Turaco found in Africa. This bird is actively hunted for meat and its feathers in the Bandundu province of the D.R.C. (formerly Zaire). The tail feathers are prized for making good luck tali...
Gray Go-away-bird
The Gray Go-away-bird (Corythaixoides concolor) also known as the Gray Lourie, Gray Loerie, or Kwêvoël, is a species of bird found in southern Africa. Its habitat is dry open savanna woodlands, farms, parks, and suburban gardens. It is often foun...
Green Tauraco
The Green Tauraco (Tauraco persa) is a species of bird that is a resident breeder in the forests of Tropical West Africa. It is dependant on its habitat of plentiful tall trees. The Green Tauraco is clearly identifiable, but very hard to spot as it...
Smew
The Smew (Mergellus albellus) is a species of duck that is intermediately placed between mergansers and goldeneyes. It is the only member in its genus Mergellus, which is sometimes grouped with the Mergus genus of mergansers. However, it is most likely...
Black Scoter
The Black or American Scoter (Melanitta americana) is a species of sea duck found in the far north of North America in Labrador and Newfoundland to the southeast Hudson bay, in Alaska. It is also found on the Siberian side of the Bering Straits east of...
Asian Blue Quail
The Asian Blue Quail (Coturnix chinensis), also known as the Chinese Painted Quail, King Quail or Blue-breasted Quail, is a species of bird in the same family as pheasants (Phasianidae) in the order Galliformes. In the wild it is found from southeaster...
Great Bustard
The Great Bustard (Otis tarda) is a species of bird of the bustard family. It is found in southern and central Europe, where it is the largest species of bird. It is also found across much of temperate Asia. Populations in Europe are mainly resident, b...
Tawny Frogmouth
The Tawny Frogmouth (Podargus strigoides) is a species of bird found in Australia throughout the mainland, and in Tasmania and southern New Guinea. This bird is part of a family of birds belonging to the Podargidae family which has been around for over...
Pel's Fishing-owl
The Pel's Fishing-owl (Scotopelia peli) is a large species of owl in the Strigidae family. It is found throughout Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory ...
Guira Cuckoo
The Guira Cuckoo (Guira guira) is a social species of bird belonging to the cuckoo family. It is found in open and semi-open habitats of eastern and southern Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, and northeastern Argentina. The adult Guira Cuckoo is ...
Groove-billed Ani
The Groove-billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris) is a strange-looking species of tropical bird belonging to the cuckoo family. It is a resident species through much of its range, which extends from southern Texas and central Mexico through Central Ameri...
Giant Coua
The Giant Coua (Coua gigas) is a species of bird from the cuckoo family that is found in western and southeastern Madagascar. Its habitat is dry forest lowlands up to 2300 feet in elevation. Though it is established as Least Concern by the IUCN, this s...
Squirrel Cuckoo
The Squirrel Cuckoo (Piaya cayana) is a species of bird ranging from northwestern Mexico to northern Argentina and Uruguay, and on Trinidad. The habitat is woodland canopy and edges, second growth, hedges and semi-open areas from sea level to as high a...
Asian Koel
The Asian Koel (Eudynamys scolopacea) or Common Koel, is a species of bird found in South Asia, China, and southeast Asia into Australia. It has several subspecies (most considered full species) that converge over a wide range. It is a member of the cu...
Hoopoe
The Hoopoe (Upupa epops) is a species of bird found across Afro-Eurasia. It is part of a group of birds that also contain kingfishers, bee-eaters, rollers, and wood-hoopoes. It is the only non-extinct member of its family. The Hoopoe is widespread in E...
Southern Carmine Bee-eater
The Southern Carmine Bee-eater (Merops nubicoides), formerly known as Carmine Bee-eater, is a species of bird found across sub-equatorial Africa, extending from Zululand and Namibia to Gabon, eastern Zaire and Kenya. Its preferred habitat includes low-...
European Bee-eater
The European Bee-eater (Merops apiaster) is a species of bird in the bee-eater family Meropidae. It is found in southern Europe and in parts of north Africa and western Asia. It is highly migratory and winters in tropical Africa, India and Sri Lanka. I...
Swallow-tailed Bee-eater
The Swallow-tailed Bee-eater (Merops hirundineus) is a species of bird in the bee-eater family Meropidae. It is found in savannah woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa. It prefers more wooded country than most bee-eaters. It is somewhat migratory depending o...
Red-bearded Bee-eater
The Red-bearded Bee-eater (Nyctyornis amictus) is a species of bird found in the Indo-Malayan subregion of South-east Asia. Its natural habitat is open patches of dense forest. It nests in burrows tunneled into the side of sandy banks. It does not form...
Turquoise-browed Motmot
The Turquoise-browed Motmot (Eumomota superciliosa) is a species of bird of the Motmot family, Motmotidae. It is found in Central America from south to east Mexico (Yucatan Peninsula), and in Costa Rica. Its lives in open areas of scrubland and forest ...
Blue-crowned Motmot
The Blue-crowned Motmot (Momotus momota) is a species of bird found in eastern Mexico, Central America, northern and southern South America, and Trinidad and Tobago. Its natural habitat is dense forests and woodlands. There are several species conspeci...
Greater Scaup
The Greater Scaup (Aythya marila) or just Scaup in Europe, is a species diving duck found in northern Arctic and sub-Arctic North America and Asia. Its habitat is lakes and bogs on the tundra and at the northern limits of the boreal forest. These birds...
Common Pochard
The Common Pochard (Aythya ferina) is a species of diving duck found in temperate and northern Europe into Asia. Their habitat is marshes and lakes that are more than 3 feet in depth. They are migratory, and winter in southern Europe and points west. I...
The Horned Screamer
The Horned Screamer (Anhima cornuta) is a species of bird native to the wetlands of tropical South America. It is found in lowlands from Colombia and Venezuela south to Brazil and eastern Bolivia. It is now extinct in Trinidad. Despite having declined...
Southern Screamer
The Southern Screamer (Chauna torquata) also known as the Crested Screamer, is a bird species found in Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. Its habitat is swamps, estuaries, and pool coasts. It is a permanent resident and non-migrato...
Palawan Peacock-pheasant
The Palawan Peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron napoleonis) also known as the Napoleon Peacock-pheasant, is a species of pheasant endemic to the Philippines. Its habitat is the humid forests of Palawan Island in the southernmost part of the Philippine Islan...
Congo Peafowl
The Congo Peafowl (Afropavo congensis) is a species of peafowl that is native to lowland rainforests of the Congo River Basin in the central part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was first recorded as a species in 1936 by Dr. James Chapin ba...
Golden Pheasant
The Golden Pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus) also known as the Chinese Pheasant, is a parrot-like gamebird native to areas of western China. It has been introduced to the United Kingdom and other areas. Its habitat is dense, dark, young, coniferous forest...
Elliot's Pheasant
The Elliot's Pheasant (Syrmaticus ellioti) also known as Bar-backed Pheasant, is native to China. It is found in evergreen and mountain forests in altitudes up to 6,200 feet. Due to habitat loss and hunting, this species is evaluated as vulnerable on t...
Great Argus
The Great Argus (Argusianus argus) is a species of pheasant found in the jungles of Borneo, Sumatra and Malay Peninsula in southeast Asia. Due to habitat loss and hunting in some areas, the Great Argus is evaluated as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red Li...
Himilayan Monal
The Himalayan Monal (Lophophorus impejanus) also known as the Impeyan Monal or Impeyan Pheasant, is a species of bird found in the pheasant family Phasianidae. It is native to eastern Afghanistan through the Himalayas including Kashmir region of Northe...
Blood Pheasant
The Blood Pheasant (Ithaginis cruentus) is a species of pheasant that has 15 different subspecies. It is found in the mountains of Nepal, Sikkim, Tibet, northern Burma and northwest regions of China. Its habitat is mainly coniferous or mixed forests an...
Temminck's Tragopan
The Temminck's Tragopan (Tragopan temminckii) is a species of pheasant that is distributed in the forests of northern South Asia, from northeast India, northwest Vietnam, Tibet and northern provinces of China. It is widespread and common throughout its...
Cape Francolin
The Cape Francolin (Francolinus capensis) is a species of pheasant from the family Phasianidae. It is native to the southwestern Cape of South Africa. Its habitat is scrubby open areas that are usually close to running water. Undisturbed specimens may ...
Greater Sage-grouse
The Greater Sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) is the largest species of grouse found in North America. It occurs in the western United States and in Canada in southern Alberta and southern Saskatchewan. Its habitat is semiarid country sagebrush. ...
Black-tailed Native-hen
The Black-tailed Native-hen (Gallinula ventralis)is a species of bird in the rail family, Rallidae. It is native to Australia and New Zealand. This species is nomadic, following seasonal water sources. It is found year round living near fresh and brack...
Dusky Moorhen
The Dusky Moorhen (Gallinula tenebrosa) is a species of bird in the rail family Rallidae. It is found in Australia, New Guinea and Indonesia. Its habitat is wetlands with a preference for freshwater marshes. It will forage on rubbish tips, and is gener...
Eurasian Coot
The Eurasian Coot (Fulica atra), also known just as Coot, is a species of bird in the rail and crake family Rallidae. It is found across much of the Old World on freshwater lakes and ponds. In the mild parts of its range it is mainly resident. Cooler c...
The Red-knobbed Coot
The Red-knobbed Coot (Fulica cristata), also known as the Crested Coot, is a species of bird in the rail and crake family Rallidae. It is resident across much of Africa and in southernmost Spain during the breeding season. Its habitat is freshwater lak...
Painted Bush Quail
The Painted Bush Quail (Perdicula erythrorhyncha) is a species of quail found in India. It is found in hill forests and it moves along hillsides in small coveys of about 6-10 birds. It comes out from cover along open grassy patches or on forest roads t...
Pomarine Skua
The Pomarine Skua (Stercorarius pomarinus), is a species of seabird that breeds in the far north of Eurasia and North America. Its nesting habitat is Arctic tundra and islands. It is migratory and winters at sea in the tropical oceans. In North America...
South Polar Skua
The South Polar Skua (Stercorarius maccormicki), is a species of seabird that is found on the Antarctic coasts. It is migratory and winters at sea in the Pacific Indian and Atlantic Oceans. In the eastern North Atlantic Ocean it is replaced by the Grea...
Arctic Skua
The Arctic Skua (Stercorarius parasiticus), is a species of seabird that is found north of Eurasia and North America and as far south as northern Scotland. It nests on dry tundra, higher fells and islands. It is migratory and winters in the southern oc...
Long-tailed Skua
The Long-tailed Skua (Stercorarius longicaudus), is a seabird in the Skua family Stercorariidae. It is found in the high Arctic of Eurasia and North America. Large populations are found in Russia, Alaska and Canada, and other smaller populations are sc...
Indian Skimmer
The Indian Skimmer (Rynchops albicollis), is a species of bird that is found in southern Asia where it is sparsely distributed and is declining in population. Its habitat is large rivers and lakes, swamps, coastal wetlands, and estuaries. It is most co...
African Skimmer
The African Skimmer (Rynchops flavirostris), is a species of bird that is found from Senegal to northern Congo River and southern Nile Valley, southern Tanzania to Zambezi Valley, and to Natal and Angola. They live in wide tropical rivers with sandbank...
Black Skimmer
The Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger), is one of three very similar bird species in the skimmer family. It is found in North and South America. Northern populations winter in the warmer waters of Caribbean and tropical and subtropical Pacific coasts. The ...
Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch
The Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch (Sitta castanea), is a species of bird that is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or ...
Pygmy Nuthatch
The Pygmy Nuthatch (Sitta pygmaea), is a tiny songbird that ranges from southern British Columbia south through a variety of regions throughout the western United States, and into central Mexico. Its habitat is pines, Douglas-firs, and other coniferous...
Red-breasted Nuthatch
The Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis), is a small songbird found in coniferous forests across Canada, Alaska and the northeastern and western United States. They are also found as far south as Baja California, Mexico. They are mainly resident bu...
Great Curassow
The Great Curassow (Crax rubra), is a pheasant-like species of bird found in rainforest from eastern Mexico throughout Central America, to western Colombia and northwest Ecuador. It is the most northerly Crax species. Due to hunting and habitat destruc...
Alpine Swift
The Alpine Swift (Tachymarptis melba), is a species of bird found the mountains of southern Europe to the Himalayas. They are strongly migratory and winter much further south in southern Africa. They do tend to wander during migration and some birds ar...
Common Quail
The Common Quail (Coturnix coturnix), is a species of pheasant in the Phasianidae family. It was first described by Linnaeus in 1758 as Tetrao coturnix. This is a native Mediterranean species that is found in Europe, North Africa, western Asia and migr...
Wattled Curassow
The Wattled Curassow (Crax globulosa), is a bird in the Cracidae family (curassows, guans, chachalacas). It is found rarely in the wild and is vulnerable due to hunting and habitat destruction. Its natural range is the western and southwestern Amazon B...
White-tailed Tropicbird
The White-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus), is a species of seabird found in the tropical Atlantic, western Pacific, and Indian Oceans. It also can be found during the breeding season on some Caribbean islands. A few nesting pairs are found on Lit...
Brown-headed Nuthatch
The Brown-headed Nuthatch (Sitta pusilla), is a small songbird found in the southeastern United States and in the Bahamas. The Bahamas population is decreasing rapidly. Its natural habitat is pine forests. It is not a shy species and is readily approac...
Kioea
The Kioea (Chaetoptila angustipluma), is a species of Hawaiian Honey-eater that became extinct around 1859. It was in danger of extinction even before the discovery of Hawaii by Europeans. Even the native people are mostly unfamiliar with this species....
Bare-faced Curassow
The Bare-faced Curassow (Crax fasciolata), is a species of bird found in eastern-central and southern Brazil, Paraguay, and eastern Bolivia, and extreme northeast Argentina. It is also found in the southeastern region of the Amazon Basin. Its natural h...
Brown Quail
The Brown Quail (Coturnix ypsilophorus), also known as the Swamp Quail, is an Australian species of true quail. It is found in much of New Guinea and the Lesser Sunda Islands as well as in northern, eastern, south-eastern and south-western Australia a...
Japanese Quail
The Japanese Quail (Coturnix japonica), is a species of quail found in East Asia. They breed in much of Manchuria, southeastern Siberia, and northern Japan. They migrate further south to southern Japan, the Korean Peninsula, and southern China. Their h...
African Palm Swift
The African Palm Swift (Cypsiurus parvus), is a species of swift found in tropical Africa. They spend most of their time in the air, living on insects which it collects in flight. They often feed near the ground, and drink on the wing. This 6.25 inc...
Chimney Swift
The Chimney Swift (Chaetura pelagica), is a bird found in North America during the breeding season. During the winter they migrate south to eastern Peru. They may have other wintering sites in South America as well. This species is a very rare vagrant ...
White-throated Needle Tail
The White-throated Needle tail (Hirundapus caudacutus), also known as the Needle-tailed Swift or Spine-tailed Swift, is a large bird found in central Asia and southern Siberia. This species is migratory, wintering south to Australia. It is a rare vagra...
German's Swiftlet
The German's Swiftlet (Collocalia germani), is a species of bird found in China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropic...
Edible-nest Swiftlet
The Edible-nest Swiftlet (Aerodramus fuciphagus), is a small bird that is found in South-east Asia. It has a wide range of habitats from coastal areas to mountains, occurring up to 9180 feet above sea level on Sumatra and Borneo. There are six recogniz...
White-rumped Swiftlet
The White-rumped Swiftlet (Aerodramus spodiopygia) is a species of swift found in American Samoa, Fiji, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Vanuatu. Birds in Australia are now often treated as a separate species, Austra...
Glossy Swiftlet
The Glossy Swiftlet (Collocalia esculenta) is a species of swift found in Australia, Brunei, Christmas Island, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Thailand, and Vanuatu. ...
White-collared Swift
The White-collared Swift (Streptoprocne zonaris), is a resident breeding bird from central Mexico, the Greater Antilles and Trinidad south to Peru, northern Argentina and southeastern Brazil. It is a highly gregarious species which flock together in gr...
Peruvian Booby
The Peruvian Booby (Sula variegata), is a seabird endemic to the Peruvian current. It is distributed only along the coast of South America from Punta Pariñas in Peru to Concepción in Chile. It is one of the most abundant species of seabird that i...
Blue-footed Booby
The Blue-footed Booby (Sula nebouxii), is a seabird found along tropical and subtropical islands off the Pacific Ocean. Its most famous colony is on the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. They also occur along the coast of California, USA. These specimens ...
Australasian Gannet
The Australasian Gannet (Morus serrator), also known as the Australian Gannet, or TÄÂkapu, is a large seabird found along the coastal islands around Victoria, Tasmania and New Zealand. These birds have been increasing in numbers since 1950, although ...
Cape Gannet
The Cape Gannet (Morus capensis, formerly Sula capensis), is a large seabird of the gannet family, Sulidae. The breeding range is restricted to three islands off Namibia and three islands off South Africa. They normally nest in large and dense colonie...
Northern Gannet
The Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus, formerly Sula bassana), is a large seabird of the gannet family, Sulidae. They range through the North Atlantic. They are commonly found in large colonies, on cliffs overlooking the ocean or on small rocky islands. ...
White-tailed Tropicbird
The White-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus), is the smallest of three closely related seabirds of the tropical oceans and the smallest member of the order Pelecaniformes. It occurs in the Western Pacific, tropical Atlantic and Indian oceans. It als...
Shining Honeycreeper
The Shining Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes lucidus), is a small bird of the tanager family. It is found in Central America from southern Mexico to Panama and northwest Colombia. Its habitat is forest canopy or forest edges with secondary growth. The adult...
White-rumped Swift
The White-rumped Swift (Apus caffer), is a species of swift that is similar to a house martin, but is completely unrelated to that species. They are native to sub-Saharan Africa, and have expanded into Morocco and southern Spain. The wintering grounds ...
Little Swift
The Little Swift (Apus affinis), also known as House Swift, is a small bird similar in appearance to a barn swallow or house martin. It is, however, unrelated to these passerine species, as swift's are in the separate order Apodiformes. The resemblance...
Common Swift
The Common Swift (Apus apus), is a bird that is similar to the barn swallow or house martin. They are commonly found in Great Britain and northern Europe. They are migratoria and winter further south in southern Africa. The Common Swift is 6.25 to ...
Northern Helmeted Curassow
The Northern Helmeted Curassow (Pauxi pauxi), is a species of bird in the Cracidae family of chachalacas, guans, and curassows. It is found in the eastern Andes of Venezuela and Colombia. It is listed on Appendix II of CITES, and was formerly listed as...
Spix's Guan
The Spix's Guan (Penelope jacquacu), is a species of bird found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela. Its habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It has a global range of over 3,000,000 square miles and ...
Crested Guan
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...
Rusty-margined Guan
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...
Black Guan
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...
Crane Hawk
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 ...
African Harrier Hawk
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...
Madagascar Harrier Hawk
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...
Pied Harrier
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...
Cinereous Harrier
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...
Spotted Harrier
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...
Long-winged Harrier
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...
Swamp Harrier
The Swamp Harrier (Circus approximans), also known as the Marsh harrier, Australasian Harrier, KÄÂhu, Swamp-hawk or New Zealand Hawk, is common through Australasia and many islands in the south-west Pacific region, including much of Australia (except...
Australasian Shoveler
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...
Red Shoveler
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...
Brown Booby
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...
Nazca Booby
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...
Masked Booby
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...
Brown Creeper
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...
Hodgson's Treecreeper
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...
Blue Nuthatch
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. ...
Velvet-fronted Nuthatch
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 ...
Common Fiscal
The Common Fiscal (Lanius collaris) also known as the Fiscal Shrike, or "Jacky Hanger", is a member of the shrike family found through most of Sub-Saharan Africa. It has a wide range of habitats from grassland to acacia or woodland. It avoids very dens...
Taita Fiscal
The Taita Fiscal (Lanius dorsalis) is a member of the shrike family. This is an African species. It is found from southeastern Sudan and southern Ethiopia to northeastern Tanzania. Its habitat is dry open thornbush and acacia and other dry open woodlan...
Long-tailed Fiscal
The Long-tailed Fiscal (Lanius cabanisi) is a species of bird found in Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania. Its natural habitat is dry savanna. It perches in the open and is frequently seen waving its long tail from side to side excitedly. It is difficult to ...
Gray-backed Fiscal
The Gray-backed Fiscal (Lanius excubitoroides) is a species of bird found in Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natur...
Gray-backed Shrike
The Gray-backed Shrike (Lanius tephronotus) is a species of bird found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Thailand, and Vietnam. Photo Copyright and Credit
Brown Shrike
The Brown Shrike (Lanius cristatus) is a small passerine bird found in central and eastern Asia. It is migratory, wintering south to India, southeast Asia and Indonesia. Its habitat is taiga, deciduous forest and semi-desert. In winter it may be found ...
Bull-headed Shrike
The Bull-headed Shrike (Lanius bucephalus) is a passerine bird found in eastern Asia. It breeds in north-east China, Korea, Japan and far-eastern Russia. Northern birds migrate south for the winter with a few reaching southern China. The isolated race ...
Tiger Shrike
The Tiger Shrike or Thick-billed Shrike (Lanius tigrinus) is a small passerine bird which is found in wooded habitats across eastern Asia. Its habitat is woodland, forest edges and farmland with scattered trees in lowland areas. It is found in eastern ...
Pearly-eyed Thrasher
The Pearly-eyed Thrasher (Margarops fuscatus) is a species of bird found in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Bahamas, and Antilles. Its habitat is bushes and trees in mountain forests and coffee plantations. It nests in cavities. In Puerto Rico, it...
Le Conte's Thrasher
The Le Conte's Thrasher (Toxostoma lecontei) is a bird found Southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. Its habitat is arid desert with very little vegetation. This pale bird grows to 11 inches and blends in with the area in which it thrives. ...
California Thrasher
The California Thrasher (Toxostoma redivivum), is a large bird found primarily in chaparral habitat in California and Baja California. The California Thrasher is the only species of Toxostoma throughout most of its limited range. Like most thrashers, i...
Curve-billed Thrasher
The Curve-billed Thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre), is a perching bird native to the southwestern United States and much of Mexico. It is commonly found throughout the deserts and brush-filled areas of the south-western United States, from about the Son...
White-winged Snowfinch
The White-winged Snowfinch (Montifringilla nivalis), or just Snowfinch, is a small passerine sparrow that is a found across southern Europe and through central Asia to western China. Its habitat is bare mountains, generally over 4900 feet. Four subspe...
Rock Sparrow
The Rock Sparrow (Petronia petronia), is a small passerine bird that is found on barren rocky hills from the Iberian peninsula and western north Africa across southern Europe and through central Asia. In the west of its range it is mainly resident, but...
Chestnut-shouldered Petronia
The Chestnut-shouldered Petronia (Petronia xanthocollis), also known as the Yellow-throated Sparrow, is a species of sparrow-like bird found in South Asia. It is found in forest and open scrub habitats. The species breeds in tree hollows often making u...
Iago Sparrow
The Iago Sparrow (Passer iagoensis), also known as the Cape Verde Sparrow, is a member of the Old World sparrow family. It is native to the Cape Verde Islands where it is very common on most islands except for Fogo and is scarce on Santa Luzia, Branco ...
Japanese Waxwing
The Japanese Waxwing (Bombycilla japonica), is a small passerine bird found in northeast Asia. It is found in coniferous forests in the Russian Far east and in Heilongjiang province, north-east China. It is at risk of becoming threatened with extinctio...
Bohemian Waxwing
The Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus), is a passerine bird that breeds in coniferous forests throughout northern parts of Europe, Asia and western North America. While the Cedar Waxwing inhabits only North America and the Japanese Waxwing is found...
South Georgia Pipit
The South Georgia Pipit (Anthus antarcticus), is a bird found only on the South Georgia archipelago. It is the Antarctic's only song bird, South Georgia's only passerine, and one of the few non-seabirds of the region. It builds nests from dried gras...
Rock Pipit
The Rock Pipit (Anthus petrosus), is a passerine bird that is found on the rocky coasts of western Europe northwards from Brittany. It is a mainly resident bird in Ireland, Great Britain and France. Scandinavian and Russian populations of this species ...
Water Pipit
The Water Pipit (Anthus spinoletta), is a passerine bird which is found in the mountains of southern Europe and southern temperate Asia across to China. It migrates to wet open lowlands, such as marshes and flooded fields in the winter. Some birds migr...
Meadow Pipit
The Meadow Pipit (Anthus pratensis), also known as Titlark, is a passerine bird that can be found in much of the northern half of Europe and Asia. It is a migratory bird through most of its range and winters in southern Europe, north Africa and souther...
Olive-backed Pipit
The Olive-backed Pipit (Anthus hodgsoni), also known as Indian Pipit or Hodgson's Pipit, is a small passerine bird which is found across South, north Central and East Asia. It is also found in the northeast of European Russia. It winters in southern As...
Nilgiri Pipit
The Nilgiri Pipit (Anthus nilghiriensis), is a near threatened species of bird endemic to the Western Ghats in South India. It is found in short mountainous grasslands scattered with marshes and small streams mostly in hill slopes above 4900 feet. Othe...
Tree Pipit
The Tree Pipit (Anthus trivialis), is a small passerine bird that is found across much of Europe and temperate western and central Asia. It migrates to Africa and southern Asia in winter. Its habitat is open woodland and scrub. The Tree Pipit is sma...
Tawny Pipit
The Tawny Pipit (Anthus campestris), is a passerine bird that breeds in much of temperate Europe, Asia and northwest Africa. It migrates in winter to tropical Africa and the Indian subcontinent. In south Asia it can be difficult to distinguish this spe...
Australasian Pipit
The Australasian Pipit (Anthus novaeseelandiae), is a small passerine bird found in open country in Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea. It is found in open grassland, farmland, roadsides, dry river beds, sand dunes and open woodland habitats. In New...
African Pipit
The African Pipit (Anthus cinnamomeus), also known as the Grassveld Pipit or Grassland Pipit, is a small passerine bird that occurs in grassland and fields in southern, central and East Africa, south-east from Angola through the Democratic Republic of ...
Paddyfield Pipit
The Paddyfield Pipit (Anthus rufulus), is a passerine bird which is found in tropical southern Asia from Pakistan and India eastward to Indonesia and the Philippines. Its habitats are open, short grassland and cultivation. This pipit is large, about...
Richard's Pipit
The Richard's Pipit (Anthus richardi), is a passerine bird which is found in open grasslands, steppe, and cultivated land in northern Asia. It migrates to open lowlands in southern Asia in the winter months. It can be found as far south as Sri Lanka, S...
Small Minivet
The Small Minivet (Pericrocotus cinnamomeus), is a small passerine bird. This Minivet is found in tropical southern Asia from the Indian subcontinent east to Indonesia. The Small Minivet is a widespread and common resident breeding bird in thorn jungle...
Rosy Minivet
The Rosy Minivet (Pericrocotus roseus), is a species of bird in the Campephagidae family. It is found in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropi...
Polynesian Triller
The Polynesian Triller (Lalage maculosa), is a passerine bird belonging to the triller genus Lalage in the cuckoo-shrike family Campephagidae. It has numerous subspecies distributed across the islands of the south-west Pacific. The breeding range exten...
Black-winged Cuckoo-shrike
The Black-winged Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina melaschistos), also known as the Smaller Grey Cuckoo-Shrike, is a species of cuckoo shrike found in South to Southeast Asia. It is distributed from Northeast Pakistan through the lower Himalayan region (Uttaranc...
Cicadabird
The Cicadabird (Coracina tenuirostris), also called the Slender-billed Cicadabird, is a species of bird in the Campephagidae family. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, Micronesia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands. Its natural habitats are...
Grey Cuckoo-shrike
The Grey Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina caesia), is a species of bird in the Campephagidae family. It is found in Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan...
White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike
The White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina papuensis), is a species of bird in the Campephagidae family. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, ...
Yellow-eyed Cuckoo-shrike
The Yellow-eyed Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina lineata), also called the Barred Cuckoo-shrike, is a species of bird in the Campephagidae family. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands. Photo Copyright and Credit
Large Cuckoo-shrike
The Large Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina macei), is a species of cuckoo shrike found in south and south east Asia. It is a mostly insectivorous bird which usually flies just above the forest canopy. It has a loud call Klu-eep and has a characteristic habit o...
Eurasian Nuthatch
The Eurasian Nuthatch (Sitta europaea), is a small passerine bird found throughout temperate Europe and Asia, although not in Ireland. It belongs to the nuthatch family Sittidae. This bird is the most common and most widespread nuthatch, and is often r...
Black-winged Flycatcher-shrike
The Black-winged Flycatcher-shrike (Hemipus hirundinaceus), is a species of bird in the Campephagidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Hemipus. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand. Its natural habitats are subtropi...
Grey-chinned Minivet
The Grey-chinned Minivet (Pericrocotus solaris), is a species of bird in the Campephagidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. It thrives in subtro...
Scarlet Minivet
The Scarlet Minivet (Pericrocotus flammeus), is a small passerine bird. This Minivet is found in tropical southern Asia from the Indian subcontinent east to southern China, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Scarlet Minivet is a common resident breeding b...
Short-billed Minivet
The Short-billed Minivet (Pericrocotus brevirostris), is a species of bird in the Campephagidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or trop...
Long-tailed Minivet
The Long-tailed Minivet (Pericrocotus ethologus) is a species of bird in the Campephagidae family. It is found in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical...
White-bellied Minivet
The White-bellied Minivet (Pericrocotus erythropygius) is a minivet found in the dry deciduous forests of India.
Doherty's Bushrike
The Doherty's Bushshrike (Malaconotus dohertyi), is a species of bird in the Malaconotidae family. It is found in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist mountain fore...
Rosy-patched Bushrike
The Rosy-patched Bushshrike (Rhodophoneus cruentus), is a species of bird in the Malaconotidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Rhodophoneus. It is found in Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, and Tanzania. Its natural ha...
Common Woodshrike
The Common Woodshrike (Tephrodornis pondicerianus), is a species in the helmetshrike family Prionopidae. The woodshrikes were occassionally formerly placed in the Campephagidae (cuckoo shrikes). Photo Copyright and Credit
Large Woodshrike
The Large Woodshrike (Tephrodornis gularis), is a species in the helmetshrike family Prionopidae. The woodshrikes were formerly placed in the Campephagidae (cuckoo shrikes) sometimes. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India...
White Helmetstrike
The White Helmetshrike (Prionops plumatus), is a species of passerine bird in the helmetshrike family Prionopidae, formerly usually included in the Malaconotidae. It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central Afric...
Southern White-crowned Shrike
The Southern White-crowned Shrike (Eurocephalus anguitimens), is a species of bird in the Laniidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests an...
Northern White-crowned Shrike
The Northern White-crowned Shrike (Eurocephalus rueppelli), also known as the White-rumped Shrike, is a bird found in dry thornbush, semi-desert, and open acacia woodland in east Africa from southeastern Sudan and southern Ethiopia to Tanzania. Its bin...
Magpie Shrike
The Magpie Shrike (Urolestes melanoleucus), is a species of bird in the Laniidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Urolestes. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. I...
Yellow-billed Shrike
The Yellow-billed Shrike (Corvinella corvina), is a small passerine bird in the shrike family. Although it is sometimes known as Long-tailed Shrike, this should be discouraged as it can be confused with the Long-tailed Shrike (Lanius schach) of tropica...
Loten's Sunbird
The Loten's Sunbird (Cinnyris lotenius), also known as the Long-billed Sunbird, is one of a group of very small Old World passerine birds which feed largely on nectar. Sunbirds will also take insects, especially when feeding young and Loten's Sunbird i...
Seychelles Sunbird
The Seychelles Sunbird (Nectarinia dussumieri), is a small passerine from the family of sunbirds. It is named after the French explorer Jean-Jacques Dussumier. It is native to the Seychelles where it's called kolibri in Creole. This bird is variously p...
Souimanga Sunbird
The Souimanga Sunbird (Cinnyris sovimanga), is a small passerine bird of the sunbird family, Nectariniidae. It is native to the islands of the western Indian Ocean where it occurs on Madagascar, the Aldabra Group and the Glorioso Islands. The Souimanga...
Olive-backed Sunbird
The Olive-backed Sunbird (Cinnyris jugularis), also known as the Yellow-bellied Sunbird, is an Asian sunbird. The Olive-backed Sunbird is common across southern China to the Philippines and Malaysia down to northeast Australia. Originally from mangrove...
Purple Sunbird
The Purple Sunbird (Cinnyris asiaticus), is a sunbird that is part of a group of very small Old World passerine birds. It is an abundant resident breeder across tropical southern Asia from the Persian Gulf to Southeast Asia. One to three eggs are laid ...
Copper Sunbird
The Copper Sunbird (Nectarinia cuprea), is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, ...
Variable Sunbird
The Variable Sunbird (Cinnyris venustus ), is part of a group of very small Old World passerine birds. The Variable Sunbird is a fairly common resident breeder in equatorial Africa. This species was formerly known as (Nectarinia venusta). Variable S...
Palestine Sunbird
The Palestine Sunbird (Cinnyris oseus), also known as the Northern Orange-tufted Sunbird, is a small passerine bird of the sunbird family which is found in parts of the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa. It is similar to the Orange-tufted Sunbird (Cin...
Red-chested Sunbird
The Red-chested Sunbird (Nectarinia erythrocerca), is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. It is found in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Photo Copyright and Credit
Mariqua Sunbird
The Mariqua Sunbird (Nectarinia mariquensis), is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, ...
Bay-breasted Warbler
The Bay-breasted Warbler (Dendroica castanea), is a bird of the New World warbler family. They breed in northern North America, specifically in Canada, into the Great Lakes region, and into northern New England. These birds are migratory, wintering in ...
Palm Warbler
The Palm Warbler (Dendroica palmarum), is a small songbird of the New World warbler family. Palm Warblers' breeding habitats are bog edges across Canada and the northeastern United States. These birds migrate to the southeastern United States, Mexico a...
Pine Warbler
The Pine Warbler (Dendroica pinus), is a small songbird of the New World warbler family. Their breeding habitats are open pine woods in eastern North America. These birds are permanent residents in southern Florida. Some of them, however, migrate to no...
Adelaide's Warbler
Adelaide's Warbler (Dendroica adelaidae), is a bird endemic to the archipelago of Puerto Rico belonging to the Dendroica genus of the Parulidae family. Adelaide's Warbler occurs in the main island of Puerto Rico and in the island municipality of Vieque...
Yellow-throated Warbler
The Yellow-throated Warbler (Dendroica dominica), is a small New World warbler. These birds breed in southeastern North America, and their breeding ranges extend from southern Pennsylvania and northern Missouri, to the Gulf of Mexico. Two subspecies ma...
Blackburnian Warbler
The Blackburnian Warbler (Dendroica fusca), is a small bird of the New World warbler family. They breed in eastern North America, from southern Canada, westwards to the southern Canadian Prairies, the Great Lakes region and New England, to North Caroli...
Townsend's Warbler
The Townsend's Warbler (Dendroica townsendi), is a small songbird of the New World warbler family. Their breeding habitats are coniferous forests with large trees on the northwestern coast of North America. This bird is closely related to the Hermit Wa...
Black-throated Green Warbler
The Black-throated Green Warbler (Dendroica virens), is a small songbird of the New World warbler family. Their habitat is coniferous and mixed forests in eastern North America and western Canada and cypress swamps on the southern Atlantic coast. These...
Golden-cheeked Warbler
The Golden-cheeked Warbler (Dendroica chrysoparia), is an endangered species that breeds in Central Texas, from Dallas County southwestward along the eastern and southern edge of the Edwards Plateau to Kinney County. The Golden-cheeked Warbler is the o...
Black-throated Gray Warbler
The Black-throated Gray Warbler (Dendroica nigrescens), is a small songbird of the New World warbler family. They are found in open coniferous and mixed forests in western North America, especially with oak, juniper or pinyon pine. These birds migrate ...
Brown Thornbill
The Brown Thornbill (Acanthiza pusilla), is a passerine bird usually found in eastern and south-eastern Australia, including Tasmania. It can grow up to 4 inches long, and feeds on insects. Photo Copyright and Credit
Striated Pardalote
The Striated Pardalote (Pardalotus striatus), is a species of bird that occupies a vast range of habitat types, from tall mountain rainforest to arid scrubland, and are found in all parts of Australia except some of the Western Australian deserts. Ther...
Forty-spotted Pardalote
The Forty-spotted Pardalote (Pardalotus quadragintus), is by far the rarest pardalote. It is found reliably only in a few isolated colonies on south-eastern Tasmania, most notably on Maria Island and southern Bruny Island. It is occasionally reported f...
Spotted Pardalote
The Spotted Pardalote (Pardalotus punctatus), is a very small bird commonly found in all of the reasonably fertile parts of Australia (the east coast, the south-east, and the south-west corner). While very common, it is seldom seen up close enough to e...
Red-breasted Chat
The Red-breasted Chat (Granatellus venustus), is a species of bird in the Parulidae family. It is endemic to Mexico. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. Photo Copyright and Credit
Rufous-capped Warbler
The Rufous-capped Warbler (Basileuterus rufifrons), is a New World warbler native from Mexico south to much of Central America, rarely occurring as far north as southeastern Arizona and south Texas. While Rufous-capped Warblers are generally birds of t...
MacGillivray's Warbler
The MacGillivray's Warbler (Oporornis tolmiei), is a small species of New World warbler. They are migratory and spend their summers in temperate forests located in the western United States, and in boreal forests of west Canada. In autumn, these birds ...
Mourning Warbler
The Mourning Warbler (Oporornis philadelphia), is a small songbird of the New World warbler family. Their breeding habitat is thickets and semi-open areas with dense shrubs across Canada east of the Rockies and the northeastern United States. The nest ...
Connecticut Warbler
The Connecticut Warbler (Oporornis agilis), is a small songbird of the New World warbler family. Their breeding habitat is bogs or open deciduous woods near water, especially with poplar or aspen, in central Canada and states bordering the Great Lakes....
Eastern Double-collared Sunbird
The Eastern Double-collared Sunbird (Nectarinia mediocris), is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia. Photo Copyright and Credit
Regal Sunbird
The Regal Sunbird (Nectarinia regia), is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. It is found in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. Photo Copyright and Credit
Northern Double-collared Sunbird
The Northern Double-collared Sunbird (Nectarinia preussi), is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. It is found in Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan,...
Southern Double-collared Sunbird
The Southern Double-collared Sunbird (Cinnyris chalybeus), also known as the Lesser Double-collared Sunbird, is a species of sunbird that breeds in southern South Africa. It is mainly resident, but partially migratory in the north-east of its range. Th...
Crimson-backed Sunbird
The Crimson-backed Sunbird (Leptocoma minima), is a sunbird that is placed in a group of very small Old World passerine birds. Crimson-backed Sunbird is an endemic resident breeder in the Western Ghats of India. This species is found in a variety everg...
Purple-rumped Sunbird
The Purple-rumped Sunbird (Leptocoma zeylonica), formerly placed in the genus Nectarinia, is a sunbird that is part of a group of very small Old World passerine birds. It is a common resident breeder in tropical southern Asia in India, Sri Lanka, Bangl...
Scarlet-chested Sunbird
The Scarlet-chested Sunbird (Nectarinia senegalensis), is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Co...
Green-headed Sunbird
The Green-headed Sunbird (Nectarinia verticalis), is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory ...
Nile Valley Sunbird
The Nile Valley Sunbird (Anthreptes metallicus), is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. It is found in Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. Photo Copyright and Credit
Collared Sunbird
The Collared Sunbird (Hedydipna collaris), formerly placed in the genus Nectarinia, is part of a group of very small Old World passerine birds. The Collared Sunbird is a common breeder across most of sub-Saharan Africa. It is mainly found in forests ne...
Black-throated Canary
The Black-throated Canary (Serinus atrogularis), or Southern Yellow-rumped Seedeater, is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family. It is found frequently in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibou...
European Serin
The European Serin (Serinus serinus) is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. It breeds across southern and central Europe and north Africa. Southern and Atlantic coast populations are largely resident, but the northern breeders migr...
Red-fronted Serin
The Red-fronted Serin (Serinus pusillus), is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. It prefers high mountain regions. This bird breeds in the Caucasus and the higher mountains of Turkey and Iran, with vagrants occasionally reaching th...
Black Siskin
The Black Siskin (Carduelis atrata), is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland and subtropical or tropical high-altitud...
Black-chinned Siskin
The Black-chinned Siskin (Carduelis barbata), is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family. It is found in Argentina, Chile and the Falkland Islands. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and heavily degraded former forest.
Red Siskin
The Red Siskin (Carduelis cucullata), is a member of the finch family and is a resident breeder in tropical South America in northern Colombia and northern Venezuela. The introduced population on Trinidad is believed to be extinct, with no sightings si...
Hooded Siskin
The Hooded Siskin (Carduelis magellanica), is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. It is native to South America. It inhabits woodland, savannas, scrubland, farmland, parks and gardens. It occurs from sea-level up to 5000 m. In east...
Pine Siskin
The Pine Siskin (Carduelis pinus), also commonly called "pine chirper", is a small finch that is found across Canada, Alaska and the western mountains and northern parts of the United States. Migration by this bird is highly variable, probably related ...
Eurasian Siskin
The Eurasian Siskin (Carduelis spinus), also known simply as Siskin in Europe, is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. This bird breeds across northern temperate Europe and into Russia. There is a separate population in eastern Asia...
Ultramarine Grosbeak
The Ultramarine Grosbeak (Cyanocompsa brissonii), is a species of cardinal in the Cardinalidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, ...
Malachite Sunbird
The Malachite Sunbird (Nectarinia famosa), is a small bird with two subspecies. The nominate N. f. famosa occurs mainly in South Africa, Lesotho and western Swaziland, although its range just extends into southern Namibia and Zimbabwe. N. f. cupreonite...
Bronze Sunbird
The Bronze Sunbird (Nectarinia kilimensis), is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Phot...
Streaked Spiderhunter
The Streaked Spiderhunter (Arachnothera magna), is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or ...
Little Spiderhunter
The Little Spiderhunter (Arachnothera longirostris) is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. ...
Fire-tailed Sunbird
The Fire-tailed Sunbird (Aethopyga ignicauda), is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Thailand. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist...
Crimson Sunbird
The Crimson Sunbird (Aethopyga siparaja), is a sunbird that is part of group of very small Old World passerine birds. Crimson Sunbird is a resident breeder in tropical southern Asia from India to Indonesia and the Philippines. Crimson Sunbirds are t...
Black-throated Sunbird
The Black-throated Sunbird (Aethopyga saturata), is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subt...
Fork-tailed Sunbird
The Fork-tailed Sunbird (Aethopyga christinae), is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. It is found in China, Hong Kong, Laos, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. Photo Copyright and Credit
Green-tailed Sunbird
The Green-tailed Sunbird (Aethopyga nipalensis), is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical ...
Handsome Sunbird
The Handsome Sunbird (Aethopyga bella), is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. It is endemic to the Philippines. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist mountain habitat. Ph...
Yellow-throated Honeyeater
The Yellow-throated Honeyeater (Lichenostomus flavicollis), also known as the Green Cherry-picker, Green Dick, or Green Linnet, is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family. It is endemic to Australia's island state of Tasmania. Its natural habitat ...
White-eared Honeyeater
The White-eared Honeyeater (Lichenostomus leucotis), is an Australian bird found in south east Australia, south west Australia an into south west of Queensland. It has a noticeable white splash behind the eyes, the 'ears', on a mainly black head, th...
Yellow Honeyeater
The Yellow Honeyeater (Lichenostomus flavus), is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.
Mangrove Honeyeater
The Mangrove Honeyeater (Lichenostomus fasciogularis), is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests. Photo Copyright and Credit
Singing Honeyeater
The Singing Honeyeater (Lichenostomus virescens), is found in Australia. Although it is common there, it is not very well known in other places. Singing Honeyeaters are commonly found in Western Australia, mainly past the Great Dividing Range and on We...
Yellow-faced Honeyeater
The Yellow-faced Honeyeater (Lichenostomus chrysops), is a bird that inhabits the east coast of Australia. It has a yellow stripe on its face between two black stripes, and a blue eye. Photo Copyright and Credit
Lewin's Honeyeater
Lewin's Honeyeater (Meliphaga lewinii), is a bird that inhabits the ranges along the east coast of Australia. It has a semicircular ear patch, pale yellow in colour. The name of this bird commemorates the Australian artist John Lewin. Photo Copyrigh...
Striped Honeyeater
The Striped Honeyeater, (Plectorhyncha lanceolata), is a honeyeater native to Australia. This species is found mainly in eastern Australia, predominantly inland. It lives in forests and woodlands as well as urban areas. The Striped Honeyeater is a m...
Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker
The Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker (Dicaeum cruentatum), is a species of bird in the Dicaeidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natu...
Tickell's Flowerpecker
The Tickell's Flowerpecker (Dicaeum erythrorhynchos), also sometimes known as the Pale-bellied Flowerpecker, is a tiny bird found in India. The species is quite common and is easily seen in urban gardens with fruit trees. The call of this flowerpecker ...
Orange-bellied Flowerpecker
The Orange-bellied Flowerpecker (Dicaeum trigonostigma), is a species of bird in the Dicaeidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Brunei, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. Its natural habitats are subtropica...
Brimstone Canary
The Brimstone Canary (Serinus sulphuratus), also known as the Bully Canary, is a small passerine bird in the finch family. It is a resident breeder in central and southern Africa. This species is found in in open, lightly wooded habitats, such as hills...
Yellow-fronted Canary
The Yellow-fronted Canary (Serinus mozambicus), is a small passerine bird in the finch family. It is known elsewhere as the Green Singing Finch. This bird is a resident breeder in Africa south of the Sahara Desert. Its habitat is open woodland and cult...
Kentucky Warbler
The Kentucky Warbler (Oporornis formosus), is a small species of New World warbler. The Kentucky Warbler is a very common bird with a large range, frequenting moist deciduous forests. It is migratory, spending summer in the central and eastern United S...
Swainson's Warbler
Swainson's Warbler (Limnothlypis swainsonii), is a small species of New World warbler. It is monotypic, the only member of the genus Limnothlypis. They are an uncommon species, mostly found in flooded swamplands and canebrakes of the south-eastern Unit...
Worm-eating Warbler
The Worm-eating Warbler (Helmitheros vermivorus), is a small New World warbler. It is the only species classified in the genus Helmitheros. It is found in dense forests in the eastern United States, usually on wooded slopes. It migrates to southern Mex...
Black-and-white Warbler
The Black-and-white Warbler (Mniotilta varia), is a New World Warbler found in northern and eastern North America from southern Canada to Florida. This species is migratory and winters in Florida, Central America and the West Indies down to Peru. This ...
Blackpoll Warbler
The Blackpoll Warbler (Dendroica striata), is a New World warbler found in northern North America. Its range extends from Alaska, through much of Canada, and into the Great Lakes region and New England. These birds migrate to northwestern South America...
Common Nighthawk
The Common Nighthawk (Chordeiles minor), is a species of nightjar found in open country across much of North America. These birds winter in South America. They migrate in flocks. The Common Nighthawk is a very rare vagrant to western Europe. The adu...
Lesser Nighthawk
The Lesser Nighthawk (Chordeiles acutipennis), is a nightjar found in open country from southwest United States through Central America to tropical South America. These birds are partial migrants. The Lesser Nighthawk retreats from the United States an...
Australian Owlet-Nightjar
The Australian Owlet-Nightjar (Aegotheles cristatus), is a nocturnal bird found in open woodland across Australia and in southern New Guinea. It is colloquially known as "Moth Owl". It is the most common of the owlet-nightjars, and the best known of th...
Egyptian Nightjar
The Egyptian Nightjar (Caprimulgus aegyptius), is a medium-small nightjar which occurs in south west Asia and north Africa, and winters in tropical Africa. It is a late migrant, seldom appearing before the end of April or beginning of May. It is a rar...
Semipalmated Plover
The Semipalmated Plover (Charadrius semipalmatus), is a small plover found in Canada and Alaska. They are migratory and winter in coastal areas ranging from the United States to Patagonia. They are extremely rare vagrants to western Europe, although th...
Egyptian Plover
The Egyptian Plover (Pluvianus aegyptius), is a wading bird and the only member of the genus Pluvianus. The Egyptian Plover is a localized resident in tropical sub-Saharan Africa. It breeds on sandbars in large rivers. Egyptian Plover is a striking ...
Black-fronted Dotterel
The Black-fronted Dotterel (Elseyornis melanops), is a small bird, widespread throughout most of Australia, to which it is native and New Zealand, where it self introduced in the 1950's. It is common in freshwater wetlands, around the edges of lakes an...
Kittlitz's Plover
The Kittlitz's Plover (Charadrius pecuarius), is a small plover found in much of sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, and the Nile delta. Some birds, especially in coastal areas, are resident, other populations are migratory or nomadic. Its breeding habitat...
St. Helena Plover
The St. Helena Plover (Charadrius sanctaehelenae), locally known as the Wirebird due to its thin legs, is a small wader endemic to the island of Saint Helena. Kittlitz's Plover is the St. Helena bird's closest relative. The bird was first mentioned in ...
Tui
The Tui (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae), is an endemic passerine bird of New Zealand. It is one of the largest members of the diverse honeyeater family. Tui are found through much of New Zealand, particularly the North Island, the west and south coasts...
New Zealand Bellbird
The New Zealand Bellbird (Anthornis melanura), is a passerine bird endemic to New Zealand. The Bellbird is found throughout both the main islands of New Zealand apart from the north of the North Island. Its population and distribution had been seriousl...
White-cheeked Honeyeater
The White-cheeked Honeyeater (Phylidonyris nigra), is endemic to eastern and south-western Australia, ranging from east of the Great Divide in Queensland through coastal New South Wales, becoming scattered south to Jervis Bay. It is also found in south...
New Holland Honeyeater
The New Holland Honeyeater (Phylidonyris novaehollandiae), is found throughout southern Australia, from about Brisbane, Queensland, to just north of Perth, Western Australia. It is inquisitive and approaches humans. It is common in heath, forests, wood...
Java Sparrow
The Java Sparrow (Padda oryzivora ), also known as Java Finch or Java Rice Bird is a small passerine bird. This estrildid finch is a resident breeding bird in Java, Bali and Bawean in Indonesia. It is a popular cage bird, and has been introduced in a l...
Scaly-breasted Munia
The Scaly-breasted Munia (Lonchura punctulata ), also known as Nutmeg Mannikin or Spice Finch is a small passerine bird. This estrildid finch is a resident breeding bird in tropical southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to Indonesia and the Phili...
Tricolored Munia
The Tricolored Munia (Lonchura malacca), is a estrildid finch, native to India and Sri Lanka. The species was also introduced to Australia, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Japan, Portugal, Puerto Rico and Venezuela. The Tricolored Munia is a small gregar...
Indian Silverbill
The Indian Silverbill (Lonchura malabarica), also known as White-throated Munia, is a small passerine bird formerly considered conspecific with the closely related African Silverbill, Lonchura cantans. This estrildid finch is a common resident breed...
Red Munia
The Red Munia (Amandava amandava), also known as Red Avadavat or Strawberry Finch, is a sparrow-sized bird of the Munia family. It is found in South Asia with an estimated global range of 6.2 million sq. miles. The species is native to Bangladesh, Camb...
Lavender Waxbill
The Lavender Waxbill (Estrilda caerulescens), is a common species of estrildid finch native to Central Africa and widely introduced in the USA. It has an estimated global range of 385,250 square miles. It is found in subtropical/tropical (lowland) d...
White-eared Bulbul
The White-eared Bulbul (Pycnonotus leucotis), is a member of the bulbul family. It is found in southern Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and north-western India, parts of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh. It is found in scrub forest and gardenland. Also found in...
Common Bulbul
The Common Bulbul (Pycnonotus barbatus), is a member of the bulbul family of passerine birds. It is a widespread resident breeder throughout Africa. This bird is found everywhere except dense forest and treeless expanses. The Common Bulbul is about ...
Himalayan Bulbul
The Himalayan Bulbul (Pycnonotus leucogenys), also known as the White-cheeked Bulbul, is a species of songbird in the Pycnonotidae family. It is found in Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Tajikistan. Slightly smaller than the Myna, it...
Black-fronted Bulbul
The Black-fronted Bulbul (Pycnonotus nigricans), is a species of songbird in the Pycnonotidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical...
Yellow-vented Bulbul
The Yellow-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus goiavier), is a member of the bulbul family of passerine birds. It is resident breeder in southeast Asia from southern Thailand and Cambodia south to Borneo and the Philippines. It is found in a wide variety of open...
Brown-breasted Bulbul
The Brown-breasted Bulbul (Pycnonotus xanthorrhous), is a species of songbird in the Pycnonotidae family. It is found in China, Hong Kong, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Photo Copyright and Credit
Red-whiskered Bulbul
The Red-whiskered Bulbul (Pycnonotus jocosus), is a member of the bulbul family. It is resident in tropical Asia from Pakistan and India through to southeast Asia and China. It has been introduced to New South Wales, Los Angeles, Mauritius and Florida....
Mountain Fulvetta
The Mountain Fulvetta (Alcippe peracensis), is a species of bird belonging to the Old World babbler family. It is found in Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam in subtropical or tropical moist mountain forests. The Black-browed Fulvetta ...
Whitethroat
The Whitethroat (Sylvia communis), is a common and widespread typical warbler which breeds throughout Europe and across much of temperate western Asia. This small passerine bird is strongly migratory, and winters in tropical Africa, Arabia and India. T...
Masked Yellowthroat
The Masked Yellowthroat (Geothlypis aequinoctialis), is a New World warbler. It has a number of separate resident breeding populations in Central and South America, some of which may be considered to form separate species. The breeding habitat is marsh...
Yellow-rumped Warbler
The Yellow-rumped Warbler (Dendroica coronata), is a species of bird that is periodically lumped together with the Audubon's Warbler(ssp group auduboni), the Northwest Mexican Black-fronted Warbler (ssp nigrifrons), and the Guatemalan Goldman's Warbler...
Black-throated Blue Warbler
The Black-throated Blue Warbler (Dendroica caerulescens), is a small songbird of the New World warbler family. Their breeding habitat is located in the interior of deciduous and mixed forests in eastern North America. These birds migrate to islands in ...
Magnolia Warbler
The Magnolia Warbler (Dendroica magnolia), is a New World warbler. It breeds across most of Canada as well as New England and the Great Lakes region of the U.S. It is migratory, wintering in Central America. This species is a very rare vagrant to weste...
Chestnut-sided Warbler
The Chestnut-sided Warbler (Dendroica pensylvanica), is a New World warbler. They breed in eastern North America and in southern Canada westwards to the Canadian Prairies. They also breed in the Great Lakes region and in the eastern USA. These birds ar...
Yellow Warbler
The Yellow Warbler (Dendroica petechia), is a New World warbler. It is the most widespread Dendroica species, breeding in almost the whole of North America and down to northern South America. It is found in the whole of temperate North America as far s...
Flame-throated Warbler
The Flame-throated Warbler (Parula gutturalis), is a small New World warbler. It is sometimes placed in the genus Vermivora. This species' range restricted to the mountains of Costa Rica and western Panama, where it occurs in the canopy, woodland edges...
Virginia's Warbler
Virginia's Warbler (Vermivora virginiae), is a species of New World warbler. The bird's common eastern range is central and southern mountains of Colorado, central Wyoming, and central and western New Mexico. Virginia's warbler is common in dense oak a...
Tennessee Warbler
The Tennessee Warbler (Vermivora peregrina), is a New World warbler. It breeds in northern North America across Canada and the northern USA. It is migratory, wintering in southern Central America. It is a very rare vagrant to western Europe. This bird ...
Golden-winged Warbler
The Golden-winged Warbler (Vermivora chrysoptera), is a species of New World Warbler that breeds in eastern North America in southeastern Canada and the eastern USA. Its range is extending northwards, but in the south it is being replaced by the very c...
Blue-winged Warbler
The Blue-winged Warbler (Vermivora pinus), is a fairly common New World Warbler. It breeds in eastern North America in southern Ontario and the eastern USA. Its range is extending northwards, where it is replacing the very closely related Golden-winged...
Crow Honeyeater
The Crow Honeyeater (Gymnomyza aubryana), is a very large honeyeater. This bird is endemic to New Caledonia and lives in humid forests on hills. It is relatively unnoticeable and lives in pairs or alone. It forages for invertebrates and nectar in the c...
Painted Honeyeater
The Painted Honeyeater (Grantiella picta), is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Grantiella. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat...
Brown Honeyeater
The Brown Honeyeater (Lichmera indistincta), is found mainly in Australia and New Guinea. In Australia it occurs in thickets throughout much of western, northern and eastern Australia, being absent only from the coldest or wettest areas. The Brown H...
White-naped Honeyeater
The White-naped Honeyeater (Melithreptus lunatus), is a passerine bird of the Honeyeater family Meliphagidae. It is native to eastern and south-western Australia. It dwells in dry sclerophyll eucalypt woodland. There are two recognized subspecies. A...
White-throated Honeyeater
The White-throated Honeyeater (Melithreptus albogularis), is a bird native to New Guinea, and northern and eastern Australia. It is 4.5 to 5.75 inches long, olive green above and white below, with a black head, a white patch over the eye and a white...
Black-chinned Honeyeater
The Black-chinned Honeyeater (Melithreptus gularis), is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical dry forests. Photo Copyright and Credit
White-plumed Honeyeater
The White-plumed Honeyeater (Lichenostomus penicillatus), is a bird native to Australia. It feeds on nectar and insects. Its nest is a small cup nest in a tree. It is yellow above and paler beneath, with a black and white line on the sides of its ne...
Fuscous Honeyeater
The Fuscous Honeyeater (Lichenostomus fuscus), is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. This is a medium to small olive-brown honeyeater with an unmarked...
Grey-headed Honeyeater
The Grey-headed Honeyeater (Lichenostomus keartlandi), is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family. It is endemic to Australia. It is found from central Australia east to western Australia. It prefers mulga scrubland, gorges and woodlands. The G...
Purple-gaped Honeyeater
The Purple-gaped Honeyeater (Lichenostomus cratitius), is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation. Photo Copyright and Credit
Red-checked Cordon-bleu
The Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu (Uraeginthus bengalus), is a small passerine bird that is resident in drier regions of tropical sub-Saharan Africa. It can also be found in the USA. This bird has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 4.7 million squar...
Japanese White-eye
The Japanese White-eye (Zosterops japonicus), is a small passerine bird in the white-eye family. Its native range includes much of east Asia, including Japan, China, Vietnam, and the Philippines. It has been intentionally introduced to other parts of t...
Red-billed Leiothrix
The Red-billed Leiothrix (Leiothrix lutea), is a member of the Old World babbler family. It is native to Southern Asia. It has also been introduced on the Hawaiian Islands and small populations of escapees have existed in Japan since the 1980s. Adul...
Greater Necklaced Laughing Thrush
The Greater Necklaced Laughing Thrush (Garrulax pectoralis), is a species of bird in the Timaliidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, the United States, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtro...
White-rumped Shama
The White-rumped Shama (Copsychus malabaricus), is a small passerine bird of the family Muscicapidae. They are native to South Asia, but were introduced to Kaua'i, Hawai'i, in early 1931 from Malaysia, and to O'ahu in 1940. They are common in valley fo...
Buff-bellied Pipit
The Buff-bellied Pipit (Anthus rubescens), is a small passerine bird. Two distinctive subspecies are recognized. The American Pipit, A. r. rubescens, breeds in northern North America, extending further south in mountainous areas. The Japanese Pipit, A....
Red-throated Pipit
The Red-throated Pipit (Anthus cervinus), is a small passerine bird which breeds in the far north of Europe and Asia, with a foothold in northern Alaska. It is a long-distance migrant moving in winter to Africa, south and east Asia and west coast USA. ...
Red-billed Tropicbird
The Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus), also known as the Boatswain Bird, is a species of tropicbird that occurs in the tropical Atlantic, eastern Pacific and Indian Oceans. It is one of three closely related seabirds of tropical waters. The...
Bachman's Warbler
Bachman's Warbler (Vermivora bachmanii), was a small passerine bird that inhabited the swamps and lowland forests of the southeast United States. This warbler was a migrant, wintering in Cuba. It is possibly extinct now, and was most likely never commo...
Sardinian Warbler
The Sardinian Warbler (Sylvia melanocephala), is a common and widespread typical warbler from the Mediterranean region. It breeds in the southernmost areas of Europe and just into Asia in Turkey and the eastern end of the Mediterranean. This small pass...
Barred Warbler
The Barred Warbler (Sylvia nisoria), is a common and widespread typical warbler which breeds throughout eastern Europe and across much of temperate Asia. Lately it has declined in some areas (including Germany), due to habitat loss because of intensifi...
Garden Warbler
The Garden Warbler (Sylvia borin), is a common and widespread typical warbler which breeds throughout northern and temperate Europe into western Asia. This small passerine bird is strongly migratory, and winters in central and southern Africa. This ...
Icterine Warbler
The Icterine Warbler (Hippolais icterina), is an Old World warbler in the tree warbler genus Hippolais . It breeds in mainland Europe except the southwest, where it is replaced by its western counterpart, Melodious Warbler. It is migratory, wintering i...
Melodious Warbler
The Melodious Warbler (Hippolais polyglotta), is an Old World warbler in the tree warbler genus Hippolais. It breeds in southwest Europe and northwest Africa. It is migratory, wintering in sub-Saharan Africa. This small passerine bird is found in open ...
Olivaceous Warbler
The Olivaceous Warbler (Hippolais pallida), is a warbler formerly considered a single species. It is now recognized as two subspecies, Western Olivaceous Warbler, Hippolais opaca, and Eastern Olivaceous Warbler, Hippolais pallida. Eastern Olivaceous Wa...
Japanese Bush Warbler
The Japanese Bush Warbler (Cettia diphone), is a passerine bird more often heard than seen. Its distinctive breeding call can be heard throughout much of Japan from the start of spring. Along with the return of the barn swallow the bush warbler's call ...
Cetti's Warbler
The Cetti's Warbler (Cettia cetti), is an Old World warbler which breeds in southern Europe, and east southern temperate Asia as far as Afghanistan. It also breeds in northwest Africa. It is the only bush warbler which occurs outside Asia. This small p...
Eastern Spinebill
The eastern Spinebill (Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris), is a species of honeyeater found in dry sclerophyll forest, scrub and heathland from the Cooktown area in North Queensland south through New South Wales east of the Great Dividing Range, through Vic...
Red Wattlebird
The Red Wattlebird (Anthochaera carunculata), also known as Barkingbird or Gillbird, is a honeyeater found in SE Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and southwest Western Australia in open forest, woodland, and near human habitation....
Moussier's Redstart
The Moussier's Redstart (Phoenicurus moussieri), is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family (Turdidae), but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher (Muscicapidae). It is an endemic reside...
White-winged Redstart
The White-winged Redstart (Phoenicurus erythrogastrus), is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is found in Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bhutan, China, Georgia, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, ...
Daurian Redstart
The Daurian Redstart (Phoenicurus auroreus), is a fairly common bird in East Asia, ranging eastward from Mongolia and the Himalayas. There are two subspecies, both of which are migratory. P. a. auroreus winters in Korea, Japan, southeast coastal China ...
Hodgson's Redstart
The Hodgson's Redstart (Phoenicurus hodgsoni), is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, and Nepal. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. Photo Copyright and Credit
Common Redstart
The Common Redstart or Redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus), is a summer visitor in Europe. Its winter quarters are in north Africa. The Redstart is common in Great Britain but in Ireland it is very local. It is a bird of the woodlands and open park land...
Blue-fronted Redstart
The Blue-fronted Redstart (Phoenicurus frontalis), is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. Photo Copyright...
Rufous-backed Redstart
The Rufous-backed Redstart (Phoenicurus erythronotus), also known as Eversmann's Redstart, is a passerine bird belonging to the genus Phoenicurus. It breeds in the mountains of Central Asia and southern Siberia from the Tien Shan range to the Tarbagata...
Western Crowned Warbler
The Western Crowned Warbler (Phylloscopus occipitalis), is a leaf warbler which breeds in Central Asia. It winters in the forests of the Western Ghats. The species has a distinctive crown stripe and two wing-bars. It often moves in small flocks or i...
Greenish Warbler
The Greenish Warbler (Phylloscopus trochiloides), is a widespread leaf-warbler throughout its breeding range in northeast Europe and northern Asia. This warbler is strongly migratory and winters in India. It breeds in lowland deciduous or mixed forest....
Arctic Warbler
The Arctic Warbler (Phylloscopus borealis), is a widespread leaf warbler in birch or mixed birch forest near water throughout its breeding range in Fennoscandia and northern Asia. It has established a foothold in North America, breeding in Alaska. This...
Hume's Leaf Warbler
Hume's Leaf Warbler (Phylloscopus humei), is a small leaf warbler which breeds in the mountains of central Asia from the Hindu Kush and Karakoram east and north to the Tien Shan in China and the Altay Mountains in Mongolia. This warbler is migratory an...
Yellow-browed Warbler
The Yellow-browed Warbler (Phylloscopus inornatus), also known as Inornate Warbler, is a leaf warbler which breeds in Asia east from the Urals to China. This warbler is strongly migratory and winters in southeast Asia. It also occurs in western Europe ...
Pallas's Leaf Warbler
The Pallas's Leaf Warbler (Phylloscopus proregulus), is a leaf warbler which breeds in southern Siberia, Mongolia and parts of Tibet and China. It is strongly migratory and winters in subtropical Asia. This bird also occurs as far as western Europe in ...
Sulphur-bellied Warbler
The Sulphur-bellied Warbler (Phylloscopus griseolus), is a species of leaf warbler found in the Palearctic region. The species was previously known by the name of Olivaceous Leaf-warbler. They are found on rocky hill and scrub forest habitats. The s...
Wood Warbler
The Wood Warbler (Phylloscopus sibilatrix), is a common and widespread leaf warbler which breeds throughout northern and temperate Europe, and just into the extreme west of Asia in the southern Ural Mountains. This warbler is strongly migratory and the...
Bonelli's Warbler
Bonelli's Warbler is separated into two subspecies. The Western (Phylloscopus bonelli), breeds in southwest Europe and north Africa. The Eastern (Phylloscopus orientalis), breeds in southeast Europe and Asia Minor. These small passerine birds are found...
Willow Warbler
The Willow Warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus), is a very common and widespread leaf warbler which is found throughout northern and temperate Europe and Asia. This is a bird of open woodlands with trees and ground cover for nesting, including birch and wi...
Red-faced Woodland-warbler
The Red-faced Woodland-warbler (Phylloscopus laetus), is a species of Old World warbler in the family Phylloscopus. Two subspecies are recognized, the nominate P. l. laetus ranges from Western Uganda and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (the Ru...
White-bellied Redstart
The White-bellied Redstart (Hodgsonius phaenicuroides), is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Hodgsonius. It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natura...
Plumbeous Water-redstart
The Plumbeous Water-redstart (Rhyacornis fuliginosa), is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is found in Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropica...
White-capped Water-redstart
The White-capped Water-redstart (Chaimarrornis leucocephalus), is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Chaimarrornis. It is found in Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Tajikistan...
Green Crombec
The Green Crombec (Sylvietta virens), is a species of African warbler, formerly placed in the family Sylviidae. It is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equa...
Little Wattlebird
The Little Wattlebird (Anthochaera chrysoptera), is a honeyeater. It is a passerine bird in the family Meliphagidae. It is found in coastal and sub-coastal south-eastern Australia. It was formerly lumped with the Western Wattlebird, which is restricted...
Noisy Friarbird
The Noisy Friarbird, (Philemon corniculatus), is a friarbird that inhabits much of New Guinea and eastern Australia. Its black head is completely bald. It is also sometimes known as "Leatherhead". Photo Copyright and Credit
Little Friarbird
The Little Friarbird, (Philemon citreogularis), is the smallest of the group of giant Australian honeyeaters called friarbirds. It occurs in open forest and woodland across eastern Australia and southern New Guinea. The Little Friarbird can be disti...
Taiwan Bulbul
The Taiwan Bulbul or Styan's Bulbul (Pycnonotus taivanus), is an endemic species of bulbul that lives in eastern and southern Taiwan. Though common in some areas, it has been listed as a species vulnerable to extinction. Its decline has been caused ...
Olive-winged Bulbul
The Olive-winged Bulbul (Pycnonotus plumosus), is a species of songbird in the Pycnonotidae family. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical m...
Straw-headed Bulbul
The Straw-headed Bulbul (Pycnonotus zeylanicus), is a species of songbird in the Pycnonotidae family. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Singapore. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropic...
Black-crested Bulbul
The Black-crested Bulbul (Pycnonotus melanicterus), is a member of the bulbul family of passerine birds. It is resident breeder in tropical southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to Indonesia. It is commonly found in forest and dense scrub. The...
Chestnut-crowned Babbler
The Chestnut-crowned Babbler (Pomatostomus ruficeps), is a species of bird in the Pomatostomidae family. It is endemic to Australia. Photo Copyright and Credit
Hall's Babbler
The Hall's Babbler (Pomatostomus halli), is a species of bird in the Pomatostomidae family. It is endemic to Australia. Photo Copyright and Credit
Yellow-eyed Babbler
The Yellow-eyed Babbler (Chrysomma sinense), is a bird species found in open grass and scrub in south Asia. Its common name refers to its traditional placement with the Old World babbler family Timaliidae. Photo Copyright and Credit
Tawny Grassbird
The Tawny Grassbird (Megalurus timoriensis), is a species of Old World warbler in the Sylviidae family. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and the Philippines. Photo Copyright and Credit
Striated Grassbird
The Striated Grassbird (Megalurus palustris), is a species of Old World warbler in the Sylviidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. ...
Black-thighed Grosbeak
The Black-thighed Grosbeak (Pheucticus tibialis), is a large seed-eating bird in the cardinal family, which is endemic to the mountains of Costa Rica and western Panama. This species breeds from about 3200 feet (Pacific slope) or 5000 feet (Caribbean s...
Black-and-Yellow Grosbeak
The Black-And-Yellow Grosbeak (Mycerobas icterioides), is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family. It is found in Afghanistan, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. Photo Copyright and Credit
Japanese Grosbeak
The Japanese Grosbeak (Eophona personata), is a finch native to East Asia. The bird serves as the inspiration for a video game from Treasure Co. Ltd, called Ikaruga, which takes the bird's black-and-white coloration as inspiration for its primary gamep...
Pine Grosbeak
The Pine Grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator), is a large finch and the only member of its genus, Pinicola. It is found in coniferous woods across Canada, Alaska and the western mountains of the United States, and in northern Fennoscandia. Its breeding habit...
Black Mamo
The Black Mamo (Drepanis funerea), was discovered in 1893 in the Pelekuna Valley, on the island of Molokai, where it was once found in the high forests of the peaks. There is fossil evidence of this species on the island of Maui. It was shot down many ...
Olive-backed Euphonia
The Olive-backed Euphonia (Euphonia gouldi), is a small passerine bird in the finch family. It is a resident breeder in the Caribbean lowlands and foothills from southern Mexico to western Panama. It is found in wet forests, tall second growth and adja...
Blue-hooded Euphonia
The Blue-hooded Euphonia (Euphonia elegantissima), also known as the Elegant Euphonia, is a species of bird in the Fringillidae family. It is found in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama. Its natural habi...
Violaceous Euphonia
The Violaceous Euphonia (Euphonia violacea), is a small passerine bird in the true finch family. It is a resident breeder from Trinidad, Tobago and eastern Venezuela south to Paraguay and northeastern Argentina. The bird's range in northern Brazil is t...
Yellow-crowned Euphonia
The Yellow-crowned Euphonia (Euphonia luteicapilla), is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family. It is found in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland fo...
Spectacled Finch
The Spectacled Finch (Callacanthis burtoni), is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family. It is found in Afghanistan, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. Photo Copyright and Credit
Scarlet Finch
The Scarlet Finch (Haematospiza sipahi), is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family. It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is temperate forests.
Common Rosefinch
The Common Rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus), is the most widespread and common rosefinch of Europe, where it has spread westward from Asia. Common Rosefinches breed from Sweden and Siberia to the Bering Sea, the Caucasus, northern Iran and Afghanistan...
Trumpeter Finch
The Trumpeter Finch (Rhodopechys githaginea), is a small passerine bird in the family of finches, Fringillidae. This bird breeds in the Canary Islands, across north Africa, and in the Middle East and into central Asia. There is a small European populat...
Dark-breasted Rosefinch
The Dark-breasted Rosefinch (Carpodacus nipalensis), is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family. It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are boreal forests and subtropical o...
Gray-crowned Rosy Finch
The Gray-crowned Rosy Finch (Leucosticte tephrocotis), is a species of finch found from Alaska to the northwestern United States. Their breeding habitat is rocky islands and barren areas on mountains. They build a cup nest in a sheltered location on th...
Plain Mountain Finch
The Plain Mountain Finch (Leucosticte nemoricola), is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family. It is found in Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, India, Kazakhstan, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. Its natural habitat is te...
Purple Finch
The Purple Finch (Carpodacus purpureus), is a member of the Rosefinch family. Their breeding habitat is coniferous and mixed forest in Canada and the northeastern United States, as well as various wooded areas along the U.S. Pacific coast. They nest on...
Cassin's Finch
The Cassin's Finch (Carpodacus cassinii), is a species of finch of the Rosefinch genus. Their breeding habitat is coniferous forest in mountains of western North America as far south as northern New Mexico and Arizona. They are also found in Southern C...
House Finch
The House Finch (Carpodacus mexicanus), is a species of finch of the Rosefinch genus. Originally only a resident of Mexico and the southwestern United States, they were introduced to eastern North America in the 1940s. These birds are mainly permanent ...
Lesser Antillean Bullfinch
The Lesser Antillean Bullfinch (Loxigilla noctis), is a species of bird in the Emberizidae family. It is found in Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint L...
Eurasian Bullfinch
The Eurasian Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula), also known as the Common Bullfinch, is a passerine bird species in the finch family Fringillidae. This bird breeds across Europe and temperate Asia. It is mainly resident, but many northern birds migrate furt...
Red-headed Bullfinch
The Red-headed Bullfinch (Pyrrhula erythrocephala), is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family. It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. Photo Copyright and Credit
Brown Bullfinch
The Brown Bullfinch (Pyrrhula nipalensis), is a species in the family Fringillidae. It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moi...
Hawfinch
The Hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes), is a passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. This bird breeds across Europe and temperate Asia. It is mainly resident in Europe, but many Asian birds migrate further south in the winter. It is a ra...
European Goldfinch
The European Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis), or just Goldfinch, is a passerine bird of the finch family. It breeds across Europe, North Africa, and western and central Asia, in open, partially wooded lowlands. It is resident in the milder west of its ...
Lawrence's Goldfinch
Lawrence's Goldfinch (Carduelis lawrencei), is a small songbird that ranges irregularly throughout southwestern North America. It is known for its wandering habits. It breeds from about Shasta County, California to northern Baja California, largely in ...
Lesser Goldfinch
The Lesser Goldfinch (Carduelis psaltria), or Dark-backed Goldfinch, is a songbird of the Americas. Its range is from the southwestern United States (along the coast, as far north as southern Washington) to Venezuela and Peru. It migrates from the nort...
Black-winged Snowfinch
The Black-winged Snowfinch (Montifringilla adamsi), also known as Adams's Snowfinch or Tibetan Snowfinch, is found in China, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. It is actually a sparrow rather than ...
White-winged Snowfinch
The White-winged Snowfinch (Montifringilla nivalis), sometimes known as just Snowfinch, is a small passerine bird that is actually a sparrow rather than a true finch. It is a resident breeding species on bare mountains (typically above 4750 feet) acros...
Rock Sparrow
The Rock Sparrow (Petronia petronia), is a small passerine bird that breeds on barren rocky hills from the Iberian peninsula and western north Africa across southern Europe and through central Asia. It is largely resident in the west of its range, but ...
Yellow-throated Sparrow
The Yellow-throated Sparrow (Petronia xanthocollis), also known as the Chestnut-shouldered Petronia, is a species of sparrow-like bird found in South Asia. It is found in forest and open scrub habitats. The species breeds in tree hollows often making u...
Tree Sparrow
The Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus), breeds over much of Europe and Siberia. Allied forms of this species also occur in other parts of Asia. It has been introduced to Australia and the United States as well. In the United States it is known as the Euras...
Swahili Sparrow
The Swahili Sparrow (Passer suahelicus), is a species of sparrow that is found in the savanna of southern Kenya and Tanzania. It was once considered a race of Gray-headed Sparrow. It does in fact hybridize with the Gray-headed Sparrow in southern Tanza...
Gray-headed Sparrow
The Gray-headed Sparrow (Passer griseus), is a breeding bird found in much of tropical Africa. It occurs in a wide range of open habitats, including open woodlands and human habitation. It is mainly resident in its range, but there is some seasonal mi...
Cape Sparrow
The Cape Sparrow (Passer melanurus), also called the Mossie, is a species of sparrow that lives in dry areas of southern Africa. Photo Copyright and Credit
Cinnamon Sparrow
The Cinnamon Sparrow (Passer rutilans), also known as the Russet Sparrow, is a species of sparrow found throughout Asia in woodlands and towns. Photo Copyright and Credit
Sindh Sparrow
The Sindh Sparrow (Passer pyrrhonotus), is a sparrow found in Iran, Pakistan and the Kathiawar peninsula. Its habitat is usually tall grass and scrub. Photo Copyright and Credit
Spanish Sparrow
The Spanish Sparrow (Passer hispaniolensis), also called the Willow Sparrow, is a species of sparrow closely related to the house sparrow. It has a complex distribution in the Mediterranean region in Cape Verde, the Canary Islands, Madeira, northern Af...
House Sparrow
The House Sparrow (Passer domesticus), is a member of the Old World sparrow family Passeridae. This bird is loosely considered a relative of the Weaver Finch family. It occurs naturally in most of Europe and much of Asia. It has also followed humans al...
Red-headed Bunting
The Red-headed Bunting (Emberiza bruniceps), is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae. It breeds in central Asia. It is migratory, wintering in India. Its status in western Europe, where it is a potential vagrant, is confused by escapes, e...
Yellow-throated Bunting
The Yellow-throated Bunting (Emberiza elegans), is a species of passerine bird in the Emberizidae family of buntings. It is found in China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Myanmar, Russia, and Taiwan. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and sub...
Rustic Bunting
The Rustic Bunting (Emberiza rustica), is a passerine bird in the Emberizidae family of buntings. It breeds across northern Europe and Asia. It is migratory, wintering in south east Asia, Japan, and eastern China. It is a rare wanderer to western Europ...
Little Bunting
The Little Bunting (Emberiza pusilla), is a bird in the bunting family Emberizidae. It is found across the taiga of the far northeast of Europe and northern Asia. It is migratory, wintering in the subtropics in northern India, southern China and the no...
Chestnut-breasted Bunting
The Chestnut-breasted Bunting (Emberiza stewarti), is a species of bird in the bunting family Emberizidae. It is found in Afghanistan, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Its natural habitats ...
Ortolan Bunting
The Ortolan or Ortolan Bunting (Emberiza hortulana), is a bird of the bunting family Emberizidae. The bird's common name is French, from the Latin hortulanus, the gardener bird, (from hortus, a garden). A native of most European countries and western A...
Rock Bunting
The Rock Bunting (Emberiza cia), is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae. It breeds in northwest Africa, southern Europe east to central Asia, and the Himalayas. It is partially migratory, with northern populations wintering further south...
Cirl Bunting
The Cirl Bunting (Emberiza cirlus), is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae. It breeds across southern Europe, on the Mediterranean islands and in north Africa. It is a resident of these warmer areas, and does not migrate in winter. It is...
Pine Bunting
The Pine Bunting (Emberiza leucocephalos), is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae. It breeds across much of temperate Asia, migrating south to central Asia, north India and southern China in winter. It is common in all sorts of open land...
Plumbeous Vireo
The Plumbeous Vireo (Vireo plumbeus), is a small North American songbird, ranging from far southeastern Montana and west South Dakota south to the Pacific coast of Mexico. It is a migratory species and winters in the southern part of its range. Its hab...
Philadelphia Vireo
The Philadelphia Vireo (Vireo philadelphicus), is a small songbird found on edges of deciduous and mixed woods across Canada. They migrate to Mexico and Central America. Although they are named Philadelphia Vireo, this bird does not occur in Philadelph...
Yellow-throated Vireo
The Yellow-throated Vireo (Vireo flavifrons), is a small American songbird. Their breeding habitat is open deciduous woods in southern Canada and the eastern United States. They migrate to deep southern United States, Mexico and Central America. Adu...
Slaty Vireo
The Slaty Vireo (Vireo brevipennis), is a vireo endemic to shrubby highlands of southern Mexico. It differs from all other vireos in its predominantly slate gray plumage and long tail. These distinctions once afforded it its own genus, Neochloe. It ...
Black-whiskered Vireo
The Black-whiskered Vireo (Vireo altiloquus), is a small passerine bird found in southern Florida, USA, and the West Indies as far south as the offshore islands of Venezuela. This bird is a partial migrant. Northern birds winter from the Greater Antill...
Bananaquit
The Bananaquit (Coereba flaveola), is a passerine bird. It is the only bird in the genus Coereba. It is resident in tropical South America north to southern Mexico and the Caribbean. It is a rare visitor to Florida, USA. The Bananaquit is a very sma...
Red-throated Habia
The Red-throated Habia or Red-throated Ant-tanager (Habia fuscicauda), is a passerine resident breeder found on the Caribbean slopes from southeastern Mexico to eastern Panama. It occurs in thick undergrowth at the edge of forest, second growth or aban...
Purple Honeycreeper
The Purple Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes caeruleus), is found in the tropical New World from Colombia and Venezuela south to Brazil, and on Trinidad. A few, possibly introduced birds have been recorded on Tobago. The species is a bird of northern South Ameri...
Red-legged Honeycreeper
The Red-legged Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes cyaneus), is a small bird in the tanager family. It is found in the tropical New World from southern Mexico south to Peru, Bolivia and central Brazil, and on Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago. This is a species of forest ...
Green Honeycreeper
The Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza), is a small bird in the tanager family. It is found in the tropical New World from southern Mexico south to Brazil and on Trinidad. It is monotypic, being the only member of the genus Chlorophanes. The Gre...
Double-collared Seedeater
The Double-collared Seedeater (Sporophila caerulescens), is a species of bird in the Emberizidae family. These birds include sparrows, New World sparrows, seedeaters, and their allies. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, and Urug...
Warbler Finch
The Warbler Finch (Certhidea olivacea), is a species of bird in the Emberizidae family. It is the only member of the genus Certhidea. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moi...
Diademed Tanager
The Diademed Tanager (Stephanophorus diadematus), is the only species of bird in the genus Stephanophorus. It is purple-blue with a white crown characterised by a small red patch, and it is found mostly in open areas in southern Brazil to northeast Arg...
Black-goggled Tanager
The Black-goggled Tanager (Trichothraupis melanops), is the only species of bird in the genus Trichothraupis. Its distinctive black forehead and ocular area give it a "goggled" effect. It is found in tropical forests in eastern Peru to Bolivia, and in ...
White-lined Tanager
The White-lined Tanager (Tachyphonus rufus), is a resident breeder from Costa Rica south to northern Argentina. It occurs in semi-open areas including gardens. In Trinidad and Tobago they are commonly called "ËœParson' (for the male), and "ËœSinging An...
Ruby-crowned Tanager
The Ruby-crowned Tanager (Tachyphonus coronatus), is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist mount...
Flame-crested Tanager
The Flame-crested Tanager (Tachyphonus cristatus), is a species of bird from the Thraupidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropica...
Slaty Finch
The Slaty Finch (Haplospiza rustica), is a bird from the family Thraupidae. It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropi...
Whip-poor-will
The Whip-poor-will or whippoorwill (Caprimulgus vociferus), is a member of the nightjar bird family. It is found in North and Central America. The Whip-poor-will's breeding habitat is deciduous or mixed woods across southeastern Canada, eastern and sou...
Chuck-will's-widow
The Chuck-will's-widow (Caprimulgus Caroline sis), is a nocturnal bird of the nightjar family Caprimulgidae. It is found in the southeastern United States near swamps, rocky uplands, and pine woods. It migrates to the West Indies, Central America, and ...
Common Poorwill
The Common Poor will (Phalaenoptilus nuttallii), is a nocturnal bird of the nightjar bird family Caprimulgidae. It is found from British Columbia and southeastern Alberta, through the western United States to northern Mexico. The bird's habitat is dry,...
Common Paraque
The Common Pauraque (Nyctidromus albicollis), or just Pauraque, is a nightjar species, the only bird in the genus Nyctidromus. It breeds in the warmer parts of the New World from southern Texas to northern Argentina. Most populations are resident, alth...
Great-tailed Grackle
The Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus), is a large icterid blackbird. It is sometimes referred to simply as "Ëœblackbird', and occasionally "Ëœcrow' or "Ëœjackdaw', though it is not a member of the Corvidae family of birds. It is often called "...
Greater Antillean Grackle
The Greater Antillean Grackle (Quiscalus niger), is a species of grackle found throughout the Greater Antilles and the Cayman Islands as well as smaller, nearby islands. There are seven subspecies, each restricted to one island or island group. They al...
Carib Grackle
Lesser Antilles and northern South America east of the Andes, from Colombia east to Venezuela and northeastern Brazil. There are eight races, of which the most widespread is the nominate Q. l. lugubris of Trinidad and the South American mainland. This ...
Black-tailed Godwit
The Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa), is a large shorebird that migrates in flocks to western Europe, Africa, south Asia and Australia. Interestingly, although this species occurs in Ireland and Great Britain all year round, they are not the same bi...
Lesser Kestrel
The Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni), is a small falcon. This species breeds from the Mediterranean across southern central Asia to China and Bangladesh. It is a summer migrant, wintering in Africa and Pakistan. It is rare north of its breeding range, a...
Nankeen Kestrel
The Australian or Nankeen Kestrel (Falco cenchroides), is a very common and easily-seen raptor and is found in Australia, New Guinea, and nearby islands, and is an irregular visitor to New Zealand. It occupies any type of land that is not too densely v...
Mauritius Kestrel
The Mauritius Kestrel (Falco punctatus), is a bird of prey from the family Falconidae endemic to Mauritius. It is the most distinct of the Indian Ocean kestrels. It colonized its island home to evolve into a distinct species probably during the Late Pl...
Pennant-winged Nightjar
The Pennant-winged Nightjar (Macrodipteryx vexillaria), is an intra African migrant that occurs from Nigeria to northern South Africa. Their preferred habitat south of the equator is plateau woodlands, especially Miombo, where they are partial to stony...
Puerto Rican Nightjar
The Puerto Rican Nightjar (Caprimulgus noctitherus), is a very rare bird found in the coastal dry scrub forests in localized areas of southwestern Puerto Rico. It was first described from bones found in cave deposits and a single specimen taken in 1888...
White-headed Shrike-babbler
The White-headed Shrike-babbler (Pteruthius flaviscapis), is a species of bird in the Timaliidae family. It is found in Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is s...
Ashy-headed Greenlet
The Ashy-headed Greenlet (Hylophilus pectoralis), is a species of bird in the Vireonidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tr...
African Darter
The African Darter (Anhinga rufa), sometimes called the snakebird, is a water bird of tropical sub-Saharan Africa. It is a cormorant-like fish-eating species that occurs in both saline and fresh water. It is a member of the darter family of birds, Anhi...
Black Stilt
The Black Stilt (Himantopus novaezelandiae), is a large wading bird in the avocet and stilt family Recurvirostridae. During the breeding season it is restricted to the upper Waitaki Valley, South Island, New Zealand. Small numbers over winter in the No...
Wattled Jacana
The Wattled Jacana (Jacana jacana), is a wading bird which is a resident breeder from western Panama and Trinidad south through most of South America east of the Andes. Their preferred habitat is floating vegetation in shallow lakes. They are found wor...
Bronze-winged Jacana
The Bronze-winged Jacana (Metopidius indicus), is the only Jacana in the genus Metopidius. It is a member of the Charadriidae family. They are found worldwide within the tropical zone. Their preferred habitat is floating vegetation in shallow lakes. It...
Comb-crested Jacana
The Comb-crested Jacana (Irediparra gallinacea), also known as the Lotus Bird or Lilytrotter, is the only species of Jacana in the genus Irediparra. It occurs in southeastern Borneo, the southern Philippines, Sulawesi, Moluccas, Lesser Sunda Islands, N...
African Jacana
The African Jacana (Actophilornis africana), is a bird in a group of waders in the family Charadriidae. Their preferred habitat is floating vegetation in shallow lakes. They are found throughout the world in tropical zones. These are conspicuous and...
Sora
The Sora (Porzana carolina), is a small water bird of the Rallidae bird family. It is sometimes referred to as the Sora Rail or Sora Crake. Its breeding habitat is marshes throughout much of North America. They migrate to the southern United States and...
Clapper Rail
The Clapper Rail (Rallus longirostris), is a member of the rail family, Rallidae. It is found along the east coast of North America, the coasts and some islands of the Caribbean, and across northern South America to eastern Brazil. On the west coast, i...
Limpkin
The Limpkin (Aramus guarauna), commonly known as Carrao, Courlan, or Crying Bird, is a bird that is found in marshes with some trees or scrub in the Caribbean, South America and southern Florida, USA. The Limpkin is 26inches long with a 40 inch wing...
Bobwhite Quail
The Bobwhite Quail, Northern Bobwhite, or Virginia Quail (Colinus virginianus), is a ground-dwelling bird native to North America. The Bobwhite Quail is a member of the group of species known as New World quail. This quail primarily inhabits areas o...
Chaco Chachalaca
The Chaco Chachalaca (Ortalis canicollis), is a member of an ancient group of birds of the Cracidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical o...
Rufous-vented Chachalaca
The Rufous-vented Chachalaca (Ortalis ruficauda), is a member of an ancient group of birds of the Cracidae family. It breeds in northeast Colombia and northern Venezuela where this bird is known as Guacharaca or Guacharo and in Tobago where it is known...
Gray-headed Chachalaca
The Gray-headed Chachalaca (Ortalis cinereiceps), is a member of an ancient group of birds of the Cracidae family. It breeds in lowlands from eastern Honduras to northwestern Colombia. It occurs a altitudes up to 3600 feet. It is an arboreal species, f...
Madagascar Crested Ibis
The Madagascar Crested Ibis (Lophotibis cristata), also known as the White-winged Ibis or Crested Wood Ibis, is endemic to the woodlands and forests of Madagascar. Due to habitat loss, limited range and over hunting in some areas, this bird is evaluate...
Scarlet Ibis
The Scarlet Ibis (Eudocimus ruber), occurs in tropical South America and also Trinidad and Tobago. Although there are specimens in North America, they are not native and have been either introduced or escaped birds. Adults are 22 to 24 inches long a...
American White Ibis
The American White Ibis (Eudocimus albus), is a species of ibis in the Threskiornithidae family. It occurs from the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States south through most of the New World tropics. Its habitat is marshy wetlands and pools near the c...
Black-faced Ibis
The Black-faced Ibis (Theristicus melanopis), is a species of ibis in the Threskiornithidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitats are temperate grassland and pastureland. Photo Copyright and Credit
Buff-necked Ibis
The Buff-necked Ibis (Theristicus caudatus), also known as White-throated Ibis, is found throughout the woodlands, marshes, savanna, lakes and open forests of eastern regions of South America, from Colombia to Uruguay and northern Argentina. The Buf...
Hadada Ibis
The Hadada Ibis (Bostrychia hagedash), is a species of ibis that is found throughout open grasslands, savanna and rainforests of Sudan, Ethiopia, Senegal, Uganda, Tanzania, Gabon, Zaire, Cameroon, Gambia, Kenya, Somalia and South Africa. It is also com...
Crested Ibis
The Crested Ibis (Nipponia nippon), also known as the Japanese Crested Ibis or Toki, was formerly found throughout Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan and Russia. It is now disappeared from most of its former range. The remaining world population can be found ...
Southern Bald Ibis
The Southern Bald Ibis (Geronticus calvus), is a large bird found in open grassland or semi-desert in the mountains of southern Africa. This large, glossy, blue-black ibis has an unfeathered red face and head, and a long, down-curved red bill. It br...
Black Ibis
The Black Ibis (Pseudibis papillosa), is a species of ibis found in parts of south Asia. It is found in dry land and is not as aquatic as many other ibis species. It is also commonly found at lakes, marshes, riverbeds and irrigated farmland. Sexes a...
Australian White Ibis
The Australian White Ibis (Threskiornis molucca), also known as the "Sheep Bird", is a wading bird of the ibis family Threskiornithidae. They are common throughout eastern and southwestern Australia. This ibis occurs in marshy wetlands, often near open...
Black-headed Ibis
The Black-headed Ibis (Threskiornis melanocephalus), is a species of wading bird in the Threskiornithidae family. It breeds in South to Southeast Asia from Pakistan to India, Sri Lanka east up to Japan. It occurs in marshy wetlands inland and along the...
Madagascar Sacred Ibis
The Madagascar Sacred Ibis (Threskiornis bernieri), is a species of bird from the Threskiornithidae family. It is found in Madagascar and Seychelles. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, estuarine waters, intertidal flats,...
Sacred Ibis
The Sacred Ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus), is a species of wading bird of the ibis family, Threskiornithidae. The Sacred Ibis breeds in sub-Saharan Africa, southeast Iraq and formerly Egypt. In Egypt it was often mummified as a symbol of the god Thoth...
Ruddy Ground Dove
The Ruddy Ground Dove (Columbina talpacoti), is a small New World tropical dove. It is a resident breeder from Mexico south to Peru, Brazil and Paraguay, and northern Argentina, and on Trinidad and Tobago. Individual birds can sometimes be seen in sout...
Common Ground Dove
The Common Ground Dove (Columbina passerina), is a small New World tropical dove. It is a resident breeder from Bermuda, through the south most USA, Mexico and the Caribbean, to South America, and is found as far south as northern Brazil. Common G...
Caribbean Dove
The Caribbean Dove (Leptotila jamaicensis), is a species of bird in the Columbidae family, which include doves and pigeons. It is found in Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, and Turks and Caicos Islands. Its natural habit...
Zenaida Dove
The Zenaida Dove (Zenaida aurita), is a member of the bird family Columbidae, which includes doves and pigeons. The Zenaida Dove breeds throughout the West Indies and the tip of the Yucatan Peninsula. It was reported by Audubon to breed in the Florida ...
Galapagos Dove
The Galapagos Dove (Zenaida galapagoensis), is a species of bird in the Columbidae family. It is endemic to the Galapagos off Ecuador. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrub land. Photo By ...
Eared Dove
The Eared Dove (Zenaida auriculata), is a New World tropical dove. It is a resident breeder throughout South America from Colombia to southern Argentina and Chile, and on the offshore islands from the Grenadines southwards. It may be a relatively recen...
Socorro Dove
The Socorro Dove (Zenaida graysoni), is a dove that is extinct in the wild. It was once endemic to Socorro Island in the Revillagigedo Islands. The last sighting in its natural habitat was in 1972. There are now only about 200 and not nearly as many pu...
Peaceful Dove
The Peaceful Dove (Geopelia placida), is a pigeon native to Australia and New Guinea. They can be found all over Australia except Tasmania, southern Victoria and south western Australia (from the Pilbara, Western Australia to the Nullarbor, South Austr...
Common Bronzewing
The Common Bronzewing (Phaps chalcoptera), is a species of pigeon in the bird family Columbidae. It is native to Australia and is one of the most common pigeons in the country. It is capable of living in almost any habitat, with the possible exception ...
Brush Bronze Wing
The Brush Bronze wing (Phaps elegans), is a species of bird in the Columbidae family. It is endemic to Australia. Its habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. Photo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bronze_wing444.jpg
Yellow Bittern
The Yellow Bittern (Ixobrychus sinensis), is a small bittern. It is from the Old World, breeding in tropical Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to Japan and Indonesia. It is mainly resident, but some northern birds migrate short distances. Their breedi...
Little Bittern
The Little Bittern (Ixobrychus minutus), is a wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae. It is native to the Old World, breeding in Africa, central and southern Europe, western and southern Asia, and Australasia. Birds from temperate regions in Europe a...
Bare-throated Tiger Heron
The Bare-throated Tiger Heron (Tigrisoma mexicanum), is a wading bird of the heron family Ardeidae. It is found from Mexico to northwestern Colombia. This large species is found in more open habitats than other Tigrisoma herons, such as river and lake ...
Boat-billed Heron
The Boat-billed Heron (Cochlearius cochlearius), informally known as the "Ëœboatbill', is an atypical member of the heron family. It lives in mangrove swamps from Mexico south to Peru and Brazil. The Boat-billed Heron is about 21.25 inches long. Th...
Australasian Grebe
The Australasian Grebe (Tachybaptus novaehollandiae), is a tiny water bird common on freshwater lakes and rivers in greater Australia, New Zealand and on nearby Pacific islands. At 9.75 to 10.75 inches in length, it is one of the smallest members ...
Little Grebe
The Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis), formerly known as the "Ëœdabchick', is the smallest European member of the grebe family and is commonly found in open bodies of water across most of its range. This bird breeds in small colonies in heavily veg...
Pied-billed Grebe
The Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps), is a species of the grebe family of water birds. It is the sole extant member of the genus Podilymbus, since the Atitlán Grebe has become extinct. The Pied-billed Grebe breeds across Canada, parts of the ...
Black-necked Grebe
The Black-necked Grebe (Podiceps nigricollis), is a member of the grebe family of water birds. It occurs on every continent except Australia and Antarctica. This species breeds in vegetated areas of freshwater lakes across Europe, Asia, Africa, norther...
Slavonian Grebe
The Slavonian Grebe (Podiceps auritus), is a member of the grebe family of water birds. It is known as the Horned Grebe in North America. The Slavonian Grebe breeds in vegetated areas of freshwater lakes across Europe and Asia. It also breeds in remote...
Great Crested Grebe
The Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus), is a member of the grebe family of water birds. It breeds in vegetated areas of freshwater lakes. The subspecies P. c. cristatus is found across Europe and Asia. It is resident in the milder west of its ran...
Namaqua Dove
The Namaqua Dove (Oena capensis), is a pigeon which is a widespread resident breeding bird in Africa south of the Sahara Desert and Madagascar. Its range also extends into the Arabian peninsula and southern Israel and Jordan. It is the only species in ...
Blue-headed Wood Dove
The Blue-headed Wood Dove or just Blue-headed Dove (Turtur brehmeri), is distributed to primary rainforests of equatorial mid-western Africa, in Sierra Leone, Angola, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Central African ...
Emerald Spotted Wood Dove
The Emerald Spotted Wood Dove (Turtur chalcospilos), is a species of pigeon which is widespread and often abundant resident breeding bird in eastern Africa from Ethiopia to South Africa. It also occurs in a belt from northern Botswana west to northern...
Pallas's Sandgrouse
The Pallas's Sandgrouse (Syrrhaptes paradoxus), is a medium large bird in the sandgrouse family. This species breeds across middle latitudes of central Asia on dry steppes and similar habitats. It is a partial migrant, especially from the northern part...
Painted Sandgrouse
The Painted Sandgrouse (Pterocles indicus), is a medium large bird in the sandgrouse family found in South Asia. Photo By S. Shankar
Black-bellied Sandgrouse
The Black-bellied Sandgrouse (Pterocles orientalis), is a member of the Pteroclididae family of birds. The nominate race breeds in Iberia, northwest Africa, the Canary Islands, Turkey Cyprus and Israel. The eastern form of this species is found in Kaza...
Spotted Sandgrouse
The Spotted Sandgrouse (Pterocles senegallus), is a species of bird in the Pteroclididae family of birds. It is found in Afghanistan, Algeria, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, ...
Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse
The Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse (Pterocles exustus), is found in sparse, bushy, arid land throughout central and northern Africa, and southern Asia. Though they prefer hot, arid climates, they rely highly on water as well. The diet of the Chestnut...
Crested Myna
The Crested Myna (Acridotheres cristatellus), is native to southeastern China and Indochina. It was introduced into British Columbia around the Vancouver region in or near 1890. It was initially successful, reaching a population in the thousands, howev...
Squacco Heron
The Squacco Heron (Ardeola ralloides), is of Old World origins, breeding in southern Europe and the Middle East. It is a migrant, wintering in Africa. It is rare north of its breeding range. Their breeding habitat is marshy wetlands in warm climates. ...
Indian Pond Heron
The Indian Pond Heron (Ardeola grayii), is of Old World origins, breeding in southern Iran and east to India, Burma and Sri Lanka. The Indian Pond Heron's breeding habitat is marshy wetlands in warm countries. This is a very common species in India, w...
Agami Heron
The Agami Heron (Agamia agami), is a resident breeding bird from Central America south to Peru and Brazil. The Agami Heron's habitat is forest swamps and similar wooded wetlands. It is sometimes known as the Chestnut-bellied Heron, and is the only memb...
Lava Heron
The Lava Heron (Butorides sundevalli), is a species of heron endemic to the Galapagos Islands. These highly territorial birds are found in intertidal zones and mangrove groves on all of the Galapagos islands. The adult is slate-gray, which helps it...
Striated Heron
The Striated Heron (Butorides striata), also known as Mangrove Heron or Little Heron, is a small heron. Their breeding habitat is small wetlands in the Old World tropics from west Africa to Japan and Australia, and in South America. They are mostly non...
Nankeen Night Heron
The Nankeen Night Heron (Nycticorax caledonicus), also commonly known as the Rufous Night Heron, and in Melanesia as Melabaob, is found throughout much of Australia except the arid inland, Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Melanesia. ...
Black-crowned Night Heron
The Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax), is a heron that is found in fresh and salt-water wetlands throughout the world. The subspecies N. n. hoacti, breeds in North and South America from Canada to as far south as Patagonia. The nominate...
Australasian Bittern
The Australasian Bittern (Botaurus poiciloptilus), also known as the Brown Bittern, is found in south-western and south-eastern Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, New Caledonia and Ouvea. Numbers have declined this past century in Australia and New Zeal...
Eurasian Bittern (Great Bittern)
The Eurasian Bittern or Great Bittern (Botaurus stellaris), is a wading bird of the heron family Ardeidae. It is declining in much of its temperate European and Asian range. It is resident in the milder west and south, but migrates south from areas whe...
Black Bittern
The Black Bittern (Ixobrychus flavicollis), is a bird of Old World origins. It breeds in tropical Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to China, Indonesia and Australia. It is mainly resident, but some northern birds may migrate short distances. The...
Yellow-breasted Chat
The Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens), is a large songbird of the warbler family and the only member of its genus Icteria. Found throughout North America, from southern-plains Canada to central Mexico during the summer, these birds mainly migrate t...
Red-faced Warbler
The Red-faced Warbler (Cardellina rubrifrons), is a species of New World warbler. These birds are locally common in mountain forests of conifers, spruce, and oak 6,500 to 9,000 feet above sea level. In summer they frequent northern Mexico and range up ...
Canada Warbler
The Canada Warbler (Wilsonia canadensis), is a small songbird of the New World warbler family. Their breeding habitats are mature hardwood forests, which are usually near water. These forests may be located across Canada, east of the Rockies, and in th...
Ovenbird
The Ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapillus), is small songbird of the warbler family. Their breeding habitats are mature deciduous and mixed forests, especially sites with less undergrowth, which can be found across Canada and the eastern United States. Ovenbi...
Prothonotary Warbler
The Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea), is a small song bird of the warbler family. It's the only member of the genus Protonotaria. It breeds in hardwood swamps in southern Canada and the eastern United States, nesting in a cavity, sometimes us...
Northern Parula
The Northern Parula (Parula americana), is a small warbler. It breeds in eastern North America from southern Canada to Florida. This species is migratory, wintering in southern Florida, Central America and the West Indies. The breeding habitat is humid...
Seven-colored Tanager
The Seven-colored Tanager (Tangara fastuosa), is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is endemic to Brazil. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. Photo Credit: Marcos Massar...
California Gull
The California Gull (Larus californicus), is a medium-sized gull. There are two subspecies recognized, the nominate species from the Great Basin to central Montana and Wyoming, and the slightly larger, paler L. c. albertaensis with a more northerly dis...
Greater Roadrunner
The Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus), is a large, long-legged bird in the cuckoo family, Cuculidae. It is one of the two roadrunner species in the genus Geococcyx. The roadrunner is also known as the Chaparral Cock. The breeding habitat...
Brown Pelican
The Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis), lives strictly on coasts from Washington and Virginia south to northern Chile and the mouth of the Amazon River. Some immature birds may stray to inland freshwater lakes. After nesting, North American birds m...
Brown Thrasher
The Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum), is a species of thrasher and is part of the family Mimidae. Its breeding range includes the United States and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains. It is a partial migrant, with northern birds wintering in the southe...
Hood Mockingbird
The Hood Mockingbird (Nesomimus macdonaldi), is a species of bird in the Mimidae family. It is endemic to Espanola Island in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical dry sh...
Chalk-browed Mockingbird
The Chalk-browed Mockingbird (Mimus saturninus ), is a bird species of the family Mimidae. It is found in most of Brazil, and parts of Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, and Suriname. It has an extremely large range (around 4,400,000 square miles)...
Tropical Mockingbird
The Tropical Mockingbird (Mimus gilvus), is a breeding bird found in southern Mexico south to northern Brazil, and in the Lesser Antilles and other Caribbean islands. The birds in Panama and Trinidad may have been introduced. This mockingbird is common...
Chilean Mockingbird
The Chilean Mockingbird (Mimus thenca), is a species of bird of the family Mimidae. It is endemic to Chile. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrub-land and heavily degraded former forest. Photo Copyright and Credit
Blue-and-white Mockingbird
The Blue-and-white Mockingbird (Melanotis hypoleucus), is a species of bird in the Mimidae family. It is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist mountain vegetation and heavily degra...
Northern Mockingbird
The Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos), is the only mockingbird commonly found in North America. The Northern Mockingbird breeds in southeastern Canada, the United States, northern Mexico, the Bahamas, Cayman Islands and the Greater Antilles. It ...
Willow Grouse (Willow Ptarmigan)
The Willow Grouse (Europe) or Willow Ptarmigan (North America)(Lagopus lagopus), is a medium-sized game bird of the grouse family. It breeds in birch and other forests and tundra across northern Eurasia, and in Alaska and northern Canada. The Willow Pt...
Semipalmated Sandpiper
The Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris or Erolia pusilla), is a very small shorebird. They are long distance migrants and winter in coastal South America with some going to the southern United States. They migrate in flocks which can number in the hundre...
Ruff
The Ruff (Philomachus pugnax), is a medium-sized wading bird. It is usually considered the only member of its genus Philomachus, but more recent research indicates that the Broad-billed and Sharp-tailed Sandpiper may belong there too. Their breeding ha...
Ashy Drongo
The Ashy Drongo (Dicrurus leucophaeus), is a small Asian bird that is restricted to the Old World tropics. The Ashy Drongo breeds in the hills of tropical southern Asia from eastern Afghanistan east to southern China and Indonesia. Many populations are...
Bronzed Drongo
The Bronzed Drongo (Dicrurus aeneus), is a small Asian bird. They are restricted to the Old World tropics. It is a resident breeder in tropical southern Asia from India east to southern China and Indonesia. It is usually found in moist broadleaved fore...
Spangled Drongo
The Spangled Drongo (Dicrurus bracteatus), is a bird of the family Dicruridae. This species is found in Australia. "ËœDrongo' is Australian slang for "Ëœidiot', possibly referring to the bird's uninhibited and sometimes comical behavior as it swoops an...
Blue Chaffinch
The Blue Chaffinch (Fringilla teydea), is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. This bird lives mainly in mountain Canary Island Pine (Pinus canariensis) forests on Tenerife and Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands. However it can also...
Chaffinch
The Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs), is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. It is also commonly called a Spink. This bird is widespread and very familiar throughout Europe. It is the most common finch in Western Europe. Its range ext...
Golden-headed Cisticola
The Golden-headed Cisticola (Cisticola exilis), also known as the Bright-headed Cisticola, is a species of warbler found from India to Australia. It is very similar in appearance to the Zitting Cisticola, however, in the breeding season males acquire a...
Pinyon Jay
The Pinyon Jay (Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus), occurs in western North America from central Oregon to northern Baja California and east as far as western Oklahoma though it wanders further afield out of the breeding season. It lives in foothills where the...
Rufous Treepie
The Rufous Treepie (Dendrocitta vagabunda), is an Asian member of the crow family Corvidae. The range of this species is quite large, covering all of India up to the Himalayas, and southeasterly in a broad band into Burma (Myanmar), Laos, and Thailand ...
Red-billed Chough
The Red-billed Chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax), or just Chough (pronounced chuff), is a member of the crow family Corvidae. It breeds in Great Britain, the Isle of Man, Ireland, southern Europe and the Mediterranean basin, the Alps, and in mountainous...
Bokmakierie
The Bokmakierie (Telophorus zeylonus), is a bushshrike and a passerine bird closely related to the true shrikes in the family Laniidae. This species is endemic to southern Africa, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, with an isolated population in the m...
Brubru
The Brubru (Nilau afers), is a member of the bushshrike family found in much of sub-Saharan Africa apart from the western rainforests and southern South Africa. It is the only member of the genus Nilaus. Its habitat is dry open woodland, but varies geo...
Eskimo Curlew (Northern Curlew)
The Eskimo Curlew or Northern Curlew (Numenius borealis), is a medium-sized New World shorebird and is thought to be extinct. At one time, the Eskimo Curlew may have been one of the most numerous shorebirds in North America with a population in the mil...
New Zealand Quail
The New Zealand Quail (Coturnix novaezelandiae), also known as the Koreke, has been extinct since 1875. It was first described by scientist Sir Joseph Banks when he visited New Zealand on James Cook's first voyage. The first specimen was collected in 1...
Pink-headed Duck
The Pink-headed Duck (Netta caryophyllacea), was a large diving duck. It formerly occurred in eastern India, Bangladesh and northern Myanmar. Its breeding habitat was lowland marshes and pools in tall-grass jungle. The last confirmed sighting of this d...
Auckland Islands Merganser
The Auckland Islands Merganser (Mergus australis), was a typical merganser which is now extinct. This bird was first collected when a French expedition visited the Auckland Islands in 1840. Subsequent fossil discoveries suggest that this merganser was ...
Labrador Duck
The Labrador Duck (Camptorhynchus labradorius), was an eider-like sea duck that was never known to be common, and is believed to be the first duck to go extinct in North America after 1500. The last Labrador Duck is believed to have been seen in Elmira...
Twite
The Twite (Carduelis flavirostris), is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. It is a partially resident breeder in northern Europe and across central Asia. Many of the birds do migrate further south, or to the coastal regions. Treele...
Linnet
The Linnet (Carduelis cannabina), is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. The bird is found throughout Europe, western Asia and North Africa. It is mostly resident, but many eastern and northern birds migrate further south in the br...
Wild Canary
The Wild Canary (Serinus canaria), sometimes called the Island Canary, Atlantic Canary, or just Canary, is a small bird in the finch family. It is native to the Azores, the Canary Islands, and Madeira. This bird was named after the Canary Islands, not ...
Common Redpoll
The Common Redpoll (Carduelis flammea), is a species in the finch family. It breeds throughout northern North America and Eurasia. Subspecies of the Common Redpoll include the Arctic Redpoll and Mealy Redpoll. These are common too in the Arctic, Icelan...
Brambling
The Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla), is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. It is common and widespread throughout the forests of northern Europe and Asia. It migrates to southern Europe, North Africa, Northern Pakistan, north...
Bermuda Petrel
The Bermuda Petrel (Pterodroma cahow), is a gadfly petrel. It is commonly known as the Cahow in Bermuda. It is the national bird of Bermuda as well. It is a symbol of hope for natural conservation. It is a slow breeder, returning to its former nesting ...
Manx Shearwater
The Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), is a medium-sized seabird in the family of seabirds Procellariidae. Despite the scientific name, this species is completely unrelated to the puffins, which are auks, the only resemblance being that they are both...
Bulwer's Petrel
The Bulwer's Petrel (Bulweria bulwerii), is a small seabird in the family Procellariidae. It is one of two species in the genus Bulweria. This bird is named after the Scottish naturalist James Bulwer. This seabird breeds in the north Atlantic in coloni...
Westland Petrel
The Westland Petrel (Procellaria westlandica), is a rare seabird that is found in New Zealand's forests. It is one of the largest petrels that nest in burrows. It has a highly restricted breeding range, currently confined to a small area of the west co...
White-chinned Petrel
The White-chinned Petrel (Procellaria aequinoctialis), is a large seabird in the family Procellariidae. It ranges around the Southern Ocean as far north as South Australia, Peru and Namibia, and breeds colonially on scattered islands; South Georgia, Pr...
Grey Petrel
The Grey Petrel (Procellaria cinerea), also known as the Puffin Gris or Pardela Gris, is a species of seabird in the Procellariidae family. It is found in Antarctica, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile,Falkland Islands, French Southern Territories, Mo...
Broad-billed Prion
The Broad-billed Prion (Pachyptila vittata), is a small seabird found throughout oceans and coastal areas in the Southern Hemisphere. Its colonies can be found on Gough Island, Marion Island, and on the sub-Antarctic Antipodes Islands off the coast of ...
Fairy Prion
The Fairy Prion (Pachyptila turtur), is a small seabird found throughout the oceans and coastal areas in the Southern Hemisphere. Their colonies can be found on Chatham, Snares and Antipodes Islands of New Zealand, Bass Strait Islands of Australia, Fal...
Blue petrel
The Blue petrel (Halobaena caerulea), is a small seabird in the family Procellariidae. They can be found on Marion Island and Prince Edward Island, the Crozet Islands, the Kerguelen archipelago, Macquarie Island and South Georgia. At sea they range wid...
Cape Petrel
The Cape Petrel (Daption capense), is a common seabird of the Southern Ocean from the family Procellariidae. It is the only member of the genus Daption. It is also sometimes called the Cape Fulmar, Cape Pigeon, or Pintado Petrel. During the summer Cape...
Blue-naped Mousebird
The Blue-naped Mousebird (Urocolius macrourus), is a bird found in the drier regions of eastern Africa. It is sometimes called the "Blue-naped Coly". The Blue-naped Mousebird is about 13-14 inches in length. It has a crested head, turquoise-blue na...
Speckled Mousebird
The Speckled Mousebird (Colius striatus), is the largest species of mousebird, as well as the most common. It is distributed from Cameroon east to Eritrea and Ethiopia, south through eastern Africa to southern South Africa. Most habitats are suitable f...
Golden-Headed Quetzal
The Golden-Headed Quetzal (Pharomachrus auriceps), is a colorful bird native to South America. They occur in Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru. They live in moist, hilly, wooded areas and typically nest in hollow trees. Both m...
Barred Buttonquail (Common Bustard-Quail)
The Barred Buttonquail or Common Bustard-Quail (Turnix suscitator), is one of a small family of birds which resemble, but are unrelated to, true quails. This species is resident from India across tropical Asia to south China, Indonesia and the Philippi...
Small Buttonquail
The Small Buttonquail (Turnix sylvatica), also known as the Andalusian Hemipode is a buttonquail and one of a small family of birds which resemble, but are unrelated to, true quails. The species is resident from Southern Spain and Africa through India ...
Chestnut-collared Longspur
The Chestnut-collared Longspur, Calcarius ornatus, is a small ground-feeding bird from the bird family Emberizidae. This bird breeds in short and mixed grass prairies in central Canada and the north central United States. In winter, they migrate in flo...
Harris's Sparrow
The Harris's Sparrow, Zonotrichia querula, is a large sparrow found in the northern part of central Canada. They migrate to the Great Plains states of the U.S., from South Dakota to Upper Texas in winter. The common name of this species commemorates...
Golden-crowned Sparrow
The Golden-crowned Sparrow, Zonotrichia atricapilla, is a medium-sized sparrow. The breeding habitat is across the northern part of western Canada and the U.S. state of Alaska. In the winter the Golden-crowned Sparrow migrates to Vancouver Island in Ca...
Sierra Madre Sparrow
The Sierra Madre Sparrow, Xenospiza baileyi, is a highly endangered, mysterious American sparrow endemic to volcanic bunchgrass areas near Mexico City. It faces imminent extinction due to habitat loss. The Sierra Madre Sparrow is the sole species in...
Black-throated Sparrow
The Black-throated Sparrow, Amphispiza bilineata, is a small sparrow of the bird family Emberizidae. It is found in arid desert scrub in the southwestern United States. It is sometimes referred to as the Desert Sparrow because of its preferred habitat....
Brewer's Sparrow
The Brewer's Sparrow, Spizella breweri, is a small, slim sparrow. There are two distinct populations of this bird. Spizella breweri breweri is found in brushy areas in southern parts of western Canada and in the western United States. Spizella breweri ...
Canyon Towhee (Brown Towhee)
The Canyon Towhee or Brown Towhee, Pipilo fuscus, is a bird of the family Emberizidae. It is native to low-lying areas from Arizona, southern Colorado, and western Texas south to Oaxaca, Mexico. The Canyon Towhee's natural habitat is brush or chaparral...
Green-tailed Towhee
The Green-tailed Towhee, Pipilo chlorurus, is the smallest towhee, but is still one of the larger members of the bird family Emberizidae. Its breeding range covers most of the interior Western United States. Its wintering range extends throughout Mexic...
Olive Sparrow
The Olive Sparrow, Arremonops rufivirgatus, is a species of American sparrow in the family Emberizidae. This bird is also known as the Green Finch and the Texas Sparrow. Its range includes Mexico and southern Texas. It is a non-migratory bird and is re...
Saffron Finch
The Saffron Finch, Sicalis flaveola, is a finch from South America and is common in both open and semi-open areas in lowlands outside the Amazon Basin. They are widely distributed throughout Columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and Argentina. ...
Corn Bunting
The Corn Bunting, Miliaria calandra, is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae. It breeds across southern and central Europe, north Africa and Asia across to Mongolia. It is mainly resident, but some birds from colder regions of central Eur...
Reed Bunting
The Reed Bunting, Emberiza schoeniclus, is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae. It breeds across Europe and much of temperate and northern Asia. Most birds migrate south in winter, but those in the milder south and west of its range are ...
Black-faced Bunting
The Black-faced Bunting, Emberiza spodocephala, is a bird in the bunting family Emberizidae. It breeds in southern Siberia across to northern China and northern Japan. It is migratory, wintering in northeast India, southern China and northern southeast...
Black-headed Bunting
The Black-headed Bunting, Emberiza melanocephala, is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae. It breeds in southeast Europe east to Iran. It is migratory, wintering in India. It is a rare but regular wanderer to western Europe. This bird ...
Yellow-breasted Bunting
The Yellow-breasted Bunting, Emberiza aureola, is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae. It breeds in northeast Europe and across northern Asia. It is migratory, wintering in southeast Asia, India, and southern China. It is a rare but regu...
House Bunting
The House Bunting, Emberiza striolata, is a bird in the bunting family Emberizidae. It is a resident breeder of dry country from northern Africa through southwest Asia and into India. It breeds around human habitation. This bird is 5 1/2 inches long...
Cretzschmar's Bunting
The Cretzschmar's Bunting, Emberiza caesia, is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae. It breeds in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus and the coastal countries along the eastern Mediterranean. It migrates and winters in the Sudan. It breeds on sunny o...
Ortolan
The Ortolan, or Ortolan Bunting, Emberiza hortulana, is a bird of the bunting family Emberizidae. This bird is native to most European countries and western Asia and migrates in autumn to tropical Africa. It returns to its summer habitat in late April ...
Yellowhammer
The Yellowhammer, Emberiza citrinella, is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae. It breeds across Europe and much of Asia. It is also common in New Zealand where it was introduced in 1862. Most European and Asian birds are resident, but so...
Dickcissel
The Dickcissel, Spiza americana, is a small seed-eating bird in the family Cardinalidae. Their breeding habitat is fields in mid-western North America. These birds migrate in large flocks to southern Mexico, Central America, and northern South America....
Painted Bunting
The Painted Bunting, Passerina ciris, belongs to the Cardinal family Cardinalidae. This bird is resident to North America. Its breeding range includes Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia and Louisiana. Populations are declining on the East Coas...
Varied Bunting
The Varied Bunting, Passerina versicolor, belongs to the bird family Cardinalidae. It is mostly found in Central America, with a northern breeding range that extends into the furthest south parts of the U.S. states of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.
Lazuli Bunting
The Lazuli Bunting, Passerina amoena, is a North American songbird named for the gemstone lapis lazuli. They breed mostly west of the 100th meridian from southern Canada to northern Texas, central New Mexico and Arizona, and southern California. On the...
Blue Grosbeak
The Blue Grosbeak, Passerina caerulea, is a member of the bird family Cardinalidae. It is a medium-sized seed eating bird related to New World buntings or New World grosbeaks. It is a migratory bird, which nests across most of the southern half of the ...
Black-headed Grosbeak
The Black-headed Grosbeak, Pheucticus melanocephalus, is a member of the bird family Cardinalidae. It is a migratory bird which nests from southwestern British Columbia, through the western half the United States, into central Mexico. It prefers decidu...
Pyrrhuloxia
The Pyrrhuloxia, Cardinalis sinuatus, is a medium-sized bird in the same genus as the Northern Cardinal and the Vermilion Cardinal. It is primarily a resident of Mexico, but can be found in the southern parts of the U.S. states of Arizona, New Mexico, ...
Crimson-collared Grosbeak
The Crimson-collared Grosbeak, Rhodothraupis celaeno, is a medium-sized bird in the same family as the Northern Cardinal, Cardinalidae. It is primarily found in northeastern Mexico from central Nuevo León and central Tamaulipas south to northern Ver...
Grayish Saltator
The Grayish Saltator, Saltator coerulescens, is a bird of the cardinal family. This species occurs in Mexico, Central America and South America, south to Peru and northern Argentina in open woodland, plains and scrub. There are 13 subspecies, several...
Montezuma Oropendola
The Montezuma Oropendola, Psarocolius montezuma, is a New World tropical bird of the family Icteridae. It is a resident breeder in the Caribbean coastal lowlands from southeastern Mexico to central Panama, but is absent from El Salvador and southern Gu...
Scott's Oriole
The Scott's Oriole, Icterus parisorum, is a medium-sized bird of the family Icteridae. It is found in the Southwestern United States and south to Baja California and central Mexico. This bird was named by Darius N. Couch in honor of General Winfield...
Orchard Oriole
The Orchard Oriole, Icterus spurius, is a small blackbird. Their breeding habitat is semi-open areas with deciduous trees across eastern North America south to central Mexico, often near water. These birds migrate in flocks to winter from central Mexic...
Yellow Oriole
The Yellow Oriole, Icterus nigrogularis, is a passerine bird in the family Icteridae. It breeds in northern South America in Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, the Guianas and northern Brazil. The Yellow Oriole is a bird of open woodland, scrub and gardens...
Giant Cowbird
The Giant Cowbird, Molothrus oryzivorus, is a large perching bird of the family Icteridae. It breeds from southern Mexico south to northern Argentina, and on Trinidad and Tobago. It is found in open woodland and cultivated areas with large trees, but i...
Brown-headed Cowbird
The Brown-headed Cowbird, Molothrus ater, is a small bird of the Icteridae family. They are residents to open and semi-open country across most of North America. They are permanent residents in the southern parts of their range. Northern birds migrate ...
Common Grackle
The Common Grackle, Quiscalus quiscula, is a large blackbird. Their breeding habitat is open and semi-open areas across North America east of the Rocky Mountains. It is a permanent resident in much of its range. Northern birds migrate in flocks to the ...
Boat-tailed Grackle
The Boat-tailed Grackle, Quiscalus major, is a large blackbird. It is a permanent resident on the coasts of the southeastern United States. It is found in coastal saltwater marshes and on inland waters in Florida. The Boat-tailed Grackle is 16.5 inc...
Brewer's Blackbird
The Brewer's Blackbird, Euphagus cyanocephalus, is a medium-sized blackbird. Their breeding habitat is open and semi-open areas, often near water, across central and western North America. These birds are permanent residents in the west of their region...
Eastern Meadowlark
The Eastern Meadowlark, Sturnella magna, is a medium-sized blackbird similar in appearance to the Western Meadowlark. Their breeding habitat is grasslands and prairie, also pastures and hay fields, across eastern North America to South America. The r...
White-browed Blackbird
The White-browed Blackbird, Sturnella superciliaris, is a passerine bird in the bird family Icteridae. It breeds in northeastern Brazil and in southern South America from southwestern Brazil through Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina. Southern populations...
Yellow-shouldered Blackbird
The Yellow-shouldered Blackbird, Agelaius xanthomus, is a diurnal blackbird prevalent to the archipelago of Puerto Rico and one of the eleven species belonging to the Agelaius genus of the Icteridae family. As a result of forest loss due to sugar cane ...
Red-winged Blackbird
The Red-winged Blackbird, Agelaius phoeniceus, is a passerine bird of the family Icteridae found in most of North and much of Central America. It breeds from Alaska and Newfoundland south to Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico and Guatemala, with isola...
Yellow-billed Cardinal
The Yellow-billed Cardinal, Paroaria capitata, is a bird found in Brazil, Paraguay and northern Argentina. It breeds in moist shrubland.
Great Tinamou
The Great Tinamou is a species of bird native to Central and South America, one of about 47 species of tinamou. It is 17 inches long, 38.8 ounces in weight and approximately the size and shape of a small turkey. It is gray-brown in color and well-camou...
White-throated Tinamou
The White-throated Tinamou, Tinamus guttatus, is a species of bird native to the Amazon rainforest of Brazil. They inhabit forests as well as bush. These birds measure between 12.5 to 14.2 inches in length. They eat seeds, fruits and invertebrates. ...
Tinamou
The tinamous are one of the most ancient groups of bird, members of a South American bird family of about 47 species in 9 genera. Although they look similar to other ground-dwelling birds like quail and grouse, they have no close relatives and are clas...
Rhea
The Rhea is a large flightless bird native to South America. American Rheas live in grassland, savanna, scrub forest, chaparral, and even desert, but prefer areas with at least some tall vegetation. Darwin's Rhea lives in areas of open scrub in the g...
Kiwi
A kiwi is any of the species of small flightless birds endemic to New Zealand of the genus Apteryx (the only genus in family Apterygidae). There are currently six recognized species of kiwi: Great Spotted Kiwi, Apteryx haastii, distributed through t...
Cassowaries
Cassowaries, Casuarius, are very large flightless birds native to the tropical forests of New Guinea and northeastern Australia. Cassowaries are part of the ratite group of birds that include the emu, rhea, ostrich, moa, and kiwi. There are three speci...
Umbrella Cockatoo (White Cockatoo)
The Umbrella Cockatoo or White Cockatoo, Cacatua alba, is a medium-sized cockatoo prevalent to the islands of Halmahera, Bacan, Ternate, Tidore, Kasiruta and Mandiole in North Maluku, Indonesia. At first sight it appears to be a white parrot with br...
Moluccan Cockatoo
The Moluccan Cockatoo, Cacatua moluccensis, also known as Salmon-crested Cockatoo is a cockatoo endemic to south Moluccas in eastern Indonesia. They inhabit lowland forests below 3280 feet. The diet consists mainly of seeds, nuts and fruit, as well as ...
Blue-eyed Cockatoo
The Blue-eyed Cockatoo, Cacatua ophthalmica, is a large white parrot prevalent to lowland forests and hills of New Britain in Papua New Guinea. It is also the only cockatoo found in the Bismarck Archipelago. This 20 inch long bird has an erectile ...
Citron-crested Cockatoo
The Citron-crested Cockatoo, Cacatua sulphurea citrinocristata, is a medium-sized cockatoo prevalent to Sumba and Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia. The Citron-crested Cockatoo is classified as an endangered species. Its numbers in the wild have declin...
Yellow-crested Cockatoo
The Yellow-crested Cockatoo, Cacatua sulphurea, is a medium-sized cockatoo inhabitant to wooded and cultivated areas of Timor-Leste and Indonesia's islands of Bali, Timor, Sulawesi and Lesser Sunda Islands. There is also a feral population of these b...
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
The Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Cacatua galerita, is one of the larger and more widespread of Australia's cockatoos. These birds range throughout the various climates in Australia, from Far North Queensland beyond the Iron Range Mountains, as well as par...
Emu
The Emu, Dromaius novaehollandiae, is the largest bird native to Australia and the only existing member of the genus Dromaius. It is also the second largest bird in the world by height, after the ostrich. The Emu is common over most of mainland Austral...
Ostrich
The Ostrich, Struthio camelus, is a flightless bird native to Africa. It is the only living species of its family, Struthionidae. Ostriches occur naturally on the savannas and Sahel of Africa, both north and south of the equatorial forest zone. Other m...
Goffin's Cockatoo (Tanimbar Cockatoo)
The Goffin's Cockatoo or Tanimbar Cockatoo, Cacatua goffini, is a species of cockatoo native to Indonesia. Wild populations of this bird are threatened due to habitat loss and illegal trapping. Wild trade of goffins is illegal, however those born and b...
Little Corella
The Little Corella, Cacatua sanguinea, is a widely common, white cockatoo native to Australia. It is sometimes called the Bare-eyed Cockatoo. It is so common that it has become something of a pest throughout much of Australia, and can be destructive to...
Long-billed Corella
The Long-billed Corella, Cacatua tenuirostris, is a cockatoo native to Australia. The species has a small distribution, and usually inhabits woodlands, river banks and farming land. The Corella may also inhabit urban areas. The Corella is mostly whi...
Major Mitchell's Cockatoo
Major Mitchell's Cockatoo, Cacatua leadbeateri, also known as Leadbeater's Cockatoo or Pink Cockatoo, is the only species of its own subgenus Lophocroa. It is a medium-sized cockatoo restricted to arid and semi-arid inland areas of Australia. This bird...
Galah
The Galah, Eolophus roseicapilla, is one of the most common bird of the cockatoo family. It occupies open country in almost all of mainland Australia. Galahs are absent only from the driest areas and the far north of Cape York Peninsula. They appear ...
Gang-gang Cockatoo
The Gang-gang Cockatoo, Callocephalon fimbriatum, is found in the cooler and wetter forests and woodlands of Australia, particularly alpine bush land. It ranges throughout south-eastern Australia and Tasmania. Mostly mid gray in colour, the male has...
Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
The Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus funereus, is a large cockatoo native to the south-east of Australia. It is found from Eyre Peninsula to south and central eastern Queensland. In some areas they have adapted to humans and can be often s...
Red-tailed Black Cockatoo
The Red-tailed Black Cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus banksii, is a large cockatoo native to Australia, being more common in arid areas. Usually found in eucalypt woodlands, or along water courses, these seed-eating cockatoos are commonly seen in large flocks...
Palm Cockatoo
The Palm Cockatoo, Probosciger aterrimus, is a large black parrot of the cockatoo family. It is found in northern Queensland and New Guinea. It can also be found in Cape York, although it is threatened there due to habitat loss. They are in high demand...
Nene-nui
The Nene-nui (Great Nene or Woodwalking), Branta hylobadistes, is an extinct species of goose that once inhabited Maui and possibly Kauai, Oahu and perhaps Molokai in the Hawaiian Islands. It is known from a large number of sub fossil bones (several th...
Elegant Crested Tinamou
The Elegant Crested Tinamou, Eudromia elegans, is a medium-sized, up to 16.2 inches long, partridge-like bird found in the grassland and savanna of Chile and Argentina. This bird is dark or yellowish brown with a short tail and wings. There are tw...
Red-winged Tinamou
The Red-winged Tinamou, Rhynchotus rufescens, is a medium-sized ground-living bird from southern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia and northern Argentina. It lives in a variety of habitats depending on altitude. In lowland areas it favors marshy grass...
Little Tinamou
The Little Tinamou, Crypturellus soui, is a member of the most ancient groups of bird families, the tinamous. Its habitat is humid forests and other damp overgrowth from southern Mexico down through Central and South America as far as southern Brazil. ...
Ducorps' Cockatoo
The Ducorps' Cockatoo (Cacatua ducorpsii) is a species of cockatoo endemic to the Solomon Islands. This small white cockatoo is larger than the Goffin's Cockatoo yet smaller than the Umbrella Cockatoo. Notable features of this cockatoo include a blue e...
Short-billed Black-Cockatoo
The Short-billed Black Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus latirostris is a cockatoo endemic to south-western Australia.
Plumed Whistling Duck
The Plumed Whistling Duck, Dendrocygna eytoni, is a whistling duck which breeds in northern and eastern Australia.
Black-necked Screamer
The Black-necked Screamer (Chauna chavaria) is a species of bird in the small family Anhimidae, the screamers. It is a resident breeder in northern Colombia and northern Venezuela.
Crested Screamer
The Crested Screamer (Chauna torquata), more commonly called the Southern Screamer, is a species of the bird family of birds Anhimidae. Found around Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina. Diet consists of plants stems and leaves.
Andean Tinamou
The Andean Tinamou, Nothoprocta pentlandii is a member of the most ancient groups of bird families, the tinamous. It is 25.5-30cm in size. This species is found in western South America. It inhabits grassy slopes, scrub, meadows. The binomial com...
Variegated Tinamou
The Variegated Tinamou, Crypturellus variegatus is a species of bird native to South America.
Yellow-legged Tinamou
The Yellow-legged Tinamou, Crypturellus noctivagus is a species of bird native to Brazil.
Southern Crowned Pigeon
The Southern Crowned Pigeon, Goura scheepmakeri, is a large pigeon confined to Southern lowland forests of New Guinea. It has a bluish-gray plumage with elaborate blue lacy crests, red iris and very deep maroon breast. There are two subspecies of th...
Pheasant Pigeon
The Pheasant Pigeon, Otidiphaps nobilis, is a pigeon found in the primary rainforests of New Guinea. It ranges primarily over hilly and lower mountain areas, but can also be found in lowland areas. It is a highly secretive species, feeding on seeds ...
Choiseul Crested Pigeon
The Choiseul Crested Pigeon, Microgoura meeki) is an allegedly extinct pigeon which was only known on the Solomon island of Choiseul in the Pacific. This species was one of the most remarkable pigeon species in the world. It had a length of approxim...
Luzon Bleeding-heart
The Luzon Bleeding-heart, Gallicolumba luzonica, is one of a number of species of ground dove in the genus Gallicolumba that are called "bleeding-hearts". They get this name from a splash of vivid red color at the center of their white breasts. The Luz...
Nicobar Pigeon
The Nicobar Pigeon, Caloenas nicobarica, is a pigeon which is a resident breeding bird on small uninhabited islands in Indonesia and the Nicobar Islands. It is the only member of the genus Caloenas. This is a large, heavy pigeon at 15.75 inches in l...
White-tipped Dove
The White-tipped Dove, Leptotila verreauxi, is a large New World tropical dove. It is a resident breeder from the southernmost Texas in the USA through Mexico and Central America south to western Peru and central Argentina. It also breeds on the offsho...
Inca Dove
The Inca Dove, Columbina inca, is a small New World dove. It ranges from the southwestern United States and Mexico through Central America to Costa Rica. Despite being named after the Inca Empire, this species does not occur in any of the lands that co...
New Zealand Pigeon (Kererû)
The kererû or New Zealand Pigeon, Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae, is a bird endemic to New Zealand.The kererû belongs to the family Columbidae, and the subfamily Treroninae, which is found throughout Southeast Asia, Malaya, Africa and New Zealand. The...
Pied Imperial Pigeon
The Pied Imperial Pigeon, Ducula bicolor, is a widespread resident breeding bird on mainly small islands adjoining the Indian Ocean from the Nicobars in an arc to New Guinea. It can also be found in northern Australia in coastal areas from the Kimberli...
Marquesan Imperial Pigeon
The Marquesan Imperial Pigeon, Ducula galeata, is a pigeon which is endemic to the Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. It is also named the Nukuhiva Imperial Pigeon. It is only found in some valleys in the western part of the island. ...
Green Imperial Pigeon
The Green Imperial Pigeon, Ducula aenea, is a widespread resident breeding bird in tropical southern Asia from India east to Indonesia. There are a number of sub-species of this bird including the Chestnut-naped Imperial Pigeon. The Imperial Pigeon is ...
Wompoo Fruit Dove
The Wompoo Fruit Dove, Ptilinopus magnificus, is the largest fruit dove native to Australia. It inhabits almost exclusively the lowland tropics rainforests along the eastern coast of Australia, from central New South Wales to the tip of Cape York Penin...
Jambu Fruit Dove
The Jambu Fruit Dove, Ptilinopus jambu, is a small colorful dove. It is a resident breeding species in southern Thailand, Malaysia and the Indonesian islands of Kalimantan, Sumatra west Java and Brunei. It inhabits mangrove swamps and lowland rainfor...
Pink-headed Fruit Dove
The Pink-headed Fruit Dove, Ptilinopus porphyreus, is a small colorful dove. It is a resident breeding endemic bird in Indonesia where it occurs in the mountain forests of Sumatra, Java and Bali at altitudes of 3200 to 7200 feet. This bird is also know...
Yellow-footed Green Pigeon
The Yellow-footed Green Pigeon, Treron phoenicoptera, is a common species of Green Pigeon found in South Asia. It feeds on the fruits of a large variety of fruit trees including a number of species of Ficus. They forage in flocks. In the early morning ...
Passenger Pigeon
The Passenger Pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius, was once probably the most common bird in the world. It is estimated that there were as many as 5 billion pigeons of this species in the United States. They lived in flocks as large as a mile wide and 300 m...
White-winged Dove
The White-winged Dove, Zenaida asiatica, is a dove whose native range extends from the south-western USA through Mexico and the Caribbean to western South America as far as northern Chile. It also has been introduced to Florida. There are twelve subspe...
Wonga Pigeon
The Wonga Pigeon, Leucosarcia melanoleuca, is a pigeon that inhabits areas in eastern Australia with its range being from Central Queensland to Gippsland, eastern Victoria, Australia. They tend to occur on the ground foraging and are located in rainfor...
Bar-shouldered Dove
The Bar-shouldered Dove, Geopelia humeralis, is a bird native to Australia. They are found over the east coast from Southern New South Wales (with increasing numbers in the Blue Mountains and Illawarra regions), north to Cape York Peninsula and west to...
Zebra Dove (Barred Ground Dove)
The Zebra Dove (or Barred Ground Dove) Geopelia striata, is a bird found in the Malay Peninsula, Sunda Islands and the Philippines. The Zebra Dove is popular in captivity and many populations have appeared outside its native range due to birds escaping...
Diamond Dove
The Diamond Dove, Geopelia cuneata, is a resident bird of Central, West and Northern Australia. It predominantly exists in areas near water but which are lightly arid or semi-arid in nature. They can occasionally be spotted in Southern Australia in par...
Spinifex Pigeon
The Spinifex Pigeon, Geophaps plumifera, is a bird from Australia. There are two races, the White-bellied Spinifex Pigeon, Geophaps plumifera plumifera, which is permanently found in the arid areas of north western, northern, eastern and central Austra...
Crested Pigeon
The Crested Pigeon, Ocyphaps lophotes, is a bird found throughout mainland Australia except for far north tropical regions. The habitat is grasslands, brush and wooded areas, but can also be seen at watercourses, gardens, sports grounds and golf course...
Emerald Dove
The Emerald Dove, Chalcophaps indica, is a pigeon which is a widespread resident breeding bird in tropical southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to Indonesia and northern and eastern Australia. The dove is also known by the names of Green Dove an...
Brown Cuckoo-dove
The Brown Cuckoo-dove, Macropygia phasianella, is a dove in the genus Macropygia. It is also known by the names of "Brown Pigeon", "Pheasant Pigeon" and "Cuckoo Dove". They are located in eastern Australia from Weipa and Aurukun in the north to Bega in...
African Mourning Dove
The African Mourning Dove, Streptopelia decipiens, is a pigeon which is a widespread resident breeding bird in Africa south of the Sahara. Despite its name, it is not a close relative of the American Mourning Dove, Zenaida macroura. The African Mour...
Turtle Dove
The Turtle Dove, Streptopelia turtur, is a member of the bird family Columbidae, which includes doves and pigeons. It is a migratory species with a western Palearctic range, including Turkey and northern Africa, though it is rare in northern Scandinavi...
African Collared Dove
The African Collared Dove, Streptopelia roseogrisea, is a small dove found in Africa in the arid region south of the Sahara. Its range extends in a band right across the continent, and into southern Arabia. Although it lives in arid lands, it is found ...
Ringneck Dove
The Ringneck Dove, Ring Dove, or Barbary Dove, Streptopelia risoria, is a small domestic dove. Although the Ringneck Dove is normally assigned its own systematic name, as Streptopelia risoria, considerable doubt exists as to its appropriate classificat...
Eurasian Collared Dove
The Eurasian Collared Dove, Streptopelia decaocto, also called the Eurasian Collared-Dove, or simply the Collared Dove, is one of the great colonizers of the avian world. Its original range was warmer temperate regions from southeastern Europe to Jap...
Spotted Dove
The Spotted Dove, Streptopelia chinensis, is a pigeon resident to tropical southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to south China and Southeast Asia. It is a common and widespread species in open woodland, farmland and habitation over a good deal o...
Laughing Dove
The Laughing Dove, Streptopelia senegalensis, is a small pigeon resident to the tropics in Africa south of the Sahara, the Middle East and southern Asia east to India. It is also known as the Little Brown Dove in India. Probably as the result of stowaw...
White-headed Pigeon
The White-headed Pigeon, Columba leucomela, is a pigeon native to Australia. It is also known as "Baldy" and "Baldy Pigeon". The pigeon's habitat is from Cooktown, Queenstown to southern New South Wales. It can commonly be found in tropical regions, su...
Nilgiri Wood Pigeon
The Nilgiri Wood Pigeon, Columba elphinstonii, is a bird endemic to moist deciduous forests and shoals of the Western Ghats in southwestern India. They are identified in the field by the checkerboard pattern on their napes. This pigeon species qu...
Wood Pigeon
The Wood Pigeon, Columba palumbus, is a member of the bird family Columbidae. In the colder northern and eastern parts of its European and western Asiatic range the Wood Pigeon is a migrant, but in southern and western Europe it is a well distributed a...
Speckled Pigeon
The Speckled Pigeon, Columba guinea, is a pigeon in the bird family Columbidae. It is a resident breeding bird in much of Africa south of the Sahara. It is a common and widespread species in open habitats over a good deal of its range, although there a...
Band-tailed Pigeon
The Band-tailed Pigeon, Columba or Patagioenas fasciata, is a medium sized bird of the Americas. Its range is from British Columbia, Utah, and Colorado south in higher elevations through Mexico and Central America to northern Argentina. In autumn it mi...
White-crowned Pigeon
The White-crowned Pigeon, Columba now Patagioenas leucocephala, It is a resident breeder mainly in the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica and Antigua. It breeds in smaller numbers in Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Anguilla and oth...
Stock Pigeon
The Stock Pigeon, Columba oenas, is a member of the family Columbidae, doves and pigeons. This bird is a migrant in the northern part of its European and western Asiatic range. Elsewhere it is a well distributed and often plentiful resident. It haunts ...
Rock Pigeon
The Rock Pigeon, Columba livia, is a member of the bird family Columbidae. It has a restricted natural resident range in western and southern Europe, North Africa, and into southwest Asia. The domesticated Rock Pigeon, known as the feral or domestic pi...
Marabou Stork
The Marabou Stork, Leptoptilos crumeniferus, is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It breeds in Africa south of the Sahara, residing in both wet and arid habitats. Like most storks, the Marabou is gregarious and a colonial breeder. In ...
Jabiru
The Jabiru, Jabiru mycteria, is a large stork found in the Americas from Mexico to Argentina, except west to the Andes. It is the only member of the genus Jabiru. Although the Asian Black-necked Stork and the Saddle-billed Stork have been referred to a...
Saddle-billed Stork
The Saddle-billed Stork, Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis, also known as the Jabiru Stork, is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It is a widespread species which breeds in sub-Saharan Africa from Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya south to South A...
Black-necked Stork
The Black-necked Stork, Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus, is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It is a widespread species, which is a resident breeder in southern Asia and Australasia*, from India east to New Guinea and the northern half of...
Black Stork
The Black Stork (Ciconia nigra) is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It is a rare species that breeds in the warmer parts of Europe, predominantly in central and eastern regions. It breeds in large marshy wetlands with coniferous or b...
White Stork
The White Stork (Ciconia ciconia) is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It breeds in the warmer parts of Europe, but recently have been sighted in Britain. It winters in tropical Africa. They breed in open farmland areas with access to...
Woolly-necked Stork
The Woolly-necked Stork (Ciconia episcopus) is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It breeds in Africa, and also in Asia from India to Indonesia. It is a resident breeder in wetlands and trees. It is a large bird, typically 33.5 inch...
Abdim's Stork (White-bellied Stork)
The Abdim's Stork or White-bellied Stork (Ciconia abdimii) is a large black bird resident to East Africa, from Ethiopia south to South Africa. Although large at up to 32 inches long, it is the smallest of the storks. It has grey legs, red knees and ...
Red Turtle Dove
The Red Turtle Dove (Streptopelia tranquebarica), also known as the Red Collared Dove, is a small pigeon which is a resident breeding bird in the tropics in South Asia.
Asian Openbill Stork
The Asian Openbill Stork (Anastomus oscitans) is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae and a resident breeder in tropical southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to Southeast Asia. This stork is a broad-winged soaring bird and relie...
Painted Stork
The Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala) is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. This tropical species breeds in Asia from India and Sri Lanka to southeast Asia and is a resident breeder in lowland wetlands with trees where it builds it...
Yellow-billed Stork
The Yellow-billed Stork (Mycteria ibis) is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. The Yellow-billed Stork is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.
Long-eared Owl
The Long-eared Owl (Asio otus) is a member of the typical owl family, Strigidae. It breeds in Europe, Asia and North America. The breeding season lasts from February to July. It is partially migratory, moving south in the winter from the northern parts...
Tengmalm's Owl
The Tengmalm's Owl (Aegolius funereus) is a small owl from the typical owl family, Strigidae. It breeds in dense coniferous forests across northern North America and Eurasia, and in mountain ranges such as the Alps and the Rockies. It is known as the B...
Little Owl
The Little Owl (Athene noctua) is a member of the owl family Strigidae. It is resident in much of the temperate and warmer parts of Europe, Asia east to Korea, and North Africa. It is found in open country such as mixed farmland and parkland. It is not...
Spotted Owlet
The Spotted Owlet (Athene brama) is an owl of the family Strigidae. It breeds in tropical Asia from India to Southeast Asia. It is a common resident in open habitats including farmland and human habitation. It nests in a hole in a tree or building, lay...
Elf Owl
The Elf Owl (Micrathene whitneyi) is a member of the owl family Strigidae that resides in the Southwestern United States. They mainly live in southern Arizona, Texas and parts of California. They migrate to Mexico in September. They are often found in ...
Ferruginous Pygmy Owl
The Ferruginous Pygmy Owl (Glaucidium brasilianum) is a small owl of the typical owl family, Strigidae. It breeds in the southern USA, Central America and South America to Bolivia and Argentina. Trinidad has a prevalent subspecies. It is commonly and e...
Pearl-spotted Owlet
The Pearl-spotted Owlet (Glaucidium perlatum) is a member of the typical owl family, Strigidae, which contains the most species of owl. It breeds in Africa south of the Sahara. It is common in open woodland and savannah. The owl is small and stocky,...
Eurasian Pygmy Owl
The Eurasian Pygmy Owl (Glaucidium passerinum) is a tiny owl. It is found in the boreal forests of Eurasia, usually at the edges of clearings. It nests in old Woodpecker holes, often those of the Great Spotted Woodpecker. This is a sedentary species, r...
Northern Hawk Owl
The Northern Hawk Owl (Surnia ulula) is a medium sized owl. The term "hawk" refers to its falcon-like wing shape and long tail. It is the only species in the genus Surnia. It is found in the boreal forests of North America and Eurasia, usually on the e...
Spectacled Owl
The Spectacled Owl (Pulsatrix perspicillata) is a large tropical owl. It is a resident breeder from southern Mexico and Trinidad south to southern Brazil, Paraguay and northwestern Argentina. There are six subspecies. This is nocturnal species of mat...
Great Grey Owl (Lapland Owl)
The Great Grey Owl or Lapland Owl (Strix nebulosa) is a very large owl. They breed in North America from Lake Superior to the Pacific coast and Alaska, and from Scandinavia across northern Asia. They are permanent residents, but may move south and so...
Ural Owl
The Ural Owl (Strix uralensis) is a medium-large nocturnal owl. They have an extended distribution area in Europe and Asia, from Sakhalin, Japan and Korea in the east to Scandinavia in the west. There are up to 15 subspecies found in Europe and norther...
Barred Owl
The Barred Owl (Strix varia) is a large owl. Its breeding habitat is dense woods across Canada, the eastern United States and south to Central America. It is known also as eight hooter, rain owl, wood owl and striped owl, but is best known as the hoot ...
Tawny Owl
The Tawny Owl (Strix aluco) is a member of the typical owl family, Strigidae. It is a resident species to much of Europe and southern Russia. It is usually found in deciduous and mixed forests and usually nests in holes in trees. Smaller woodland owls ...
Brown Wood Owl
The Brown Wood Owl (Strix leptogrammica) is an owl which is a resident breeder in south Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to western Indonesia and south China. It is a scarce resident of dense forests. It is a member of the typical owl family, Strigid...
Snowy Owl
The Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus) is a large owl of the typical owl family Strigidae. It is also known in North America as the Arctic Owl or the Great White Owl. They are normally found in the northern circumpolar regions above latitude 60 degrees north,...
Verreaux's Eagle Owl
Verreaux's Eagle Owl (Bubo lacteus) is a member of the owl order Strigidae. They are found in Sub-Saharan Africa typically along forest streams and rivers seldom above 6500 feet. They are nocturnal and roost in tall trees. They are one of the larges...
Spotted Eagle Owl
The Spotted Eagle Owl (Bubo africanus) is a species of horned owls. They inhabit most of Africa south to the Sahara Desert away from dense forests. They are nocturnal hunters spending the day concealed in trees, rock ledges or abandoned burrows. The...
Rock Eagle Owl
The Rock Eagle Owl (Bubo bengalensis) is a species of large horned owl found in South Asia. They are found in shrub deserts, evergreen forests, more prone to rocky areas. Humid evergreen forest and pure desert is typically avoided. The Rock Eagle Ow...
Eurasian Eagle Owl
The Eurasian Eagle Owl (Bubo bubo) is a species of horned owl resident to much of Europe and Asia. It is largely nocturnal and is found in mountains and forests with cliffs and rocky areas. It usually nests on cliff ledges. The Eagle Owl is the larg...
Flammulated Owl
The Flammulated Owl (Otus flammeolus) is a small predatory owl that breeds in southern British Columbia and the western United States. Unlike many owls, they are migratory, leaving much of North America in the fall. This owl is small at six inches ...
European Scops Owl
The European Scops Owl (Otus scops) also known as the Eurasian Scops Owl, is a small owl in the owl family Strigidae. This bird breeds in southern Europe eastwards to west and central Asia. It is migratory and winters in southernmost Europe and sub-Sah...
Collared Scops Owl
The Collared Scops Owl (Otus backgammon) is a resident breeding owl of eastern Arabia through most of India, except far north, and Sri Lanka east to Indonesia. This species is part of the larger grouping of typical owls known as Strigidae, which are th...
Black-crested Titmouse
The Black-crested Titmouse (Baeolophus atricristatus) is a small songbird in the tit family Paridae. Once considered a subspecies of the Tufted Titmouse, it is now recognized as a separate species. It is native to southern Texas, Oklahoma, and east-cen...
Tufted Titmouse
The Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor) is a small songbird in the tit family Paridae. Their breeding habitat is deciduous and mixed woods in southeastern Canada and the eastern United States. These birds are permanent residents and often join small m...
Oak Titmouse
The Oak Titmouse (Baeolophus inornatus) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. The American Ornithologists' Union split the Plain Titmouse into the Oak Titmouse and the Juniper Titmouse in 1996 due to distinct differences in song, preferred h...
Azure Tit
The Azure Tit (Parus cyanus) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is a widespread and common resident breeder throughout Russia and central Asia. It is found in temperate and subarctic deciduous or mixed woodlands, scrub and marshes. It is...
Blue Tit
The Blue Tit (Parus caeruleus) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is a widespread and common resident breeder throughout temperate and subarctic Europe and western Asia in deciduous or mixed woodlands. It is a resident bird and most bird...
White-winged Tit
The White-winged Tit (Parus nuchalis) also known as the White-naped Tit, is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. The species is distributed in scrub forest in the Kutch region of Gujarat in western India and also in small areas in southern India...
Great Tit
The Great Tit (Parus major) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is a widespread and common species throughout Europe and Asia in any sort of woodland. It is resident, and most birds do not migrate. It is an easy tit to recognize, large...
Crested Tit
The Crested Tit (Lophophanes cristatus or Parus cristatus) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is a widespread and common resident breeder in coniferous forests throughout central and northern Europe and in deciduous woodland in France an...
Coal Tit
The Coal Tit, Parus ater, is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is a widespread and common resident breeder throughout Europe and northern Asia. It is resident, and most birds do not migrate. The Coal Tit is 4 to 4.5 inches in length, an...
Willow Tit
The Willow Tit, Parus montanus, is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is a widespread and common resident breeder throughout temperate and subarctic Europe and northern Asia. It is more of a conifer specialist than the closely related Marsh...
Marsh Tit
The Marsh Tit, Parus palustris or Poecile palustris, is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is a widespread and common resident breeder throughout temperate Europe and northern Asia. It does not breed in Spain, Ireland, Scotland, or the cold...
Siberian Tit
The Siberian Tit, (Parus cinctus or Poecile cincta), is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is a widespread resident breeder throughout subarctic Scandinavia and northern Asia, and also into North America in Alaska and the far northwest of C...
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
The Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Parus pubescens, is found in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, as well as western Canada and southern Alaska through central California. It is a permanent resident within its range. Its habitat is low eleva...
Boreal Chickadee
The Boreal Chickadee, Parus hudsonicus or Poecile hudsonica, is a small songbird in the tit family Paridae. Their breeding habitat is coniferous woods in Canada, Alaska and the northern edges of the United States. They are permanent residents, but some...
Mexican Chickadee
The Mexican Chickadee, Parus sclateri or Poecile sclateri, is a small songbird in the tit family Paridae. Mexico's only chickadee is a permanent resident of wooded highlands, and its range extends north into southern Arizona and New Mexico. Although pr...
Mountain Chickadee
The Mountain Chickadee, Parus gambeli or Poecile gambeli, is a small songbird, a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. Common inhabitants of the mountainous regions of the western United States, their range extends from the southern Yukon to Califo...
Carolina Chickadee
The Carolina Chickadee, Parus carolinensis or Poecile carolinensis, is a small songbird, a passerine* bird in the tit family Paridae. They are found in the United States from New Jersey west to southern Kansas and south to Florida and Texas. They are p...
Light-mantled Sooty Albatross
The Light-mantled Sooty Albatross, Phoebetria palpebrata, is a small member of the albatross family. They are also known as the Sooty Albatross or sooties. It nests in South Georgia in the Atlantic, many of the same islands in the Indian Ocean, and ...
Dark-mantled Sooty Albatross
The Dark-mantled Sooty Albatross, Phoebetria fusca, is a small member of the albatross family. They are also known as the Sooty Albatross or sooties. Dark-mantled Sooty Albatrosses nest on islands in the South Atlantic (Tristan da Cunha and Gough Is...
Grey-headed Albatross
The Grey-headed Albatross, Thalassarche chrysostoma, also known as the Grey-headed Mollymawk, is a large seabird from the albatross family. Its name derives from its ashy gray head, neck and throat, while the back, wings and tail are black, and the und...
Black-browed Albatross
The Black-browed Albatross, Thalassarche melanophris, is a large seabird of the albatross family Diomedeidae. The subspecies, T. m. melanophris, breeds in the Cape Horn area, the Falkland Islands and South Georgia. The subspecies, (T. m. impavida), b...
Black-footed Albatross
The Black-footed Albatross, Phoebastria nigripes, is a large seabird from the North Pacific. It is one of three albatross that range in the northern hemisphere, nesting on isolated tropical islands. They nest colonially on isolated islands of the North...
Short-tailed Albatross (Steller's Albatross)
The Short-tailed Albatross or Steller's Albatross, Phoebastria albatrus, is a large rare seabird from the North Pacific. They nest on the Japanese islands of Torishima and Minami-kojima. When at sea feeding they range across the North Pacific, particul...
Waved Albatross
The Waved Albatross, Phoebastria irrorata, is the only member of the Diomedeidae family located in the tropics. It breeds exclusively on Española Island in the Galapagos archipelago. During the non-breeding season, these birds reside primarily in th...
Southern Royal Albatross
The Southern Royal Albatross, Diomedea epomophora, is a large seabird from the albatross family. The majority of the world's population of Southern Royal Albatrosses nest on the rat free Sub-Antarctic Campbell Island, around 13,000 pairs. There are s...
Wandering Albatross
The Wandering Albatross, (Diomedea exulans), is a large seabird from the family Diomedeidae which has a circumpolar range in the Southern Ocean. At breeding time they occupy loose colonies on isolated island groups in the Southern Ocean, such as Crozet...
Cliff Swallow
The Cliff Swallow, Petrochelidon pyrrhonota, is a member of the perching bird family Hirundinidae. It breeds in North America and Mexico, and is migratory, wintering in southern South America. This species has always been plentiful in the west of North...
Red-rumped Swallow
The Red-rumped Swallow (Cecropis daurica, or Hirundo daurica) is a small perching bird in the swallow family. It breeds in open hilly country of temperate southern Europe and Asia from Portugal and Spain to Japan, India and tropical Africa. The Indian ...
House Martin
The House Martin, Delichon urbica, is a migratory perching bird of the family Hiruninidae. The European range of the House Martin roughly corresponds with that of its relative the Barn Swallow, and it also winters in tropical Africa. The adult House...
Crag Martin
The Crag Martin, (Ptyonoprogne rupestris), is a small perching bird in the swallow family. It breeds in the mountains of southern Europe, the Mediterranean and south Asia. Many European birds are resident, but some northern breeders and most Asian bird...
Welcome Swallow
The Welcome Swallow, Hirundo neoxena, is a small perching bird in the swallow family. It is a species native to Australia and nearby islands, and New Zealand, which has been colonized in the last half century. This species breeds in southern and easter...
Barn Swallow
The Barn Swallow, Hirundo rustica, is a small migratory perching bird found in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. It has a long, deeply forked tail and curved, pointed wings. The nominate European subspecies, H. r. rustica, has dark blue-black u...
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
The Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Stelgidopteryx serripennis, is a small swallow. Their breeding habitat is near streams, lakes and river banks across North America. They migrate to the Gulf coast of the United States and south to Central America. ...
Violet-green Swallow
The Violet-green Swallow, Tachycineta thalassina, is a small swallow. Their breeding habitat is semi-open areas in western North America from Alaska to Mexico. They migrate in flocks to Central and South America. Adults are velvet green on their u...
Tree Swallow
The Tree Swallow, Tachycineta bicolor, is a migratory perching bird that breeds in North America and winters in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. This swallow is about 5 inches long and weighs less than an ounce. The bill is tiny. The adult...
Sand Martin
The Sand Martin, Riparia riparia, is a migratory passerine* bird in the swallow family. It has a wide range in summer, taking up practically the whole of Europe and the Mediterranean countries, part of northern Asia and also North America, where it is ...
Pileated Woodpecker
The Pileated Woodpecker, Dryocopus pileatus, is a very large North American woodpecker. It is also known as the Log Cock (Logcock, and, by corruption, Lord God Bird, Good God Bird, or Great God Bird). Adults are mainly black with a red crest and a w...
Northern Flicker
The Northern Flicker, Colaptes auratus, is a medium-sized woodpecker. Adults are brown with black bars on the back and wings. Their breast and belly are beige with black spots; they have a black neck ring. The tail is dark on top. They show a white rum...
Black-backed Woodpecker
The Black-backed Woodpecker, (Picoides arcticus), is a medium-sized woodpecker. Adults are black on the head, back, wings and rump. They are white from the throat to the belly; the flanks are white with black bars. Their tail is black with white outer ...
Three-toed Woodpecker
The Three-toed Woodpecker, Picoides tridactylus, is a medium-sized woodpecker. The adult is 8.5 to 9.5 inches in length. It is black on the head, wings and rump, and white from the throat to the belly. The flanks are white with black bars. The back is ...
White-headed Woodpecker
The White-headed Woodpecker (Picoides albolarvatus) is a non-migratory woodpecker that resides in pine forests of the mountains of western North America. It has a black body, (approximately 8 inches long), and white head. It has white primary feather...
Arizona Woodpecker
The Arizona Woodpecker (Picoides arizonae) is a woodpecker native to southern Arizona and New Mexico and the Sierra Madre Occidental of western Mexico. This species is known in older field guides as a subspecies of Strickland's Woodpecker. Arizona W...
Downy Woodpecker
The Downy Woodpecker, Picoides pubescens, is the smallest woodpecker in North America. They are about 6.5 inches long. Adults are mainly black on the upper side and wings, with a white back, throat and belly and white spotting on the wings. There is a ...
Nuttall's Woodpecker
Nuttall's Woodpecker, (Picoides nuttallii), is a small woodpecker about 6 to 7 inches in length. It is primarily colored black and white, with a barred pattern across its back and wings, and a plain black tail. Its white breast is also speckled with bl...
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
The Ladder-backed Woodpecker, Picoides scalaris, is a North American woodpecker. The Ladder-backed Woodpecker is fairly common in dry brushy areas and thickets and has a rather large range. The species can be found year-round over the south-western Uni...
Syrian Woodpecker
The Syrian Woodpecker, Dendrocopos syriacus, is a member of the woodpecker family, the Picidae. The Syrian Woodpecker is a resident breeding bird from southeastern Europe east to Iran. Its range has expanded further northwest into Europe in recent year...
Great Spotted Woodpecker
The Great Spotted Woodpecker, Dendrocopos major, is a member of the woodpecker family, Picidae. As a species the Great Spotted Woodpecker is distributed throughout Europe and northern Asia. It is largely resident except in the colder regions of its ran...
White-backed Woodpecker
The White-backed Woodpecker, (Dendrocopos leucotos), is a woodpecker belonging to the genus Dendrocopos. It is the largest of the spotted woodpeckers at 9-10 inches long and has plumage similar to the Great Spotted Woodpecker, but with white bars acr...
Middle Spotted Woodpecker
The Middle Spotted Woodpecker, Dendrocopos medius, is a European woodpecker belonging to the genus Dendrocopos. The Middle Spotted Woodpecker is about 8 inches long and has plumage similar to the Great Spotted Woodpecker. Similar to that species the ...
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
The Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, (Dendrocopos minor), is a member of the woodpecker family Picidae. The male has a crimson crown, a brown forehead, a black brow stripe, and another from the base of the bill to the neck. The nape and upper back are black,...
Williamson's Sapsucker
Williamson's Sapsucker, Sphyrapicus thyroideusis, is a medium-sized woodpecker belonging to the genus Sphyrapicus (Sapsuckers). Adult males are iridescent blank on their head, back, sides and tail. They have a white stripe behind the eye and a lower wh...
Red-naped Sapsucker
The Red-naped Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus nuchalis) is a medium-sized woodpecker. Adults have a black head with a red forehead, white stripes and a red spot on the nape; they have a white lower belly and rump. They have a yellow breast and upper belly. They...
Red-headed Woodpecker
The Red-headed Woodpecker, (Melanerpes erythrocephalus), is a small or medium-sized woodpecker. Adults have a black back and tail with a red head and neck. Their undersides are mainly white. The primary wings are black with white secondary wings. Th...
Red-crowned Woodpecker
The Red-crowned Woodpecker, Melanerpes rubricapillus, is a resident breeding bird from southwestern Costa Rica south to Colombia, Venezuela, the Guiana's and Tobago. This woodpecker thrives in forests and semi-open woodland and cultivation. It nests in...
Red-breasted Sapsucker
The Red-breasted Sapsucker, Sphyrapicus ruber, is a medium-sized woodpecker. Adults have a red head and upper chest; they have a white lower belly and rump. They are black on the back and wings with bars. They have a large white wing patch. Northern bi...
Red-bellied Woodpecker
The Red-bellied Woodpecker, (Melanerpes carolinus), is a medium-sized woodpecker. Their breeding habitat is deciduous forests found throughout southern Canada and the eastern United States. They are permanent residents but may change location; some bir...
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
The Golden-fronted Woodpecker, (Melanerpes auriferous), is a North American woodpecker. Its preferred habitats are riverbanks and mesquite woodlands in Texas and Oklahoma. Nesting behavior of the golden-fronted is similar to that of the Red-bellied...
Gila Woodpecker
The Gila Woodpecker, (Melanerpes uropygialis), is a medium-sized woodpecker of the desert regions of the southwestern United States. They range through southeastern California, southern Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico. Its habitat consists of low deser...
Lewis's Woodpecker
The Lewis's Woodpecker, (Melanerpes lewis), is a large North American species of woodpecker. One of the largest species of American woodpeckers, Lewis's Woodpecker can be as large as 10 to 11 inches in length. It is mainly blackish-green in color with ...
White's Thrush
The White's Thrush, (Zoothera dauma), is a member of the Thrush family Turdidae. There are four races of this species. One race is the migratory Siberian form, another in the Himalayas which migrates to the foothills in winter. One is resident in the...
Western Bluebird
The Western Bluebird (Sialia mexicana) is a medium-sized thrush. Adults have a gray belly. Males are bright blue on top and on the throat with a red breast; they have a brown patch on their back. Adult females have duller blue wings and tail, a brownis...
Veery
The Veery, (Catharus fuscescens), is a small thrush. It is occasionally called Willow Thrush or Wilson's Thrush. This species has the white-dark-white under-wing pattern characteristic of Catharus thrushes. Adults are mainly light brown on the uppe...
Varied Thrush
The Varied Thrush, Zoothera naevia or Ixoreus naevius, is a member of the thrush family Turdidae. The male Varied Thrush is an attractive bird, and is nearly unique. The male has a dark blue-gray upper body. It has bright orange wing bars, throat, late...
Townsend's Solitaire
The Townsend's Solitaire (Myadestes townsendi) is a medium-sized thrush, and the solitaire native to North America. It ranges from British Columbia and Alberta south to northern Mexico, preferring mountainous woodlands. During winter months, the so...
Swainson's Thrush
The Swainson's Thrush, (Catharus osculates), is a medium-sized thrush. There are four recognized subspecies of Swainson's Thrush. Their breeding habitat is coniferous woods with dense undergrowth across Canada, Alaska and the northern United States,...
Sri Lanka Whistling Thrush
The Sri Lanka Whistling Thrush, (Myophonus blighi), is a whistling bird in the thrush family Turdidae. It is a resident common bird in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Whistling Thrush is found in the highlands of Sri Lanka in jungle or other dense forest near wat...
Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush
The Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush, or Rock Thrush, (Monticola saxatilis) is a member of the thrush family Turdidae. It breeds in southern Europe across central Asia to northern China. This species is strongly migratory, with all populations wintering in Af...
Puaiohi
The Puaiohi or Small Kauai Thrush, (Myadestes palmeri), is a small, dark solitaire endemic to Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands. It is also known as the Palmer's thrush. The Puaiohi grows up to 7 inches in length. The male and female of the species look...
Orange-headed Thrush
The Orange-headed Thrush, (Zoothera citrina), is a member of the thrush family, Turdidae. Males of this small thrush have uniform gray upper parts, and orange head and underside. Females and young birds have browner upper parts. The Orange-headed Th...
Eastern Bluebird
The Eastern Bluebird, (Sialia sialis), is a medium-sized thrush found in open woodlands, farmlands and orchards. Adults have a white belly. Males are bright blue on top and have a red throat and breast. Females have duller blue wings and tail, a ...
Blue Rock Thrush
The Blue Rock Thrush, (Monticola solitarius), is a member of the thrush family Turdidae. This species breeds in southern Europe and northwest Africa, and from central Asia to northern China and Malaysia. The European, north African and southeast Asia...
Bicknell's Thrush
The Bicknell's Thrush, (Catharus bicknelli), is a medium-sized thrush. Their breeding habitat is the coniferous forests in southeastern Quebec to Nova Scotia and northern New England and New York State. These birds are usually found at higher elevation...
Bare-eyed Thrush
The Bare-eyed Thrush (Turdus nudigenis) is a resident breeding bird in the Lesser Antilles and in South America from Columbia and Venezuela, south and east to northern Brazil. The bare-eyed thrush is also called the yellow-eyed thrush and in Trinidad a...
American Robin
The American Robin, (Turdus migratorius), is a migratory songbird of the thrush family. The bird breeds throughout Canada and the United States. Though robins will occasionally overwinter in the northern U.S. and southern Canada, most migrate to ...
Greater Flameback
The Greater Flameback, (Chrysocolaptes lucidus), also known as the Large Golden-backed Woodpecker or Malherbe's Golden-backed Woodpecker, is a woodpecker which is a widespread and common resident breeder from the Indian subcontinent eastwards through...
Black-rumped Flameback
The Black-rumped Flameback, (Dinopium benghalense), also known as the Lesser Golden-backed Woodpecker is a woodpecker which is a widespread and common resident breeder in much of South Asia. Its habitat is open forest and cultivation. It nests in a t...
Gray-headed Woodpecker
The Gray-headed Woodpecker, (Picus canus), is a Eurasian member of the woodpecker family Piciformes. Its plumage closely resembles its near relative the Green Woodpecker. It has green upper parts, pale gray under parts and a yellow rump. It has a ...
Green Woodpecker
The Green Woodpecker, (Picus viridis, sometimes called Yaffle), is a member of the woodpecker family Picidae. It resides in most parts of Europe, and in western Asia. The Green Woodpecker is probably the best known, though not always the most co...
Imperial Woodpecker
The Imperial Woodpecker, (Campephilus imperialis), was a member of the woodpecker family Piciformes. It was the world's largest woodpecker species. This 23 inch long bird is officially listed as critically endangered or possibly extinct. Howeve...
Ivory-billed Woodpecker
The Ivory-billed Woodpecker, (Campephilus principalis), is a very large and extremely rare or extinct member of the woodpecker family, Picidae. It is officially listed as an endangered species, and until recently had widely been considered extinct. How...
Black Woodpecker
The Black Woodpecker, (Dryocopus martius), is a large woodpecker. It lives in mature forest across the northern palearctic*. It is the sole representative of its genus in that region. Its range is expanding in Europe. It does not migrate. The ...
White-bellied Woodpecker
The White-bellied Woodpecker, (Dryocopus javensis), or Great Black Woodpecker is found in evergreen forests in southwestern and central India and in forests in the Western Ghats. They are the largest of the Indian Woodpeckers and nest in large dead...
Clay-colored Robin
The Clay-colored Robin or Clay-colored Thrush (Turdus grayi) is common throughout Central America and is also the national bird of Costa Rica. It ranges from northeastern Mexico to northern Colombia; west and north of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec it's li...
Austral Thrush
The Austral Thrush (Turdus falcklandii) is a medium sized thrush found in South America. There are two subspecies, the Falkland Thrush (T. f. falcklandii) from the Falkland Islands and the Magellan Thrush (T. f. magellanicus) from south Argentina and s...
Mistle Thrush
The Mistle Thrush (Turdus viscivorus) is a member of the thrush family Turdidae which is commonly found in open woods and cultivated land over all of Europe and much of Asia. The Mistle Thrush averages about 27 cm long and has plain grey to brown b...
Song Thrush
The Song Thrush (Turdus philomelos) is a common European member of the thrush family Turdidae. It can be found in well-vegetated woods and gardens throughout Europe south of the Arctic Circle, except for Iberia. Many birds move south during the winter,...
Redwing
The Redwing (Turdus iliacus) is a member of the thrush family Turdidae found throughout northern Europe and Asia. It is strongly migratory, with many northern birds moving south during the winter. It is a very rare breeder in Great Britain and Ireland,...
Fieldfare
The Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris) is a larger member of the thrush family Turdidae found throughout northern Europe and Asia. This species is strongly migratory, with many northern birds moving south during the winter. It is a very rare breeder in Great B...
Dusky Thrush
The Dusky Thrush (Turdus naumanni) is a member of the thrush family, Turdidae, which breeds eastwards from central Siberia. It has two distinctive subspecies, the Naumann's Thrush (T. n. naumanni) and the more northern breeding Dusky Thrush (T. n. euno...
Dark-throated Thrush
The Dark-throated Thrush (Turdus ruficollis) is large bird of the thrush family, Turdidae. It is made up of two races: the Black-throated Thrush (T. r. atrogularis) and the Red-throated Thrush (T. r. ruficollis). These are sometimes considered differen...
Eyebrowed Thrush
The Eyebrowed Thrush (Turdus obscurus) is a member of the thrush family Turdidae found in dense coniferous forest and taiga eastwards from Siberia. Winters are spent throughout south to southeast Asia and Indonesia usually forming small flocks. This...
Ring Ouzel
The Ring Ouzel (Turdus torquatus) is a European member of the thrush family Turdidae. During times of breeding it is found in the higher regions of western and central Europe and also in the Caucasus. During winter it prefers the warmer south. Ring ...
Blackbird
The Blackbird or Common Blackbird (Turdus merula) is a European member of the thrush family Turdidae. This mostly resident species is common to the woods and gardens of Europe and Asia south of the Arctic Circle. The only migratory races are those foun...
Warbling Vireo
The Warbling Vireo (Vireo gilvus) is a small songbird found throughout most of North America, from Alaska to Mexico. In winter, this species migrates to Mexico and Central America Adults are mainly olive-grey on the head and upperparts with white un...
Blue-headed Vireo
The Blue-headed Vireo (Vireo solitarius) is a small songbird found in open mixed deciduous and coniferous woods throughout Canada east of the Rockies and the northeastern United States. In winter these birds migrate to the southern United States south ...
Black-capped Vireo
The Black-capped Vireo (Vireo atricapillus) is a small songbird native to the United States and Mexico. It has been listed as an endangered species in the United States since 1987 and the IUCN classifies this species as vulnerable. The Black-capped ...
Bell's Vireo
The Bell's Vireo (Vireo bellii) is a small North American songbird, 4-3/4 to 5 inches (12-13 cm) in length, dull olive-gray above and whitish below. It has a faint white eye ring and faint wing bars. The Bell's Vireo constructs a well-camouflaged ne...
White-eyed Vireo
The White-eyed Vireo (Vireo griseus) is a small songbird that breeds in the southeastern USA from New Jersey west to northern Missouri and south to Texas and Florida, as well as in eastern Mexico, Central America, Cuba and the Bahamas. Populations on t...
Black-crowned Tchagra
Black-crowned Tchagra (Tchagra senegala) is a bushshrike in the family Malaconotidae. This family of passerine birds is closely related to the true shrikes in the family Laniidae, and were once included in that group. This species can be found in th...
Varied Triller
The Varied Triller (Lalage leucomela) is a smaller member of the Cuckoo-shrike family, Campephagidae. This species prefers warm, reasonably moist environments and is found in New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago, along much of the tropical and sub-t...
White-winged Triller
The White-winged Triller (Lalage tricolor) is one of the smaller members of the Cuckoo-shrike family. It is found throughout mainland Australia and possibly on the islands to the north, including New Guinea and eastern Indonesia. It is resident and som...
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
The Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina novaehollandiae), also called a large cuckoo-shrike, is a bird common to the Indian subcontinent (except Pakistan and NW India), Australia and the Solomon Islands. It has a protected status in Australia, under th...
Woodchat Shrike
The Woodchat Shrike (Lanius senator) is a member of the shrike family Laniidae. It breeds in southern Europe, the Middle East and northwest Africa, and winters in tropical Africa, preferring open cultivated country with orchard trees interspersed with ...
Southern Grey Shrike
The Southern Grey Shrike (Lanius meridionalis) is a member of the shrike family Laniidae. It is a close relative of the Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor) with which it used to be considered conspecific. The race L. m. meridionalis is resident in...
Great Grey Shrike
The Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor) is a member of the shrike family Laniidae. It is found throughout much of northern Europe and Asia during times of breeding and winters further south in those continents. It is known in North America as the Nort...
Lesser Grey Shrike
The Lesser Grey Shrike (Lanius minor) is a member of the shrike family Laniidae. This species breeds throughout southeastern Europe and into Asia where it prefers dry open lowlands, often seen on telephone wires It is similar in appearance to the Gr...
Long-tailed Shrike
The Long-tailed Shrike (Lanius schach) is a member of the bird family Laniidae. It is a common native breeder throughout the Indomalayan ecozone from Kazakhstan and Afghanistan through India to New Guinea, found on bushes in scrubby areas and cultivati...
Bay-backed Shrike
The Bay-backed Shrike (Lanius vittatus) is a member of the bird family Laniidae. This widespread resident breeder is found mainly in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, but has recently been recorded from Sri Lanka. It constructs its nest in bushes in ...
Isabelline Shrike
The Isabelline Shrike (Lanius isabellinus) is a member of the shrike family Laniidae. It is the eastern equivalent of the Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio with which it used to be considered conspecific. The Isabelline Shrike breeds throughout sout...
Red-backed Shrike
The Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio) is a member of the shrike family Laniidae. Their breeding habitat includes most of Europe and western Asia. In winter this species migrates into tropical Africa. Its range is shrinking, and it last bred in Englan...
Garganey
The Garganey (Anas querquedula) is a small dabbling duck found throughout much of Europe and western Asia during the breeding season. However, the entire population migrates to Africa in winter. Their breeding habitat is grassland adjacent to shallow m...
Silver Teal
The Silver Teal (Anas versicolor) is a species of dabbling duck belonging to the genus Anas. It breeds in South America. The Puna Teal was previously regarded as a subspecies of this bird.
Yellow-billed Pintail
The Yellow-billed Pintail (Anas georgica) is a dabbling duck of the genus Anas.
Bronze-winged Duck
The Bronze-winged Duck (Anas specularis) is a dabbling duck of the genus Anas which is named after the "bronze" speculum it sports. It is also known as "pato perro" or "dog-duck" after the harsh barking call of the female. The bronzewing lives among...
Spotbill
The Spotbill (Anas poecilorhyncha) also known as the Spot-billed Duck, is a dabbling duck which breeds in tropical and eastern Asia. In the southern part of this range (from India to southern Japan), the Spotbill is resident. The northern race (Chinese...
Pacific Black Duck
The Pacific Black Duck (Anas superciliosa) is a dabbling duck found throughout much of Indonesia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, as well as many islands in the southwestern Pacific, reaching to the Caroline Islands in the north and French Polynesi...
Yellow-billed Duck
The Yellow-billed Duck (Anas undulate) is a dabbling duck which is an abundant resident breeder throughout southern and eastern Africa. This duck is not migratory, but will often wander during the dry season in search of suitable waters. It is highl...
Mottled Duck
The Mottled Duck (Anas fulvigula) is a medium-sized dabbling duck, intermediate in appearance between female Mallard and American Black Duck. It is closely related to those species, and is sometimes considered a race of the former. This duck is comm...
Laysan Duck
The Laysan Duck (Anas laysanensis) is a dabbling duck which is native to Laysan Island, Hawaii. This duck is related to the Mallard, and has sometimes been considered to be an island race of that species. It has been determined, however, that it is not...
Hawaiian Duck
The Hawaiian Duck (Anas wyvilliana) is a duck native to Hawaii. Its Hawaiian name is koloa maoli, which means "indigenous mallard", as it is the only duck species resident all year round on these islands and closely related to the mallard. This shy duc...
Chestnut Teal
The Chestnut Teal (Anas castanea) is a dabbling duck found in southern Australia. The male has a distinctive green colored head, as opposed to the female's duller brown head. Both sexes have a mottled brown body. The female is almost identical in ap...
Grey Teal
The Grey Teal (Anas gracilis) is a dabbling duck found in the open wetlands of Australia and New Zealand. This mottled brown duck has white and green flashes on its wings. Both sexes share the same coloration, which is in contrast to the related Che...
Bernier's Teal
Bernier's Teal (Anas bernieri), also known as Madagascar Teal, is a duck species of the genus Anas. It is native to Madagascar and is named after the French surgeon Chevalier J A Bernier.
Cape Teal
The Cape Teal (Anas capensis) is a dabbling duck found on the open wetlands of sub-Saharan Africa. This species is basically non-migratory but it will move opportunistically with the rains. Like many southern ducks, the sexes are similar. It is very...
Speckled Teal
The Speckled Teal (Anas flavirostris) is a duck species of the genus Anas. There are four subspecies of this duck: A. f. andium (Andean Teal) A. f. oxptera (Sharp-winged Teal) A. f. altipetens (Merida Teal) A. f. flavirostris (Chilean Teal) ...
Green-winged Teal
The Green-winged Teal (Anas carolinensis) is a common and widespread duck found in the northernmost areas of North America. It is the New World counterpart of the Eurasian Common Teal (Anas crecca) with which it is sometimes considered conspecific. ...
Baikal Teal
The Baikal Teal (Anas formosa) is a dabbling duck measuring on average 39 and 43 cm. It is slightly larger and longer-tailed than the Common Teal. Breeding habitat includes the forest zones of eastern Siberia from the Yenisey basin eastwards to Kamc...
Falcated Duck
The Falcated Duck or Falcated Teal (Anas falcata) is found in eastern Asia, particularly in eastern Siberia and northern China. It is widely recorded well outside its normal range, but the popularity of this beautiful duck in captivity clouds their tru...
Chiloe Wigeon
The Chiloe Wigeon (Anas sibilatrix) is a species of dabbling duck belonging to the genus Anas. It is found in South America, on freshwater lakes, marshes, lagoons and slow flowing rivers.
Wigeon
The Wigeon or Eurasian Wigeon (Anas penelope) is a common and widespread duck found in the northernmost areas of Europe and Asia. It is the Old World equivalent of the North American Wigeon. This dabbling duck measures 42-50 cm long and has a wingsp...
Green Pygmy Goose
The Green Pygmy Goose (Nettapus pulchellus) is a small perching duck found in southern New Guinea and northern Australia. It is largely resident, apart from dispersion during the wet season. The habitat is well vegetated lowland lagoons and other pe...
Mandarin Duck
The Mandarin Duck (Aix galericulata) is a medium-sized perching duck closely related to the North American Wood Duck. It is 41-49 cm long with a 65-75 cm wingspan. Adult males are striking and unmistakable with their red bill, large white crescent a...
White-winged Wood Duck
The White-winged Wood Duck (Cairina scutulata) is a species of dabbling duck that belongs to the genus Cairina. Historically it was widely distributed from north-east India and Bangladesh, through South East Asia to Java and Sumatra. However, in 2002 i...
Muscovy Duck
The Muscovy Duck (Cairina moschata) is a large perching duck which is an inland breeder found in central and tropical South America. It is a species whose normal habitat is forest lakes and streams. This non-migratory bird is often found roosting in tr...
Falkland Flightless Steamer Duck
The Falkland Steamerduck (Tachyeres brachypterus) is a duck endemic to the Falkland Islands in the southern Atlantic Ocean. It is one of only two bird species native to the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas in Spanish), the other being Cobb's Wren. T...
Blue-winged Goose
The Blue-winged Goose (Cyanochen cyanopterus) is a large sheldgoose, which is native to Ethiopia. It is the only member of the genus Cyanochen. This little-known species breeds by mountain lakes and streams. Its lined nest is built amongst grass tus...
Ruddy-headed Goose
The Ruddy-headed Goose (Chloephaga rubidiceps) is a large sheldgoose found in southernmost South America on the open grassy plains of Tierra del Fuego, Chile and the Falkland Islands. The South American birds are now very rare. Winters are spent on low...
Ashy-headed Goose
The Ashy-headed Goose (Chloephaga poliocephala) is a large sheldgoose which breeds in mountainous areas of southernmost South America and winters on lowlands to the north of its breeding range. Favorite nesting sites are damp upland forest clearings...
Magellan Goose
The Magellan Goose or Upland Goose (Chloephaga picta) is a South American member of the duck, goose and swan family Anatidae and the shelduck subfamily Tadorninae. Males have a white head and breast, whereas the females can sometimes be mistaken for...
Andean Goose
The Andean Goose (Chloephaga melanoptera) is a member of the duck and the shelduck subfamily Tadorninae. It is resident around lakes and marshes in the high Andes, usually well above 3000m. It is largely land bound and will avoid swimming except in ...
Egyptian Goose
The Egyptian Goose (Alopochen aegyptiacus) is a member of the family Anatidae. It is part of the shelduck subfamily Tadorninae, and the sole member of the genus Alopochen. This locally abundant species is widely distributed across Africa except in d...
Pink-eared Duck
The Pink-eared Duck (Malacorhynchus membranaceus) is a species of duck found in Australia. It is the only living member of the genus Malacorhynchus; a closely related, but slightly larger extinct form from New Zealand was described as Scarlett's Duck (...
Radjah Shelduck
The Radjah Shelduck (Tadorna radjah) is a species of shelduck more commonly known as a Burdekin Duck. This species can be found throughout coastal tropical northern Australia, from central Queensland through northern Northern Territory (including Kakad...
Common Shelduck
The Common Shelduck (Tadorna tadorna) is a shelduck which breeds in temperate Eurasia. Most populations migrate to subtropical areas in winter, but this species is mostly resident in the westernmost parts of Europe, apart from movements to favored molt...
Paradise Shelduck
The Paradise Shelduck (Tadorna variegate) is a large goose-like duck commonly found in New Zealand. They are known to the Maori as Putangitangi but are now commonly referred to as the "Paradise duck", and were prized game birds. Both the male and femal...
Australian Shelduck
The Australian Shelduck (Tadorna tadornoides) is found in southern Australia and Tasmania. In the southern winter, many birds move further north than their breeding range. Like other shelducks this species favors molting grounds, such as Lake George, N...
Ruddy Shelduck
The Ruddy Shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea) is a member of the duck, goose and swan family Anatidae and the shelduck subfamily Tadorninae. There are very small resident populations of this species in north west Africa and Ethiopia, but the main breeding...
Comb Duck
The Comb Duck (Sarkidiornis melanotos) is an unusual duck, best placed in the shelduck subfamily Tadorninae, though it has formerly been included in the Anatinae. This duck breeds in the tropics of South America, sub-Saharan Africa and India. It is lar...
Freckled Duck
The Freckled Duck (Stictonetta naevosa) is a moderately large, broad-bodied duck native to southern Australia. Though protected by law, this rare duck is not classified as endangered. Dark in color with fine off-white speckles all over, it is most easi...
Cape Barren Goose
The Cape Barren Goose (Cereopsis novaehollandiae) is a large goose found in southern Australia. Cereopsis means wax-like and refers to the waxy yellow-green beak cover. A previous decline in numbers seems to have been reversed as birds in the east p...
Red-breasted Goose
The Red-breasted Goose (Branta ruficollis) is a goose of the genus Branta, closely related to the Brent Goose (Branta bernicla). All the species of the Branta genus are distinguished by their general dark sooty color, relieved in some by way by whit...
Brent Goose
The Brent Goose (Branta bernicla) is a goose of the genus Branta, known in North America as Brant. The spelling "Brant" is the original one, with "Brent" being a later folk-etymological idea that it was derived from a classical Greek waterbird name bre...
Hawaiian Goose
The Hawaiian Goose or Nene (Branta sandvicensis) is a species of goose found only on the Hawaiian Islands. It shares a recent common ancestor with Branta canadensis, the Canada Goose. The official bird of the State of Hawaii, the Nene is exclusively fo...
Cackling Goose
The Cackling Goose (Branta hutchinsii), also known as Lesser or Small Canada or Canadian Goose in North America, belongs to the genus of black geese Branta, which contains species with black plumage, distinguishing them from the grey Anser species. ...
Barnacle Goose
The Barnacle Goose (Branta leucopsis) belongs to the genus of black geese named Branta. This genus contains species with mostly black plumage, distinguishing them from the grey Anser species. Despite its superficial outward similarity to the Brent Goos...
Ross's Goose
The Ross's Goose (Chen rossii) is a North American species of goose. It breeds in northern Canada and winters much further south in the continent in the southern USA and occasionally northern Mexico. The American Ornithologists' Union places this sp...
Snow Goose
The Snow Goose (Chen caerulescens) is a North American species, so named due to its typically white plumage. The American Ornithologists' Union places this species and the other two "white" geese in the genus Chen, while some other authorities place...
Swan Goose
The Swan Goose (Anser cygnoides) is a large goose found naturally in Mongolia and eastern Russia. Winters are mainly spent in south and east China where it is familiarly known as the Chinese Goose, where it has been domesticated for centuries. There ar...
Bar-headed Goose
The Bar-headed Goose (Anser indicus) is easily distinguished from any of the other grey geese of the genus Anser by the character implied by its English name. It is also much paler than the other geese in this genus. Its breeding habitat is in Centr...
Pink-footed Goose
The Pink-footed Goose (Anser brachyrhynchus) can be found in Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard. It migrates in winter to northwest Europe, especially Great Britain. The Svalbard-population winters in Belgium, The Nederlands and Denmark. It is closely ...
Bean Goose
The Bean Goose (Anser fabalis) is a medium-large goose which breeds in northern Europe and Asia. Winter migration is made further south. The bill is black at the base and tip, with an orange band across the middle. The legs and feet are also bright ...
Lesser White-fronted Goose
The Lesser White-fronted Goose (Anser erythropus) is a close relative to the larger White-fronted Goose (A. albifrons). During times of breeding it is widely distributed throughout northernmost Asia, but is less common in Europe. This migratory bird sp...
White-fronted Goose
The White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons) is closely related to the smaller Lesser White-fronted Goose (A. erythropus). It is known as the Greater White-fronted Goose in North America. Both of the white-fronted species have a very striking white fac...
Greylag Goose
The Greylag Goose (Anser anser) is a bird widely distributed throughout the Old World, breeding wherever suitable habitat can be found in many European countries. The one exception to this is southwestern Europe, where it no longer breeds. It extends e...
Coscoroba Swan
The Coscoroba Swan (Coscoroba coscoroba) is the smallest species of swan belonging to the family Anatidae. Since it is only distantly related to the other swans it has its own genus, Coscoroba. The plumage is white except for black tips to the outer...
Mute Swan
The Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) is a common Eurasian member of the duck, goose and swan family Anatidae. Distribution This bird is found mainly in temperate areas of Europe and western Asia. It is not normally migratory, but some populations are forc...
Black-necked Swan
The Black-necked Swan (Cygnus melancoryphus) is a member of the duck, goose and swan family, Anatidae. It is a waterbird found throughout South America - in Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and on the Falkland Islands. In winter, this bird migrates northwar...
Black Swan
The Black Swan (Cygnus atratus) is an Australian waterbird and a member of the duck, goose, and swan family, Anatidae. Black swans are found in throughout Australia. Prior to the arrival of the MÄÂori a sub-species, the New Zealand Swan used to l...
Bewick's Swan
Bewick's Swan (Cygnus bewickii) is a small European swan sometimes considered a subspecies of the Whistling Swan, forming the species Tundra Swan. It is named after the engraver Thomas Bewick who specialized in illustrations of birds and animals. Be...
Whistling Swan
The Whistling Swan (Cygnus columbianus) is a small North American swan sometimes considered conspecific with Bewick's Swan to form the species Tundra Swan. The Whistling Swan breeds in arctic Alaska and Canada and spends its winters in the coastal U...
Trumpeter Swan
The Trumpeter Swan (Cygnus buccinator) is the largest native North American swan - rivaled in size only by the introduced Mute Swan, which is actually native to Eurasia. The Trumpeter Swan is close relative the Eurasian Whooper Swan. These birds hav...
Whooper Swan
The Whooper Swan (Cygnus cygnus) is a large swan of the Northern Hemisphere. It is the Old World counterpart of the North American Trumpeter Swan. Whooper is similar in appearance to the Bewick's Swan but it is larger, at 140-160cm length and a 205-...
White-faced Whistling Duck
The White-faced Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna viduata) is an abundant species of whistling duck found in sub-Saharan Africa as well as much of South America. It is largely resident, apart from local movements which can be 100km or more. It nests on a ...
Fulvous Whistling Duck
The Fulvous Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna bicolor) is a whistling duck which breeds across the world's tropical regions such as Central and South America, sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and the United States Gulf Coast. Fulvous Whistlin...
Black-bellied Whistling Duck
The Black-bellied Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna autumnalis) is a whistling duck which breeds in the southernmost part of the United States of American, as well as tropical Central and South America. The Black-bellied Whistling Duck is a common but cau...
Black-billed Whistling Duck
The Black-billed Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna arborea) is a whistling duck which breeds in the West Indies. It is also known as West Indian Whistling Duck and Cuban Whistling Duck. This duck is widely scattered throughout the West Indies including a ...
Superb Starling
The Superb Starling (Lamprotornis superbus) is a member of the starling family of birds. It is commonly found in North East Africa - including Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.
Common Starling
The Common Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) or European Starling, is native to most of Eurasia, but has been introduced to South Africa, North America, Australia and New Zealand. In southern and western Europe it is a resident species but northern and ea...
Asian Pied Starling
The Asian Pied Starling Sturnus contra or Pied Myna is a kind of starling found in south Asia.
Chestnut-tailed Starling
The Chestnut-tailed Starling (Sturnus malabaricus), also known as the Grey-headed Myna, is a member of the starling family found in India and southeast Asia. This bird prefers open woodland and cultivated areas. The Chestnut-tailed Starling builds a...
Bali Starling (Bali Myna)
The Bali Starling (Leucopsar rothschildi), also known as the Bali Myna, is a myna and a member of the starling family. This bird is common to the island of Bali in Indonesia. It is critically endangered, with a population in the wild of six in 2001. Ro...
Common Myna
The Common Myna (Acridotheres tristis) is a myna and a member of the starling family. It is common in tropical southern Asia from Afghanistan to India and Sri Lanka. It is also referred to as the Indian Myna or Talking Myna due to its ability to mimic ...
Jungle Myna
The Jungle Myna (Acridotheres fuscus) is a myna and a member of the starling family. This bird is common in tropical southern Asia from India and Myanmar east to Indonesia. It is typically found in forest and cultivation. It builds a nest in hole where...
Hill Myna
The Hill Myna (Gracula religiosa) is a member of the starling family found in tropical southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to Indonesia and has been introduced to the USA. The smaller-billed race found in the Western Ghats of India and in Sr...
Starling
PHOTO CAPTION: Metallic Starling Starlings are small to medium-sized passerine birds in the family Sturnidae. Starlings occur naturally in the Old World (Europe, Asia and Africa). Some forms can be found as far East as Australia. However, several Eu...
Honey Buzzard
The Honey Buzzard (Pernis apivorus) is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. Despite its name, this species is not related to the true buzzards in the genus Buteo, but is actually closer to the kites. This bird is a summer migrant to most of Eu...
Hawaiian Hawk
The Hawaiian Hawk or 'Io (Buteo solitarius) is a buzzard native to Hawaii. It is the only hawk that occurs in Hawaii and is known to only breed on the Big Island. The species is protected as endangered in the United States however the IUCN classifies t...
Zone-tailed Hawk
The Zone-tailed Hawk (Buteo albonotatus) is a medium-sized hawk found in warm, dry parts of the Americas. It feeds on small vertebrates of all kinds, including birds up to the size of quail. Grown birds are 18.5"“21.5 inches (47"“55 cm) in lengt...
Swainson's Hawk
The Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) is a large hawk named after William Swainson, a British naturalist. It is found on prairies and in dry grasslands throughout the western plains of North America. This hawk requires trees for nesting and is ther...
Broad-winged Hawk
The Broad-winged Hawk (Buteo platypterus) is a small hawk found in wooded areas in eastern North America. They are long distance migrants (traveling in large flocks) and spend their winters in Central and South America. Adults have short broad wings...
Red-shouldered Hawk
The Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus) is a medium-sized hawk that can be found in deciduous and mixed wooded areas near water in eastern North America and along the coast of California and northern Mexico. These birds are permanent residents through...
Ferruginous Hawk
The Ferruginous Hawk (Buteo regalis) is a large hawk found on the prairies and open country in mid-western North America. In the central part of their range, they are permanent residents. Northern birds migrate to the southern United States and Mexico ...
Red-tailed Hawk
The Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) is a large hawk found from western Alaska and northern Canada to Panama and the West Indies. It is one of two species commonly known as the Chickenhawk in the United States. Birds of this species have a dark m...
Common Buzzard
The Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo) is a medium-sized bird of prey from the Old World. Its range includes most of Europe and extends into Asia. It is resident except in the coldest parts of its range. Typically this species is between 51-57 cm in length w...
Pallid Harrier
The Pallid Harrier (Circus macrourus) is a migratory bird of prey of the harrier family. It can be found in southern parts of eastern Europe and central Asia and winters mainly in India and southeast Asia. It is a very rare visitor to Great Britain and...
Marsh Harrier
Marsh Harriers are birds of prey in the harrier subfamily Circus. They are medium-sized raptors and the largest and broadest-winged of all harriers. All breed in dense reedbeds. Most authorities recognize three separate but closely related species: ...
Hen Harrier
The Hen Harrier (Circus cyaneus) is a bird of prey of the harrier family found throughout the northern parts of the Northern hemisphere in Canada and the northernmost USA, and northern Eurasia. In North America it is known as the Northern Harrier or Ma...
Montagu's Harrier
The Montagu's Harrier (Circus pygargus) is a migratory bird of prey of the harrier family. It can be found throughout southern Eurasia. In winter it migrates to Africa. This medium-sized raptor breeds on warm, dry, sunny open lowland plains, heathla...
Lappet-faced Vulture
The Lappet-faced Vulture or Nubian Vulture (Torgos tracheliotus) is an African Old World vulture belonging to the bird order Accipitriformes. It is the only member of the genus Torgos. A distinct subspecies, T. t. negevensis, occurs in the Sinia, the N...
Red-headed Vulture
The Red-headed Vulture (Sarcogyps calvus) also known as the King Vulture or the Pondicherry Vulture, is a species of Old World vulture found in South Asia.
Egyptian Vulture
The Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus) is a small Old World vulture and the only member of the genus Neophron. Egyptian Vultures are scavengers, feeding off carrion for the most part. However, they will occasionally prey on small mammals and eggs...
Hooded Vulture
The Hooded Vulture (Necrosyrtes monachus) is an Old World vulture in the order Accipitriformes. It is the only member of the genus Necrosyrtes. It often moves in flocks and is very abundant. In much of its range, there are always several visible soarin...
Cape Vulture
The Cape Griffon or Cape Vulture (Gyps coprotheres) is an Old World vulture in the family Accipitridae. It is common to southern Africa, and is found mainly in South Africa, Lesotho and Botswana. They nest on cliffs and typically lay one egg per year. ...
Indian White-rumped Vulture
The Indian White-rumped Vulture (Gyps bengalensis) is an Old World vulture in the family Accipitridae. It is closely related to the European Griffon Vulture (Gyps fulvus). It breeds on crags or in trees in mountains throughout India and southeast As...
Griffon Vulture
The Griffon Vulture (Gyps fulvus) is an Old World vulture in the family Accipitridae and is resident in mountains throughout southern Europe, north Africa, and Asia. Griffon Vultures have been re-introduced successfully into the Massif Central in Franc...
Palm-nut Vulture
The Palm-nut Vulture (Gypohierax angolensis) is a very large bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. It is the only member of the genus Gypohierax. This Old World vulture is not related to the New World vultures which are in a separate family, Cathart...
Lammergeier (Beared Vulture)
The Lammergeier or Bearded Vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) is a large Old World vulture and the only member of the genus Gypaetus. It is different from other Old World vultures I that is doesn't have the characteristic bald head. This resident species c...
Eurasian Black Vulture
The Eurasian Black Vulture (Aegypius monachus) is the only species in the genus Aegypius. It also goes by the names Monk Vulture, Cinereous Vulture, or simply Black Vulture. It is a very large bird of prey in the family Accipitridae which also includes...
Old World vulture
PHOTO CAPTION:Nubian Vulture or Lappet-faced Vulture Old World vultures belong to the family Accipitridae. They are not considered to be related to the superficially similar New World vultures and condors, and do not share that group's good sense of...
Red Goshawk
The Red Goshawk (Erythrotriorchis radiatus) is thought to be the rarest Australian bird of prey. It is usually found in the savanna woodlands of northern Australia, particularly near watercourses. It takes a wide variety of live prey, mostly birds. ...
Dark Chanting Goshawk
The Dark Chanting Goshawk (Melierax metabates) is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. It can be found in sub-Saharan Africa, except for the rain forests of the Congo basin. There is also a small and declining isolated population in Morocco. I...
Cooper's Hawk
The Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii) is a medium-sized hawk found in forested areas across southern Canada, the United States and northern Mexico. They are permanent residents in most of the United States, however northern birds migrate to the southe...
Shikra
The Shikra (Accipiter badius) is a small bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. It is a widespread resident breeder throughout south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. New nests are built in trees each year. Clutches contain anywhere from three to seven eg...
Sparrowhawk
The Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) is a small bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. The red-tailed hawk of the U.S. Central Plains was once identified by this name in pre-Columbian times. Males of this species were once referred to as muskets; the...
Hawk
PHOTO CAPTION: Sparrowhawk The term hawk refers to birds of prey in any of three senses: Strictly, to mean any of the species in the genera: Accipiter, Micronisus, Melierax, Urotriorchis, and Megatriorchis. The widespread Accipiter genus includes...
Black Kite
The Black Kite (Milvus migrans) is a medium-sized bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. It is widespread throughout the temperate and tropical parts of the Old World (including Europe, Asia, Japan, and all of Africa except the Congo Basin and the Sa...
Red Kite
The Red Kite (Milvus milvus) is a medium to large bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. It is a European species found in the milder parts of its range, but birds from northern and central Europe winter further south and west. During the Middle A...
Brahminy Kite
The Brahminy Kite (Haliastur Indus) is a medium-sized, attractive bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. This kite can be found in India and southeast Asia, even as far as tropical north Australia, where it is widespread. Its flight is typical,...
Whistling Kite
The Whistling Kite (Haliastur sphenurus) is found throughout Australia and is a member of the family Accipitridae, along with other birds of prey. It has a distinctive M-shaped pattern of pale feathers when viewed from underneath during flight.
Snail Kite
The Snail Kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis) is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. It can be found in tropical South America, the Caribbean and southern Florida, USA. This bird prefers fresh water wetlands. It builds its nest in a bush or on the g...
Swallow-tailed Kite
The Swallow-tailed Kite (Elanus forficatus) is an elanid kite found in southern North America to northern South America. It was formerly named Falco forficatus. Physical description The species is around 55 to 65 cm in length, with a wingspan of ...
White-tailed Kite
The White-tailed Kite (Elanus leucurus) is an elanid kite found in western North America as well as parts of South America. It was formerly known as the Black-shouldered Kite. The earliest name for this bird was the White-tailed Kite, and it was giv...
Black-shouldered Kite
The Black-shouldered Kite (Elanus axillaris) is a small raptor found in open habitat throughout Australia. Like all the elanid kites, it is a expert predator of rodents, its favorite prey. The name "Black-shouldered Kite" was formerly used for a Eur...
Black-winged Kite
The Black-winged Kite (Elanus caeruleus) is a small bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. It prefers mainly open land and semi-deserts in sub-Saharan Africa and tropical Asia, but it also has a foothold in Europe in Spain. It prefers its prey ...
Kite
PHOTO CAPTION: White-tailed Kite Kites are raptors with long wings and weak legs. They spend a great deal of time soaring. They will take live prey but mostly prefer to feed on carrion. They are birds of prey which along with hawks, eagles, Old W...
White-bellied Sea Eagle
The White-bellied Sea Eagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster) is a large bird of prey in the family Accipitridae found throughout India and through southeast Asia to Australia on coasts and major waterways. This large eagle is very distinctive with its whit...
African Fish Eagle
The African Fish Eagle (Haliaeetus vocifer) is a large species of eagle. They are quite common near freshwater lakes, reservoirs, or rivers, although they can sometimes be found near the coast at the mouths of rivers or lagoons. As their name implies A...
Steller's Sea Eagle
The Steller's Sea Eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus) is a large bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. This bird can be foiund on the Kamchatka peninsula, the coastal area around the Sea of Okhotsk, the lower reaches of the Amur River and on northern Sa...
Bald Eagle
The Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is a bird of prey native to North America. It is most recognizable as the national bird of the United States. This species was near extinction late in the 20th century but has since recovered and now has a stab...
White-tailed Eagle
The White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) is a very large bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. It is sometimes known as the (Grey) Sea Eagle or Erne. This bird can be found in northern Europe and Asia. It has also been successfully re-introd...
Black Eagle
The Black Eagle (Ictinaetus malayensis) is a bird of prey belonging to the family Accipitridae. It is the sole member of the genus Ictinaetus. This bird's breeding habitat is in southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka to south east Asia. It prefers m...
Wedge-tailed Eagle
The Wedge-tailed Eagle or Arrawa (Aquila audax) is a very large Australasian raptor and the most common large eagle to be found in the world. It has long, fairly broad wings, fully feathered legs, and a distinctive wedge-shaped tail. Both because of it...
Wahlberg's Eagle
The Wahlberg's Eagle (Aquila wahlbergi) is a bird of prey belonging to the family Accipitridae. Average length is 55-60cm in length and wingspan 130-160 cm. This eagle breeds throughout most of Africa, south of the Sahara. It prefers woodland areas,...
Lesser Spotted Eagle
The Lesser Spotted Eagle (Aquila pomarina) is a medium-sized bird of prey belonging to the family Accipitridae (like all eagles). It is about 60 cm in length and has a wingspan of 150cm. There are two known populations. The birds that breed in centr...
Greater Spotted Eagle
The Greater Spotted Eagle (Aquila clanga), sometimes referred to as simply the Spotted Eagle, is a large bird of prey belonging to the family Accipitridae. It is about 65 cm in length and has a wingspan of 160 cm. This bird's breeding habitat ranges...
Tawny Eagle
The Tawny Eagle (Aquila rapax) is a large bird of prey belonging to the family Accipitridae. It measures roughly 62-72 cm in length and has a wingspan of 165-185 cm. It was once considered to be closely related to the migratory Steppe Eagle (Aquila nip...
Steppe Eagle
The Steppe Eagle (Aquila nipalensis) is a large bird of prey belonging to the family Accipitridae. It is roughly 62-74 cm in length and has a wingspan of 165-190cm. It was once considered to be closely related to the non-migratory Tawny Eagle (Aquila r...
Eastern Imperial Eagle
The Imperial Eagle (Aquila heliaca, from the family Accipitridae) is very similar to the Golden Eagle, only smaller and not as powerful. It measures 80 cm in length and has a wingspan of 200 cm. Imperial Eagles are distributed in South East Europe, ...
Golden Eagle
The Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) is one of the best known birds of prey in the Northern Hemisphere. Like all eagles, it is part of the family Accipitridae. There are five noted subspecies of the Golden Eagle: Eurasian Golden Eagle (A. c. chry...
Booted Eagle
The Booted Eagle (Hieraaetus pennatus) is a large bird of prey that belongs to the family Accipitridae. It is about 47 cm in length and has a wingspan of 120cm. This migratory eagle breeds in southern Europe, north Africa and across Asia and winters...
Bonelli's Eagle
The Bonelli's Eagle (Hieraaetus fasciatus) is a large bird of prey that belongs to the family Accipitridae. It breeds in southern Europe, Africa both north and south of the Sahara Desert and across southern Asia to Indonesia. It is a resident breede...
Martial Eagle
The Martial Eagle (Polemaetus bellicosus) is known to be Africa's largest eagle, measuring on average 76-83 cm in length. Its preferred habitat is south of the Sahara Desert, in the semi-desert and open savanna regions of southern and eastern Africa. T...
Changeable Hawk Eagle
The Changeable Hawk Eagle (Spizaetus cirrhatus) is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. It can be found in southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka to Indonesia and the Philippines. This bird prefers open woodland, although island forms prefer a...
Philippine Eagle
The Philippine Eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi) is a bird of prey or raptor that belongs to the family Accipitridae. It is is one of the rarest, largest and most powerful birds in the world. When it was discovered in 1896 it was named the Monkey-eatin...
Eagle
PHOTO CAPTION: Close-up view of an Australian Wedge-tailed Eagle showing the hooked beak. Eagles are large birds of prey which are found mainly in the Old World, with only two species (Bald Eagle and Golden Eagle) in North America, a few in South Am...
New Caledonian Crow
The New Caledonian Crow (Corvus moneduloides) is a moderately sized crow (40 cm in length) similar in size to the House Crow but less slender. Its plumage is all black with a rich gloss of purple, dark blue and some green in good light. The bill, feet ...
Hawaiian Crow
The Hawaiian Crow (Corvus hawaiiensis) is an interesting species about the size (48-50 cm in length) of the Carrion Crow but with more rounded wings and a much thicker bill. The plumage is soft and lax in texture and it has long, bristly throat feather...
Jungle Crow
The Jungle Crow is highly inconsistent in both its overall size (46-59 cm in length) and body proportions across the large geographical region that it covers. In the far northeast in Japan, the Kuriles and the Sakhalin peninsula, it is somewhat larger ...
House Crow
The House Crow (Corvus splendens) is a common Asian bird which is native to India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Maldives and Laccadive Islands, South West Thailand as well as coastal southern Iran. It has been introduced to East Africa around Zanzibar and Port Su...
Jackdaw
The Jackdaw (Corvus monedula) is one of the smallest species in the genus of crows and ravens. They measure 34-39 cm in length and most of the plumage is black or greyish black except for the cheeks, nape and neck which are light grey to greyish silver...
Carrion Crow
The Carrion Crow (Corvus corone) can be distinguished from the Common Raven by its size (48"“52 cm in length) and from the Hooded Crow by its black plumage. There is frequent confusion between it and the Rook. The beak is stouter and in consequence l...
Hooded Crow
The Hooded Crow (Corvus cornix) is a Eurasian species in the genus of crows. It is so similar in structure and habits to the Carrion Crow that some authorities consider them to be merely geographical races of one species. It wasn't until 2002 that the ...
Pied Crow
The Pied Crow (Corvus albus) is about the same size as the European Carrion Crow - sometimes slightly larger (46-50 cm in length) - but it has a proportionately larger bill and slightly longer tail, wings and longer legs. As its name suggests, its glos...
Fish Crow
The Fish Crow (Corvus ossifragus) is outwardly very similar to the American Crow but is smaller (36-41 cm in length) and has a more silky smooth plumage by comparison. The differences are often only apparent between the two species when side by side or...
Common Raven
The Common Raven (Corvus corax) is a large black bird in the crow family. Its feathers are iridescent and the bill is large and slightly curved. At maturity, it is between 24 to 27 inches (60 to 78 cm) in length, with a wingspan twice that. Apart fr...
American Crow
The American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) is slightly smaller than the European Carrion Crow in overall size (39-49 cm in length) and also has a proportionately smaller bill. Its feathers are black and have a purple or blue iridescence in some lights. ...
Torresian Crow
The Torresian Crow (Corvus orru), also occasionally called the Australian Crow, is about the same size (50-55 cm in length) as the Eurasian Carrion Crow but has a more full-bodied bill and slightly longer legs. It also has the typical white iris of the...
Little Raven
The Little Raven (Corvus mellori) was only separated in 1967 from the Australian Raven (C. coronoides) as a distinct species. The most significant difference is its voice. On average it is slightly smaller than the Australian Raven (48-50 cm in length)...
Little Crow
The Little Crow (Corvus bennetti) is an Australian species of crow, very similar to the Torresian Crow in having white bases to the neck and head feathers, however it is slightly smaller (42-48 cm in length) and has a proportionately smaller bill. It h...
Australian Raven
The Australian Raven (Corvus coronoides) is the largest member of the genus Corvus found in Australia. It is more slender than the Common Raven of the Northern Hemisphere but is otherwise similar. Like the other Corvus members in Australia and some spe...
Crow
PHOTO CAPTION: American Crow True crows are in the genus Corvus. They are large passerine birds. All temperate continents (except South America) and several offshore and oceanic islands (including Hawaii) have representatives of the 40 or so members...
Azure-winged Magpie
The Azure-winged Magpie (Cyanopica cyana) is a bird in the crow family. It is 31-35 cm long and similar in overall shape to the European Magpie (Pica pica) however it is more slender and has proportionately smaller legs and bill. It has a glossy bla...
Sri Lanka Blue Magpie
The Sri Lanka Blue Magpie or Ceylon Magpie (Urocissa ornata) is a striking member of the Crow family. It can be found in the hill forests as well as the dense wet evergreen rain forests of Sri Lanka, where it is endemic. This species is declining du...
Red-billed Blue Magpie
The Red-billed Blue Magpie (Urocissa erythrorhyncha) is a species of bird in the crow family, Corvidae. It is about the same size as the European Magpie but has a much longer tail. The head, neck and breast are black with bluish spotting on the crow...
Formosan Blue Magpie
The Formosan Blue Magpie (Urocissa caerulea), also called the Taiwan Magpie, is a member of the Crow family. It is an common species living in the mountains of Taiwan at elevations of 300 to 1200m. This species is about the same size as the European...
Yellow-billed Magpie
The Yellow-billed Magpie (Pica nuttalli) is a large bird in the crow family that is found only in California. It inhabits the Central Valley and the adjacent chaparral foothills and mountains. Apart from its having a yellow bill and a yellow streak aro...
European Magpie
The European Magpie (Pica pica) is a resident bird throughout Europe, much of Asia, and northwest Africa. It is one of several birds in the crow family named as magpies. There are numerous races. Recent research has indicated that the Korean race, P...
Magpie
Magpies are medium to large passerine birds of the crow family, Corvidae. These colorful and noisy birds are closely allied to the jays and treepies. The names 'jay', 'treepie' and 'magpie' are to a certain extent interchangeable, and do not reflect an...
Tufted Puffin
The Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata) is a medium-sized pelagic seabird measuring about 30 cm in length and weighing roughly three quarters of a kilogram. It is mostly black with a white facial patch, and a very large bill. The yellow tufts for which...
Rhinoceros Auklet
The Rhinoceros Auklet (Cerorhinca monocerata) is a seabird considered by some to be a close relative of the puffin. It is the only member of the genus Cerorhinca. It ranges widely across the North Pacific feeding on small fish and nesting in mixed s...
Least Auklet
The Least Auklet (Aethia pusilla) is a seabird and the smallest species of auk. It the most abundant seabird in North America, and one of the most abundant in the world, with a population of around nine million birds. They breed on the islands of Alask...
Whiskered Auklet
The Whiskered Auklet (Aethia pygmaea) is a small seabird of the auk family. It has a more restricted range than other members of its genus, Aethia, living only around the Aleutian Islands and on some islands off Siberia (like Commander Islands). It als...
Crested Auklet
The Crested Auklet is a small seabird of the family Alcidae which nests in huge colonies (greater than 1 million individuals) in the Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk. They often breed in mixed-species colonies with Least Auklets, their smaller relative. ...
Cassin's Auklet
The Cassin's Auklet is a small, stocky seabird that ranges widely in the North Pacific. It nests in small burrows and because of its presence on well studied islands in British Columbia and off California it is one of the better known auks. It is named...
Ancient Murrelet
The Ancient Murrelet (Synthliboramphus antiquus) is a bird of the auk family. It breeds in colonies principally on the Aleutian Islands and other Alaskan islands. They female lays one or two eggs directly amongst tree roots or in rock crevices. Thes...
Xantus's Murrelet
Xantus's Murrelet (Synthliboramphus hypoleucus) is a small auk found in the California Current system in the Pacific Ocean. This small seabird breeds on islands off California and Mexico. The species is named for the Hungarian ornithologist John Xantus...
Kittlitz's Murrelet
The Kittlitz's Murrelet (Brachyramphus brevirostris) is a small auk found in the waters off Alaska and Eastern Siberia. This critically endangered species is, like the closely related Marbled Murrelet, is not colonial. Instead it chooses to nest in iso...
Pigeon Guillemot
The Pigeon Guillemot (Cepphus columba) is a medium-sized auk common to the Pacific. They closely resemble the other members of the genus Cepphus, particularly the Black Guillemot, which it is slightly larger than. Adult birds have black bodies with ...
Black Guillemot
The Black Guillemot or Tystie (Cepphus grille) is a medium-sized auk measuring 32-38 cm in length, and with a 49-58 cm wingspan. Adult birds have black bodies with a white wing patch, a thin dark bill and red legs and feet. They show white wing lini...
Great Auk
At 30 inches (75 centimeters), the flightless Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) was the largest of the auks. It was hunted for food, as well as for down for mattresses, from at least the 8th century. It is classified as the only species in the genus Pingu...
Brünnich's Guillemot
The Brünnich's Guillemot, or Thick-billed Murre (Uria lomvia) is a bird in the auk family that breeds on coasts and islands in the high Arctic of Europe, Asia and North America. It is one of the most numerous birds in the high arctic. These birds...
Common Guillemot
The Common Guillemot, also known as the Common Murre in North America (Uria aalge) is a large auk measuring 38-46 cm in length and with a wingspan of 61-73 cm. They are black on the head, back and wings, and have white underparts. They have a thin d...
Little Auk
The Little Auk, or Dovekie (Alle alle) is a small auk, and the only member of the genus Alle. It breeds on islands in the high Arctic. There are two subspecies: A. a. alle which breeds in Greenland, Iceland, Novaya Zemlya and Spitzbergen, and A. a. pol...
Auk
PHOTO CAPTION:Common and Thick-billed Murres Auks are birds of the family Alcidae in the order Charadriiformes. They are similar to penguins because of their black-and-white colors, upright posture and certain habits. Even so, they are not related t...
Hornby's Storm-petrel
The Hornby's Storm-petrel or Ringed Storm-petrel (Oceanodroma hornbyi) is a scantily known seabird that ranges in the Humboldt Current off the coasts of South America. The species is a very distinctive member of the storm-petrel family, with its dark c...
Ashy Storm-petrel
The Ashy Storm-petrel (Oceanodroma homochroa) is a small, scarce seabird of the storm-petrel family Hydrobatidae. Breeding colonies can be found on islands off the coasts of California and Mexico, and it is one of 6 species of storm petrel that live an...
Leach's Storm-petrel
The Leach's Storm-petrel or Leach's Petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa) is a small seabird of the tubenose family. It prefers to breed on inaccessible islands in the colder northern areas of the Atlantic and Pacific. It nests in colonies close to the sea in...
European Storm-petrel
The European Storm-petrel or Storm Petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus) is a small bird of the storm-petrel family, Hydrobatidae, part of the seabird order Procellariiformes. It is also the sole member of the genus Hydrobates. It breeds on inaccessible isl...
Wilson's Storm-petrel
The Wilson's Storm-petrel or Wilson's Petrel (Oceanites oceanicus) is a small seabird of the storm-petrel family Hydrobatidae. It breeds in colonies on the Antarctic coastlines and nearby islands such as the South Shetland Islands. Preferred nesting...
Storm-petrel
PHOTO CAPTION: Markham's Storm-petrel The storm-petrels are seabirds in the family Hydrobatidae, and part of the order Procellariiformes. They are the smallest of seabirds and relatives of the petrels. They feed on planktonic crustaceans and small f...
Inca Tern
The Inca Tern (Larosterna inca) is a seabird in the family Sternidae and the only member of the genus Larosterna. This unique bird breeds on the coasts of Peru and Chile, and is restricted to the Humboldt Current. The Inca Tern breeds on rocky cl...
White Tern
The White Tern (Gygis alba) is a small seabird found across the tropical oceans of the world. Often known as the Fairy Tern, this beautiful tern is famous for laying its egg on bare thin branches in a small fork or depression without a nest. They use t...
Black Noddy
The Black Noddy is tern whose Latin name, Anous minutus, means "small, stupid bird," supposedly named because these birds would create nests on old sailing ships, where they provided a welcome change in diet for the sailors aboard. It is also called th...
White-winged Tern
The White-winged Tern (Chlidonias leucopterus) - sometimes referred to as the White-winged Black Tern - is a small tern. The name 'White-winged Tern' is the standard in most English-speaking countries; in Britain, this name is also the one used by the ...
Whiskered Tern
The Whiskered Tern (Chlidonias hybridus) is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae and is the largest of all marsh terns. This bird has a number of geographical races, differing mainly in size and minor plumage details. C. h. hybridus breeds in the ...
Sooty Tern
The Sooty Tern (Sterna fuscata) is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. It can be found in tropical oceans and it breeds on islands throughout the equatorial zone. This bird is migratory, wintering more widely through the tropical oceans. It prefers...
Bridled Tern
The Bridled Tern (Sterna anaethetus) is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. It is found in tropical oceans: the Atlantic race breeds in Mexico, the Caribbean and west Africa, and other races around Arabia and in southeast Asia and Australasia. T...
Arctic Tern
The Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea) is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. The call is a clear piping, similar to that of the Common Tern, but higher pitched and more strident. This bird has a circumpolar distribution and can be found in abunda...
Common Tern
The Common Tern (Sterna hirundo) is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. This bird has a circumpolar distribution and breeds in temperate and sub-arctic regions of Europe, Asia and east and central North America. It is strongly migratory, wintering ...
River Tern
The River Tern (Sterna aurantia) is a bird in the tern family . This resident breeder can be found along inland rivers from Iran east through India and Myanmar to Thailand (where it is uncommon). It does not occur in Sri Lanka. Unlike most Sterna terns...
Sandwich Tern
The Sandwich Tern (Sterna sandvicensis) is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. Sometimes it is placed in an alternative genus as Thalasseus sandvicensis. This bird has three races: S. s. sandvicensis breeds on the Atlantic and Mediterranean c...
Lesser Crested Tern
The Lesser Crested Tern (Sterna bengalensis or sometimes Thalasseus bengalensis) is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. Its breeding habitat can be found in subtropical coastal parts of the world mainly from the Red Sea across the Indian Ocean t...
Gull-billed Tern
The Gull-billed Tern (Sterna nilotica or Gelochelidon nilotica) is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. It breeds in warmer parts of the world. It can be found in southern Europe (and a very small isolated population in northern Germany and Denma...
Tern
Terns are seabirds in the family Sternidae. They were previously considered to be a subfamily (Sterninae) of the gull family Laridae. They are less closely related to the waders, auks and skimmers and are found worldwide. Most terns belong to the la...
Oriental Darter
The Oriental Darter or Indian Darter (Anhinga melanogaster) - sometimes called Snakebird - is a water bird found in tropical southern Asia and Indonesia. It is a cormorant-like species that has a very long neck. It often swims with only the neck above ...
Anhinga
The Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga), often referred to as Snakebird, Darter, or American Darter, is a water bird that prefers the warmer parts of North America and South America. It is a cormorant-like bird with an average body length of 85 cm, a wingspan...
Darter
Darters (also called snake birds) are water birds with very long necks and long, straight beaks. They often swim with only the neck above water, and are specialist fish-eaters. Depending on the authority, there are either two or four closely-related...
Australian Pelican
The Australian Pelican or Goolayyalibee (Pelecanus conspicillatus) is an unmistakable large water bird. It is widespread on the inland and in coastal waters of Australia and New Guinea, also in Fiji, parts of Indonesia and as a vagrant to New Zealand. ...
Pink-backed Pelican
The Pink-backed Pelican (Pelecanus rufescens) is a member of the pelican family. It is a resident breeder in Africa, southern Arabia and Madagascar in swamps and shallow lakes. The nest is built with a large heap of sticks, into which 2-3 large white e...
Dalmatian Pelican
The Dalmatian Pelican (Pelecanus crispus) is a member of the pelican family that can be found from southeastern Europe through Asia to China in swamps and shallow lakes. The nest is a crude heap of vegetation. This large pelican measures 170 cm leng...
White Pelican
The White Pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus) is a bird in the pelican family. This rather large pelican measures on average 160 cm in length and has a wingspan of 280 cm. The White Pelican is known to breed across southeastern Europe through Asia. Suit...
Peruvian Pelican
The Peruvian Pelican (Pelecanus thagus) is a member of the pelican family which lives on the west coast of South America, from Lobos de Tierra Island in Peru to Pupuya Islet in Chile. These birds are dark in color with a white stripe from the top of...
Pelican
Pelicans are very large water birds with a distinctive pouch under the beak that belong to the bird Pelecanidae. Along with the darters, cormorants, gannets, boobies, frigatebirds, and tropicbirds, they make up the order Pelecaniformes. Like other bird...
White-throated Sparrow
The White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) is a passerine bird of the American sparrow family Emberizidae. This North American species breeds in central Canada and New England and nests either on the ground under shrubs or low in trees in d...
White-crowned Sparrow
The White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys) is a medium-sized sparrow found in brushy areas across northern Canada and the western United States. They prefer to nest either on the ground, low in bushes or under shrubs. Adult birds have black ...
Field Sparrow
The Field Sparrow (Spizella pusilla) is a small sparrow with brown upperparts, a light brown breast, a white belly, wing bars and a forked tail. They have a grey face, a rusty crown, a white eye ring and a pink bill. They prefer shrubby fields and c...
Clay-colored Sparrow
The Clay-colored Sparrow (Spizella pallida) is a small sparrow found in shrubby open areas and Jack Pine woods across central Canada and central northern United States east to the Great Lakes. They build their nests on the ground or low in a shrub. ...
Vesper Sparrow
The Vesper Sparrow (Pooecetes gramineus) is a medium-sized sparrow and the lone member of the genus Pooecetes. Adults are light brown on top, lighter underneath. Throughout their plumage is darker streaking. They have a white eye ring and a long dar...
Abert's Towhee
The Abert's Towhee (Pipilo aberti) is a bird of the family Emberizidae, which is currently threatened by cowbird nest parasitism and habitat loss in its small range along the U.S. state of Arizona's borders with California, Nevada, New Mexico, and Mexi...
California Towhee
The California Towhee (Pipilo crissalis) is a bird of the family Emberizidae. It is native to the coastal regions of the western Oregon and California in the United States and Baja California in Mexico. The taxonomy of this species has been debated ...
Spotted Towhee
The Spotted Towhee (Pipilo maculatus) is a large sparrow with rufous sides, a white belly and a long dark tail with white edges. Their eyes are red and they have white spots on their back and white wing bars. Males have a dark head, upper body and tail...
Eastern Towhee
The Eastern Towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) is a large sparrow with rufous sides, a white belly and a long dark tail with white edges. The eyes are red (white for birds in the southeast). Males have a dark head, upper body and tail; these parts are br...
Fox Sparrow
The Fox Sparrow (Passerella iliaca) is a large sparrow and the sole member of the genus Passerella. Adults of this bird are heavily spotted and streaked underneath. In eastern and northern birds, the upper parts, wings, rump and tail are rusty and t...
Savannah Sparrow
The Savannah Sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis) is a small sparrow and the only member of the genus Passerculus. This passerine bird breeds in Alaska, Canada, northern, central and Pacific coastal USA, Mexico and Guatemala. The Pacific and Mexican ...
Swamp Sparrow
The Swamp Sparrow (Melospiza Georgiana) is a medium-sized sparrow with a slow monotone trill, slower than that of the Chipping Sparrow. Adults have streaked rusty and black upperparts with a grey breast, light belly and a white throat. They have a r...
Lincoln's Sparrow
The Lincoln's Sparrow (Melospiza lincolnii) is a medium-sized sparrow that was named by Audubon after his friend, Thomas Lincoln. Adult birds have dark-streaked olive-brown upperparts, a light brown breast with fine streaks, a white belly and a whit...
Song Sparrow
The Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia) is a medium-sized sparrow with brown upperparts, dark streaks on the back and white underparts. They also have dark streaking and a dark brown spot in the middle of the breast. They have a brown cap and a long brown...
Dark-eyed Junco
The Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis) is the best-known species of junco, a genus of small American sparrows. Adult juncos are generally grey on top and have a white belly and white outer tail feathers. The bill is usually pinkish. Other than those s...
Lark Sparrow
The Lark Sparrow (Chondestes grammacus) is a fairly large sparrow and is the sole member of the genus Chondestes. This passerine bird breeds in southern Canada, much of the USA, as well as northern Mexico. It is sometimes found in the east but is be...
Lark Bunting
The Lark Bunting (Calamospiza melanocorys) is a medium-sized sparrow and the sole member of the genus Calamospiza. This bird has a characteristic large pale bill and pale wing patch. During times of breeding sdult males are completely black, all exc...
Grasshopper Sparrow
The Grasshopper Sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum) is one of the smaller sparrows. Adults have upperparts streaked with brown, grey, black and white. Additionally they have a light brown breast, white belly and a short brown tail. Their face is light brow...
Baird's Sparrow
The Baird's Sparrow (Ammodramus bairdii) is a small sparrow with a large bill, a large flat head and a short forked tail. The upperparts are brown and the underparts white, with streaking on the back, breast, and flanks. The face, nape, and crown strip...
Henslow's Sparrow
The Henslow's Sparrow (Ammodramus henslowii) is a small sparrow with streaked brown upperparts, a light brown breast with streaks, and a white belly and throat. They have a pale stripe otop the crown and a dark stripe on each side, an olive face and ne...
Le Conte's Sparrow
The Le Conte's Sparrow (Ammodramus leconteii) is a small sparrow with streaked dark and light brown upperparts and a light brown breast. Their belly is white and they have fine streaks on their sides. They have a large flat head with a light crown stri...
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
The Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow (Ammodramus nelsoni) is a small sparrow. This bird and the Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow were once considered to be a single species, the Sharp-tailed Sparrow. Adult birds have brownish upperparts and grey on the c...
American sparrow
American sparrows are a group of mainly New World passerine birds and form part of the family Emberizidae. American sparrows are more closely related to Old World buntings (family Emberizidae) than they are to the Old World sparrows (family Passerid...
Mountain Plover
The Mountain Plover is a medium-sized ground bird in the plover family. Unlike its name suggests, this bird lives on level land and unlike most plovers, it prefers it prefers dry habitat with short grass or bare ground. The Mountain Plover breeds in...
Eurasian Dotterel
The Eurasian Dotterel (Charadrius morinellus) is a small wader in the plover family of birds. This bird breeds in the arctic tundra of northern Eurasia from Norway to eastern Siberia, and on suitable mountain plateaus such as those found in the Scot...
Kentish Plover
The Kentish Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) is a small wader in the plover bird family. Despite its name, this species no longer breeds in Great Britain. It breeds in most subtropical and tropical parts of the world, from southern Europe to Japan a...
Killdeer
The Killdeer, Charadrius vociferus, is a medium-sized plover with a brown back and wings, a white belly, and a white breast with two black bands. The rump is tawny orange and the face and cap are brown with a white forehead. They breed in open field...
Wilson's Plover
The Wilson's Plover (Charadrius wilsonia) is a small plover and coastal wader which breeds on both coasts of the Americas from the equator northwards. Its range extends north to include much of the USA eastern coast and the west coast of Mexico in the ...
Little Ringed Plover
The Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius) is a small plover with a grey-brown back and wings, a white belly, and a white breast with one black neckband. They have a brown cap, a white forehead, a black mask around the eyes with white above and a sho...
Ringed Plover
The Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula is a small plover with adults being on average 17-19.5 cm in length and with a 35-41 cm wingspan. They have a grey-brown back and wings, a white belly, and a white breast with one black neckband. They have a b...
New Zealand Dotterel
The New Zealand Dotterel (Charadrius obscurus) - also referred to as the Red-breasted Plover - is an endangered species and is found only in certain areas of New Zealand. Its Maori name is tuturiwhatu pukunui. It is related to the Eurasian dotterel ...
Grey Plover
The Grey Plover (Pluvialis squatarola), also known as the Black-bellied Plover in North America, is a medium-sized plover with spotted black and white on the back and wings. Their face and neck are black with a white border and they have a black breast...
Pacific Golden Plover
The Pacific Golden Plover (Pluvialis fulva) is a medium-sized plover with spotted gold and black on its crown, back and wings. Their face and neck are black with a white border and they have a black breast and a dark rump. The legs are black. In winter...
Eurasian Golden Plover
The Eurasian Golden Plover, Pluvialis apricaria, is a largish plover with spotted gold and black on the crown, back and wings. Their face and neck are black with a white border; they have a black breast and a dark rump. The legs are black. In winter, t...
Plover
Plovers are a widely distributed group of wading birds belonging to the subfamily Charadriinae. There are about 40 species in the subfamily, most of them called "plover" or "dotterel". The closely related lapwing subfamily (Vanellinae) comprises anothe...
Pied Avocet
The Pied Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta) is a large wader in the avocet and stilt family, Recurvirostridae. Except for a black cap and black patches on the wings and the back, the plumage of adults is white. They have long, upturned bills and long, ...
Avocet
The four species of Avocets are waders in the same bird family as the stilts and are found in warm or hot climates. They have long legs and long, thin, upcurved bills. They use their bills to sweep from side to side when feeding in the brackish or s...
Caribbean Flamingo
The Caribbean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) is a large species of flamingo closely related to the Greater Flamingo and the Chilean Flamingo. It breeds in the Galapagos Islands, coastal Colombia and Venezuela as well as nearby islands, the Yucatan ...
Chilean Flamingo
The Chilean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus chilensis) is a large species (110-130 cm) that is closely related to Caribbean Flamingo and the Greater Flamingo. It occurs in temperate South America and, like all other flamingo species it lays a single chalk...
Andean Flamingo
The Andean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus andinus) is a Flamingo which is restricted to the Chilean Andes. It is closely related to James's Flamingo. Like all flamingos it lays a single chalky white egg on a mud mound. Its population in Northern Chile was...
James Flamingo
The James's Flamingo (Phoenicopterus jamesi), also known as the Puna Flamingo, is a South American flamingo which breeds on the high Andean plateaus of Peru, Chile, Bolivia and Argentina. It is related to the Chilean Flamingo and the Andean Flamingo. ...
Lesser Flamingo
The Lesser Flamingo (Phoenicopterus minor) is a species of Flamingo which occurs in Africa (principally in the Great Rift Valley), across to northwest India. It is the smallest and most numerous flamingo, most likely numbering up to a million individua...
Greater Flamingo
The Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus) is the most prevalent species of the Flamingo family. It is found in parts of Africa, southwest Asia (including Turkey), southern Asia (coastal regions of India) and southern Europe (including Spain and the ...
Flamingo
Flamingos (genus Phoenicopterus monotypic in family Phoenicopteridae) are sociable wading birds, usually 3"“5 feet in height, and are found in both the Western and Eastern Hemispheres. They are more numerous in the latter, but there are four species ...
Alpine Chough
The Alpine Chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus), also called Yellow-billed Chough is a Eurasian member of the crow family, Corvidae. The breeding habitat of this bird is found in the highest mountains of southern Europe, the Alps, across central Asia and I...
Galápagos Penguin
The Galápagos Penguin (Spheniscus mendiculus) is a penguin common to the Galápagos Islands. It is the only penguin to live on the equator. Its nearest relatives are the African Penguin, the Magellanic Penguin and the Humboldt Penguin. The Galá...
Humboldt Penguin
The Humboldt Penguin (Spheniscus humboldti) is a South American species which breeds in coastal Peru and Chile. Its nearest relatives are the African Penguin, the Magellanic Penguin and the Galápagos Penguin. Thise penguin is named after Alexander v...
Magellanic Penguin
The Magellanic penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus) is a South American penguin which breeds in coastal Argentina, Chile and the Falkland Islands, with some migrating to Brazil. It is the most numerous of the Spheniscus penguins. Its nearest relatives are...
African Penguin
The African Penguin (Spheniscus demersus) is also known as the Jackass Penguin (after its donkey-like braying call). This penguin can be found on the south-western coast of Africa, living in colonies on 24 islands between Namibia and Algoa Bay, near Po...
White-flippered Penguin
The White-Flippered Penguin (Eudyptula albosignata) is the smallest species of penguin found in New Zealand. It nests only on Banks Peninsula and Motunau Island and is considered to be endangered with only around 3,750 breeding pairs. It is often consi...
Little Penguin
Little Penguins (Eudyptula minor) have several common names. In Australia they are often referred to as Fairy Penguins due to their small size. In New Zealand they are called Little Blue Penguins or just Blue Penguins owing to their plumage color, the ...
Yellow-eyed Penguin
The Yellow-eyed Penguin (Megadyptes antipodes), sometimes referred to as Hoiho, is a penguin found in New Zealand, on the south-east coast of South Island, Foveaux Strait and Stewart Island/Rakiura, and Auckland and Campbell Islands. This is a mediu...
Macaroni Penguin
The Macaroni Penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus) is a species of penguin which is closely related to the Rockhopper Penguin. This is black and white penguin with a yellowish orange plume located above its eye. It typically lays two eggs but abandons the...
Erect-crested Penguin
The Erect-crested Penguin (Eudyptes sclateri) is found in New Zealand and breeds on the Bounty and Antipodes Islands in large colonies on rocky terrain. This is a medium-sized, yellow-crested, black-and-white penguin that grows to approximately 60cm...
Royal Penguin
The Royal Penguin (Eudyptes schlegeli) inhabits the waters surrounding Antarctica. They closely resemble Macaroni Penguins, but instead have a white face and chin instead of the Macaronis' black face. They stand up to 70 cm tall and weigh between 4 and...
Snares Penguin
The Snares Penguin (Eudyptes robustus) is a penguin that can be found in New Zealand. It is also known as the Snares Crested Penguin and the Snares Islands Penguin. It breeds on The Snares, a group of islands off the southern coast of the South Island....
Fiordland Penguin
The Fiordland Penguin (Eudyptes pachyrhynchus) is a penguin found in New Zealand. It breeds along the coast and on islands off the Fiordland coast (i.e. south-west of the South Island) as well as on Stewart Island/Rakiura. This is a medium-sized, ye...
Rockhopper Penguin
The Rockhopper Penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) is a species of penguin which is closely related to the Macaroni Penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus). The Rockhopper is the smallest yellow-crested, black-and-white penguin, reaching a length of 55cm. Its upp...
Chinstrap Penguin
The Chinstrap Penguin (Pygoscelis antarctica) is a species of penguin which can be found in the South Sandwich Islands, Antarctica, the South Orkneys, South Shetland, South Georgia, Bouvet Island, Balleny and Peter I Island. The name derives from the t...
Adelie Penguin
The Adelie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) is, along with the Emperor Penguin, one of the only two types of penguin living on the mainland of Antarctica. It is named after French explorer Dumont d'Urville's wife, Adelie. They form large colonies on the co...
Gentoo Penguin
The Gentoo Penguin (Pygoscelis papua) is easily identifiable by the wide white stripe extending like a bonnet across the top of its head. Chicks have grey backs with white fronts. Adult Gentoos reach a height of 75 to 90 cm. They are considered to be t...
Emperor Penguin
The Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) is the largest of all penguins and is the only penguin that breeds at the height of winter in Antarctica. Emperor Penguins eat mainly crustaceans (such as krill) but will also occasionally indulge in small fis...
King Penguin
The King Penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) is the second largest species of penguin. At about 3 ft (900 mm) tall and weighing 24 to 33 lb (11 to 15 kg), it is second only to the Emperor Penguin in size and weight. Currently there is a world population ...
Penguin
Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are flightless birds found in the southern hemisphere. Species and habitats There are 17 to 18 species known worldwide, depending on whether the two Eudyptula species are counted as distinct. ...
Acorn Woodpecker
The Acorn Woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus) is a medium-sized woodpecker with a black head, back, wings and tail. They have a white forehead, throat, belly and rump and their eyes are white. Adult males have a red cap starting at their forehead; fem...
Southern Ground-hornbill
The Southern Ground Hornbill (Bucorvus leadbeateri) is one of two species of ground-hornbill. This large-sized bird measures between 90 and 129 cm and is characterized by black coloration and vivid red-colored face and throat patches (yellow in juve...
Abyssinian Ground-hornbill
The Abyssinian Ground-hornbill Bucorvus abyssinicus (also known as Northern Ground-hornbill) is one of two species of ground-hornbill. The other is the Southern Ground-hornbill.
Hornbill
Hornbills (Family Bucerotidae) are a group of birds whose bill is shaped like a cow's horn, but without a twist, sometimes with a casque on the upper mandible. Frequently, the bill is brightly colored. Both the common English and the scientific name...
Wagtail
The wagtails are a group of small passerine birds with long tails which they frequently wag. Motacilla, the root of the family and main generic name, means moving tail. Wagtails are slender, often colorful, ground-feeding insectivores of open countr...
Canada Goose
The Canada goose (Branta canadensis), also called the Canadian Goose in North America, belongs to the Branta genus of geese. This genus contains species with largely black plumage, distinguishing them from the grey Anser species. The species name, cana...
Altamira Oriole
The Altamira Oriole (Icterus gularis) is a New World oriole which is widespread in the subtropical lowlands of the Mexican Gulf Coast and northern Central America. It can also be found in the extreme south of Texas. This bird nests in open woodlands...
American Avocet
The American Avocet (Recurvirostra americana) is a large wader in the avocet and stilt family, Recurvirostridae. Adults have long legs, a rust head and neck, a long up-turned bill and a white lower body with a distinctive black and white pattern on ...
American Bittern
The American Bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus) is a wading bird of the heron family Ardeidae. It is a large, chunky, brown bird 59-70 cm in length and with a 95-115 cm wingspan. Although common in much of its range, the American bittern is usually wel...
American Goldfinch
The Eastern or American Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis) is a typical North American seed-eating member of the finch (Fringillidae) family. Also known as the Wild Canary, it averages 11 cm in length and breeds across southern Canada from British Columbia ...
American Redstart
The American Redstart, Setophaga ruticilla, is a New World warbler. It breeds in North America across southern Canada and the eastern USA. Being a migratory bird, it winters in Central America, the West Indies and northern South America. It has been...
American Dipper
The American Dipper (Cinclus mexicanus), also known as a Water Ouzel, is a stocky dark grey bird. Its head is sometimes tinged with brown and it has long legs, and bobs its whole body up and down during pauses as it feeds on the bottom of fast-moving, ...
American Golden Plover
The American Golden Plover (Pluvialis dominica) is a medium-sized plover with spotted gold and black on it's crown, back and wings. Their face and neck are black with a white border and they have a black breast and a dark rump with black legs. It is...
American Kestrel
The American kestrel (Falco sparverius) is a small falcon that breeds in open and semi-open areas across most of North America to South America. They nest in cavities or nesting boxes and the male provides food for the female during nesting. Adults ...
American Tree Sparrow
The American Tree Sparrow (Spizella arborea) is a medium-sized sparrow that has a rusty cap and grey under-parts with a small dark spot on the breast. They have a rusty back with lighter stripes, brown wings with white bars and a slim tail. Their face ...
American White Pelican
The American White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) is a very large (50""“70") white bird with black wing tips and an enormous orange bill. They have a wing span of approximately 3 m and are graceful in flight, moving their wings in slow powerful ...
American Wigeon
The American Wigeon or Baldpate (Anas americana) is a common and widespread duck which breeds in the northernmost areas of North America: in Canada in Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba, Alaska, and the Northwest Territories and the Great Lakes. It is the...
American Woodcock
The American Woodcock (Scolopax minor) is a small chunky shorebird with short pinkish legs and a very long straight bill. The body is patterned cinnamon on top and a lighter brown underneath. They have large eyes located high in the head. The wings are...
Anna's Hummingbird
The Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna) is a medium-sized hummingbird with glossy green backs and grey undersides and green flanks. Their bill is long, straight and slender. The adult male has a glossy red crown and throat and a dark tail. Females and ju...
Black-throated Diver
Black-throated Diver, known in North America as the Arctic Loon (Gavia arctica), is a medium-sized member of the loon or diver family. It breeds in Eurasia and occasionally in western Alaska and winters at sea or on large lakes over a much wider ran...
Atlantic Puffin
The Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) is an auk with a brightly colored beak. It is a pelagic seabird that feeds primarily by diving for fish. Atlantic Puffins breed in large colonies, nesting in crevices or burrows. This particular puffin is 28-...
Baird's Sandpiper
The Baird's Sandpiper, Calidris bairdii is a small shorebird. Adults have black legs and a short thin dark bill. They are dark brown on top and mainly white underneath with a black patch on the rump. The head and breast are light brown with dark str...
Baltimore Oriole
The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula) is a small icterid blackbird with a pointed bill and white bars on the wings. The adult male is orange on the underparts, shoulder patch and rump with black everywhere else. The adult female is yellow-brown on the...
Bar-tailed Godwit
The Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica) is a large shorebird. It is a relatively short-legged member of the godwit genus. Adults have blue-grey legs and a very long dark bill with a slight upward curve and pink at the tip. The neck, breast and bell...
Vireo
The vireos are a group of small to medium sized passerine birds restricted to the New World. They are typically greenish in color and, apart from their heavier bills, resemble wood warblers. The four genera of these insectivorous birds make up the f...
Common Scoter
The Common Scoter (Melanitta nigra) is a large sea duck, 44-54 cm in length, which breeds over the far north of Europe, Asia and North America. There are two subspecies; the American race (M. n. Americana), known as the Black Scoter, is sometimes given...
Black Tern
The Black Tern (Chlidonias niger) is a small tern with short dark legs and a short black bill. They have a dark grey back, with black head, neck and belly with a light grey tail. In non-breeding plumage, most of the black, apart from the cap, is replac...
Black-billed Magpie
The Black-billed Magpie is a large bird in the crow family that occurs in the western half of North America from Alaska to Oklahoma. Externally, it is almost identical with European Magpie (Pica pica) and is often considered specific. However, the Amer...
American Black Duck
The American Black Duck (Anas rubripes) is a medium-sized dabbling duck. The adult male has a yellow bill, a dark body, lighter head and neck, orange legs and dark eyes. The adult female has a similar appearance. Both sexes have a shiny purple-blue ...
Oystercatcher
The Oystercatchers are a group of waders that form the family Haematopodidae, which has a single genus, Haematopus. They are large obvious and noisy plover-like birds, with strong bills used for smashing or prying open mollusks. In some species, the...
Skimmer
The Skimmers are a small family of tern-like birds in the order Charadriiformes. This order also includes the waders, gulls and auks. The three species have an elongated lower mandible. They feed by flying low over the water surface with the lower m...
Blue-winged Teal
The Blue-winged Teal (Anas discors) is a small dabbling duck. The adult male has a grayish blue head with a white facial crescent, a light brown body with a white patch near the rear and a black tail. The adult female is mottled brown. Both sexes ha...
Bobolink
The Bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) is a small New World blackbird and the only member of genus Dolichonyx. Adults are 16-18 cm long with a short finch-like bill. The adult male is mainly black with a creamy nape and white scapulars, lower back and...
Bonaparte's Gull
The Bonaparte's Gull (Larus Philadelphia) is a small gull with a black hood and a short thin dark bill. Their body is mainly white with pale gray back and upper wings. The underwing is pale and the wing tips are dark. They have orange legs. In winter, ...
Bullock's Oriole
The Bullock's oriole (Icterus bullockii) is a small blackbird. At one time, this species and the Baltimore oriole were considered to be a single species, the Northern oriole. Adults have a pointed bill. The adult male is orange on the underparts, fa...
Cactus Wren
The Cactus Wren (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus) is the largest North American wren, and is 18-23 cm (7-9 inches) long. Unlike the smaller wrens, the Cactus Wren is easily seen. It has the loud voice characteristic of wrens, but its song is harsh a...
California Quail
The California quail (Callipepla californica) is a small ground-dwelling bird in the New World quail family. These birds have a curving crest that droops forward - black in males and brown for females. The flanks are brown with white streaks. Males ...
Cape May Warbler
The Cape May Warbler (Dendroica tigrina) is a small New World warbler. It breeds in northern North America across all but the westernmost parts of southern Canada, and into the Great Lakes region and New England. It is migratory, wintering in the West ...
Northern Cardinal
The Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) is a member of the Cardinal family of birds in North America. The bird's name comes from the red-robed Roman Catholic Cardinals. Its crested head is also said to resemble a bishop's miter. Cardinals have be...
Cedar Waxwing
The Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum) is a member of the family Bombycillidae or waxwing family of passerine birds. It breeds in open wooded areas in North America, principally southern Canada and the northern United States. Movements outside the bre...
Cerulean Warbler
The Cerulean Warbler (Dendroica cerulean) is a small songbird of the New World warbler family. Adult males have pale blue upperparts and white underparts with a black necklace across the breast; they have black streaks on the back and flanks. Female...
Chipping Sparrow
The Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerine) is a small sparrow that have a rusty cap, a dark bill and grey underparts. They have a tan back with dark stripes, brown wings with white bars and a slim tail. Their face is grey with a black line through the e...
Cinnamon Teal
The Cinnamon Teal (Anas cyanoptera) is a small dabbling duck. The adult male has a cinnamon-red head and body with a brown back, a red eye and a dark bill. The adult female has a mottled brown body, a pale brown head, brown eyes and a grey bill and ...
Clark's Grebe
The Clark's Grebe (Aechmophorus clarkia) is a North American member of the grebe family of water birds. Up until the 1980s, it was thought to be a pale morph of the Western Grebe, which it resembles in size, range, and behavior. Intermediates betwee...
Clark's Nutcracker
The Clark's Nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana) is a large passerine bird in the family Corvidae. It is slightly smaller than its Eurasian relative, Spotted Nutcracker (N. caryocatactes). It is ashy-grey all over except for the black-and-white wings and ...
Common Eider
The Common Eider (Somateria mollissima) is a large sea duck which is distributed over the northern coasts of Europe, North America and eastern Siberia. It breeds in Arctic and some northern temperate regions, but winters somewhat further south in tempe...
Common Gull
The Common Gull (Larus canus) is a medium-sized gull which breeds across North America (where it is called Mew Gull), Europe and Asia. It migrates further south in winter. There are two distinct populations in North America. The shorter-billed Ameri...
Common Snipe
The Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago) is a small, stocky shorebird. Adults are 23-28 cm in length with a 39-45 cm wingspan. They have short greenish-grey legs and a very long straight dark bill. The body is mottled brown on top and pale underneath. Th...
Common Teal
The Common Teal or Teal (Anas crecca) is a common and widespread duck which breeds in the northernmost areas of Europe and Asia. It is the Old World counterpart of the North American Green-winged Teal (Anas carolinensis) with which it is sometimes cons...
Common Yellowthroat
The Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas) is a New World warbler with breeding habitat located in North America from southern Canada to central Mexico. Northern races are migratory, wintering in the southern parts of the breeding range, Central A...
Condor
Condor is the name for two species of bird in one of the vulture family. They are the largest flying land birds in the Western Hemisphere. The South American Condor (Vultur gryphus) inhabits the Andes Mountains. The California Condor (Gymnogyps cali...
Thrasher
Thrashers are a New World group of passerine birds related to mockingbirds and New World catbirds. Their common name describes the behavior of these birds when searching for food on the ground: they use their long bills to "thrash" through dirt or d...
Double-crested Cormorant
The Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) is a North American member of the cormorant family of seabirds. This species is very common and widespread. They breed in coastal areas as well as near inland rivers and lakes, building stick nes...
Eastern Screech Owl
The Eastern Screech Owl (Otus asio) is a small owl which has either rusty or dark grey intricately patterned plumage with streaking on the underparts. Small and stocky, short-tailed and broad-winged, they have a large round head with ear tufts, yellow ...
Trogon
The Trogons (and the Quetzals) are birds in the order Trogoniformes. This order contains only one family, Trogonidae: so-called because these birds gnaw holes in trees to make their nests. They are residents of tropical forests, particularly in South A...
Emperor Goose
The Emperor Goose (Anser canagicus) is a species of goose that breeds around the Bering Sea, mostly in Alaska, USA, but also in Kamchatka, Russia. It is migratory, wintering mainly in the Aleutian Islands. The American ornithologist, David Sibley, p...
Evening Grosbeak
The Evening Grosbeak (Coccothraustes vespertinus) is a large finch that, in the past, was treated in a genus of its own as Hesperiphona vespertina. It is now usually treated in the same genus as the European & Asian Hawfinch. Their breeding habitat ...
Forster's Tern
The Forster's Tern (Sterna forsteri) is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. It breeds inland in North America and winters south to the Caribbean and northern South America. Although rare, this species is annual in Western Europe, and has been kn...
Gadwall
The Gadwall (Anas strepera) is a common and widespread duck that breeds in the northern areas of Europe and Asia and central North America. The range of this bird appears to be expanding into eastern North America. This dabbling duck is migratory in...
Golden-crowned Kinglet
The Golden-crowned Kinglet (Regulus satrapa) is a very small songbird characterized by their olive-grey upperparts, white underparts, thin bill and short tail. They have white wing bars, a black stripe through the eyes and a yellow crown surrounded by ...
Goshawk
The Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) is a medium to large bird of prey in the family Accipitridae which also includes many other daytime raptors such as eagles, buzzards and harriers. It is a widespread species throughout the temperate parts of the nort...
Gray-cheeked Thrush
The Gray-cheeked Thrush (Catharus minimus) is a medium-sized thrush 15-17 cm in length. It has the white-dark-white underwing pattern characteristic of Catharus thrushes. Adults are olive-brown on the upperparts. The underparts are white with gray o...
Great Horned Owl
The Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) is a very large owl found in wooded or heavily shrubbed areas across North America and parts of South America. They are permanent residents, but may wander after the nesting season. Adults have large ear tufts...
Greater Yellowlegs
The Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca) is a large shorebird similar in appearance to the smaller Lesser Yellowlegs. Adults have long yellow legs and a long thin dark bill which has a slight upward curve and is longer in length than the head. Th...
Green Heron
The Green Heron (Butorides virescens) is a small heron. Some sources consider this bird and the Striated Heron or Mangrove Heron (Butorides striatus) of tropical Africa and Asia, to be a single species, the Green-backed Heron. Adults have a blue bac...
Guam Rail
The Guam Rail (Rallus owstoni) is a flightless bird native to Guam. It disappeared from southern Guam in the early 1970s and was removed totally from the entire island by the late 1980s. This species is now being bred in captivity by the Division of Aq...
Hairy Woodpecker
The Hairy Woodpecker (Picoides villosus) is a medium-sized woodpecker found mainly in forested areas with large trees across most of North America to Central America. Adults are mainly black on the upper parts and wings, with a white back, throat an...
Harlequin Duck
The Harlequin Duck (Histrionicus histrionicus) is a small sea duck who takes its name from Arlecchino ("Harlequin" in French) a colorfully dressed character in Commedia dell'arte. The species name comes from the Latin word "histrio" or "actor". Adul...
Harpy Eagle
The name "harpy eagle" usually refers to the neotropical eagle (Harpia harpyja). It is one of the largest and most powerful living eagles. It is found in lowland tropical rainforest from southern Mexico to northern Argentina. Physical Statistics ...
Hermit Thrush
The Hermit Thrush (Catharus guttatus) is a medium-sized thrush measuring on average 15-17 cm in length. It has the white-dark-white underwing pattern characteristic of Catharus thrushes. Adults are mainly brown on the upperparts, with reddish tails. Th...
Hooded Oriole
The Hooded Oriole (Icterus cucullatus) is a medium-sized blackbird that has a pointed bill and white wing bars. The adult male has an orange head with black on the face and throat; they are black on the back, wings and tail, orange on the underparts. T...
Hooded Warbler
The Hooded Warbler (Wilsonia citrine) is a New World warbler that breeds in eastern North America across the eastern USA and into southernmost Canada. This migratory bird winters in Central America and the West Indies and very rarely Western Europe....
Horned Puffin
The Horned Puffin (Fratercula corniculata) is an auk, similar in appearance to the Atlantic Puffin; this bird's bill is yellow at the base and red at the tip. It is a pelagic seabird that feeds primarily by diving for fish. They nest in colonies, often...
Hudsonian Godwit
The Hudsonian Godwit ( Limosa haemastica) is a large shorebird. Adults have long dark legs and a long pink bill with a slight upward curve and dark at the tip. The upper parts are mottled brown and the underparts are chestnut. The tail is black and ...
White-faced Ibis
The White-faced Ibis (Plegadis chihi) is a wading bird in the ibis family Threskiornithidae. This species breeds in colonies in marshes, usually nesting in bushes or low trees. Its range extends from the western USA south through Mexico, as well as ...
Heermann's Gull
The Heermann's Gull )Larus heermanni) is a gull resident in the United States and Mexico. Of the current population of about 150,000 pairs, 90 percent nest on the island of Isla Rasa, Mexico; smaller colonies range as far north as California. Post bree...
Indigo Bunting
The Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea) is a small seed-eating bird in the family Cardinalidae. Adult males have deep blue plumage and the wing and tail are black with blue edges. Adult females are brown, darker on the upperparts, faintly streaked und...
King Rail
The King Rail (Rallus elegans) is a waterbird and the largest North American rail. Distinct features include a long bill with a slight downward curve, with adults being brown on the back and rusty-brown on the face and breast with a dark brown cap. ...
King Eider
The King Eider (Somateria spectabilis) is a large sea duck which breeds along the arctic coasts of northeast Europe, North America and Asia. The lined nest is built on tundra close to the sea, and 4-6 eggs are laid. It winters somewhat further south...
Kirtland's Warbler
The Kirtland's Warbler (Dendroica kirtlandii) is a small songbird of the New World warbler family. These birds have bluish-grey upperparts with dark streaks on the back and yellow underparts with streaked flanks. They have thin wing bars, dark legs ...
Lapland Bunting
The Lapland Bunting (Calcarius lapponicus) is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae. This bird breeds across arctic Europe and Asia, as well as in Canada and t...
Laysan Albatross
The Laysan Albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) is a large seabird that ranges across the North Pacific. This small albatross is the second most common seabird in the Hawaiian Islands, with an estimated population of 2.5 million birds, and is currently ...
Least Bittern
The Least Bittern (Ixobrychus exilis) is a small wading bird and the smallest heron found in North America. This bird's underparts and throat are white with light brown streaks. Their face and the sides of the neck are light brown; they have yellow ...
Little Tern
The Little Tern (Sterna albifrons) is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. The North American race, S. a. antillarum, is sometimes considered a separate species, Least Tern, Sterna antillarum. The Little Tern breeds on the coasts and inland water...
Lesser Scaup
The Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis) is a small diving duck; smaller than the Greater Scaup. Adults have a blue bill and yellow eyes. Adult males have a dark head with a purple sheen, a black breast, a light back, a black tail and a white bottom. Adult...
Little Blue Heron
The Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea) is a small heron. It is a resident breeder in the Caribbean, including the Gulf states of the USA. There is post-breeding dispersal to well north of the nesting range, sometimes as far as the border with Canada....
Loggerhead Shrike
The Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus) is a passerine bird of the shrike family. They have a large hooked bill and the head and back are grey with white underparts. They have black wings and tail, with white patches on the wings and white on th...
Long-billed Curlew
The Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus) is a very large shorebird with a long bill curved downwards, a long neck and a small head. The head, neck and underparts are light brown. The back is dark brown. They show cinnamon wing linings in flight. ...
Long-billed Dowitcher
The Long-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus) is a medium-sized shorebird with yellowish legs and a long straight dark bill. Their body is dark brown on top and reddish underneath with spotted throat and breast, bars on flanks. Their tail has a b...
Long-tailed Duck
The Long-tailed Duck (Clangula hyemalis) is a medium-sized sea duck and the only member of its genus, Clangula. Both male and female adult birds have white underparts. The male has a long pointed tail and a dark bill lighter near the tip. In winter,...
Mallard
The Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) is a common and widespread dabbling duck which breeds throughout the temperate and sub-tropical areas of North America, Europe and Asia. It also frequents Central America and the Caribbean. It is probably the best-known...
Marbled Godwit
The Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa) is a large shorebird characterized by its long blue-grey legs and long pink bill with a slight upward curve and dark at the tip. The long neck, breast and belly are pale brown with dark bars on the breast and flanks. T...
Mountain Bluebird
The Mountain Bluebird (Sialia currucoides) is a medium-sized thrush. Adults have thin bills. Adult males are bright blue, somewhat lighter underneath. Adult females have duller blue wings and tail and a grey breast, grey crown, throat and back. T...
Mourning Dove
The Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) is a member of the family Columbidae, which includes doves and pigeons. The Mourning Dove's breeding habitat ranges from southern Canada to Central America and the Caribbean. Each pair lays a brood of two white e...
Myrtle Warbler
The Myrtle Warbler (Dendroica (coronata) coronata) is a small New World warbler long known to be closely related to its western counterpart, Audubon's Warbler. At various times the two forms have been classed as separate species or lumped as Yellow-rum...
Nashville Warbler
The Nashville Warbler (Vermivora ruficapilla) is a small songbird in the New World warbler family. They have olive-brown upperparts, a white belly and a yellow throat and breast; they have a white eye ring and a thin pointed bill. Adult males have a...
Spotted Owl
The Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis) is a species of owl resident to forests in western North America, where it nests in tree holes, old bird of prey nests, or rock crevices. Nests can be between 13 and 66 yards (12 to 60 meters) high, and usually cont...
Northern Saw-whet Owl
The Northern Saw-whet Owl (Aegolius acadicus) is a small owl named for its call, which is said to resemble a saw being sharpened with a whetstone. It is fairly common, but not always easy to spot. Adults have a large round light grey face with brown...
Northern Pintail
The Pintail or Northern Pintail (Anas acuta) is a common and widespread duck. It breeds in the northern areas of Europe and Asia and across most of Canada, Alaska and the midwestern United States. This dabbling duck is strongly migratory and winters...
Vulture
Vultures are scavenging birds that feed mostly from carcasses of dead animals. Vultures are found in almost every continent. A particular characteristic of many vultures is their bald head, completely devoid of feathers. This is likely because a fea...
Ocellated Turkey
The Ocellated Turkey (Meleagris ocellata) is a large bird around measuring 70-90 cm long and weighing from 3 kg (female) to 4 kg (male). In the past, it has sometimes been treated in a genus of its own (Agriocharis ocellata) but the differences between...
Orange-crowned Warbler
The Orange-crowned Warbler (Vermivora celata) is a small songbird of the New World warbler family. They are distinguished by their lack of wing bars, as well as for the streaking on the underparts, strong face marking or bright coloring, resembling ...
Osprey
The Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) is a medium to large raptor which is a specialist fish-eater with a worldwide distribution. It is also known by the other common names such as Fish Hawk, Sea Hawk or Fish Eagle. It is the only member of the genus Pandion,...
Parakeet Auklet
The Parakeet Auklet is a small seabird found in the North Pacific. It is the only member of the genus Cyclorrhynchu. It is associated with the boreal waters of Alaska and Kamchatka and Siberia. It breeds on the cliffs, slopes and boulder fields of offs...
Piping Plover
The Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) is a small plover. The bird is recognizable for its very pale brown head and back, white breast and rump and dark neckband. Its bill is orange and black and the legs are orange. Their breeding habitat is found ...
Prairie Warbler
The Prairie Warbler (Dendroica discolor) is a small songbird of the New World warbler family. They have yellow underparts with dark streaks on the flanks and olive upperparts with rusty streaks on the back; they have a yellow line above the eye, a d...
Ptarmigan
The Ptarmigan (Lagopus mutus) is a small (31-35 cm) bird in the grouse family. It is an inactive species, breeding across subartic Eurasia on rocky mountainsides and tundra. There are isolated populations in the Pyrenees, the Alps and the mountains of ...
Purple Martin
The Purple Martin (Progne subis) is the largest North American swallow at 20 cm length. Both male and female adults have a forked tail. While the adult males are a glossy dark purple, the adult females are dark on top with some purple on the back, ...
Red-cockaded Woodpecker
The Red-cockaded Woodpecker (Picoides borealis) is approximately 20-22 cm long, with a wingspan of about 35 cm. Its back is barred with black and white horizontal stripes. Its most distinguishing feature is a black cap and nape that encircles large...
Razorbill
The Razorbill (Alca torda) is a large alcid, 38-43 cm in length, with a 60-69 cm wingspan. It is the only member of the genus Alca. Adult birds are black on their upperparts and white on the breast and belly. The thick black bill has a blunt end. Th...
Cardinal
The Cardinals (Cardinalidae) are a family of passerine birds living in North and South America. They are full-bodied, seed-eating birds, with strong bills. They are typically associated with open woodland. The sexes usually have distinct plumages; t...
Red-breasted Merganser
The Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator) is a typical merganser with a spiky crest and a long thin red bill with serrated edges. Adult males have a dark head with a green sheen, a white neck with a rusty breast, a black back and a white bottom. Adu...
Red-billed Hornbill
Red-billed Hornbill (Tockus erythrorhynchus) is from the family of tropical near-passerine birds found in the Old World. Red-billed Hornbill is a resident breeder in much of sub-Saharan Africa. After breeding the female lays three to six white eggs ...
Crossbill
The crossbills are birds in the finch family Fringillidae. The one to five (or possibly many more) species are all in the genus Loxia. These birds are characterized by the mandibles crossing at their tips, which gives the group its English name. The...
Reddish Egret
The Reddish Egret (Egretta rufescens) is a small heron resident in Central America, the Caribbean and the southern USA in the Gulf states and California. There is post-breeding dispersal to well north of the nesting range. Their breeding habitat is ...
Cormorant
The Phalacrocoracidae family of birds is represented by over thirty species of cormorants and shags. All but three are in the genus Phalacrocorax, with the exceptions being the Galapagos Flightless Cormorant, the Kerguelen Shag and the Imperial Shag. ...
Red-footed Booby
The Red-footed Booby (Sula sula) is a large seabird of the gannet family, Sulidae. This species breeds on islands and coasts in tropical oceans and it winters at sea. Because of this it is rarely seen away from the breeding colonies. It nests in lar...
Redhead (duck)
The Redhead (Aythya americana) is a medium-sized diving duck. The adult male has a blue bill, a red head and neck, a black breast, yellow eyes and a grey back. The adult female has a brown head and body and a darker bluish bill with a black tip. ...
Red-throated Diver
The Red-throated Diver, known in North America as Red-throated Loon (Gavia stellata) is the smallest member of the loon or diver family. It is typically 55-67 cm (24" to 27") in length with a 91-110 cm wingspan. It is considered to be the most widely d...
Ring-necked Duck
The Ring-necked Duck (Aythya collaris) is a smaller diving duck found in wooded lakes or ponds in the northern United States and Canada. The adult male has a grey bill with a white band, a shiny purple head, a white breast, yellow eyes and a dark gr...
Kittiwake
The Kittiwakes, from the genus Rissa, are two closely related seabird species in the gull family Laridae. The more common and widespread species, Rissa tridactyla, is known in North America as Black-legged Kittiwake. However, in Europe, where it is ...
Red-necked Phalarope
The Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus) is a small wader that can be found in the Arctic regions of North America and Eurasia. It is migratory, and, unusually for a wader, winters at sea on tropical oceans. On average, the Red-necked Phalarope...
Roseate Tern
The Roseate Tern (Sterna dougallii) is a seabird from the tern family, Sternidae. This bird has a number of geographical races that mainly differ in bill color and minor plumage details. S. d. dougallii breeds on the Atlantic coasts of Europe and No...
Roseate Spoonbill
The Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) is a wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family Threskiornithidae. It is a resident breeder found mainly in South America, the Caribbean, and the Gulf coast of the United States. Roseate Spoonbill nests in ma...
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
The Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus) is a large seed-eating bird in the same family as the Northern Cardinal. Mature birds have dark upperparts, white underparts and a large pale bill. Adult males have a black head, wings and upperpa...
Rough-legged Buzzard
The Rough-legged Buzzard (Buteo lagopus) is a medium to large bird of prey. It is also called the Rough-legged Hawk in North America. It is typically between 50 to 60 centimeters long with a 130 cm wingspan. The breeding range is northernmost Europe, A...
Royal Tern
The Royal Tern (Sterna maxima) is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. Itd has two distinctive races: S. m. maxima, which breeds on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the southern USA and Mexico into the Caribbean and the slightly smaller S. m. albi...
Red-tailed Tropicbird
The Red-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) is a seabird that nests across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Even though it is the rarest of the tropicbirds, it is widespread and not considered threatened. It nests in colonies on oceanic islands. D...
Ruddy Duck
The Ruddy Duck (Oxyura jamaicensis) is a small stiff-tailed duck. They nest in marshy lakes and ponds throughout much of North America, choosing dense marsh vegetation near the water where pairs form each year. Adult males have a rust-red body, a bl...
Ruffed Grouse
The Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus) is a medium-sized grouse with two distinct color phases, grey and red. In the grey phase, adults have a long square brownish tail with barring and a black band near the end. The head, neck and back are grey-brown; th...
Rufous Hummingbird
The Rufous Hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) is a small hummingbird characterized by its long, straight and very slender bill. The adult male has a white breast, rufous face, upperparts, flanks and tail and an iridescent orange-red throat patch (gorg...
Rusty Blackbird
The Rusty Blackbird (Euphagus carolinus) is a medium-sized blackbird characterized by its pointed bill and pale yellow eyes. They have black plumage, although the female is grayer. "Rusty" refers to the brownish winter plumage. They resemble the wester...
Willow Flycatcher
The Willow Flycatcher (Empidonax traillii) is a small insect-eating bird of the tyrant flycatcher family. Adults have brown-olive upperparts, darker on the wings and tail, with whitish underparts; they have an indistinct white eye ring, white wing b...
Sage Thrasher
The Sage Thrasher (Oreoscoptes montanus) is a medium-sized passerine bird from the family Mimidae, which also includes mockingbirds and the Gray Catbird. These birds are pale grey-brown on the upperparts and white on the underparts with dark streaks...
Grouse
Grouse are from the order Galliformes which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the northern hemisphere. They are considered to be game birds and are sometimes hunted for food. Males are often polygamous, and many species have elaborate court...
Say's Phoebe
Sayornis saya - more commonly known as the Say's Phoebe - is a passerine bird in the tyrant flycatcher family. Adults have brownish-grey upperparts with an orange-brown belly and light grey on the throat and breast. Younger birds have cinnamon wing ...
Scarlet Tanager
The Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea) is a medium-sized songbird of the Tanager family Thraupidae. Adult birds have a pale stout pointed bill. Males are bright red with black wings and tail; females are yellowish on the underparts and olive on top,...
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
The Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (Tyrannus forficatus) is a long-tailed insect-eating bird closely related to the kingbird. Adult birds have grey upper parts and light underparts with pinkish flanks. They have dark wings and an extremely long black tai...
Secretary Bird
The Secretary Bird (Sagittarius serpentarius) is a large-sized bird of the bird of prey family in the order Falconiformes, which also includes many other diurnal raptors such as kites, buzzards, vultures, and harriers. This bird is so distinctive that ...
Sharp-shinned Hawk
The Sharp-shinned Hawk (Accipiter striatus) is a small hawk found in forested areas throughout most of North America and parts of Central America, although they are more common in the boreal forest. Their nest is built of sticks in a large conifer or d...
Short-eared Owl
The Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) is a species of owl that breeds in Europe, Asia, North and South America, the Caribbean, Hawaii and the Galapagos. This bird is partially migratory, moving south in winter from the northern parts of its range. It wil...
Northern Shoveler
The Shoveler or Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata) is a common and widespread dabbling duck which breeds in the northern areas of Europe and Asia and across most of North America. This bird is strongly migratory and winters further south than its bre...
Snow Bunting
The Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis) is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae. Most modern authors now separate this family from the finches (Fringillidae). The snow bunting is an arctic specialist and it has a circumpolar arctic br...
Snowy Egret
The Snowy Egret (Egretta thula) is a small white heron and the American counterpart to the very similar Old World Little Egret, which has established a foothold in the Bahamas. Adults have a slim black bill and long black legs with yellow feet. Duri...
Spectacled Eider
The Spectacled Eider (Somateria fischeri) is a large sea duck that breeds on the coasts of Alaska and northeastern Siberia. It is slightly smaller than the Common Eider at 52-57cm. The male is unmistakable with its black body, white back, and yellow-gr...
Spruce Grouse
The Spruce Grouse (Falcipennis Canadensis) is a medium-sized grouse found in conifer forests throughout Alaska and Canada. Adults have a long square black tail, brown at the end. Adult males are mainly grey with a black breast with white bars, a bla...
Square-tailed Drongo
The Square-tailed Drongo (Dicrurus ludwigii) is a small, insect-eating passerine bird of the Old World tropics. They were previously classed as the family Dicruridae, but that has been much enlarged to include a number of largely Australasian groups, s...
Steller's Eider
The Steller's eider (Polysticta stelleri) is a medium to large sea duck (yet the smallest of te eiders), which breeds along the arctic coasts of eastern Siberia and Alaska. The lined nest is built on tundra close to the sea, and 6-10 eggs are laid. ...
Surfbird
The Surfbird (Aphriza virgata) is a small stocky wader in the family Scolopacidae. It has a short dark bill, yellow legs and a black band at the end of the white rump. During breeding season the plumage takes on darker streaks on the head and breast wi...
Swamp Sparrow
The Swamp Sparrow (Melospiza Georgiana) is a medium-sized sparrow. Adults have streaked rust and black upperparts with a grey breast, light belly and a white throat. They have a rust-colored cap and wings and their face is grey with a dark line thro...
Turkey Vulture
The Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) is the most common North American vulture. It is an extremely graceful bird in flight and seldom needs to flap its long wings once airborne. Instead, it soars high overhead looking for carcasses. Despite the simil...
Vulturine Guineafowl
The Vulturine Guineafowl (Acryllium vulturinum) is the largest and most spectacular of the guineafowl bird family, Numididae. It is also the only member of the genus Acryllium. It is a resident breeder in northeast Africa - from southern Ethiopia throu...
Marbled Murrelet
The Marbled Murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) is a small seabird from the North Pacific. This unusual member of the auk family nests far inland in old growth forests instead of in colonies close to shore. Its habit of nesting in trees was not known u...
Western Meadowlark
The Western Meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta) is a medium-sized blackbird and very similar in appearance to the Eastern Meadowlark. Adults have yellow underparts with a black "V" on the breast and white flanks with black streaks. The upperparts are ma...
Western Screech-Owl
The Western Screech Owl (Otus kennicottii) is a small owl which is a permanent resident in western North America where it nests in open deciduous or mixed woods. They nest in a cavity in a tree or cactus, often using old woodpecker holes. Adults hav...
Western Tanager
The Western Tanager (Piranga ludoviciana) is a medium-sized songbird of the Tanager family, Thraupidae. Adults have pale stout pointed bills, yellow underparts and light wing bars. Adult males have a bright red face and a yellow shoulder, with black...
Turaco
The turacos, also known as plantain eaters and go-away birds, make up the bird family Musophagidae (literally banana-eaters). In southern Africa both turacos and go-away birds are also commonly known as louries. Traditionally this group has been placed...
White-headed Plover
The White-headed Plover or White-crowned Plover (Vanellus albiceps) is a medium-sized wader. Despite its name, it is a lapwing rather than a typical plover. It is common throughout tropical Africa, usually lives near large rivers. It is a wader and ...
Whooping Crane
The Whooping Crane (Grus americana) is a very large crane and the tallest North American bird. Adult birds are white with a red crown and a long dark pointed bill. They have long dark legs which trail behind in flight and a long neck that is kept st...
Wild Turkey
The Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is a large gamebird, one of a number of species of turkey (Galliformes). Adults have a bluish featherless small head, a red throat, long legs and a dark body. They have a long dark fan-shaped tail. Their wings a...
Willet
The Willet (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus) is a large shorebird with grey legs and a long straight dark bill. Their bodies are dark grey on top with contrasting light underbellies. The tail is white with a dark band at the end. The wings have a distincti...
Wilson's Phalarope
The Wilson's Phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor) is a small wader. It is, however, the largest of the phalaropes. This bird breeds in the prairies of North America in western Canada and the western USA. It is migratory, wintering in South America. It i...
Wilson's Warbler
The Wilson's Warbler (Wilsonia pusilla) is a New World warbler that breeds in northern North America across Canada and south through the western USA. It is migratory, wintering in Central America. This is a very rare vagrant to Wwestern Europe. T...
Wood Duck
The Wood Duck (Aix sponsa) is a medium-sized perching duck roughly three-quarters of the length of an adult Mallard. The adult male has unique multi-colored iridescent plumage and red eyes. The female is less colorful with a white eye-ring and a whi...
Wood Stork
The Wood Stork (Mycteria americana) is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. This tropical species breeds throughout South America, Central America and the Caribbean. There is also a small and endangered breeding population in southern Fl...
Wood Thrush
The Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina) is a medium-sized thrush known for its rich multi-part flute-like song. Adults are primarily brown on the upperparts, rusty brown on the crown, nape and upper back. The underparts are white with black spots. Th...
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
The Sapsuckers form the genus Sphyrapicus within the woodpecker family Picidae. The species currently recognized include: Williamson's Sapsucker Sphyrapicus thyroideus Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius Red-naped Sapsucker Sphyrapicu...
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
The Yellow-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax violaceus) is a smaller heron, similar in appearance to the Black-crowned Night Heron. Adults have a white crown and back with the remainder of the body grayish, red eyes and short yellow legs. They have a ...
Yellow-billed Loon
The White-billed Diver, known as the Yellow-billed Loon (Gavia adamsii) in North America, is the largest member of the loon or diver family. At 77-90cm in length and a wingspan of 135-150 cm it is only marginally larger than the similar Great Northern ...
Yellow-headed Blackbird
The Yellow-headed Blackbird (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus) is a medium-sized blackbird and the only member of genus Xanthocephalus. Adults have a pointed bill. Males are mainly black with a yellow head and breast; they have a white wing patch somet...