Yellow-billed cuckoo

Coccyzus americanus (Photo from Wikipedia) Common name: yellow-billed cuckoo (en); papa-lagarta-de-asa-vermelha (pt); coulicoi à bec jaune (fr); cuclillo piquigualdo (es); gelbschnabelkuckuck (de) Taxonomy: Order Cuculiformes Family Cuculidae Range: These birds are found breeding throughout most of the United States, in south-eastern Canada, northern Mexico and the Greater Antilles. They migrate south to winter in South…

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Yellow-legged buttonquail

Turnix tanki Photo by Adesh Shivkar (India Nature Watch) Common name: yellow-legged buttonquail (en); toirão-de-patas-amarelas (pt); turnix indien (fr); torillo tanki (es); rotnacken-laufhühnchen (de) Taxonomy: Order Gruiformes Family Turnicidae Range: This Asian species is found from India, through Bangladesh and Nepal and into China, Korea and southern Siberia. They are also present in Myanmar, Cambodja,…

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Striped owl

Pseudoscops clamator Photo by Michel Giraud-Audine (Flickr) Common name:striped owl (en); coruja-orelhuda (pt); hibou strié (fr); lechuzón orejudo (es); schreieule (de) Taxonomy:Order StrigiformesFamily StrigidaeRange:There are four different subspecies with disjunct ranges. P. c. forbesi is found from southern Mexico to Panama. P. c. clamator is found in Colombia, Venezuela, the Guyanas, extreme northern Brazil, Ecuador…

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Dead Sea sparrow

Passer moabiticus Photo by Daniele Occhiato (PBase) Common name: Dead Sea sparrow (en); pardal-do-Mar Morto (pt); moineau de la mer Morte (fr); gorrión del Mar Muerto (es); moabsperling (de) Taxonomy: Order Passeriformes Family Passeridae Range: This species is patchily distributed, from Israel and Turkey, across the Middle East, and into Afghanistan and Pakistan. Size: The…

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