Thick-billed parrot

Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha Photo by Ernesto Enkerlin (Neotropical Birds) Common name: thick-billed parrot (en); (pt); conure à gros bec (fr); cotorra serrana occidental (es); arasittich (de) Taxonomy: Order Psittaciformes Family Psittacidae Range: This species is mostly restricted to the western Sierra Madre, in western Mexico, although it was breeding in southern Arizona and New Mexico until…

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Dusky myzomela

Myzomela obscura (Photo from Australia’s National Landscapes) Common name:dusky myzomela (en); melífago-sombrio (pt); myzomèle ombré (fr); mielero sombrío (es); rußhonigfresser (de)Taxonomy:Order PasseriformesFamily  MeliphagidaeRange:This species is found along the coasts of Queensland and the Northern territory, in Australia, and also along the southern coast of New Guinea and in the nearby islands of Aroe, North Maluku…

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Great shearwater

Ardenna gravis Photo by Alejandro Torés (Seabirds Galicia) Common name:great shearwater (en); pardela-de-barrete (pt); puffin majeur (fr); pardela capirotada (es); großer sturmtaucher (de)Taxonomy:Order ProcellariiformesFamily ProcellariidaeRange:This species only breeds on Nightingale Island, Inaccessible Island and Gough island in the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, and on Kidney Island in the Falklands. Outside the breeding season they migrate…

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Red-faced crimson-wing

Cryptospiza reichenovii Photo by Warwick Tarboton (Warwick Tarboton) Common name:red-faced crimson-wing (en); asa-vermelha-de-mascarilha (pt); sénégali de Reichenow (fr); estrilda de Reichenow (es); Reichenows bergastrild (de)Taxonomy:Order PasseriformesFamily EstrildidaeRange:This species is patchily distributed in sub-Saharan Africa, with population in southern Nigeria and northern Cameroon, in eastern D.R. Congo, Uganda and Rwanda, and from northern Tanzania to Malawi,…

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