Painted bunting

Passerina ciris Photo by Doug Janson (Wikipedia) Common name: painted bunting (en); pintado (pt); passerin nonpareil (fr); azulillo pintado (es); papstfink (de) Taxonomy: Order Passeriformes Family Cardinalidae Range: This North American species has two geographically disjunct populations. The western population breeds from northern Mexico to northern Texas, and winters in south-west Mexico. The eastern population…

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Great horned owl

bubo virginianus Photo by Brendan Lally (Wikipedia) Common name:great horned owl (en); corujão-orelhudo (pt); gran-duc d’Amérique (fr); búho cornudo (es); Virginia-uhu (de)Taxonomy:Order StrigiformesFamily StrigidaeRange:The great horned owl is widely distributed in the Americas, being found from Alaska and northern Canada, to Tierra del Fuego. They are only absent from the densest rain forests in Central…

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