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Ceryle alcyon (Photo from The Nevis Biodiversity Project) Common name: belted kingfisher (en); guarda-rios-americano (pt); martin-pêcheur d’Amerique (fr); martín gigante norteamericano (es); gürtelfischer (de) Taxonomy: Order Coraciiformes Family Alcedinidae Range: This species is found breeding throughout North America. The northern population migrate south to winter in the southernmost United States, in Mexico, Central America and…
Certhilauda chuana Photo by Trevor Hardaker (Trevor and Margareth Hardaker) Common name: short-clawed lark (en); cotovia-d’unhas-curtas (pt); alouette à ongles courts (fr); alondra chuana (es); akazien-langschnabellerche (de) Taxonomy: Order Passeriformes Family Alaudidae Range: This African species is only found in south-eastern Botswana and north-eastern South Africa. Size: These birds are 14-17 cm long and weigh…
Xenops minutus Photo by Mike Danzenbaker (Mike Dazenbaker’s Bird Photography) Common name: plain xenops (en); bico-virado-miúdo (pt); sittine brune (fr); picolezna menudo (es); braunbauch-baumspäher (de) Taxonomy: Order Passeriformes Family Furnariidae Range: The plain xenops is found from southern Mexico south to western Ecuador, northeastern Argentina and central Brazil. Size: These birds are 11-12,5 cm long…
Pluvialis fulva (Photo from Birding in Taiwan) Common name: Pacific golden plover (en); tarambola-dourada-siberiana (pt); pluvier fauve (fr); chorlito dorado siberiano (es); Sibirische goldregenpfeifer (de) Taxonomy: Order Charadriiformes Family Charadriidae Range: These birds breed in the Arctic, both in northern and north-eastern Russia and in western Alaska. They migrate south to winter along the coasts…
Climacteris picumnus (Photo from Wikipedia) Common name: brown treecreeper (en); trepadeira-austral-castanha (pt); échelet brun (fr); corretroncos pardo (es); braunbaumrutscher (de) Taxonomy: Order Passeriformes Family Climacteridae Range: This Australian species is found across eastern Australia, from northern Queensland south to Victoria and eastern South Australia. Size: This large treecreeper is 16-18 cm long and weighs 26-33…
Phoenicurus ochruros Photo by Henrique Pires (Flickr) Common name: black redstart (en); rabirruivo-preto (pt); rougequeue noir (fr); colirrojo tizón (es); hausrotschwanz (de) Taxonomy: Order Passeriformes Family Muscicapidae Range: This species is widespread in southern and central Europe, Asia and northern Africa, being found from Great Britain, southern Sweden and southern Russia, south to Morocco and…
Apus affinis Photo by Trevor Hardaker (Biodiversity Explorer) Common name: little swift (en); andorinhão-pequeno (pt); martinet des maisons (fr); vencejo moro (es); haussegler (de) Taxonomy: Order Apodiformes Family Apodidae Range: This species is found throughout most of sub-Saharian Africa, in north-west Africa and in scattered population across de Middle East, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India….
Atrichornis rufescens (Photo from Animal Picture Archive) Common name: rufous scrub-bird (en); pássaro-do-mato-ruivo (pt); atrichorne roux (fr); matorralero rojizo (es); rostbauch-dickichtvogel (de) Taxonomy: Order Passeriformes Family Atrichornithidae Range: The rufous scrub-bird is endemic to eastern Australia, occurring in isolated populations in New South Wales and Queensland along the Gibraltar and Border Ranges, Barrington Tops, Hastings…
