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Calcarius ornatus Photo by Robert Royse (Robert Royse’s Bird Photography) Common name: chestnut-collared longspur (en); escrevedeira-de-peito-preto (pt); pectrophane à ventre noir (fr); arnoldo ventinegro (es); rothalsammer (de) Taxonomy: Order Passeriformes Family Emberizidae Range: This species breeds in the prairies of the northern Great Plains in Canada and the United States. They migrate south to winter…
Cephalopterus penduliger (Photo from Flickr) Common name: long-wattled umbrellabird (en); anambé-papudo (pt); coracine casquée (fr); paragüero corbatudo (es); langlappen-schirmvogel (de) Taxonomy: Order Passeriformes Family Cotingidae Range: This South American species is only found in the Pacific slopes and adjacent lowlands of south-west Colombia and western Ecuador. Size: These birds are 38-51 cm long and have…
Threskiornis melanocephalus Photo by J.M. Garg (Wikipedia) Common name: black-headed ibis (en); ibis-de-cabeça-preta (pt); ibis à tête noire (fr); ibis cabecinegro (es); schwarzkopfibis (de) Taxonomy: Order Ciconiiformes Family Threskiornithidae Range: This Asian species is found from Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka, through Bangladesh and Myanmar down to Indonesia, and along the Philippines and China all…
Piranga ludoviciana Photo by Juan Carlos Marín (Internet Bird Collection) Common name: western tanager (en); saíra-ocidental (pt); tangara à tête rouge (fr); tángara capucha roja (es); kieferntangare (de) Taxonomy: Order Passeriformes Family Thraupidae Range: This species breeds across western North America, from Alaska down to the southern United States. They migrate south to winter in…
Tringa nebularia Photo by Rajiv Lather (Birding in India and South Asia) Common name: common greenshank (en); perna-verde-comum (pt); chevalier aboyeur (fr); archibebe claro (es); grünschenkel (de) Taxonomy: Order Charadriiformes Family Scolopacidae Range: These birds breed from from Scotland and Scandinavia, eatwards along the tundra and taiga areas of Siberia all the way to Kamchatka….
Apalis flavida Photo by Trevor Hardaker (Trevor and Margaret Hardaker) Common name: yellow-breasted apalis (en); apalis-de-peito-amarelo (pt); apalis à gorge jaune (fr); apalis de pecho amarillo (es); gelbbrust-feinsänger (de) Taxonomy: Order Passeriformes Family Cisticolidae Range: This African species is patchily distributed from Senegal and Gambia to Ethiopia, and through Tanzania down to Mozambique, Angola, Namibia,…
Malacocincla abbotti Photo by Gaurav Bhatnagar (Flickr) Common name: Abbott’s babbler (en); zaragateiro-de-Abbott (pt); akalat d’Abbott (fr); tordina de Abbott (es); rotschwanz-maustimalie (de) Taxonomy: Order Passeriformes Family Timaliidae Range: This Asian species is found from the foothills of the Himalayas, in Nepal and Bhutan, through northern India and Bangladesh, and into south-east Asia down to…
Rallus caerulescens Photo by Callie de Wet (Oiseaux) Common name: African rail (en); frango-d’água-africano (pt); râle bleuâtre (fr); rascón cafre (es); Kapralle (de) Taxonomy: Order Gruiformes Family Rallidae Range: This African species is occurs from Ethiopia, south through Uganda, Kenya, southern D.R. Congo, Tanzania, eastern Angola and Zambia, and into Namibia, northern Botswana, southern Mozambique…
