White-lored spinetail

Synallaxis albilora Photo by Nick Athanas (Antpitta) Common name: white-lored spinetail (en); joão-do-pantanal (pt); synallaxe ocré (fr); pijuí ocráceo (es); weißzügel-dickichtschlüpfer (de) Taxonomy: Order Passeriformes Family Furnariidae Range: This South American species is restricted to the Pantanal wetlands in south-western Brazil, eastern Bolivia and northern Paraguay. Size: The white-lored spinetail is 9-11 cm long and…

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Southern crested caracara

Caracara plancus Photo by Luis Argerich (Wikipedia) Common name: southern crested caracara (en); caracará (pt); caracara huppé (fr); carancho (es); schopfkarakara (de) Taxonomy: Order Falconiformes Family Falconidae Range: This South American species if found from central Peru and Bolivia, east to the Amazon Delta, in Brazil, and south through Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina…

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Thorn-tailed rayadito

Aphrastura spinicauda Photo by Diego Arellano (Flickr) Common name: thorn-tailed rayadito (en); raiadinho (pt); synallaxe rayadito (fr); rayadito (es); festland-stachelschwanzschlüpfer (de) Taxonomy: Order Passeriformes Family Furnariidae Range: The thorn-tailed rayadito is distributed in central and southern Chile and the adjacent extreme western edge of Argentina. Size: These birds are 13-15 cm long and weighs 10-12…

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Phainopepla

Phainopepla nitens Photo by Richard Ditch (Science Blogs) Common name: phainopepla (en); papa-moscas-brilhante (pt); phénopèple luisant (fr); papamoscas sedoso (es); trauerseidenschnäpper (de) Taxonomy: Order Passeriformes Family Ptilogonatidae Range: This North American species is found in the south-western United States, in central California, southern Nevada, southern Utah, southern New Mexico, and western Texas, and then south…

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African emerald cuckoo

Chrysococcyx cupreus Photo by Jonas Rosquit (PBase) Common name: African emerald cuckoo (en); cuco-esmeraldino (pt); coucou foliotocol (fr); cuco esmeralda (es); smaragdkuckuck (de) Taxonomy: Order Cuculiformes Family Cuculidae Range: This species occurs throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa, excluding extremely arid areas. They are found from Senegal, across Mali and Nigeria and into Sudan and Ethiopia,…

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