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Indicator indicator Common name: greater honeyguide (en); indicador-grande (pt); grand indicateur (fr); indicador grande (es); schwarzkehl-honiganzeiger (de) Taxonomy: Order Piciformes Family Indicatoridae Range: This African species is found throughout most of sub-Saharan Africa, from Senegal through the Sahel to Ethiopia, then south through the great lakes region and into Angola, Botswana, Mozambique and South Africa….
Lagopus muta Photo by Jan Haugseth (Wikipedia) Common name: rock ptarmigan (en); lagópode-branco (pt); lagopède alpin (fr); perdiz nival (es); alpenschneehuhn (de) Taxonomy: Order Galliformes Family Tetraonidae Range: This sedentary species breeds across most of Arctic and sub-Arctic Eurasia and North America, including Greenland. There are a few isolated populations in mountainous areas of Scotland,…
Passer eminibey Common name: chestnut sparrow (en); pardal-castanho (pt); moineau d’Emin (fr); gorrión castaño (es); maronensperling (de) Taxonomy: Order Passeriformes Family Passeridae Range: These birds are found in eastern Africa, from Darfur in southern Sudan, through Somalia, Uganda and Kenya, an into Tanzania. Size: This small sparrow is 10,5-11,5 cm long and has a wingspan…
Eugenes fulgens Photo by Larry Thompson (Discover Life) Common name: magnificent humminbird (en); beija-flor-magnífico (pt); colibri de Rivoli (fr); colibrí magnífico (es); violettkron-brilliantkolibri (de) Taxonomy: Order Apodiformes Family Trochilidae Range: These birds are found in mountain areas from the south-west of the United States down to Panama. Size: The magnificent hummingbird is 11-14 cm long…
Formicarius analis Common name: black-faced antthrush (en); tauoca (pt); tétéma coq-de-bois (fr); formicario enmascarado (es); graubrust-ameisendrossel (de) Taxonomy: Order Passeriformes Family Formicariidae Range: This species is found in the neotropics from southern Mexico, through Central America to the northern regions of South America in Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Brazil, and nearly in all of the…
Acridotheres ginginianus Common name: bank myna (en); mainá-ribeirinho (pt); martin des berges (fr); miná ribereño (es); ufermaina (de) Taxonomy: Order Passeriformes Family Sturnidae Range: This Asian species is found from eastern Pakistan across the Himalayan foothills to eastern and southern Nepal and Bhutan, and southwards to north-central India and Bangladesh. It has been introduced to…
Alcedo argentata Photo by Micky Lim (Oriental Bird Images) Common name: silvery kingfisher (en); guarda-rios-prateado (pt); martin-pêcheur argenté (fr); martín pescador plateado (es); silberfischer (de) Taxonomy: Order Coraciiformes Family Alcedinidae Range: This species is endemic to The Philippines, with two distinc subspecies being found in different island. A. argentata flumenicola is found on Samar, Leyte…
Achaetops pycnopygius Common name: rockrunner (en); salta-pedras (pt); achétopse à flancs roux (fr); saltarrocas de Damara (es); klippensänger (de) Taxonomy: Order Passeriformes Family Sylviidae Range: This African species is only found in central and north-western Namibia and in southern Angola. Size: The rockrunner is 16-17 cm long and has a wingspan of 27 cm. They…
