Black-throated wattle-eye

Platysteira peltata Photo by Guy Upfold (Tropical Birding) Common name: black-throated wattle-eye (en); olho-carunculado-de-garganta-preta (pt); pririt à gorge noire (fr); ojicarunculado de garganta negra (es); schwarzkehl-lappenschnäpper (de) Taxonomy: Order Passeriformes Family Platysteiridae Range: This African species occurs from Angola to Kenya and has scattered populations across Zimbabwe, Mozambique and into eastern South Africa. Size: The…

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Pesquet's parrot

Psittrichas fulgidus Photo by Doug Janson (Wikipedia) Common name: Pesquet’s parrot (en); papagaio-de-Pesquet (pt); psittrichas de Pesquet (fr); loro aguileño (es); borstenkopf (de) Taxonomy: Order Psittaciformes Family Psittacidae Range: This species is patchily distributed across New Guinea, both in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Size: These birds are 46 cm long and weigh 600-800 g….

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White-necked rockfowl

Picathartes gymnocephalus Photo by M.J. Andersen (Flickriver) Common name: white-necked rockfowl (en); picatartes-da-Guiné (pt); picatharte de Guinée (fr); picatartes cuelliblanco (es); gelbkopf-felshüpfer (de) Taxonomy: Order Passeriformes Family Picathartidae Range: This species is found in the tropical forests of western Africa, in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. Size: These birds are 38-41 cm…

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Hooded merganser

Lophodytes cucullatus Photo by Bill Horn (Birds of Oklahoma) Common name: hooded merganser (en); merganso-capuchinho (pt); harle couronné (fr); serreta capuchona (es); kappensäger (de) Taxonomy: Order Anseriformes Family Anatidae Range: This North American species breeds across mots of the eastern United States, in the north-western united States and across most of southern Canada. Some populations…

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