Hawfinch

Coccothraustes coccothraustes Photo by Eduardo Balogh (Trek Nature) Common name:hawfinch (en); bico-grossudo (pt); gros-bec casse-noyaux (fr); picogordo común (es); kernbeißer (de)Taxonomy:Order PasseriformesFamily FringillidaeRange:This species is found throughout most of Europe, from the Iberian Peninsula north to Britain and southern Scandinavia and east into Turkey and Russia, along the Caucasus and southern Russia into northern Kazakhstan,…

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Sacred kingfisher

Todiramphus sanctus Photo by Chris Wynne (Flickr) Common name:sacred kingfisher (en); guarda-rios-sagrado (pt); martin-chasseur sacré (fr); alción sagrado (es); götzenliest (de)Taxonomy:Order CoraciiformesFamily AlcedinidaeRange:This species breeds throughout most of mainland Australia, as well as in New Zealand and in western Melanesia as fas east as Fiji. The populations in southern Australia migrate north to winter in…

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Seychelles magpie-robin

Copsychus sechellarum Photo by Philip Perry (Internet Bird Collection) Common name:Seychelles magpie-robin (en); pisco-das-Seychelles (pt); shama de Seychelles (fr); shama de Seychelles (es); Seychellendajal (de)Taxonomy:Order PasseriformesFamily MuscicapidaeRange:This species is endemic to the Seychelles archipelago and was originally present in at least 8 islands, but by the 1960s it became restricted to the island of Frégate….

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Thick-billed white-eye

Heleia crassirostris Photo by Oleg Chernyshov (Flickr) Common name:thick-billed white-eye (en); olho-branco-de-bico-grosso (pt); zostérops à bec fort (fr); anteojitos picogordo (es); nacktaugen-brillenvogel (de)Taxonomy:Order PasseriformesFamily ZosteropidaeRange:This species is endemic to Indonesia, only being found in the islands of Flores and Sumbawa.Size:These birds are 13-13,5 cm long.Habitat:The thick-billed white-eye is mostly found in lowland rainforests, but also…

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