Fan-tailed cuckoo

Cacomantis flabelliformis (Photo from Tom Clark – Beyond the Pale) Common name:fan-tailed cuckoo (en); cuco-de-cauda-em-leque (pt); coucou à éventail (fr); cuco flabeliforme (es); fächerschwanzkuckuck (de)Taxonomy:Order CuculiformesFamily CuculidaeRange:This species is found in southern and eastern Australia, New Guinea, Fiji, New Caledonia, the Salomon Islands and Vanuatu.Size:These birds are 24-28 cm long and weigh about 50-60 g.Habitat:The…

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Blue-and-white swallow

Pygochelidon cyanoleuca Photo by Dario Sanches (Wikipedia) Common name:blue-and-white swallow (en); andorinha-pequena-de-casa (pt); hirondelle bleu et blanc (fr); golondrina barranquera (es); schwarzsteißschwalbe (de)Taxonomy:Order PasseriformesFamily HirundinidaeRange:This species is found throughout most of South America, being found from southern Costa Rica down to Tierra del Fuego, but mostly absent from the Amazon river basin. The southernmost populations…

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Rufous-tailed scrub-robin

Cercotrichas galactotes Photo by Yoram Shpirer (Oiseaux) Common name:rufous-tailed scrub-robin (en); rouxinol-do-mato (pt); agrobate roux (fr); alzacola (es); heckensänger (de)Taxonomy:Order PasseriformesFamily MuscicapidaeRange:This species breeds in southern Europe, in the southern Iberian Peninsula, and from the Balkans to Turkey, also in North Africa from Morocco to Egypt, and in western Asia, through the Middle East and…

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Great-billed hermit

Phaetornis malaris Photo by Maxime Dechelle (GEPOG) Common name:great-billed hermit (en); besourão-de-bico-grande (pt); ermite à long bec (fr); ermitaño piquigrande (es); langschnabeleremit (de)Taxonomy:Order ApodiformesFamily TrochilidaeRange:This species occurs in three disjunct populations. One is found in Suriname, French Guyana and marginally into Amapá in northern Brazil. A second one is found from from southern Colombia and…

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