The Red-eyed vireo (Vireo olivaceus) is a small American songbird. It is somewhat warbler-like but not closely related to the New World warblers (Parulidae).
The Great potoo (Nyctibius grandis) is a nocturnal bird widely distributed in Central and South America. The most well-known characteristic of this bird is its unique moaning growl that the Great potoo vocalizes throughout the night, creating an...
The Summer tanager (Piranga rubra ) is a medium-sized American songbird. Formerly placed in the tanager family (Thraupidae), it and other members of its genus are now classified in the cardinal family (Cardinalidae). The species' plumage and...
The Brown booby (Sula leucogaster) is a large seabird. It is perhaps the most common and widespread species of the booby family Sulidae. They are gregarious birds that only nest on the ground and roost on solid objects rather than the water surface.
The veery (Catharus fuscescens) is a small North American thrush species. This bird is named for its common call and its specific name fuscescens is New Latin for "blackish".
The Black-bellied whistling duck (Dendrocygna autumnalis) is a whistling duck found in the Americas. Since it is one of only two whistling duck species native to North America, it is occasionally just known as the "whistling duck" or "Mexican...
The Red-footed booby (Sula sula) is a large seabird of the booby family, Sulidae. It is the smallest member of the booby and gannet family.
The Great skua (Stercorarius skua) is a large seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. It mainly eats fish caught at the sea surface or taken from other birds. The Great skua is sometimes known by the name bonxie in Britain.
Blue-winged teal (Spatula discors) are small members of the dabbling duck group found in North America. They are often the first ducks to migrate south in the fall and the last ones to return in the spring. During migration, some Blue-winged teal...
The jabiru (Jabiru mycteria) is a large stork found in the Americas. The name of this bird comes from a Tupi–Guaraní language and means "swollen neck". The jabiru is the tallest flying bird found in South America and Central America, and it also has...
Eastern wood pewees (Contopus virens) are small energetic tyrant flycatchers from North America. Despite their small size these birds can be quite aggressive during the nesting period and don't hesitate to attack intruders.
The Common ground dove (Columbina passerina) is a small bird found in the Americas. It is considered to be the smallest dove that inhabits the United States. As its name suggests, it spends the majority of its time on the ground walking but still...
The Cliff flycatcher (Hirundinea ferruginea) is a species of bird native to South America. This bird is specialized in spectacular aerial hawking from perches on cliff faces when it catches flying insects.
Black-winged stilts (Himantopus himantopus) are very long-legged wading birds. They are found in both warm and hot climates, feed on small aquatic creatures, and nest on the ground surface in small colonies.
The dickcissel (Spiza americana ) is a small seed-eating migratory bird in the family Cardinalidae. It breeds on the prairie grasslands of the Midwestern United States and winters in Central America, northern Colombia, and northern Venezuela. It is...
The great kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus ), called bem-te-vi in Brazil and benteveo in Argentina, is a passerine bird in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae. It is the only member of the genus Pitangus.It breeds in open woodland with some tall...
The common gallinule (Gallinula galeata ) is a bird in the family Rallidae. It was split from the common moorhen by the American Ornithologists' Union in July 2011. It lives around well-vegetated marshes, ponds, canals, and other wetlands in the...
The sanderling (Calidris alba ) is a small wading bird. The name derives from Old English sand-yrðling, "sand-ploughman". The genus name is from Ancient Greek kalidris or skalidris, a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds....
The limpkin (Aramus guarauna ), also called carrao, courlan, and crying bird, is a large wading bird related to rails and cranes, and the only extant species in the family Aramidae. It is found mostly in wetlands in warm parts of the Americas, from...
The common potoo, or poor-me-ones (Nyctibius griseus ), or urutau is one of seven species of bird within the genus Nyctibius . It is notable for its large, yellow eyes and comically wide mouth. Potoos are nocturnal near passerines related to...
The white bellbird (Procnias albus ) is a species of bird in the family Cotingidae. The specific epithet is often spelled alba, but albus is correct due to the masculine gender of "Procnias ". It is found in forests in the Guianas, with small...
The bananaquit (Coereba flaveola ) is a species of passerine bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. Before the development of molecular genetics in the 21st century, its relationship to other species was uncertain and it was either placed with the...
The Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus ) is a medium-sized shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. The scientific name of this species records a name shift: Manx shearwaters were called Manks puffins in the 17th century. Puffin is an...
The lesser black-backed gull (Larus fuscus ) is a large gull that breeds on the Atlantic coasts of Europe. It is migratory, wintering from the British Isles south to West Africa. It has increased dramatically in North America, most common along the...
The parasitic jaeger (Stercorarius parasiticus ), also known as the Arctic skua, Arctic jaeger or parasitic skua, is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. The word "jaeger" is derived from the German word Jäger, meaning "hunter". The English...
The pomarine jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus ), also spelled Pomarine yeager in some translations, pomarine skua, or pomatorhine skua, is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. It is a migrant, wintering at sea in the tropical oceans.
The striated heron (Butorides striata ) also known as mangrove heron, little heron or green-backed heron, is a small heron, about 44 cm tall. Striated herons are mostly non-migratory and noted for some interesting behavioral traits. Their breeding...
The Caspian tern (Hydroprogne caspia ) is a species of tern, with a subcosmopolitan but scattered distribution. Despite its extensive range, it is monotypic of its genus, and has no accepted subspecies. The genus name is from Ancient Greek hudros,...
The red-shouldered macaw (Diopsittaca nobilis ) is a small green South American parrot, a member of a large group of Neotropical parrots called macaws. The species is named for the red coverts on its wings. It is the smallest macaw, being 30–35 cm...
The ornate hawk-eagle (Spizaetus ornatus ) is a fairly large bird of prey from the tropical Americas. Formerly, some authorities referred to this species as the crested hawk-eagle, a name that may cause some confusion as it is more commonly used for...
The red-billed tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus ) is a tropicbird, one of three closely related species of seabird of tropical oceans. Superficially resembling a tern in appearance, it has mostly white plumage with some black markings on the wings and...
The crested eagle (Morphnus guianensis ) is a large Neotropical eagle. It is the only member of the genus Morphnus. The crested eagle can grow up to 89 cm (35 in) long, with a wingspan up to 176 cm (69 in), and weigh up to 3 kg (6.6 lb). The plumage...
The chestnut-fronted macaw or severe macaw (Ara severus ) is one of the largest of the mini-macaws. It reaches a size of around 45 cm (18 in) of which around half is the length of the tail.They can be found over a large part of Northern South...
The shiny cowbird (Molothrus bonariensis ) is a passerine bird in the New World family Icteridae. It breeds in most of South America except for dense forests and areas of high altitude such as mountains. Since 1900 the shiny cowbird's range has...
The fulvous whistling duck or fulvous tree duck (Dendrocygna bicolor ) is a species of whistling duck that breeds across the world's tropical regions in much of Mexico and South America, the West Indies, the southern United States, sub-Saharan...
The southern lapwing (Vanellus chilensis ) is a wader in the order Charadriiformes. It is a common and widespread resident throughout South America, except in densely forested regions (e.g. most of the Amazon), the higher parts of the Andes and the...
The white-tailed hawk (Geranoaetus albicaudatus ) is a large bird of prey species found in tropical and subtropical environments of the Americas.
The Guianan cock-of-the-rock (Rupicola rupicola ) is a species of cotinga, a passerine bird from South America. It is about 30 centimetres (12 in) in length and weighs about 200 to 220 grams (7.1 to 7.8 oz). It is found in tropical rainforests, near...
The upland sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda ) is a large sandpiper, closely related to the curlews. Older names are the upland plover and Bartram's sandpiper. In Louisiana, it is also colloquially known as the papabotte. It is the only member of the...
The Eurasian whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus ) is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae. It is one of the most widespread of the curlews, breeding across much of subarctic Asia and Europe as far south as Scotland. This species and the Hudsonian...
The neotropic cormorant or olivaceous cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum ) is a medium-sized cormorant found throughout the American tropics and subtropics, from the middle Rio Grande and the Gulf and Californian coasts of the United States south...
The willet (Tringa semipalmata ), formerly in the monotypic genus Catoptrophorus as Catoptrophorus semipalmatus, is a large shorebird in the family Scolopacidae. It is a relatively large and robust sandpiper, and is the largest of the species called...
