List of all birds with all information, pictures and videos

White-browed Piculet (Sasia ochracea) Information

White-browed Piculet

The White-browed Piculet (Sasia ochracea) is a species of bird in the Picidae family.

It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

This bird utilizes bamboo to make nests and living areas. It uses its feet to pick up broken bamboo, and its beak to tear off bamboo that is partially broken.

Rufous Piculet

The Rufous Piculet (Sasia abnormis) is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. This species is one of the world's smallest woodpeckers and is the smallest woodpecker found outside of the Americas. In this species the length can range from 8 to 10 cm (3.1 to 3.9 in) and the average body mass is around 9.2 g (0.32 oz).

Greyish Piculet

The Greyish Piculet (Picumnus granadensis) is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is endemic to Colombia.

Greyish Piculet

image source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mateo.gable

Taxonomy

The Greyish Piculet is part of a superspecies with the Olivaceous Piculet, and may even be conspecific, or the same species. There are two described subspecies: P. g. antioquensis in the northern part and P. g. granadensis in the southern part of the range.

Olivaceous Piculet

The Olivaceous Piculet (Picumnus olivaceus) is a species of bird in the Picidae family. Etymologically, piculet is as a double diminutive of the Latin picus 'woodpecker',see also Picus. In Greek, δρύοψ is woodpecker, which shares its roots with δρῦς, 'tree'; 'oak' and Druids.

Olivaceous Piculet

image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/faulkners_fowl_shots/

Habitat

Found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela, its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and heavily degraded former forest.

Description

Brownish, crown and nape spotted white on blackish, tail short, not sharp-tipped, black with a prominent yellow center stripe, male red-streaked forehead, female white-spotted forehead

Ochre-collared Piculet (Picumnus temminckii) Information

Ochre-collared Piculet

The Ochre-collared Piculet (Picumnus temminckii) is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay.

Ochre-collared Piculet

image source: http://www.flickr.com/people/10786455@N00

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.

White-barred Piculet

The White-barred Piculet (Picumnus cirratus) is a species of bird in the Picidae family, the woodpeckers, piculets, and wrynecks. It is found in south-eastern Brazil south and west to the Pantanal, and into south-eastern Bolivia, Paraguay and northern Argentina. A disjunct population occurs in the coastal parts of French Guiana, south to the Brazilian state of Amapá and west along the lower Amazon River up to around the Tapajós River. A small, apparently isolated population is found in southern Guyana and adjacent Roraima.

White-barred Piculet

image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lipkee/

Speckle-chested Piculet

The Speckle-chested Piculet (Picumnus steindachneri) is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is endemic to Peru.

Speckle-chested Piculet

image source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smit

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Spotted Piculet

The Spotted Piculet (Picumnus pygmaeus) is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is endemic to Brazil.
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.

Arrowhead Piculet

The Arrowhead Piculet or Guianan Piculet (Picumnus minutissimus) is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is found in French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and heavily degraded former forest.

White-bellied Piculet

The White-bellied Piculet (Picumnus spilogaster) is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and heavily degraded former forest.

Ecuadorian Piculet

The Ecuadorian Piculet (Picumnus sclateri) is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is found in Ecuador and Peru.

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.

Golden-spangled Piculet

image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gjofili/

Orinoco Piculet (The Golden-spangled Piculet (Picumnus exilis) is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.) Information

Orinoco Piculet

The Orinoco Piculet (Picumnus pumilus) is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela.

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Bar-breasted Piculet

The Bar-breasted Piculet (Picumnus aurifrons) is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, and Peru.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and sometimes in heavily degraded former forest. The Bar-breasted Piculet is generally found in humid forests, including terra firme and várzea, and are generally seen within such areas in the edges, second growth, and clearings.

Red-throated Wryneck

The Red-throated Wryneck (Jynx ruficollis) is a species of wryneck in the woodpecker family. It is also known as the Rufous-necked Wryneck, Red-breasted Wryneck, African Wryneck or Rufous-throated Wryneck.

Red-throated Wryneck

image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31003918@N05

This species is resident in sub-Saharan Africa, and is the non-migratory counterpart of the Eurasian Eurasian Wryneck. This is a savannah bird, which requires trees with old woodpecker or barbet holes for nesting.

It has cryptic plumage, with intricate patterning of greys and browns. The voice is a nasal woodpecker-like call.

Eurasian Wryneck

The Eurasian Wryneck (Jynx torquilla) is a species of wryneck in the family of woodpeckers.

Eurasian Wryneck

image source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jynx_torquilla_vlaskop.jpg

Eurasian Wryneck

image source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Aelwyn

This species breeds in temperate regions of Europe and Asia. It is migratory, wintering in tropical Africa and southern Asia. It is a bird of open woodland and orchards. On migration it is frequently seen in sandy areas, where it forages for ants.

This species measure 16–18 cm (6.3–7.1 in) in length and weighs 26–50 g (0.92–1.8 oz). Their bills are shorter and less dagger-like than in the other woodpeckers, but their chief prey is ants and other insects, which they find in decaying wood or almost bare soil. They re-use woodpecker holes for nesting, rather than making their own holes. The eggs are white, as with many hole nesters.

Brown-backed Honeybird

The Brown-backed Honeybird (Prodotiscus regulus), also known as the Wahlberg's Honeybird, Wahlberg's Honeyguide and Sharp-billed Honeyguide, is a species of bird in the Indicatoridae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Brown-backed Honeybird

image source: http://www.flickr.com/people/12457947@N07

Yellow-rumped Honeyguide

The Yellow-rumped Honeyguide (Indicator xanthonotus) is a sparrow-sized bird in the honeyguide family that is found in Asia, mainly in montane forests along the Himalayas. They are very finch-like but the feet are strong and the feet are zygodactyl, with two toes facing forward and two backward. They perch on honeycombs and feed on wax. Males tend to be territorial and stay near honeycombs while females and juveniles forage widely. They are brood-parasites, laying their eggs in the nests of tree-hole breeders, possibly barbets.

Thick-billed Honeyguide

The Thick-billed Honeyguide (Indicator conirostris) is a bird of the honeyguide family Indicatoridae. It has been reported interbreeding with the related Lesser Honeyguide (I. minor) and the two are sometimes treated as a single species.

It is 14-15 centimetres long and has a heavy black bill. The upperparts are yellow-green with dark streaking while the head and underparts are dark greyish, sometimes with faint streaking. The outer tail-feathers are mostly white and there may be a pale spot on the lores. Juvenile birds are similar to adults but are darker and greener. The Lesser Honeyguide is smaller with a less heavy bill. It has a paler head and underparts, less-streaked upperparts and a more conspicuous patch on the lores.

The calls of the Thick-billed Honeyguide include a repeated "frip" which is similar to the call of the Lesser Honeyguide but deeper.

Lesser Honeyguide

image source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Mansonad&action=edit&redlink=1

The Lesser Honeyguide (Indicator minor) is a species of bird in the Indicatoridae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Malaysian Honeyguide

The Malaysian Honeyguide (Indicator archipelagicus) is a medium-sized, up to 18 cm long, olive-brown honeyguide with greenish streaks, reddish iris, thick grey bill and greyish white below. The male has a yellow patch on the shoulder, while the female has none. The young resembles the female with streaked underparts.

The Malaysian Honeyguide occurs throughout lowland broadleaved forests of western Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo and the island of Sumatra. It nests in tree hollows.

The call of the Malaysian Honeyguide is a cat-like "meow", followed by a rattling sound. The diet consists mainly of insects, especially wild bees and wasps.

Greater Honeyguide

The Greater Honeyguide (Indicator indicator) is a bird in the family Indicatoridae, paleotropical near passerine birds related to the woodpeckers. Its English and scientific names refer to its habit of guiding people to bee colonies.

Greater Honeyguide

image source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Totodu74

The Greater Honeyguide is a resident breeder in sub-Saharan Africa. It is found in a variety of habitats that have trees, especially dry open woodland, but not in the West African jungle.

Scaly-throated Honeyguide

The Scaly-throated Honeyguide (Indicator variegatus) is a species of bird in the Indicatoridae family. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Scaly-throated Honeyguide

Red-chested Buttonquail

The Red-chested Buttonquail (Turnix pyrrhothorax) is a species of bird in the Turnicidae family. It is endemic to Australia.

Conservation status

Red-chested Button-quail are not listed as threatened on the Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. However, their conservation status varies from state to state within Australia. For example:

Painted Buttonquail

The Painted Buttonquail (Turnix varius) is a species of buttonquail, the family Turnicidae, which resemble, but are unrelated to, the quails of Phasianidae. This species is resident in Australia. A subspecies, the Abrolhos Painted Button-quail (Turnix varius scintillans), is endemic to the Houtman Abrolhos islands.

Painted Buttonquail

image source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Aviceda

Buff-breasted Buttonquail

The Buff-breasted Buttonquail (Turnix olivii) is the largest and possibly the rarest of the buttonquail. This species is endemic to extreme northeastern Australia, in northern Queensland from near Coen to Mareeba west of Cairns.

Description

The Buff-breasted Buttonquail measures from 18–23 centimetres (7.1–9.1 in) and usually weighs over 110 grams (3.9 oz). Both the tail and wings are short. The back is chestnut. The sides of the head are marked with chestnut on an otherwise plain gray head; while the breast is warm buff-colored. The Painted Buttonquail and the Brown Quail both coexist with this species. The Buff-breasted is larger (and longer-legged) than either and is quite different different from the all-dark quail. The Painted species is almost totally mottled, with bold white spotting on the breast and no warm buff coloration. The most similar species to the Buff-breasted is the Chestnut-backed Buttonquail, which does not overlap in the wild.

Black-breasted Buttonquail

The Black-breasted Buttonquail (Turnix melanogaster) is a rare buttonquail endemic to eastern Australia, where it is usually found in rainforest. Like other buttonquails, it is unrelated to the true quails. Both sexes have marbled black, rufous, pale brown and white plumage, but the female is larger than the male and has a more extensive black face and chin.

Black-breasted Buttonquail

image source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Aviceda

Taxonomy

The Black-breasted Buttonquail was originally described by ornithologist John Gould in 1837. Its specific epithet is derived from the Ancient Greek terms melano- "black", and gaster "belly". Along with other buttonquails, the Black-breasted Buttonquail was traditionally placed in the order Gruiformes, but more recent molecular analysis shows it belongs to an ancient lineage of shorebirds (Charadriiformes).

Madagascar Buttonquail

The Madagascar Buttonquail (Turnix nigricollis) is a species of bird in the buttonquail family Turnicidae. It is endemic to Madagascar.

Madagascar Buttonquail

image source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:SandyCole

Barred Buttonquail

The Barred Buttonquail or Common Bustard-Quail (Turnix suscitator) is a buttonquail, one of a small family of birds which resemble, but are unrelated to, the true quails. This species is resident from India across tropical Asia to south China, Indonesia and the Philippines.

Barred Buttonquail

image source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gururajakv

Distribution

All of India up to about 2500 m in the Himalayas; Sri Lanka; Bangladesh; Burma; Indonesia and most of Southeast Asia, Philippines. Four geographical races differ somewhat in colour.

Within South Asia, it is known by many local names: Sansorai (Assam); Daoduma (Cachar); lnruibuma (Kacha Naga); Vohbubum (Kuki); Simokpho (Lepcha); linisk (Bhutea); Gulu,Gundra, Gundlu, Salui gundra (Hindi); Gulu (Bengal); Kalada - male, Pured - female (Telugu); Ankadik - male, Kurung kadik - female (Tamil); Durwa (Ratnagiri); Karechakki (Kannada); Bala watuwa (Sri Lanka).

Yellow-legged Buttonquail

The Yellow-legged Buttonquail (Turnix tanki) is a buttonquail, one of a small family of birds which resemble, but are unrelated to, the true quails. They are endemic to the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia.

Yellow-legged Buttonquail

image source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Totodu74

This family is peculiar in that the females are more colourful than the males and are polyandrous. Females have a bright rufous nape collar which is moulted during the non-breeding season. Females offer food to males during courtship and once the eggs are laid, the females leave incubation to the male. The eggs hatch after about 12 days (in captivity) and the chicks follow the male after hatching.