Red-and-yellow
barbets are found in eastern Africa, preferring broken terrain due to
nesting and roosting in burrows. Semiplumbeous
hawks are found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras and Panama,
preferring subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. Spotted
eagle owls are a common resident in southern Africa and is recognized
as one of the smallest eagle owls. Scaly-breasted
munia are endemic to Asia and found in India and Sri Lanka, as well as E
to Indonesia and the Philippines. feral populations have established in
Puerto Rico and Hispaniola as well as parts of Australia and USA. Rufous-backed
kingfishers are found in Brunei, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the
Philippines and Thailand, preferring tropical lowland forests near
lakeshores and streamsides. Photographed here on Bangka Island Red-wattled
lapwings breed in W Asia from Iraq and SW Iran, the Arabian peninsula E
across S Asia (including Afghanistan, Pakistan and the entire Indian
subcontinent). Plum-headed
parakeets are endemic to the Indian Subcontinent, preferring forest and
open woodlands in the foothills of the Himalayas south to Sri Lanka. Ocellated
antbird are monotypic within the genus Phaenostictus and are found in
Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. Over 2 million lesser and greater flamingos on Lake Nakuru (Kenya). Indian
rollers are distributed widely across tropical Asia stretching from
Iraq E to the Indian Subcontinent and Indochina. Indian
pittas breed in the sub-Himalayas and winter in S India and Sri Lanka,
preferring thick undergrowth. They are easiest detected by their calls. Horned
grebes breed in the vegetation along freshwater lakes across Europe and
Asia, as well as remote inland parts of the USA and much of Canada,
wintering along the coast. Hoatzins
are found in swamps, riverine forest and mangrove of the Amazon and the
Orinoco delta in S America. They use use bacterial fermentation in the
front part of the gut to break down the vegetable material they consume,
much like cattle and other ruminants. Green honeycreepers are found in the tropical New World from S Mexico to Brazil. Green
bee-eaters are found widely distributed across sub-Saharan Africa from
Senegal and The Gambia to Ethiopia, the Nile valley, W Arabia and Asia
through India to Vietnam. Great
curassows are distributed in rainforests from E Mexico throughout
Central America to W Colombia and NW Ecuador. Inca terns breed along the coasts of Peru and Chile, foraging exclusively in the Humboldt current. Gould’s jewelfronts are found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela Common
tailorbirds are found throughout tropical Asia and are well-known for
making their nests by sewing leaves together. Brown-hooded
parrots are resident breeders in SE Mexico to NW Colombia. Photographed
here in the Costa Rican Lowlands. Blue-throated
barbets are found across the Indian Subcontinent and SE Asia where they
are often seen in garden trees. Black
vultures are a common and widespread species distributed from the SE
United States to Central Chile and Uruguay in S America. Baya
weavers are found across S and SE Asia, preferring grasslands,
cultivated areas, scrub and secondary growth. They are best known for
their hanging retort shaped nests woven from leaves. Barred
antshrikes are found in most of the Neotropics from Mexico through
Central America, Trinidad and Tobago, and a large part of South America E
of the Andes as far S as N Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay. Andean
cocks-of-the-rock are indigenous to the Andean cloud forests of S
America, and is regarded as the national bird of Peru.
