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Hazards to birders in Michigan are few and include biting insects, traffic, theft in urban areas, certain weather conditions, Poison-ivy and...

Extremely variable habitat, from boreal coniferous and mixed deciduous forests to Mediterranean scrub, woody, and grassy steppes; also, rock...

There is very little known about the life history and behavior of the Great Potoo (Nyctibius grandis). Perhaps this species generally roosts...

  Description This is a species of bird of paradise. Short-tailed paradigalla is endemic to Papua New Guinea highland forest. It is the leas...

  IDENTIFICATION 19-22 cm. Upperparts brown olive, including rump and tail; white underparts, with streaked breast; wings with a white ban...

  The Yellow-throated euphonia ranges from southern Mexico to western Panama, through the lowlands of both coasts and into the highlands to ...

Lesser Striped Swallow   (Cecropis abyssinica) is a common species, which is distributed along the coast and   adjacent interior of the East...

  One of the largest and most conspicuous songbirds in Guanacaste is the White-throated Magpie-Jay (Calocitta formosa). This social and voca...

  The Cloud Cisticola or tink-tink cisticola is near-endemic to southern Africa and occurs in South Africa, Angola, Mozambique, Lesotho, and...

  As creatures of the night, owls can seem mysterious and kind of spooky. Some people think of them as bad omens harbingers of death, but th...

  The Cloud Cisticola or tink-tink cisticola is near-endemic to southern Africa and occurs in South Africa, Angola, Mozambique, Lesotho, an...