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Category: Birds
Great White Pelican
A huge white pelican with a large bill pouch, fishing cooperatively in flocks.
Great Spotted Woodpecker
A black-and-white woodpecker with a red nape and a chisel-like bill, drumming on trunks.
European Green Woodpecker
A large green woodpecker with a red crown, feeding on ants on the ground.
Black Woodpecker
The largest Eurasian woodpecker, all black with a red crown, powerful drummer.
Red-bellied Woodpecker
A North American woodpecker with a red cap and faint red belly wash.
Pileated Woodpecker
A huge woodpecker with a prominent red crest, the largest in North America.
Common Kingfisher
A dazzling small bird with electric blue back and orange underparts, diving for fish.
Laughing Kookaburra
A large kingfisher with a loud cackling laugh, iconic Australian bird.
Rainbow Bee-eater
A colorful bee-eater with a long curved bill, catching bees and insects in flight.
European Bee-eater
A striking bird with vivid green, blue, orange and yellow plumage, feeding on flying insects.
Blue-tailed Bee-eater
A green bee-eater with a blue tail and orange throat, colonial in open country.
European Roller
A striking blue-and-brown bird that performs tumbling courtship flights.
Great Hornbill
A huge hornbill with a large yellow casque on the bill, nesting in tree hollows.
Oriental Pied Hornbill
A black-and-white hornbill with a yellow casque, common in Southeast Asian forests.
Common Cuckoo
A gray-brown bird famous for laying eggs in other birds' nests (brood parasitism).
Common Nightjar
A cryptically patterned nocturnal bird with a churring song, catching insects in flight.
Common Swift
A sickle-winged bird that eats, sleeps and mates on the wing, rarely landing.
White-rumped Swift
A dark swift with a white rump patch, nesting in colonies on cliffs.
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
A tiny hummingbird with an iridescent red throat, migrating across the Gulf of Mexico.
Anna's Hummingbird
A green-and-rose hummingbird of western North America, singing a thin song.
Giant Hummingbird
The largest hummingbird, more than twice the size of others, hovering like a hawk.
Sword-billed Hummingbird
A hummingbird with a bill longer than its body, adapted to deep-throated flowers.
Topaz Hummingbird
A brilliant gold-and-emerald hummingbird of tropical lowland forests.
Great Potoo
A nocturnal bird that resembles a broken branch, with huge eyes and a wide gape.
