Birds

White-tailed Black-Cockatoo

White-tailed Black-Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus latirostris) is a large, seemingly slow-flying cockatoo that was recognized and described only recently, and today it is commonly seen flying over the center of Perth...

Galah (Cacatua roseicapilla)

Galah is the only member of the cockatoo family within the genus Eolophus. It is quite common to...

American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla)

The American Redstart is a transatlantic vagrant. It is a rather flycatcher-like bird with a prominent tail that...

10 Cool Facts of Rivoli’s hummingbird

Magnificent Hummingbird was formerly known as Rivoli's Hummingbird after François Victor Masséna, the second Duke of Rivoli,...

Tahiti Petrel (Pseudobulweria rostrata)

Family: The Tahiti petrel (Pseudobulweria rostrata) belongs to the family Procellariidae. Behavior and Habitats: The Tahiti Petrel is a...

Mongolian Finch (Bucanetes mongolicus)

IDENTIFICATION - Mongolian Finch (Bucanetes mongolicus) is a small passerine bird about 12-13 cm in length, in the finch family Fringillidae. This finch is...

Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica)

Habitat: One of the most well-known breeding migrants in the Northern Hemisphere is the Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica). The Barn Swallow reaches the northern...

White-backed Swallow (Cheramoeca leucosternum)

Habitat: White-backed Swallow (Cheramoeca leucosterna) is one of Australia's only endemic species of communal birds. Although they disperse to hawk and feed on the...

Welcome Swallow (Hirundo neoxena)

Habitat: The Welcome Swallow (Hirundo neoxena) is Australia’s representative of the holarctic Barn Swallow and the similar but larger-billed and square-tailed Pacific Swallow of...

Spot-winged Parrotlet (Touit stictopterus)

  Identification: Spot-winged Parrotlet (Touit stictopterus) is a chunky bird of 16–17 cm in length. It is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae....

Comb-crested Jacana (Irediparra gallinacea)

Comb-crested Jacanas have an exceptionally long hind toe (about 75 mm) that helps them walk on waterweeds. Due to this habit, it is commonly...

Ashy-bellied white-eye (Zosterops citrinella)

Zosteropidae is a family of birds that includes the Ashy-bellied white-eye. This species is sometimes called pale white-eye, pale-bellied white-eye, Pale Silvereye, or Pale-bellied...

Common Rosefinch ‘Carpodacus erythrinus’

IDENTIFICATION - Common Rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus) is the only widespread rosefinch in Europe and Asia. Everyone is likely to be encountered this beautiful rosefinch...

Tawny-crowned Honeyeater (Gliciphila melanops)

DESCRIPTION - The Tawny-crowned Honeyeaters (Gliciphila melanops) is a passerine bird native to Southern Australia. The male Tawny-crowned Honeyeaters bird rises in spectacular song-flights...

Black-faced cuckooshrike (Coracina novaehollandiae)

Family: Black-faced cuckooshrike (Coracina novaehollandiae) belongs to the family Campephagidae in the order Passeriformes. Habitat: Cuckoo shrikes so named because of their cuckoo-like form and...