Birds

Common Grackle Call

VOCALIZATIONS: Common Grackle Call is a loud, hoarse ‘chuk’ or ‘chak’, particularly in a flock calling. The common grackle song consists of a wheezing, upslurred ‘tssh-shkleet’ chewink year around. In...

Yareta – A 3000 Years Old Alien-looking Plant

Yareta is a green and alien-looking growing plant in South America. On first inspection, you might consider that...

The Black Cuckoo Sound ! Song ! Call

Description The Black Cuckoo (Cuculus clamosus) is an Afrotropical species. In southern Africa, it is a summer-breeding visitor with...

Wandering Whistling-Duck

Behavior and Habitat: A feeding flock of Wandering Whistling Ducks (Dendrocygna arcuata) seems to roll forward across the...

Yellow-eyed Cuckooshrike (Coracina lineata)

Campephagidae is the family to which the yellow-eyed cuckooshrike belongs. Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and eastern...

Gorgeous Photography of Snowy Egret

I have an obsession with birds of late. Some of you will say it's feathers. I think this is one of the best snowy...

A Hummingbird Confronting a Pit Viper

Of 338 known species, approximately 50 types of these birds live or breed in the tropical lowlands and cloud forests of Costa Rica, where...