Turtle dove

Scientific name: Streptopelia turtur
Family: columbidea.
Length: 11,2 inchs.
Habitat: forests, farmland, parks and urban gardens.
Distribution: Almost all of Europe, east of central Asia, south to north Africa.
ID: Small, blond, red over mottled with dark gray head, chest and belly pinkish white. Dark flight feathers, white-black stain on both sides of the neck.

Small size, the turtle dove common in the past was much more common but their population has declined sharply in recent years and is now an endangered species in some places go during the summer, as the Iberian Peninsula. Among the possible causes of its decline are changes linked to agriculture, hunting and the pressure of an invasive species, the Turkish turtledove, whose populations appear to have prospered during the last decades at the expense of it.
The Dove hibernate common in North Africa and on their way back to Europe, while the males begin the stops in flight as a wedding claims, with characteristic lullabies, posados in trees and hedges.
The nest, built with sticks and fragile appearance, is situated on the lower branches of trees or on top of a fence. Both parents incubate the eggs and hatchlings are born to two weeks in the making and develop plumage at three weeks of life.

Short-eared Owl

Scientific name: Asio flammeus.
Family: Strigidae.
Length: 16 inchs.
Habitat: grasslands, dunes and swamp.
Distribution: Much of North America and South Africa, northern Africa.
ID: mottled brown, with four striking bars in the queue, (((ears))) small and yellow eyes surrounded by a black.

The Short-eared Owl has about (((ears))) very small in the head.
Its appearance is similar to that of the owl guy, but the owl is something larger and have longer wings and thin. In addition, the rustic hunting owl often in broad daylight, flying low over moorland and fen in search of mice, moles, lemmings, birds and amphibians. usually hunt in flight but can also scan their prey inn. During the breeding season nest in a depression in the ground covered with grass, normally sheltered from heather, reeds and grasses. The female lays between four and six eggs that incubate for four weeks and the male is responsible for alementar during that time. The young leave the nest after two weeks of birth but not lifted until the flight 14 days later.

Southern boobook

Scientific name: Ninox novaeseelandiae.
Family: Strigidae
Length: 33 cm.
Habitat: Different environments, from tropical rainforest to temperate forests open desert scrub, villages and suburban areas.
Distribution: Any Australia, Tasmania and some coastal islands. South of New Guinea.
ID: Upper dark brown, red-brown below the bar and stained white. Eyes big and yellow.


The southern boobook is the smallest nocturnal predator and plentiful in Australia and attend suburban areas, but is primarily nocturnal, but is more common to hear that view, with a sound similar to (((cu-cu))) Cuckoo's . Although it is nocturnal and twilight, it is possible to see it in full this cloudy day. It feeds on insects such as beetles and moths that usually grabs the fly, as well as rodents and lizards that traps in the ground. The Maori norox breeding normally from September to February, nestled in the hollow of a tree that left bare or tapestry with a little vegetation. The female incubated the making, from two to four eggs and the male seeking food. Both parents care for the offspring, leaving the nest to the five or six weeks.

Common Poorwill

Scientific name: Phalaenoptilus nuttallii.
Family: Caprimulgidae.
Length: 8 inchs.
Habitat: Scrub arid, desert and forest scattered.
Distribution: Western United States. Winters in Mexico.
ID: Small Náttfari, gray and brown feathers and speckled with white spots on the wings of the same color collar and whiskers in its beak.




The Common Poorwill is the smallest member of the family found in North America, and is unique in its ability to overwinter. During periods of shortage in winter looking for a warm place, such as a crevice between rocks, where it enters a state of lethargy, slow breathing and heart rate, and lowers the body temperature from 40 º C. You can remain so for several days or weeks until conditions are more favorable. During the warmer months passed much of the day resting on the floor and just hike the flight to catch flying insects. They also nest in the soil around the month of June, and put two eggs on the ground.

Peregrine Falcon.

Scientific name: Peregrine Falcon.
Family: Falconidae.
Length: 40-50 cm. man unless the female.
Habitat: open land; tundra, savannah, mountains, moors, orange groves, rocky coastlines and estuaries. Also in urban areas.
Distribution: cosmopolitan, but avoids the jungles and the colder areas of the poles.
ID: Slate Gray above, and PILE bigotera black, white spots on the cheeks and chest. Bottom white, gray bars. Cola dark gray stripes.

The peregrine falcon is a robust and large known for the incredible speed that reaches sharply. The doves and anátidas dams are often more common, but is able to apprehend birds about the size of a heron. A world rises sharply from high altitudes, which can fall into more than 200 mph, a speed that can kill the victim only with the impact. it can also capture birds or inns on the floor, and reptiles, mammals, amphibians and invertebrates large. Although this is almost everywhere in the world and is quite abundant in many areas, this species has suffered in some places a serious setback as a result of poisoning by pesticides. You can nest in buildings in urban areas, but their places are the natural rock ledges or cliffs, where the female makes a small escarbadura. You can also use old nests of other species. The setting is three or four eggs and incubation lasts some 30 days. The female cares for the offspring while the male looking for sustenance, but also leaves game after two or three weeks. Young people just feather to 40 days and two months after emancipation.

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American Bald Eagle.

Scientific name: Haliaeetus leucocephalus
Family: Accipítridos
Length: 75-105 cm. Male smaller than the female.
Habitat: nearby rivers, lakes and coasts
Distribution: Much of North America to Mexico, but absent in some subarctic regions. Divagante in Russia and northern Europe.
ID: large, unmistakable in appearance, with brown plumage almost everywhere in the body and head, neck and tail whites. Beak and yellow claws.

The American bald eagle, the national emblem of the United States, is present in almost the entire North American continent, but more plentiful in the northern latitudes of Alaska and Canada, where their habitat has suffered less alteration of the hand of man. To inhabit very diverse environments, and in more northern populations tend to migrate in winter from freezing tundra to Mexico. He rarely leaves the water, because their diet consists of fish and other aquatic animals, mainly large fish such as salmon, but can kill anátidas the size of a goose and also catch rodents, rabbits and baby otter. besides hunter not despises carrion and also harassed raptors such as the osprey to snatch their presas.Las couples often use the same nest each year and end up creating a huge structure. Both parents incubated the placing of one to three eggs, for six weeks, and also share the care of offspring.

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Golden Eagle.

Scientific name: Aquilar chrysaetos.
Family: Accipitridae.
Length: 75-95 cm. Male smaller than the female.
Habitat: mountainous and forested, or open and hilly.
Distribution: Much of North America, Europe, North Africa and Asia.
ID: eagle very large, dark brown plumage with light brown or yellowish around the head and back. yellow beak and claws with black edges.

The Golden Eagle, a rapacious big and powerful, often hunt in rugged and remote areas, which demonstrates their skills portent in flight falls sharply up to 320 km / h. Also hunting at ground level in the same way as the harrier. His basic diet consists of small mammals and reptiles, especially rodents and rabbits, but is capable of capturing large dams. Descriptions of attacks on livestock are largely exaggerated, and golden eagles that have been seen devours animals probably already dead from other causes. Often raising since the beginning of spring until late summer; couples establishing ties for life and reused nests, which are in high places, in rocks or trees that dominate the landscape. The female incubated almost all the time putting in two to four eggs, for 40 days. The male belongs near the nest and provides a livelihood for the family. The chicks leave to parents after four months of nacer.y topped in black.

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Caribbean Flamingo.

Scientific name: Phoenicopterus ruber
Family: Phoenicopteridae.
Length: 145 cm.
Habitat: lakes, lagoons and coastal marshes.
Distribution: areas of Africa, southern Europe and Asia. The Caribbean, Mexico and the Galapagos Islands are known as flamingos and some American experts concideran a species.
ID: Ave aquatic very high and slender, very long neck and legs, pinkish plumage. Beak curved and finished in black.

The flamingo is one of the birds unmistakable at first sight for their physiognomy and striking color, and its bizarre peak. This, in short and straight youth, is bent on adults to host several rows of thin plates or lamellae that allow the birds get their food, seaweed and tiny invertebrates, by filtering the water with peak movements forward and back, as a sieve. It is a very sociable species, breeding colonies form bustling adults and establish lasting ties. They build nests of mud, shaped crater, where the female lays a single egg that both parents incubate for a month. The young have a gray down, but after the spring moves take on a tone brown before they appear on adult plumage.

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Indian Peafowl.

Scientific name: Pavo cristatus
Family: Phasianidae.
Length: Male 85-210 cm bigger than the female.
Habitat: Tropical forests dense, hilly areas near water.
Distribution: India, Siri Lanka and Pakistan.
ID: Great fasián unmistakable. The male has a mottled blue, with the neck and chest royal blue, white face, a fan-shaped crest and tail feathers ornate and very long, covered with ocelli. The female is more dull, grayish brown, white throat and chest and neck green.

The Indian Peafowl is a feral species present in many parts of the world, and until it is considered a pest in some of them, but has its origins in the jungles of trees caducifolidos of certain parts of Asia. Able to fly, spends the night posing in a branch and the rest of the time walk through the jungle, in clear or open land nearby in search of food. Eat fruits, seeds and vegetables, but also invertebrates, reptiles and the odd rodent. usually alone or in small groups of up to half a dozen individuals, the males gather in places of collective stops during the breeding season and establish small territories before being displayed for females, which attract with powerful claims. The staging includes bridal PAVONE and deployment fan of the tail, is actually a set of feathers dressing emerging from the lower back. The male is polygamous and females nest alone in a hole carved, which put six eggs that hatch four weeks. pup remain with the mother for ten weeks.

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