Birds

At time the Carrancha is noisy, but is not generally so: its cry is loud, very harsh and peculiar, and may be liken to the sound of the Spanish guttural g, followed by a rough double r, when uttering this cry it elevates its head higher and higher, till at last, with its beak wide […]

Snowy Owl and Raven were both pure white. They decide to make each other more colorful, and Raven paints gray crescents on Owl’s white feathers. But Raven will not sit still while Owl paints him, and in frustration, Snowy Owl pours lamp oil onto Raven, turning his feathers black as night. Transformed, the Raven cries,

This is a relatively common species that inhabits the Northern Mariana Islands.  It once was thought to be a subspecies of the collared kingfish that exhibits a wider western Pacific distribution but was give the species level after more analysis.  The have a distinct large, blocky bill with bright blue/greenish coloration on their head and

The woodcock is a small shorebird of the eastern North America.  Though it is in the Family Scolopacidae with other shorebirds and sandpipers it is a bird of young forests.    Its camouflage plumage allows it to spend most of its time on the forest floor.   It prefers young forests that contain a fair amount of

he great gray owl is a large bird – the longest owl in the world – but not the heaviest.   Adults are 24-33 inches long with a five-foot-long wingspan.  They have a noticeably rounded face and yellow eyes.  Their thick feathers make them appear much larger than their body – in general, the more common