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Yellow Warbler

The Yellow Warbler (Setophaga petechia)is a bird that breeds in almost the whole of North America and down to northern South America.

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Great Skua

The Great Skua (Stercorarius Skua) occurs in the northern Atlantic and breeds on the islands and along the coast cliffs or on moist upland coastal heaths on Svalbard, Jan Mayen, Bear Island, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Norway and the UK.

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White-backed Woodpecker

The White-backed Woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucotos) live mainly in the Palaearctic. Its range extends from southern and central Scandinavia, over eastern Europe, in a belt east to Japan and the Kamchatka Peninsula. The distribution area's center lies in the southern taiga. In Europe there are surviving populations in the Pyrenees, the Alps and the Carpathians, in the southern Apennines and in the southwestern part of the Balkan Peninsula.

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Red-breasted toucan

Red-breasted toucan (Ramphastos dicolorus)

Red-breasted toucan

Collared Aracari

Collared Aracari (pteroglossus torquatos). They are medium sized toucans, brightly plumaged and have enormous, contrastingly patterned bills. These birds are residents in forests and woodlands in the Neotropics.

Collared Aracari

Crested caracara

Crested caracara (Caracara cheriway) is a resident in Cuba, northern South America (south to northern Peru and northern Amazonian Brazil) and most of Central America and Mexico, just reaching the southernmost parts of the United States, including Florida, where it is resident but listed as threatened.

Crested caracara

Mexico's national bird

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Red-eyed Vireo

The Red-eyed Vireo (Vireo olivaceus) is a small American songbird. The breeding habitat is open wooded areas across Canada and the eastern and northwestern United States. These birds migrate to South America, where they spend the winter.

Temminck's Stint

Temminck's stint

Temminck's Stint (Calidris temminckii) breed in northern Europe and Asia, in Russia and in the mountain areas of Scandinavia, and sometimes in Scotland.

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European Nightjar

The Nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus) is a nocturnal bird that breeds in Eurasia and northwestern Africa.

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European stonechat

The European stonechat (Saxicola rubicola)

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Turquoise-browed motmot

The turquoise-browed motmot (Eumomota superciliosa) inhabits Central America from south-east Mexico, to Costa Rica.

Turquoise-browed motmot

National bird of El Salvador

El Salvador's national bird Painting by Ulf Artmagenta

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Song Sparrow

The Song Sparrow (Melospiza Melodia) breeds locally in Alaska and Mexico, and across much of Canada, the United States.

Secretarybird

National bird of Sudan.

Secretarybird (Sagittarius serpentarius) is found in Africa from the region directly south of the Sahara to South Africa. Most individuals are living in the savanna.

Swift

The Swift's (Apus apus) breeding range extends over the Palearctic region. During the winter of the northern hemisphere, the Swift is found between Equatorial Africa and South Africa.

Scoter

Common Scoter (Melanitta nigra) nest in the northern regions of Europe and western Asia. The American Melanitta americana (Black Scoter) is sometimes considered a subspecies of Melanitta nigra.

Red-necked Phalarope

The Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus) breed in the arctic regions of northern Europe, Asia and North America.

Hazel Grouse

Hazel grouse (Tetrastes bonasia) nests in a belt from Scandinavia across Russia and away to China and Japan. The Hazel Grouse is a resident bird.

Red-throated Pipit

Red-throated Pipit (Anthus cervinus) nests in northern Europe and Asia and is found in northern Alaska. It is a far migrant that winters in Africa, South and Southeast Asia and along the U.S. west coast.

Red-winged Blackbird

The Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) is a bird species that live in North America, with scattered populations down to South America. It breeds from Alaska and Newfoundland south to Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, and Guatemala, with isolated populations in western El Salvador, northwestern Honduras, and northwestern Costa Rica. It may winter as far north as Pennsylvania and British Columbia, but northern populations are generally migratory, moving south to Mexico and the southern United States.

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Bar-Tailed Godwit

The Bar-Tailed Godwit(Limosa lapponica) is a long migratory bird that nests in the tundra of northern Europe, Asia and western Alaska. The Bar-Tailed Godwit movses in flocks to the coasts of western Europe, Africa, South Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Sometimes birds from Europe and Asia occurs at North America's coasts during winter.

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