Birds

Tooth-billed pigeon

The tooth-billed pigeon (Didunculus strigirostris), also known as the manumea, is a large pigeon found only in Samoa.

National Bird of Samoa

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Skylark

The Skylark (Alauda arvensis) nests in large parts of the Palaearctic mostly south of the Arctic Circle except in desert areas. Most are migratory birds. Birds of Britain has been introduced to an area near Vancouver in Canada where the species is now established.
The bird builds its nest of grass on the ground.
Skylark is mainly associated with the warbling song that is performed while the bird is in the air. It feeds on insects and seeds.

Rough-legged Buzzard

The Rough-legged Buzzard (Buteo lagopus) called the Rough-legged Hawk in North America, breed in tundra and taiga habitats of North America and Eurasia. The Rough-legged Buzzard occurring in North America migrate to the central United States for the winter, while Eurasian Individuals migrate to southern Europe and Asia.
The nest is built on a cliff or tall tree.

The Rough-legged Buzzard is largely dependent on the availability of lemmings. In good lemming years, the bird can lay up to seven eggs and when lemmings are missing the nesting might not occur.

Rough-legged Buzzard

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Lapland Longspur

The Lapland Bunting or Lapland Longspur (Calcarius lapponicus) is a migratory bird that has an almost circumpolar breeding range from the Scandinavian mountain chain, the arctic Eurasia, Alaska, Canada, the northernmost United States, and Greenland's west coast. The Lapland Bunting winters in the steppes of Russia and Central Asia from the Black Sea and east to North Korea and Japan in the U.S., Denmark, in the British Isles and along the northern West European coastal areas.
It prefers to breed on high, and very wet heaths and bogs.
In the summer bird's diet consists mainly of insects. In winter they eat seeds.

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Merlin

The Merlin (Falco columbarius) is a compact, small falcons that nest circumpolar in the northern hemisphere and is the smallest falcon in Europe. The species has a northern circumpolar distribution and breeds in Iceland, British Isles, Scandinavia, Baltic States, northern Asia and North America. Most of the world population are migrants.
The Merlin often nests in abandoned nests by corvids or pigeons.
The Merlin hunts mainly birds, but sometimes rodents and insects. The Merlin can take its prey in the air and on the ground. The Merlin likes to sit on a slightly elevated location looking for prey.

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Hoopoe

The Hoopoe (Upupa epops) is found in much of Europe, Asia and North Africa. Hoopoe is partially migratory while the southern populations are sedentary. The European population moves in August to October to wintering areas in Africa, and will return in April to May.
Hoopoe nests in tree holes, among blocks of stone, often stone walls.
Hoopoe feeds on large insects and small lizards, and likes to pick in droppings for food.
The Hoopoe is Israel's national bird.

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Griffon Vulture

The Griffon Vulture (Gyps fulvus) is a large vulture in the bird of prey family. Like other vultures, it is a scavenger, feeding mostly from carcasses of dead animals which it finds by soaring over open areas, often moving in flocks. It breeds on crags in mountains in southern Europe, north Africa, and Asia, laying one egg. Griffon Vultures may form loose colonies. The population is mostly resident.

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Siskin

The Eurasian Siskin (Carduelis spinus) has a northern palearktisk distribution and occurs from Ireland in the west and as far east as Japan. It is partly migratory and wintering as far south as the Mediterranean and China.
During the winter the bird lives mainly of seed, and also eat the seeds of the herb and grass vegetation, and insects.

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