Birds

Black Kite

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The Black Kite (Milvus migrans) is probably the earth's most numerous bird of prey. Black Kites breed in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia.

Corncrake

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The Corncrake (Crex crex) breed in large parts of Europe and Central Asia to the east in a belt from Lake Baikal to the Urals. It is common in Russia, the Baltics and Belarus. It is a migratory bird, and has its winter quarters in Africa's southern subtropical region.

Tundra Swan

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The Tundra Swan (Cygnus columbianus) breeds on the Eurasian tundra from the Kola Peninsula to the estuary of river Kolyma in eastern Siberia.

Pileated Woodpecker

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The pileated woodpecker (Hylatomus pileatus) is a very large North American woodpecker, roughly crow-sized, inhabiting deciduous forests in eastern North America, the Great Lakes, the boreal forests of Canada, and parts of the Pacific coast.

Red-necked Grebe

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Red-necked Grebe (Podiceps grisegena) is an aquatic bird appearing in the warmer region of the northern hemisphere.

Hawfinch

The Hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes) is a big finch with very strong beak. The Hawfinch is nesting in large parts of Europe and temperate parts of Asia. The northern populations are migratory birds, while the southern is sedentary.

Keel-billed toucan

The keel-billed toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus), also known as sulfur-breasted toucan or rainbow-billed toucan, is found from Southern Mexico to Venezuela and Colombia.

Keel-billed toucan

National bird of Belize

Grey Heron

The Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea) is very wide spread. It breeds in Europe as far west as the Azores, and north to Harstad in Norway, in Africa, both north of the Mediterranean and sub-Saharan Africa, down to South Africa, in much of Asia and on islands in the Indian Ocean.