Sedge Warbler

Sedge Warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus) nests in most of Europe and in western and central Asia. It is a migratory bird that winters in sub-Saharan Africa.



Corn Bunting

The Corn Bunting (Emberiza calandra / Miliaria calandra) breeds in Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia east to Mongolia. The bird is mainly sedentary, but some populations that breed in colder regions of central Europe and Asia, migrate south in winter.
The Corn Buntings live in a distinctly rural area. It prefers open country with trees, fields and meadows.
The Corn Bunting eats mainly seeds, but supplement it's diet with insects during the summer.





Tufted Puffin

The tufted puffin (Fratercula cirrhata) also known as crested puffin, is a relatively abundant medium-sized pelagic seabird in the auk family found throughout the North Pacific Ocean.



Tufted Puffin sketch painting. Bird art drawing by illustrator Artmagenta
Tufted Puffin

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Wood Sandpiper

The Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola) breeds in large parts of northern Europe and Asia. This Sandpiper is a migratory bird that winters in Africa and South Asia.
The Wood Sandpiper's natural habitat during the breeding season is raised bogs and montane forests.
The Wood Sandpiper feeds mostly on insects, which it catches by pecking with their beaks into shallow water or muddy soil.


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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 sketch painting. Bird art drawing by illustrator Artmagenta.
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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