Birds beginning with D

D'arnaud's barbet - D'Arnaud's Barbet is a small East African bird that feeds on insects, fruits, and seeds. It grows to about eight inches, and is equally at home in trees or on the ground. A vertical tunnel two to three feet into the ground with a sideways and upward turn leads to the nest chamber. In a striking dance the male and female face each on nearby twigs and twitch, bob and sing like mechanical toys.

D'orbigny's Chat-Tyrant - The D'Orbigny's Chat-tyrant is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montanes and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.

Dalmatian Pelican - This is the largest of the pelicans, averaging 170–190 cm in length, 11–15 kg in weight and just over 3 m in wingspan. On average, it's the world's heaviest flying species, although large male bustards and swans can exceed the pelican in maximum weight. It differs from the White Pelican in that it has curly nape feathers, grey legs and greyish-white plumage. It has a red lower mandible in the breeding season. Immatures are grey and lack the pink facial patch of immature White Pelicans. The latter also has darker flight feathers.

Damar Flycatcher - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is affected by habitat loss. Having turned out to be more common than previously believed, it is downlisted from Vulnerable to Near Threatened in the 2007 IUCN Red List.

Damara Rock-jumper - The Damara Rock-jumper , also known as the Rockrunner, is a species of African Warbler, formerly placed in the Sylviidae family. It is found in Angola and Namibia.

Damara Tern - The Damara Tern is a species of tern in the Sternidae family.

Dambo Cisticola - The Cloud-scraping Cisticola is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Zambia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland.

Darjeeling Woodpecker - It is found in Bhutan, China, Myanmar, Nepal, Republic of India and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Dark Chanting Goshawk - This hawk breeds in sub-Saharan Africa, but avoids the rain forests of the Congo basin. There is a small and declining isolated population in Morocco, and it also occurs in Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

Dark Pewee - This large, dark pewee is found between 1250 m and 2150 m altitude in wet mountain forests, especially at the edges and in clearings, and in adjacent semi-open areas with tall trees. The nest is a broad, thick-walled saucer of mosses and lichens, lined with plant fibres. It is placed 5-18 m high across a branch. The eggs are undescribed, but the female builds the nest, lays only two eggs and incubates the eggs for 15-16 days before they hatch.

Dark-backed Imperial Pigeon - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

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Dark-billed Cuckoo - It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela. It has occurred as a vagrant in northern Chile, the Falkland Islands and Grenada.

Dark-breasted Rosefinch - It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are boreal forests and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.

Dark-breasted Spinetail - The Dark-breasted Spinetail is a species of bird in the Furnariidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist shrubland and heavily degraded former forest.

Dark-brown Honeyeater - The Grey-eared Honeyeater is 13 to 17 cm long with the males being larger than the females. The plumage is mainly dull green-brown above and grey with an olive tint below. The cheeks are silvery-grey, and the crown is dark grey. The black bill is long and slightly downcurved; the legs and feet are blue-grey. Juveniles are paler than the adults without the silvery cheeks.

Dark-capped Bulbul - The bill is fairly short and straight. The bill, legs and feet are black and the eye is dark brown with a dark eye-ring, which is not readily visible.

Dark-crowned White-eye - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Dark-eared Brown Dove - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. However, it seems to decline less dramatically than anticipated. It is thus downlisted from Critically Endangered to Endangered status in the 2007 IUCN Red List.

Dark-eared Myza - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Dark-eyed Junco - The Dark-eyed Junco, Junco hyemalis, is the best-known species of the juncos, a genus of small grayish American sparrows. This bird is common across much of temperate North America and in summer ranges far into the Arctic. It is a very variable species, much like the related Fox Sparrow , and its systematics is still not completely untangled.

Dark-faced Ground-Tyrant - It is 16 cm long with the male being slightly larger than the female. Like other ground-tyrants, it has long legs and an upright posture. The plumage is mainly dark grey-brown above and pale greyish below with a dark brown crown and a blackish face. The rump and tail are black with white outer tail-feathers. The legs and bill are black. Birds on the Falkland Islands are larger and greyer than those in mainland South America .

Dark-fronted Babbler - The Dark-fronted Babbler is an Old World babbler found in the Western Ghats of India and the forests of Sri Lanka. They are tiny chestnut brown birds with a dark black cap, a whitish underside and pale yellow iris. They forage in flocks in the undergrowth of forests constantly making calls and uttering alarm calls when disturbed.

Dark-headed Oriole - The Dark-headed Oriole is a species of bird in the Oriolidae family. It is found in Eritrea and Ethiopia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.

Dark-rumped Rosefinch - It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, and Nepal. Its natural habitats are boreal forests and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.

Dark-rumped Swift - The Dark-rumped Swift is a species of swift in the Apodidae family. It is found in Bhutan, Nepal, Republic of India and Thailand. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Dark-sided Flycatcher - It is 13 to 14 cm long. The upperparts are plain and dark grey-brown apart from a pale wingbar and pale edging to the tertial feathers. The breast and flanks have a variable amount of streaky dark grey-brown. This is unlike the similar Asian Brown Flycatcher which has rather plain pale underparts and the Grey-streaked Flycatcher which is white below with distinct grey streaks.

Dark-throated Seedeater - Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland. It is becoming rare due to habitat loss.

Dark-winged Miner - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland.

Dark-winged Trumpeter - It is found in the Amazon Basin of Brazil, but only south of the Amazon River. The species range in the west enters the border regions of northeastern Bolivia in two separated tributary regions. The eastern range of Dark-winged Trumpeter extends into the lower adjacent Tocantins River drainage in the Brazilian state of Pará.

Darter - The Oriental Darter or Indian Darter , sometimes called Snakebird, is a water bird of tropical South Asia and Southeast Asia. It is a cormorant-like species that has a very long neck. It often swims with only the neck above water. It is a fish-eater.

Dartford Warbler - Like many typical warblers, this small passerine bird has distinct male and female plumages. The male of this small Sylvia has a grey back and head, reddish underparts, and a red eye . The reddish throat is spotted with white. The female is paler below, especially on the throat, and a browner grey below. The song is a distinctive rattling warble.

Darwin's Nothura - The Darwin's Nothura, Nothura darwinii, is a type of Tinamou commonly found in high altitude grassland in the southern Andes in South America.

Daurian Jackdaw - It is the same size or perhaps slightly smaller than the latter species, with the same proportions and identical habits. The principal difference is its plumage; many but not all adults of this species have large areas of creamy white on the lower parts extending up around the neck as a thick collar. The head, throat, wings and tail are glossy black and the ear coverts are grizzled grey. Darker adults and young birds resemble Eurasian Jackdaws, though Daurian Jackdaws have a black iris, unlike the distinctive grey-white iris of the Eurasian Jackdaw.

Daurian Partridge - This partridge breeds on farmland across much of temperate eastern Asia from Kyrgyzstan east to China and Mongolia. It is a non-migratory terrestrial species, which forms flocks outside the breeding season. In parts of its range, it overlaps with the very similar and closely related Grey Partridge, with which it forms a superspecies.

Daurian Redstart - Like all typical redstarts, they are strongly sexually dimorphic. Breeding males have a grey crown and nape with lighter forehead and crown-sides, a black face and chin, brownish mantle and wings and a large white wing patch; the chest, lower back and rump are orange, and the tail is black with orange sides. Juvenile males are similarly patterned but much duller and less clearly marked.

Dead Sea Sparrow - It is a small 12–13 cm long sparrow which breeds in dry lowlands with some shrubs, including tamarisk, and access to water. It builds a nest in a tree, and 4-7 eggs are laid.

Defilippe's Petrel - Its natural habitats are open seas and rocky shores.

Dendrocopos obsoletus - The Brown-backed Woodpecker is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda.

Dendroplex picus - The Straight-billed Woodcreeper is a species of bird in the woodcreeper subfamily . Its genus, Dendroplex, was recently confirmed to be distinct from Xiphorhynchus. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and heavily degraded former forest.

Denham's Bustard - Denham's Bustard, Stanley Bustard or Stanley's Bustard, Neotis denhami, is a large bird in the bustard family. It breeds in much of sub-Saharan Africa. It is a species of open ground, including agricultural land, grassland, flood-plains and burnt fynbos. It is resident, but some inland populations move to lower altitudes in winter.

Des Murs' Wiretail - It is 24 cm long, with the very long tail accounting for about two-thirds of this. The tail consists of just six feathers which are very narrow and filament-like. The two central feathers are greatly elongated while the two outer feathers are very short. The plain plumage is reddish-brown above, paler on the underparts. There is a pale stripe above the eye. The bird is small and rounded with a very fine bill. The song is fast and high-pitched.

Desert Cisticola - The Desert Cisticola is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.

Desert Eagle Owl - The Pharaoh Eagle-owl is a species of owl in the Strigidae family. It is found in Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Western Sahara.

Desert Finch - This bird breeds in the Canary Islands, across north Africa, and in the Middle East and into central Asia. There is a small European population in southern Spain. Many birds are largely resident, but there is post-breeding dispersal, and some Asian breeders migrate into Pakistan for the winter.

Desert Lark - It is resident apart from local movements in arid stony areas, and avoids flat sand. Its nest is on the ground in a rock crevice or amongst stones, with 3-4 eggs being laid. The food of the Desert Lark is seeds and insects, the latter especially in the breeding season.

Desert Sparrow - The Desert Sparrow is not afraid to come near humans and sometimes builds nests in muddy walls. The Mozabite Berbers build their homes with holes in the walls to welcome these birds, which they call "bar-rode," and if one sings all day in the house, they say this is a sign of good news. The Tuareg, who call the bird "moula-moula," also say that this bird brings good news when it comes to stay near the camp.

Desert thrasher - Le Conte's Thrasher is named for American entomologist John Lawrence LeConte.

Desert Warbler - Sexes are almost identical in both. This is a small "warbler" with a sand-coloured back and head, whitish underparts, and a yellow eye. Like its relatives, it is insectivorous, but will also take berries. The song is a distinctive jingle often given in an advertisement flight.

Desert Wheatear - It is a migratory insectivorous species, 14.5 to 15 cm in length. Both western and eastern forms of the Desert Wheatear are rare vagrants to western Europe.

Diabolical Nightjar - An Indonesian endemic, this poorly known species was discovered in 1931 at Minahasa peninsula of North Sulawesi. Previously known only from a single female collected in Klabat Volcano, this species was rediscovered in May 1996 at Lore Lindu National Park in Central Sulawesi.

Diademed Tanager - It is purple-blue with a white crown characterised by a small red patch, and it is found mostly in open areas in southern Brazil, northeast Argentina, and Uruguay.

Diademed Tapaculo - The Diademed Tapaculo is a species of bird in the Rhinocryptidae family. It is found in Bolivia and Peru.

Diamond Dove - The dove predominantly exists in areas near water but which are lightly arid or semi-arid in nature, being Central, West and Northern Australia. They are one of Australia's smallest pigeons along with the Peaceful Dove. They have been spotted occasionally in Southern Australia in parks and gardens when the centre of Australia is very dry.

Diamond Firetail - The Diamond Firetail is a finch that has a fiery red bill, eyes, and rump. Just below the throat, it has a thick black band that goes horizontally until it reaches the lower part of the wings which are also black with white spots. There is also a black eye band that starts at the beak and ends right at the eye. The bird's tail is also black. The rest of the wings are a slightly tan, light brown color. Its head and back is light gray and its belly and chin are white. The color of the egg is also white. This bird is considered one of the smallest of the finches.

Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi - The bird was approximately 16 inches tall and weighed about 4.5 pounds and is thought to have been primarily an insectivore.

Dickcissel - The Dickcissel, Spiza americana, is a small American seed-eating bird in the family Cardinalidae. It is the only member of the genus Spiza, though some sources list another supposedly extinct species . In older works, it is often placed with the American sparrows in the Emberizidae; females especially resemble American sparrows in plumage.

Dickinson's Kestrel - It is a fairly small, stocky kestrel with a large, square head. It is 27-30 cm long with a wingspan of 61-68 cm and a weight of 167-246 grams. The female is about 4% larger and 10-20% heavier than the male. The plumage is mostly dark grey with a pale head and rump. The tail is grey with narrow black bars and a broad subterminal band. The underside of the flight feathers are also barred. The cere and feet are yellow and there is bare yellow skin around the eye. The bill is dark grey and the eyes are brown. Juvenile birds are grey-brown with barred flanks and without the paler head and rump. They have a greenish cere and eye-ring.

Dideric Cuckoo - It is a very common resident breeder in Africa south of the Sahara Desert. It is a short-distance seasonal migrant, moving with the rains. It is a solitary bird, found in open woodland, savanna and riverside bushes. Has occurred as far north as Cyprus .

Dieffenbach's Rail - The Dieffenbach's Rail was a species of bird in the Rallidae family. It was endemic to New Zealand. It became extinct due to introduced predators.

Diglossa caerulescens - The Bluish Flowerpiercer is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family. It is found in humid montane forest in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.

Diglossa glauca - The Deep-blue Flowerpiercer , also known as the Golden-eyed Flowerpiercer, is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family. It is found in humid Andean forests in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. It is the only species of flowerpiercer with bright yellow eyes.

Diglossa indigotica - The Indigo Flowerpiercer is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family. It is found in humid forest on the lower west Andean slopes in Ecuador and Colombia. Despite its blue plumage, mtDNA indicates this species actually belongs in the genus Diglossa.

Dimorphic Rufous Fantail - The Dimorphic Fantail is a species of bird in the Rhipiduridae family. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Dinelli's Doradito - The Dinelli's Doradito is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, and swamps. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Diomedea antipodensis - Diomedea exulans antipodensis Robertson & Warham 1992

Dja River Scrub-Warbler - The Ja River Scrub-warbler is a species of Old World warbler in the Sylviidae family. It is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, and Gabon. Its natural habitat is swamps. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Djibouti Francolin - The Djibouti Francolin, Francolinus ochropectus, is one of over forty species of francolins, a group of birds in the Phasianidae family. It is critically endangered and found only in Djibouti, a nation in eastern Africa. This species is grayish-brown overall with white stripes and streaks on its underparts which become finer towards the upperparts. It has black markings on the head and a gray crown and has a short tail. It is 35 cm in length, and weighs 940 g .

Dodo - The dodo has been extinct since the mid-to-late 17th century. It is commonly used as the archetype of an extinct species because its extinction occurred during recorded human history and was directly attributable to human activity.

Dohrn's Thrush-Babbler - The Dohrn's Thrush-babbler or Principe Flycatcher-babbler is a species of bird in the Timaliidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Horizorhinus, although genetic studies have suggested the genus is better placed in the genus Sylvia. It is endemic to São Tomé and Príncipe.

Dollar roller - It has a length of up to 30cm, and can be found in east Asia from northern Australia to the Japan archipelago. The bird is an insectivore with a love of beetles and often catches prey whilst flying. The young birds have a darker beak which becomes more orange as it becomes mature.

Dolphin Gull - The Dolphin Gull , sometimes erroneously called the Red-billed Gull , is a gull native to southern Chile and Argentina, and the Falkland Islands. It is a coastal bird inhabiting rocky, muddy and sandy shores and is often found around seabird colonies. They have grayish feathers, and the feathers on their wings are a darker shade. They lay 2 to 3 eggs in December. Dolphin Gulls eat many things from mussels to carrion.

Donaldson Smith's Nightjar - The Donaldson-smith's Nightjar is a species of nightjar in the Caprimulgidae family. It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, and Tanzania.

Donaldson-smith's Sparrow Weaver - The Donaldson-Smith's Sparrow-weaver is a species of bird in the Ploceidae family. It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia.

Doria's Goshawk - At up to 69cm long, it is among the biggest hawks in the broad sense. It is greyish-brown with a black-barred crown and upperparts, whitish underparts, a black streak behind the eye, dark brown irises, a blackish bill and greenish-yellow legs. The sexes are similar. The female is slightly larger than the male.

Dot-eared Coquette - The Dot-Eared Coquette is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is found in Bolivia and Brazil. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.

Dot-fronted Woodpecker - The Dot-fronted Woodpecker is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is found in Argentina and Bolivia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Dot-winged Antwren - This is a common bird of the understory of wet forest, especially at edges and clearings, tall second growth, and in cacao plantations. The female lays two brown-spotted white eggs which are incubated by both sexes, in a small, deep, plant fibre and dead leaf cup nest 1–12 m high in a tree on a thin twig in thick foliage. The male and female parents both feed the chicks.

Dotted Tanager - It is found in Brazil, French Guiana, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.

Double-banded argus - Its origin was hypothesized to be from Java, Indonesia or Tioman Island of Malaysia, because of the Great Argus' absence from these locations. Parkes vehemently rejected the "species" validity and argued that the Double-banded Argus almost certainly represents a mutant form of the Great Argus. The IUCN, following the precautionary principle, lists this taxon as extinct.

Double-banded Courser - It is sometimes classified as the sole member of the genus Smutsornis as Smutsornis africanus.

Double-banded Graytail - The Double-banded Greytail is a species of bird in the Furnariidae family. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Double-banded Plover - Adults in breeding plumage are white, with a dark greyish brown back, and have a distinctive brown breast, with a thinner band of black below the neck, and between the eyes and beak. Younger birds have no bands, and are often speckled brown on top, with less white parts.

Double-barred Finch - The name of the species commemorates James Ebenezer Bicheno, a colonial secretary of Van Diemen's Land appointed in September 1842.

Double-collared Seedeater - It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay; also the southern border of Colombia on the Amazon River. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, pastureland, and heavily degraded former forest.

Double-crested Cormorant - The Double-crested Cormorant is a member of the cormorant family of seabirds. It occurs along inland waterways as well as in coastal areas, and is widely distributed across North America, from the Aleutian Islands in Alaska down to Florida and Mexico. Measuring 70–90 cm in length, it is an all-black bird which gains a small double crest of black and white feathers in breeding season. It has a bare patch of orange-yellow facial skin. Five subspecies are recognized.

Double-eyed Fig-Parrot - Most subspecies of the Double-eyed Fig Parrot are sexually dimorphic, with males having more red to the face than the females. It is predominantly green with a very short tail, a disproportionately large head and bill, and red and blue facial markings. Its name is derived from the cheek patches of some subspecies that vaguely resemble eyes.

Double-spurred Francolin - Like most francolins, it is restricted to Africa. It is a resident breeder in tropical west Africa, but there is a small and declining isolated population in Morocco.

Double-striped thick-knee - It is a resident breeder in Central and South America from southern Mexico south to Colombia, Venezuela and northern Brazil. It also occurs on Hispaniola and some of the Venezuelan islands, and is a very rare vagrant to Trinidad, Curaçao and the USA.

Double-toothed Barbet - The Double-toothed Barbet is a species of bird in the Ramphastidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda.

Double-toothed Kite - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Downy Woodpecker - The Downy Woodpecker, Picoides pubescens, is the smallest woodpecker in North America. Adults are mainly black on the upper parts and wings, with a white back, throat and belly and white spotting on the wings. There is a white bar above the eye and one below. They have a black tail with white outer feathers barred with black. Adult males have a red patch on the back of the head.

Drab Hemispingus - The Drab Hemispingus is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family. It is found in Bolivia and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Drab Myzomela - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Drab Seedeater - The Drab Seedeater is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family. It is found in Ecuador and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.

Drab Water Tyrant - The Drab Water-tyrant is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family, the tyrant flycatchers, and is the only species , within the genus Ochthornis. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is rivers.

Drab Whistler - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Drakensberg Siskin - This species is sometimes considered to be conspecific with the Cape Siskin, Serinus totta of southern Cape Province, in which case the nominate western form is S. t totta, and the eastern form is S. t. symonsi.

Drakensburg Prinia - It is a species of forest edges wooded gullies and bracken covered slopes in the Drakensberg. The Drakensberg Prinia was formerly considered to be a subspecies P. m. hypoxantha of the Karoo Prinia, P. maculosa.

Drongo Cuckoo - It shares the genus Surniculus with the Philippine Drongo-cuckoo Surniculus velutinus. This is sometimes treated as a subspecies of S. lugubris, but can be separated as a species on the basis of vocalization and juvenile plumage.

Dubois's Seedeater - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, swamps, and heavily degraded former forest.

Ducorps - The Solomons Cockatoo , also known as the Ducorps' Cockatoo, Solomons Corella or Broad-crested Corella, is a species of cockatoo endemic to the Solomon Islands. This small white cockatoo is larger than the Tanimbar Corella yet smaller than the Umbrella Cockatoo. The species is common across most of the Solomons, absent only from Makira in the south. It inhabits lowland rainforests, secondary forests, cleared areas and gardens.

Dulit Frogmouth - The Dulit Frogmouth is a species of bird in the Podargidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Malaysia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Dull Flycatcher - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Dull-capped Attila - The White-eyed Attila or Dull-capped Attila is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and possibly Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical swamps.

Dull-coloured Grassquit - It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.

Dull-mantled Antbird - The Dull-mantled Antbird is 13–14 cm long and weighs around 24 g. Overall, these birds look essentially blackish grey in the front half and dark reddish brown in the hind part, with a black wing-patch with white spots right where the two main colors meet. But in the dusky forest understory, the birds may appear all-black, with only the white spotting standing out.

Dune Lark - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.

Dunlin - The Dunlin, Calidris alpina, is a small wader, sometimes separated with the other "stints" in Erolia. It is a circumpolar breeder in Arctic or subarctic regions. Birds that breed in northern Europe and Asia are long-distance migrants, wintering south to Africa and southeast Asia. Birds that breed in Alaska and the Canadian Arctic migrate short distances to the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of North America, although those nesting in Northern Alaska overwinter in Asia.

Dunn's Lark - Dunn's Lark is a stocky bird with a large head and broad wings. It is 14 to 15 cm long with a wingspan of 25 to 30 cm.

Dunnock - It is a resident in the milder west and south of its range, but as an insectivore, must migrate south from the colder parts of its range. It is a bird of woodland, shrub and gardens. It builds a neat nest low in a bush or conifer, laying 3-5 unspotted blue eggs.

Dupont's lark - This is a bird of open sandy semi-desert or steppe with some grass. Its nest is on the ground, with 3-4 eggs being laid. Its food is seeds and insects.

Dusky Antbird - This is a common bird in the understory thickets of wet forest, especially at edges and clearings, and in adjacent tall second growth. The female lays two reddish-brown-spotted white eggs, which are incubated by both sexes, in a small, deep, plant fibre and dead leaf cup nest, which is suspended from the fork of a thin branch or vine low in a tree. The male and female parents both feed the chicks.

Dusky Bush-Tanager - It is found in Colombia and Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Dusky Crag Martin - The Dusky Crag Martin is a small passerine bird in the swallow family. It is about 13 cm long with a broad body and wings, and a short square tail that has small white patches near the tips of most of its feathers. This martin has sooty-brown upperparts and slightly paler underparts. The two subspecies are resident breeding birds in South Asia from the Indian subcontinent to southwestern China and the northern parts of Thailand, Vietnam and Laos.

Dusky Crimson-wing - It is found in Burundi, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Uganda.

Dusky Eagle-Owl - The nesting season is from November to April.

Dusky Fantail - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Dusky flycatcher - Adults have olive-grey upperparts, darker on the wings and tail, with whitish underparts; they have a noticeable medium-width white eye ring, white wing bars and a medium length tail. The breast is washed with olive-grey. The bill is mainly dark. It is a bit smaller than the Gray Flycatcher and a bit larger than the Hammond's Flycatcher.

Dusky Friarbird - Its natural habitat is tropical moist lowland forests and tropical moist shrubland. The species is tolerant of habitat degradation and has been observed living in coconut plantations. It isprobably threatened by habitat loss, as much of the remaining forest in its range is threatened with logging, but more research is needed.

Dusky Gerygone - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.

Dusky Grasswren - The Dusky Grasswren is a species of bird in the Maluridae family. It is endemic to Australia.

Dusky Honeyeater - Around 12 to 15 cm long, Dusky Honeyeaters are dull-coloured but active and fast moving, often hovering to take insects or nectar from flowers in the upper storey. They inhabit a wide range of habitat types, including monsoonal forests and scrubs, woodlands, swamps and almost any area near water.

Dusky Hummingbird - The Dusky Hummingbird is a species of hummingbird of the Trochilidae family. It is found only in Mexico. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.

Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo - The Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda.

Dusky Lory - The Dusky Lory is short tailed parrot about 25 cm long. It is mainly brown and has a whitish back and rump. It has two colour phases; the band across the upper chest together with its abdomen are either yellow or orange. The beak is dark orange and there is an area of bare orange skin at the base of its lower mandible. The irises are red and the legs are grey. The male and females are identical in external appearance. Juveniles are duller with a yellowish back and rump, yellowish-grey irises, and a beak that is yellow at the base and brown/black towards the tip.

Dusky Moorhen - The New Guinea birds are smaller, at 25-32 cm in length, than the Australian race . In Indonesia, this species is declining because of competition from the closely related Common Moorhen on the islands where both birds occur.

Dusky Munia - The Dusky Munia Lonchura fuscans is a species of estrildid finch found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines. It is found in subtropical/ tropical lowland shrubland, forest and grassland habitat. The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

Dusky Nightjar - The Dusky Nightjar is a species of nightjar in the Caprimulgidae family. It is found in Costa Rica and Panama. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montanes and heavily degraded former forest.

Dusky Parrot - It is found in the Guianas, and regions of the eastern Amazon Basin in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela; also a northern border region of Colombia.

Dusky Pigeon - The Dusky Pigeon is a species of bird in the Columbidae family. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Dusky Piha - It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Dusky Purpletuft - It is found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Dusky Robin - The Dusky Robin is confined to Tasmania and it closely resembles the female Hooded Robin.

Dusky Scrub Fowl - Many authorities include the Biak Scrubfowl as a subspecies of this species, but the two are increasingly treated as separate species. At the same time, many authorities consider the taxon forstenii a separate species, Forsten's Megapode , but measurements and molecular evidence suggests the two are very close, and arguably better considered conspecific. Traditionally, most members of the genus Megapodius have been listed as subspecies of M. freycinet, but today all major authorities consider this incorrect.

Dusky shearwater - Puffinus assimilis lherminieri Lesson, 1839 Puffinus atrodorsalis Shirihai, Sinclair and Colston, 1995 Puffinus bailloni Puffinus bannermani Mathews & Iredale, 1915 Puffinus baroli Puffinus persicus Hume, 1872 Pufflnus lherminieri Lesson, 1839 and see text

Dusky Spinetail - The Dusky Spinetail is a species of bird in the Furnariidae family. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.

Dusky Starfrontlet - This bird was erroneously listed as a species of Least Concern in the IUCN Red List for many years. Actually, it seems close to extinction, and its status was thus corrected to Critically Endangered in the 2007 Red List issue.

Dusky Sunbird - The Dusky Sunbird is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. This relatively dull sunbird is found in arid savanna, thickets and shrubland in Angola, Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa.

Dusky Tapaculo - Its natural habitat is temperate forests.

Dusky Tit - The Dusky Tit is a species of bird in the tit family Paridae. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, and Uganda. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Dusky Trush - This species breeds in open woodland areas; Dusky Thrush, as would be expected, is more tolerant of mountainous and tundra-edge habitats. This species is strongly migratory, wintering south to southeast Asia, principally in China and neighbouring countries. It is a rare vagrant to western Europe.

Dusky Twinspot - It is found in Angola, Burundi, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda & Uganda. The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

Dusky warbler - This is an abundant bird of taiga bogs and wet meadows. The nest is built low in a bush, and 5-6 eggs are laid. Like most Old World warblers, this small passerine is insectivorous.

Dusky White-eye - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Dusky Woodcock - This species is restricted to wet mountain forests on Sumatra, Java and New Guinea. It nests on a bed of moss in light undergrowth. It has a "roding" display flight like Eurasian Woodcock, but the calls are different. It can be very tame.

Dusky Woodswallow - The name "woodswallow" is a misnomer as they are not closely related to true swallows. Instead, they belong to the family Artamidae, which also includes butcherbirds, currawongs and the Australian Magpie.

Dusky-backed Jacamar - It is found in Colombia and Panama. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.

Dusky-billed Parrotlet - The Dusky-billed Parrotlet , also known as the Sclater's Parrotlet, is a small species of parrot in the Psittacidae family. It is found in the Amazon Rainforest in South America, where it is locally fairly common; it is in the Andes, and the Amazonian foothills; also the Amazon River outlet, and Marajo Island. It resembles other parrotlets, but has a largely dark upper mandible.

Dusky-blue Flycatcher - The Dusky-blue Flycatcher is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, and Uganda. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Dusky-brown Oriole - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Dusky-capped Flycatcher - Adult Dusky-capped Flycatchers are 18cm long and weigh 19.4g. The upperparts are brown, with a blackish head and short crest. The breast is grey and the belly is bright yellow. The brown tail feathers and wings have paler outer webs. The sexes are similar, but young birds have rufous edgings to the wings and tail.

Dusky-capped Greenlet - The Dusky-capped Greenlet is a species of bird in the Vireonidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Dusky-cheeked foliage-gleaner - The Bamboo Foliage-gleaner , also known as the Crested Foliage-gleaner or Dusky-cheeked Foliage-gleaner, is a species of bird in the Furnariidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

Dusky-chested Flycatcher - The Dusky-chested Flycatcher is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical swamps.

Dusky-faced Tanager - It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.

Dusky-green Oropendola - The Dusky-green Oropendola is a species of bird in the Icteridae family. It is found on the eastern slope of the Andes in Bolivia and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest.

Dusky-grey Heron - It feeds in shallow water, spearing fish with its long, sharp bill. It will wait motionless for prey, or slowly stalk its victim.

Dusky-headed Brush Finch - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest. It is becoming rare due to habitat loss.

Dusky-headed Parakeet - This long-tailed species is generally green in color with a gray-brown head, a blue-tipped tail and remiges that are dark gray from below, mainly blue from above. The bill is black, and it has a broad bare white eye-ring. With an average length of 25–28 cm and a weight of about 100 grams, it is slightly smaller than the Sun Conure.

Dusky-legged Guan - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes. The bird measures an average of 73 centimeters in length and weighs an average of 1.2 kilograms, being very similar in appearance to its smaller relative, the Rusty-margined Guan . Eats fruit, flowers and buds taken from the ground or plucked from tree branches, and acts as a seed disperser for various species of trees and palms, such as the endangered palm Euterpe edulis, or the palms of the Syagrus genus .

Dusky-tailed Antbird - The Dusky-tailed Antbird is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Dusky-tailed Canastero - The Dusky-tailed Canastero is a species of bird in the Furnariidae family. It is found in Argentina and Chile. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.

Dusky-tailed Flatbill - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Dusky-throated Antshrike - The Dusky-throated Antshrike is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Dusky-throated Hermit - The Dusky-throated Hermit is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is endemic to humid Atlantic Forest in south-eastern Brazil. It formerly included the Streak-throated Hermit as a subspecies. A small hermit with a total length of approximately 9 cm, it has pale buff underparts and dark streaks on the throat.

Dwarf Bittern - The Dwarf Bittern is a species of heron in the Ardeidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Dwarf Cassowary - The scientific name commemorates the Australian naturalist George Bennett.

Dwarf Fruit Dove - The Dwarf Fruit-dove is a species of bird in the Columbidae family. It is found in lowland and foothill forest in New Guinea and the Raja Ampat Islands. With a total length of 13-15 cm, it is the shortest pigeon or dove in the world, but as it is relatively thickset, several other species weigh less. Its plumage is overall green, but with contrasting yellow undertail-coverts and narrow bars to the wings. Unlike the female, the male has a purple patch on the belly.

Dwarf Jay - The Dwarf Jay is a species of bird in the Corvidae family. It is endemic to Mexico. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Dwarf Tinamou - It is approximately 16 cm long. It is greyish-brown with a pale throat, boldly patterned neck and upper parts, and it has brown-barred buff underparts and a blackish crown. Some individuals are significantly darker and greyer than others, but it remains unclear if these plumage variations are morphs or differences between the sexes. The iris and legs are dull yellowish. It resembles a small dumpy nothura, but is more easily confused with the Ocellated Crake.

Dwarf Tyrant-Manakin - It is found throughout most of the Amazon Basin, except the area east of the Rio Negro. Rarely found at the edges of the forest, it prefers being at the mid-strata level deep in the forest. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Dwarf Vireo - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.

Dybowski's Twinspot - It is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan and Uganda. The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern.