Birds beginning with L

La perouse's megapode - The Micronesian Megapode is a stocky medium-sized bird that is mostly dark brownish-black in appearance. Its head is paler than its body, and it has a pale grey crest, a yellow bill, and large dull-yellow legs and feet. Its habitat is thick forest and it is omnivorous, eating a large variety of foods from the forest floor.

La sagra's flycatcher - It breeds on Cuba, the Bahamas and Grand Cayman in the West Indies. It is normally a year round resident, however has been known as an occasional vagrant to southern Florida.

Labrador Duck - The Labrador Duck was also known as a Pied Duck, a vernacular name that it shared with the Surf Scoter and the Common Goldeneye , a fact that has led to difficulties in interpreting old records of these species, and also as Skunk Duck. Both names refer to the male's striking white/black piebald coloration. Yet another common name was Sand Shoal Duck, referring to its habit of feeding in shallow water. The closest evolutionary relatives of the Labrador Duck are apparently the scoters .

Laced Woodpecker - It is found in Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and perhaps Bangladesh.

Lacrimose Mountain Tanager - It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest.

Ladder-backed woodpecker - The Ladder-backed Woodpecker is fairly common in dry brushy areas and thickets and has a rather large range. The species can be found year-round over the southwestern United States , most of Mexico, and locally in Central America as far south as Nicaragua.

Ladder-tailed Nightjar - It is found in the Amazon Basin of Brazil with the Guianas, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and also Amazonian Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia; it is also in Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, rivers, and freshwater lakes.

Lady Amherst's Pheasant - These are native to south western China and Myanmar, but have been introduced elsewhere, and have established a self-supporting, but now declining, feral population in England, the stronghold of which is now in Bedfordshire. As of 2009 only three males remain at one site, known as Jackdaw Hill, near Millbrook in Bedfordshire.

Lafresnaye's Piculet - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Lafresnaye's Vanga - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

Lagden's Bushshrike - The Lagden's Bush-shrike is a species of bird in the Malaconotidae family. It is found in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Laggar Falcon - It resembles the Lanner Falcon but is darker overall, and has blackish "trousers" . Fledglings have an almost entirely dark underside, and first-year subadult birds still retain much dark on the belly.

Lake Duck - Range: Chile and Argentina, sometimes migrating in winter to southern Brazil and Paraguay. Clumsy on land since their legs are set unusually far back. They spend most of their time in water where they feed by diving, and rarely fly.

Lake Lufira Masked-Weaver - The Tanzania Masked-weaver or Tanganyika Masked-weaver is a species of bird in the weaver family, Ploceidae. It is found in and around swamps in south-west Tanzania and north-east Zambia. The Lake Lufira Weaver of the Democratic Republic of Congo is sometimes treated as a subspecies of this bird.

Lance-tailed Manakin - This manakin is a fairly common bird of dry and moist deciduous forests, but not rainforest. The female builds a cup nest in a tree; two brown-mottled cream eggs are laid, and incubated entirely by the female for about 20 days.

Lanceolated Jay - It occurs in eastern Afghanistan and the Himalayas across to Nepal in wooded country with large areas of open ground rather than dense forest. It also occurs in some cultivated areas and even near villages as long as there are enough trees and scrubland nearby.

Lanceolated Monklet - It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, and Peru. In the western Amazon Basin, it ranges from the Purus River in the southwest Basin, Amazonas state to the Japurá River of southern Colombia in the northwest.

Lanceolated warbler - This small passerine bird is a species found in grassland with some thicker shrubby vegetation or trees, often close to water in bogs or wet clearings. Five eggs are laid in a nest in a tussock. This species is a rare vagrant to western Europe. One of the best places to see this skulking species as a vagrant is Fair Isle, Shetland.

Lanner - The Lanner Falcon is a large bird of prey that breeds in Africa, southeast Europe and just into Asia. It is mainly resident, but some birds disperse more widely after the breeding season.

Lapland Bunting - It breeds across Arctic Europe and Asia and in Canada and the northernmost USA. It is migratory, wintering in the Russian steppes, the southern USA, Northern Scandinavian arctic areas and down to coastal Southern Sweden, Denmark and Great Britain. This is the only Eurasian species of the longspur buntings, and while it probably did not evolve there, it has been present in Eastern Europe for at least about 30,000 years .

Lapwing - The Northern Lapwing , also known as the Peewit, Green Plover or just Lapwing, is a bird in the plover family. It is common through temperate Eurasia. It is highly migratory over most of its extensive range, wintering further south as far as north Africa, Pakistan, northern Republic of India and parts of China. It migrates mainly by day, often in large flocks. Lowland breeders in westernmost areas of Europe are resident. It occasionally is a vagrant to North America, especially after storms, as in the Canadian sightings after storms in December 1927 and in January 1966.

Large Cactus Ground Finch - Its natural habitat is dry shrubland and it is commonly seen on the ground. Its main food source is the cactus Opuntia.

Large Coucal - The Goliath Coucal is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. It is endemic to Indonesia.

Large Cuckoo Dove - The Dusky Cuckoo-dove is a species of bird in the Columbidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Timor-Leste.

Large Cuckooshrike - at Jayanti in Buxa Tiger Reserve in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, India.

Large Flycatcher - It is critically endangered, with an estimated population of less than 1,000.

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

Large Grass Warbler - It occurs in tall emergent vegetation in or bordering freshwater swamps or along banks of rivers in the lowlands of Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, northern India, Myanmar and the Chitwan National Park of Nepal. It is threatened by habitat loss and already extinct in Thailand and Vietnam.

Large Grey Babbler - The Large Grey Babbler, Turdoides malcolmi, is an Old World babbler found in South Asia. They are locally common in the scrub, open forest and gardenland. They are usually seen in small groups and are easily distinguished from other babblers in the region by their nasal call and the whitish outer feathers to their long tail. It is one of the largest babblers in the region.

Large Ground Finch - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. The large ground finch beak can crack hard shells.

Large Hawk Cuckoo - The Large Hawk-cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family.

Large Insectivorous Tree Finch - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Large Lifu White-eye - The Large Lifu White-eye is a species of bird in the Zosteropidae family. It is endemic to New Caledonia.

Large Mountain Sericornis - It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Large Niltava - The Large Niltava is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand,and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or Antarctic montane forests.

Large Owlet-Nightjar - The Feline Owlet-nightjar is a species of bird in the Aegothelidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Large Scimitar-Babbler - The Large Scimitar-babbler is a species of bird in the Timaliidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Large Sri Lanka White-eye - This bird is slightly larger than the Oriental White-eye which it replaces above 4000 ft. The upper parts of the body and sides of neck are dark olive green. The rump appears paler green while the crown while the crown and forehead appear darker. The wings and tail are brown edged with green on the back. The typical ring of tiny white feathers around the eye is present. The lores are dark and there is a dark streak below the eye. The chin, throat and upper breast are greenish-yellow as are the thighs and vent. The belly region is grayish white. The dark bill has a slaty base to the lower mandible. The legs are dark. The iris is yellow to reddish-brown.

Large Woodshrike - The Large Woodshrike is a species in the helmetshrike family Prionopidae. The woodshrikes were formerly placed in the Campephagidae sometimes.

Large-billed Antwren - The Large-billed Antwren is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family. It is found in Bolivia and Brazil. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Large-billed Blue-Flycatcher - It is threatened by habitat loss.

Large-billed Crow - There are three sub-species within this group that are sometimes treated as full species:

Large-billed Flyeater - Venables B., Pritchard J. and Murphy S. Novel observations of pre-breeding display structures used by Large-billed Gerygones. Sunbird 37: 30.

Large-billed Lark - The natural habitat of Large-billed Lark is fynbos, karoo scrub and mountain grassland. It is also found in cultivated and fallow agricultural land. Like other larks, it nests on the ground. Its food is seeds and insects, the latter especially in the breeding season.

Large-billed Seed Finch - It is found in Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, swamps, and heavily degraded former forest.

Large-billed Tern - 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 Aruba, Bermuda, Cuba, Panama and the United States.

Large-billed Willow Warbler - Living in Asia, it winters in the Western Ghats and associated hill ranges. It is found in dense vegetation and is more often heard than seen. The two note dir-tee call with the second note much higher is distinctive. They call often and at regular intervals.

Large-footed Tapaculo - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Large-tailed Antshrike - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Large-tailed Nightjar - at Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India.

Lark Sparrow - This passerine bird breeds in southern Canada, much of the USA, and northern Mexico. It is much less common in the east, where its range is contracting. The populations in Mexico and adjacent USA states are resident, but other birds are migratory, wintering in the southern United States, Mexico and south to Guatemala.

Lark-like Brushrunner - It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

Lark-like Bunting - The Lark-like Bunting is a species of bird in the Emberizidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

Latham's Francolin - The Forest Francolin is a species of bird in the Phasianidae 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, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda.

Latham's snipe - Identifiable as a Gallinago snipe by its cryptically-patterned black, brown, buff and white plumage, but is not easily distinguished from Swinhoe's and Pin-tailed Snipe in the field, though it is slightly larger.

Laughing Falcon - Its English name comes from its loud voice, as does the specific name cachinnans, Latin for "laughing aloud" or "laughing immoderately".

Laughing Gull - The Laughing Gull, Leucophaeus atricilla, is a medium-sized gull of North and South America. It breeds on the Atlantic coast of North America, the Caribbean, and northern South America. Northernmost populations migrate further south in winter, and this species occurs as a rare vagrant to western Europe. The Laughing Gull's English name is derived from its raucous kee-agh call, which sounds like a high-pitched laugh "ha... ha... ha..".

Laughing Kookaburra - The Laughing Kookaburra was first described in western knowledge systems by French naturalist Johann Hermann in 1783, its specific epithet novaeguineae refers to New Guinea. For many years it was known as Dacelo gigas. Previously known as the Laughing Jackass it is now best known by its Aboriginal name.

Laughing Owl - The Laughing Owl's plumage was yellowish-brown striped with dark brown. There were white straps on the scapulars, and occasionally the hind neck. Mantle feathers were edged with white. The wings and tail had light brown bars. The tarsus had yellowish to reddish-buff feathers. The facial disc was white behind and below the eyes, fading to grey with brown stripes towards the centre. Some birds were more rufous, with a brown facial disk; this was at first attributed to subspecific differences, but is probably better related to individual variation. There are indications that males were more often of the richly colored morph . The eyes were very dark orange. Its length was 35.5-40 cm and wing length 26.4 cm , with males being smaller than females. Weight was around 600 grams.

Laughing-thrush - The Chestnut-capped Laughingthrush is a species of bird in the Timaliidae family. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Laura's Woodland-Warbler - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical swamps.

Laurel Pigeon - A rare resident breeder in the mountain laurisilva and Canary pine forests, the Laurel Pigeon builds a stick nest in a tree. There it lays one white egg.

Lava Gull - The Lava Gull is a large gull. One of the rarest gulls in the world, the entire population lives on the Galapagos Islands and is estimated at 400 pairs.

Lavender waxbill - It is found in subtropical/ tropical dry shrubland habitats in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Togo & USA . The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

Lawes's Parotia - The male is a velvet black bird with an erectile silvery white forehead crest, iridescent purple blue nape and golden green breast plumes. The inside of its mouth is lime-colored. Adorned with three ornamental spatule head wires from behind of each eye and elongated black flank feathers, that spread skirt-like in courtship display. The female is a brown bird with dark head, yellow iris and dark-barred yellowish brown below. The iris is colored in various amounts of blue and yellow, changing according to the bird's mood.

Lawrence's goldfinch - At about 4.75 inches long and weighing about 0.4 oz , it is slightly bigger than the Lesser Goldfinch and slightly smaller than the American Goldfinch, with less yellow in the plumage than either. Adults of both sexes are gray with pink to grayish flesh-color bills, stubbier than other goldfinches'. They have yellow rumps and paired yellowish wing-bars, as well as yellow edges on the flight feathers and yellow on the breast. The tail is black, crossed by a white band . Plumage is duller in winter, brightening after a spring molt . Males are paler, with black caps and faces and larger areas of brighter yellow. Females are browner, have less and duller yellow, and lack the black . Juveniles resemble females but are even duller and have faint streaks on the upperparts and especially the underparts .

Lawrence's Thrush - The Lawrence's Thrush is a species of bird in the Turdidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical swamps.

Layard's Parakeet - Layard's Parakeet is a green parrot, 29 cm long including a tail up to 13 cm. The adult has a bluish-grey head and back, separated by a green collar. There is a broad black chin stripe and the tail is blue tipped yellow. The upper mandible of the male's bill is red and the lower mandible is brown.

Layard's Warbler - The Layard's Warbler is a species of Old World warbler in the Sylviidae family. It is found in Lesotho, Namibia, and South Africa. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

Layard's White-eye - It is a typical small white-eye of the genus Zosterops, similar in appearance to the Silvereye, although the plumage is much yellower, it is chunkier and has a complete eye-ring. The back is olive green and the throat and belly yellow. The call is described as "a high pitched seeu-seeu".

Laysan Albatross - The Laysan Albatross, Phoebastria immutabilis, is a large seabird that ranges across the North Pacific. This small two-tone gull-like albatross is the second most common seabird in the Hawaiian Islands, with an estimated population of 2.5 million birds, and is currently expanding its range to new islands. The Laysan Albatross was first described as Diomedea immutabilis by Lionel Walter Rothschild, in 1893, based on a specimen from Laysan Island.

Laysan Crake - The Laysan Rail or Laysan Crake was a tiny inhabitant of the Northwest Hawaiian Island of Laysan. This small island was and still is an important seabird colony, and sustained a number of endemic species, including the rail. It became extinct due to habitat loss by domestic rabbits, and ultimately World War II. Its scientific name honours Henry Palmer, who collected in the Hawaiian Islands for Walter Rothschild.

Laysan Finch - The Laysan Finch is a large honeycreeper with a heavy bill. Overall the male has yellow plumage with a whitish belly and a grey neck. The female is duller than the male, with brown streaking. It is almost impossible to confuse the Laysan Finch with any other bird in the field as it is the only passerine species found on the few islands it lives on.

Laysan teal - Named by Lionel Walter Rothschild in 1892, the Laysan Duck is named after Laysan island, one of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. It is a member of the mallard clade of dabbling ducks, and is a highly behaviorally and genetically unusual species. Recent evidence suggests they evolved from an east Asian, southern hemisphere ancestor of mallards, not from stray migratory Mallards as had been reported in the past.

Lazuli bunting - The male is easily recognized by its bright blue head and back , its conspicuous white wingbars, and its light rusty breast and white belly. The color pattern may suggest the Eastern and Western Bluebirds, but the smaller size , wingbars, and short and conical bunting bill quickly distinguish it. The female is brown, grayer above and warmer underneath, told from the female Indigo Bunting by two thin and pale wingbars and other plumage details.

Lazuli Kingfisher - The Lazuli Kingfisher is a species of bird in the Alcedinidae family. It is endemic to Indonesia.

Lazuline Sabrewing - It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest.

Lazy Cisticola - It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. It is usually associated with rocky wooded terrain with interspersed patchy grass tussocks. Usually at the foot of hills or in adjacent riparian vegetation.

Le conte's sparrow - Adults have streaked dark and light brown upperparts with a light brown breast and white belly with fine streaks on the side. They have a large flat head with a light crown stripe on a dark crown, an orange face with a grey cheek patch. The large bill is dark and they have a short tail.

Leach's Storm-petrel - It breeds on inaccessible islands in the colder northern areas of the Atlantic and Pacific. It nests in colonies close to the sea in well concealed areas such as rock crevices, shallow burrows or even logs. It lays a single white egg which often has a faint ring of spots at the large end. This storm-petrel is strictly nocturnal at the breeding sites to avoid predation by gulls and skuas, and will even avoid coming to land on clear moonlit nights. The largest colony of Leach's Storm-petrels can be found on Baccalieu Island of eastern Canada, an ecological reserve with more than 3 million pairs of the bird.

Lead-colored flycatcher - The Black-tailed Gnatcatcher was described by American ornithologist George Newbold Lawrence in 1857. Meaning 'black-tailed', its specific name is derived from the Ancient Greek melano- 'black' and oura 'tail'.

Leaden Antwren - The Leaden Antwren is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Leaden Flycatcher - The Leaden Flycatcher was first described by ornithologist John Latham in 1802, from an illustration in the Watling drawings.

Leaden Honeyeater - The Leaden Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Lear - The Lear's Macaw is 70–75 cm long. The body, tail, and wings are dark blue and the head is a slightly paler shade. It has an area of bare pale-yellow skin adjacent to the base of its beak, and orange-yellow eyerings. It has a large blackish beak and dark grey feet. The general appearance of the Lear's Macaw is similar to the larger Hyacinth macaw and the smaller Glaucous Macaw.

Least auklet - Least Auklets feed predominantly on calanoid copepods, particularly those of the genus Neocalanus. They also eat euphausiids, pteropods and other zooplankton species. They hunt for these in stratified waters caused where upwelling and thermoclines cause these prey items to be tightly clumped together. Like all auks they are pursuit divers, using their wings to provide thrust and "fly" under the water. They are voracious predators, consuming 86% of their body weight each day.

Least Bittern - The Least Bittern is a small wading bird, the smallest heron found in the Americas.

Least Flycatcher - Adults have greyish-olive upperparts, darker on the wings and tail, with whitish underparts; they have a conspicuous white eye ring, white wing bars, a small, short bill and a short tail. The breast is washed with grey and the sides of the belly with yellow. It is similar in appearance to the larger Eastern Wood Pewee.

Least grebe - The Least Grebe ranges in length from 21–27 cm and in weight from 112–180 g . Like all grebes, its legs are set far back on its body and it cannot walk well, though it is an excellent swimmer and diver. Small and plump, with a fairly short, sharp-pointed beak and bright yellow eyes, it typically appears quite dark all over.

Least Honeyguide - The Least Honeyguide is a species of bird in the Indicatoridae 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, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia.

Least Nighthawk - The Least Nighthawk is a species of nightjar in the Caprimulgidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland. It is the smallest Caprimulgiformes, at 16 centimetres .

Least Pauraque - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. As seen by the fact that it was only described in 1917, this is an enigmatic and little-known bird. It was listed as Near Threatened by the IUCN from 1988 on, but in 2000 its status was changed to Data Deficient, owing to the continuing uncertainty. With more information available, it is again listed as Near Threatened in the 2007 IUCN Red List.

Least Pygmy-Owl - The Least Pygmy-owl , also known as Sick's Pygmy-owl, is a small owl in the typical owl family. It has been argued that the here used scientific name actually belongs to the Pernambuco Pygmy-owl, in which case the Least Pygmy-owl should be referred to G. sicki .

Least Sandpiper - The Least Sandpiper, Calidris or Erolia minutilla, is the smallest shorebird.

Least Seed-Snipe - It breeds in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru and has been recorded in Ecuador, the Falkland Islands, Uruguay and possibly Brazil. The range of the Least Seedsnipe is estimated to be about 1,300,000 km2.

Least Storm-Petrel - The Least Storm-petrel is a small seabird of the storm-petrel family Hydrobatidae. It is 13-15 cm in length, with a wingspan of 32 cm. It is the smallest member of the order Procellariiformes. The species is the only member of the genus Halocyptena although it is sometimes included in the genus Oceanodroma.

Least Tern - It is a small tern, 22–24 cm long, with a wingspan of 50 cm, and weighing 39–52 g. The upper parts are a fairly uniform pale gray, and the underparts white. The head is white, with a black cap and line through the eye to the base of the bill, and a small white forehead patch above the bill; in winter, the white forehead is more extensive, with a smaller and less sharply defined black cap. The bill is yellow with a small black tip in summer, all blackish in winter. The legs are yellowish. The wings are mostly pale gray, but with conspicuous black markings on their outermost primaries. In behavior, it flies over water with fast, jerky wingbeats and a distinctive hunchback appearance, with the bill pointing slightly downward.

Lemon Dove or Cinnamon Dove - The African Lemon-dove or Cinnamon Dove is a bird species in the pigeon family . It differs from the other African pigeons of the genus Columba by its terrestrial habits and the white face and forehead of adult males; it is therefore sometimes separated in the genus Aplopelia.

Lemon-bellied Flycatcher - The Lemon-bellied Flyrobin is a species of bird in the Petroicidae family. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.

Lemon-breasted Seedeater - This name was also given to the particularly busty, but sadly jaundiced, female "dancer", real name is Chesty La Rue, that would swallow if you paid her a tenner and gave her some Tic-Tacs.

Lemon-browed Flycatcher - The Lemon-browed Flycatcher is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Lemon-chested Greenlet - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, and heavily degraded former forest.

Lemon-spectacled Tanager - The Lemon-spectacled Tanager is a species of bird in the Cardinalidae family. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, and heavily degraded former forest.

Lemon-throated Barbet - The Lemon-throated Barbet is a species of bird in the Capitonidae family. It is found in humid lowland forest in the western Amazon Basin in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil. It is generally uncommon.

Lemon-throated Leaf-Warbler - It is found only in the Philippines.

Leonardina woodi - The Bagobo Babbler is a species of bird in the Timaliidae family. It is endemic to the Philippines.

Lesser Adjutant - This is a huge bird, typically 110-120 cm tall, weighing about 5 kg and has a 210 cm wingspan. It is, however, the smallest member of the Leptoptilos genus. Its upper body and wings are black, but the belly and undertail are white. The head and neck are bare like those of a vulture. The pale bill is long and thick. Juveniles are a duller version of the adult.

Lesser Akialoa - The Hawaiʻi ʻAkialoa was a species of finch in the Fringillidae family. It was endemic to Hawaii. It became extinct due to habitat loss. It is also commonly called Lesser Akialoa, but this name dates back to the time when all small ʻakialoas were united in this taxon. The Hawaii Akialoa is the other species of bird on Hawai’i to disappear during this time period. It disappeared at around the same time as its Oahu cousin. It was a yellowish bird with a long two inch long, thin whitish-yellow bill. It had small olive green wings which it used to flit from tree to tree to look for insects like beatles and caterpillars. It was seen gleaning the trees in search of insects. The bill of the Akialoa was also designed for more than bug extraction. The Akialoa also fed on nectar in the flowers of lobelias and O’hia blossoms. Its long bill could easily fit into petals of long flowers and took pollen from flower to flower on its forehead. It was collected at several places. It was once thought to be the same species as t

Lesser antillean bullfinch - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and heavily degraded former forest.

Lesser Antillean Flycatcher - The Lesser Antillean Flycatcher is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family. It is found in Barbuda, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Saint Lucia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Lesser antillean pewee - It is found in Dominica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Puerto Rico, and Saint Lucia with records from Saint Kitts. Birds on Puerto Rico are sometimes considered to be a separate species as are those on Saint Lucia .

Lesser Antillean Saltator - It is found in Dominica, Martinique, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and heavily degraded former forest.

Lesser Antillean Swift - The Lesser Antillean Swift is a species of swift in the Apodidae family. It breeds on Dominica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent. There is a possible record from Nevis. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.

Lesser Bar-tailed Cuckoo Dove - The Black-billed Cuckoo-dove is a species of bird in the Columbidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Lesser Bird of Paradise - The Lesser Bird-of-paradise is medium-sized, up to 32 cm-long, maroon-brown with a yellow crown and brownish-yellow upper back. The male has a dark emerald-green throat, a pair of long tail-wires and is adorned with ornamental flank plumes which are deep yellow at their base and fade outwards into white. The female is a maroon bird with a dark-brown head and whitish underparts.

Lesser Black-backed Gull - This species breeds colonially on coasts and lakes, making a lined nest on the ground or cliff. Normally, three eggs are laid. In some cities the species nests within the urban environment, often in association with Herring Gulls.

Lesser Blue-eared Glossy-Starling - The Lesser Blue-eared Glossy-starling is a species of starling in the Sturnidae family. It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Lesser Brown Prinia - The Rufescent Prinia is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.

Lesser Canastero - The Sharp-billed Canastero is a resident breeding species in central and southern Argentina and the eastern border Andean cordillera of Chile; some birds migrate north as far as the southwest border of Paraguay, the southern border region of Bolivia, and western Uruguay, in the austral winter. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, and temperate grassland.

Lesser Crester Tern - The Lesser Crested Tern is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. It breeds in subtropical coastal parts of the world mainly from the Red Sea across the Indian Ocean to the western Pacific, and Australia, with a significant population on the southern coast of the Mediterranean on two islands off the Libyan coast. Accidental breeding has also been reported in Italy and France. The Australian birds are probably sedentary, but other populations are migratory, wintering south to South Africa.

Lesser Cuckooshrike - It is small, short-tailed, shrike-like bird, 20 cm in length. The male is dark grey, paler below with contrasting dark, blackish flight feathers, and a blackish head. The tail is also black with light tips, ranging from white to greyish. The female is paler with pale barring on underside. Immature birds are browner with grey and white barring or spotting on the pale breast. The iris is brown, and the bill and feet are black.

Lesser Elaenia - It is found in Argentina, Aruba, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Netherlands Antilles, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, and heavily degraded former forest.

Lesser Fish-Eagle - The Lesser Fish Eagle is a species of large fish eagle found in the foothills of the Himalayas. There have been some stray reports from Gujarat and Central India and in more recent times from the Kaveri river valley in southern India. The distribution in southern India is not yet confirmed. It is also found in small numbers in other countries in south west Asia.

Lesser Flamingo - The Lesser Flamingo is the smallest and most numerous flamingo, probably numbering up to two million individual birds. They generally weigh 4.5 lb , are 3 ft long, stand 3 ft 3 in tall, and have a wingspan of 3 ft 3 in .

Lesser Florican - In their breeding display, the male jumps into the air above the grass level.

Lesser Forktail - The Sunda Forktail is 16 cm n length with a deeply forked tail. The male has a white breast, belly and rump, and black wings, and a dark grey back and head. There is a small white line between the eyes. The tail is black with white barring. The female is similar to the male but has a brown crown and nape. There are two subspecies described, the nominate race occurring on Java. The Sumatran subspecies, sumatranus, differs from the nominate in having more rufous brown on the female. The call of his species is a hard shrill "chee" or "hie-tie-tie"

Lesser frigatebird - It nests in Australia, among other locations.

Lesser goldfinch - The Lesser Goldfinch or Dark-backed Goldfinch is a very small songbird of the Americas. Together with its relatives the American Goldfinch and Lawrence's Goldfinch, it forms the American goldfinches clade in the genus Carduelis sensu stricto.

Lesser Grass Finch - It is found in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

Lesser Green Broadbill - The Green Broadbill is distributed in broadleaved evergreen forests of Borneo, Sumatra and Malay Peninsula and it frequents lowland and lower montane rainforest. It is often overlooked, as it sits motionless inside the canopy or just below, quickly flying to a new location if disturbed. It's foliage-green color provides excellent camouflage.

Lesser Greenlet - This is a common species of lowlands and foothills up to 1200 m altitude, where it inhabits forest canopy and edges, and the crowns of trees in tall second growth or semi-open areas. The nest is a deep cup of dead leaves and spiderwebs attached by the rim to branches 10–15 m high in a tree. The normal clutch is two brown-marked white eggs.

Lesser Grey Shrike - It is similar in appearance to the Great Grey Shrike Lanius excubitor and the Southern Grey Shrike L. meridionalis. It breeds in southeastern Europe and into Asia.

Lesser Ground Cuckoo - The Lesser Ground-cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the monotypic genus Morococcyx in the family Cuculidae. It is found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua.

Lesser Ground-robin - The Lesser Ground-robin is a species of bird in the Petroicidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

Lesser Hoopoe Lark - The Lesser Hoopoe-lark is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family. It is endemic to Somalia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.

Lesser Hornero - The Lesser Hornero is a species of bird in the Furnariidae family. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.

Lesser Jacana - It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Lesser Kestrel - It is a small bird of prey, 27–33 cm in length with a 63–72 cm wingspan. It looks very much like the larger Common Kestrel but has proportionally shorter wings and tail. It shares a brown back and barred grey underparts with the larger species. The male has a grey head and tail like male Common Kestrels, but lacks the dark spotting on the back, the black malar stripe, and has grey patches in the wings.

Lesser Kiskadee - The Lesser Kiskadee is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist shrubland and swamps. It is sometimes considered to be in the monotypic genus Philohydor.

Lesser koa-finch - The Lesser Koa Finch has different coloring depending on sex and age. The only specimens caught was a family group with member of different ages and genders, perfect for studying. The males were gold yellow and were olive green on the bottom. The females were almost undistinguishable from its larger relative, other than the fact that it was darker in color. The juveniles are slightly mottled on the belly and are similar to the females. It is small as its name proclaims, only five inches in size.

Lesser Long-billed Thrush - The Dark-sided Thrush is a species of bird in the Turdidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Lesser Masked-Owl - The Moluccan Masked Owl , also known as the Lesser Masked Owl, Effraie Des Tanimbar or Lechuza De Las Tanimbar, is a species of owl in the Tytonidae family. It is endemic to Indonesia.

Lesser Masked-Weaver - Looking for lunch

Lesser Melampitta - The Lesser Melampitta, Melampitta lugubris, is a medium-sized enigmatic terrestrial songbird of mountain forests of New Guinea. It is now classify as a member of the family Orthonychidae by Birdlife International, but in some other sources it is variously considered close to or in the Paradisaeidae , Corcoracidae , Cnemophilidae or Monarchidae .

Lesser Moorhen - 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, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Lesser Necklaced Laughingthrush - It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Lesser nighthawk - The adults are dark with brown, grey and white patterning on the upperparts and breast; the long upperwings are black and show a white bar in flight. The tail is dark with white barring; the underparts are buffy with fine black horizontal streaking. The adult male has a white throat; the female has a light brown throat. This bird looks similar to the Common Nighthawk, but is slightly smaller, has a slightly less deeply forked tail, and is more buffy in coloration. The calls are also completely different. The Lesser Nighthawk has a rapid, low whistled melodious trill, lasting several seconds. It is usually heard only near breeding areas.

Lesser Nothura - All Tinamou are from the family Tinamidae, and in the larger scheme are also Ratites. Unlike other Ratites, Tinamous can fly, although in general, they are not strong fliers. All ratites evolved from prehistoric flying birds, and Tinamous are the closest living relative of these birds.

Lesser Prairie Chicken - The Lesser Prairie-Chicken, Tympanuchus pallidicinctus, a species in the grouse family, is slightly smaller and paler than its near relative the Greater Prairie-Chicken. It is found primarily in the sandhills and prairies of Western Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle, and the Llano Estacado of Texas and Eastern New Mexico, and also rarely in Southeastern Colorado, and Western Kansas.

Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo - It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Lesser Rhea - Rhea darwinii Rhea macrorhyncha Pterocnemia pennata Pterocnemia darwinii

Lesser Roadrunner - The Lesser roadrunner resembles the Greater Roadrunner in appearance and habit but is smaller and has a significantly shorter bill. Its breeding range is in southwestern Mexico, and north into the western side of the Sierra Madre Occidental range; also northern Central America, and a disjunct range in the northern Yucatán Peninsula.

Lesser Sand Plover - There are five races, and the large east Asian forms, C. m. mongolus and C. m. stegmanni, are sometimes given specific status as Mongolian Plover, Charadrius mongolus. If the taxonomic split is accepted, Lesser Sandplover as then defined becomes Charadrius atrifrons, including the three races atrifrons, pamirensis and schaeferi.

Lesser Scaup - Aythya affinis, the Lesser Scaup , is a small North American diving duck that migrates south as far as Central America in winter. It is colloquially known as the Little Bluebill or Broadbill. It is apparently a very close relative of the Holarctic Greater Scaup or "bluebill" , with which it forms a superspecies.

Lesser Seed Finch - It is found widely in shrubby and grassy areas in tropical and subtropical South America, commonly known as the "Tawa Tawa" in local culture. It has been replaced west of the Andes by the closely related Thick-billed Seed-finch , in which the male lacks the chestnut belly of the male Chestnut-bellied Seed-finch. The two have often been considered conspecific as the Lesser Seed-finch, using the older scientific name O. angolensis.

Lesser Seedcracker - It is found in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

Lesser Short-toed Lark - Many populations, including the Spanish and African breeders, are sedentary, but some Asian birds from the north of the breeding range migrate south in winter. This species is a very rare wanderer to northern and western Europe.

Lesser Shortwing - It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Lesser Shrike-Tyrant - The Lesser Shrike-tyrant is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

Lesser Spotted Eagle - This is a medium-sized eagle, about 60 cm in length and with a wingspan of 150 cm. Its head and wing coverts are pale brown and contrast with the generally dark plumage. The head and bill are small for an eagle. There is usually a white patch on the upperwings, and even adults retain a clear-marked white V on the rump; the wing markings are absent and the white V is not well-defined in the Greater Spotted Eagle.

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker - The range of the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker is the Palearctic region, but several subspecies are recognised.

Lesser Striped Swallow - This is a bird of wooded, mainly lowland habitats, and is replaced in montane grassland by the Greater Striped Swallow, Hirundo cucullata. It is often found around human habitation. The Lesser Striped Swallow builds a bowl-shaped mud nest with a tubular entrance on the underside of a suitable structure. The nest has a soft lining, and may be reused in later years. The nest may be built in a cave or under a rock overhang or a tree branch. This species has benefited from its willingness to use buildings, bridges, culverts and similar structures. Given the choice, it will select a high nest site.

Lesser Sulphur-crested Cockatoo - The Yellow-crested Cockatoo is found in wooded and cultivated areas of Timor-Leste and Indonesia's islands of Bali, Timor, Sulawesi and Lesser Sunda Islands. It is easily confused with the larger

Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift - This small swift is found in range of habitats including forest clearings, more open woodland, and cultivation. The nest is tubular, wider at the top, and with the entrance at its base. It is made of plant material and attached to a branch or a vertical surface. In the latter case, the entire length is fixed to the wall or trunk. Two or three white eggs are laid on a shelf in the upper part of the nest, and incubated by both parents.

Lesser Swamp-Warbler - The Lesser Swamp Warbler is a plain coloured smallish bird 14–16 cm long and weighing around 20 gm. Its upperparts are rich brown, and it has a white supercilium. The underparts are white, with a rufous wash to the flanks. The long, strong bill has a slightly down-curved upper mandible; it is blackish-yellow with a yellower base. The legs are blue-grey and the eyes are brown. Adults of both sexes and juvenile birds are very similar in appearance,

Lesser Wagtail Tyrant - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.

Lesser Whistling Duck - This is a largely resident species distributed unevenly from the Pakistan lower river valleys eastwards across most of peninsular India, Nepal terai, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, south China, to Vietnam. It is largely resident, apart from local movements , but Chinese birds winter further south.

Lesser white-fronted goose - It breeds in northernmost Asia, but it is a scarce breeder in Europe. There is a re-introduction scheme in Fennoscandia.

Lesser Whitethroat - Unlike many typical warblers, the sexes are almost identical. This is a small species with a grey back, whitish underparts, a grey head with a darker "bandit mask" through the eyes and a white throat. It is slightly smaller than the Whitethroat, and lacks the chestnut wings and uniform head-face color of that species. The Lesser Whitethroat's song is a fast and rattling sequence of tet or che calls, quite different from the Whitethroat's scolding song.

Lesser Woodcreeper - The Lesser Woodcreeper is a species of bird in the woodcreeper subfamily . It is found in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture - The Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture feeds on carrion and locates carcasses by sight and by smell, an ability which is rare in birds. It is dependent on larger vultures, such as the King Vulture, to open the hides of larger animal carcasses as its bill is not strong enough to do this. Like other New World Vultures, the Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture utilizes thermals to stay aloft with minimal effort. It lays its eggs on flat surfaces, such as the floors of caves, or in the hollows of stumps. It feeds its young by regurgitation.

Lesser Yellow-naped Woodpecker - This is a jungle species which nests in a tree hole, laying two to four white eggs. Like other woodpeckers, this species has a straight pointed bill, a stiff tail to provide support against tree trunks, and zygodactyl or “yoked" feet, with two toes pointing forward, and two backward. The long tongue can be darted forward to capture insects.

Lesser Yellowlegs - The Lesser Yellowlegs is a medium-sized shorebird similar in appearance to the larger Greater Yellowlegs. It is not closely related to this bird, however, but instead to the much larger and quite dissimilar Willet ; merely the fine, clear and dense pattern of the neck shown in breeding plumage indicates these species' actual relationships.

Lesson's Seedeater - 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 moist shrubland and heavily degraded former forest.

Letter-winged Kite - The Letter-winged Kite was originally described by ornithologist John Gould in 1842. Its specific name is Latin scriptum meaning "written" or "marked".

Leucopternis lacernulatus - The White-necked Hawk is a species of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family.

Leucopternis polionotus - The Mantled Hawk is a species of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family.

Leucopternis schistaceus - It is found in northern South America: Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, and French Guiana. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical swamps.

Levaillant's Barbet - It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Levaillant's Cisticola - Levaillant's Cisticola is a resident breeder in eastern Africa from Kenya to eastern South Africa. This cisticola is common in reedbeds, sedges, rank grass, and similar wet habitats usually near rivers or dams.

Levaillant's Cuckoo - It is a brood parasite, using the nests of bulbuls and babblers.

Levaillant's Woodpecker - Levaillant’s Green Woodpecker breeds in mountain forests up to the treeline at around 2000m. The nest is a hole in a tree, and 4-8 glossy white eggs are laid on wood chips.

Levant Sparrowhawk - It breeds in forests from Greece and the Balkans east to southern Russia. It is migratory, wintering from Egypt across to southwestern Iran. It will migrate in large flocks, unlike the more widespread Eurasian Sparrowhawk

Lewin's Honeyeater - The name of this bird commemorates the Australian artist John Lewin.

Lewis's Woodpecker - One of the largest species of American woodpeckers, Lewis's Woodpecker can be as large as 10 to 11 inches in length. It is mainly reddish-breasted, blackish-green in color with a black rump. It has a gray collar and upper breast, with a pinkish belly, and a red face. The wings are much broader than those of other woodpeckers, and it flies at a much more sluggish pace with slow, but even flaps similar to those of a crow.

Leyte Tit-Babbler - M. leytensis is endemic to the Philippines. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. Its status is insufficiently known.

Liberian Black-Flycatcher - The species is highly dependent on closed-canopy primary forest containing large emergent trees. Its population is likely to be declining rapidly, in line with the massive destruction of lowland forest in the region, and it is therefore classified as vulnerable.

Liberian Greenbul - Its natural habitat is subtropical and tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Lichmera limbata - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.

Lichtenstein's kingbird - An adult Tropical Kingbird is 22 cm long and weighs 39 g. The head is pale grey, with a darker eye mask, an orange crown stripe, and a heavy grey bill. The back is greyish-green, and the wing and forked tail are brown. The throat is pale grey, becoming olive on the breast, with the rest of the underparts being yellow. The sexes are similar, but young birds have pale buff edges on the wing coverts.

Light-crowned Spinetail - The Light-crowned Spinetail is a species of bird in the Furnariidae family. It is found in Bolivia and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Light-mantled Sooty Albatross - The Light-mantled Albatross, Phoebetria palpebrata, also known as the Grey-mantled Albatross or the Light-mantled Sooty Albatross, is a small albatross in the genus Phoebetria, which it shares with the Sooty Albatross. The Light-mantled Albatross was first described as Phoebetria palpebrata by Johann Reinhold Forster, in 1785, based on a specimen from south of the Cape of Good Hope.

Light-vented Bulbul - The particular characteristic is the large white patch covering the nape and the sides of its black head. It also sings very brightly and variably with a 'cha-ko-lee...cha-ko-lee...' sound.

Lilac Kingfisher - The Lilac Kingfisher is 28 cm long. It has the typical kingfisher shape, with a short tail and long bill. The adult male of the nominate race, C. c. cyanotis, has a brown crown and back and rufous rump and tail. It has a blue eye mask, separated from the crown by a white line, and a pale lilac ruff of long stiffened ear covert feathers. The underparts are white and the wings are blue, separated by a white line from the brown back. The red bill is large and flattened. In flight, the underwings are white with a black wrist patch.

Lilac-crowned Amazon - In 2006 BirdLife International classified this species as Vulnerable.

Lilacbreasted Roller - The Lilac-breasted Roller, Coracias caudatus, is a member of the roller family of birds. It is widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula, preferring open woodland and savanna; it is largely absent from treeless places. Usually found alone or in pairs, it perches conspicuously at the tops of trees, poles or other high vantage points from where it can spot insects, lizards, scorpions, snails, small birds and rodents moving about at ground level. Nesting takes place in a natural hole in a tree where a clutch of 2–4 eggs is laid, and incubated by both parents, who are extremely aggressive in defence of their nest, taking on raptors and other birds. During the breeding season the male will rise to great heights, descending in swoops and dives, while uttering harsh, discordant cries. The sexes are alike in colouration. Juveniles do not have the long tail feathers.

Lilian - The Lilian's Lovebird is 13 cm long and is mainly green with white eyerings. It has orange on its head, neck and upper chest and has a green rump. Male and female are identical in external appearance.

Limnoctites rectirostris - The Straight-billed Reedhaunter is a South American bird species in the family Furnariidae. It is today placed in the monotypic genus Limnoctites.

Limpkin - The Limpkin is placed in its own monotypic family, Aramidae, which is in turn placed with the crane and rail order Gruiformes. It had been suggested that the Limpkin was close to the ibis and spoonbill family Threskiornithidae, based upon shared bird lice. The Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy of birds, based upon DNA-DNA hybridization, suggested that the Limpkin's closest relatives were the Heliornithidae finfoots, and Sibley and Monroe even placed the species in that family in 1990.

Lina - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forest above 1000 m. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Linchi Swiftlet - The Cave Swiftlet is a species of swift in the Apodidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Malaysia.

Lincoln's Sparrow - Adults have dark-streaked olive-brown upperparts with a light brown breast with fine streaks, a white belly and a white throat. They have a brown cap with a grey stripe in the middle, olive-brown wings and a narrow tail. Their face is grey with brown cheeks, a brown line through the eye and an eye ring. They are somewhat similar in appearance to the Song Sparrow.

Line-fronted Canastero - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montanes and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Lineated Barbet - The Lineated Barbet Megalaima lineata is a large Asian barbet found along the southern foothills of the Himalayas and also in parts of Bangladesh and West Bengal. Like other barbets it is a frugivore.

Lineated Foliage-gleaner - It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Lineated Woodcreeper - The Lineated Woodcreeper is a species of bird in the Dendrocolaptinae subfamily. 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.

Lineated Woodpecker - The Lineated Woodpecker is 34 cm long and weighs 200 g. It resembles the closely-related Pileated Woodpecker of North America.

Lined Quail-Dove - It is found in Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Lined Seedeater - It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, pastureland, and heavily degraded former forest.

Linnet - This bird breeds in Europe, western Asia and north Africa. It is partially resident, but many eastern and northern birds migrate further south in the breeding range or move to the coasts.

Liocichla bugunorum - The Bugun Liocichla is a small babbler with olive-grey plumage and a black cap. The face is marked with prominent orange-yellow lores, and the wings have yellow, red and white patches. The tail is black with crimson coloured undertail coverts and red tips. The feet are pink and the bill is black at the face fading to pale white. A second duller individual was mist netted, which was probably the female. The voice is described as fluty and distinctive.

Little Auk - This is the only Atlantic auk of its size, half the size of the Atlantic Puffin at 19–21 cm in length, with a 34–38 cm wingspan. Adult birds are black on the head, neck, back and wings, with white underparts. The bill is very short and stubby. They have a small rounded black tail. The lower face and fore neck become white in winter.

Little Bee Eater - This species, like other bee-eaters, is a richly coloured, slender bird. It has green upper parts, yellow throat, black gorget, and rich brown upper breast fading to buffish ocre on the belly. The wings are green and brown, and the beak is black. It reaches a length of 15-17 cm, which makes it the smallest African bee-eater. Sexes are alike. Often silent, their call is a soft "seep".

Little Bittern - It is a very small bittern; at 27–36 cm in length, 40–58 cm wingspan and 60-150 g weight. The smallest specimens are perhaps the smallest herons on earth. It has a short neck, longish bill and buff underparts. The male's back and crown are black, and the wings are black with a large white patch on each wing. The female has a browner back and a buff-brown wing patch.

Little Black Cormorant - Adult in East Perth

Little blue darter - Accipiter velox

Little blue heron - The Little Blue Heron's breeding habitat is sub-tropical swamps. It nests in colonies, often with other herons, usually on platforms of sticks in trees or shrubs. 3-7 light blue eggs are laid.

Little Bronze Cuckoo - The subspecies rufomerus is sometimes given specific status as the Green-cheeked Bronze Cuckoo, Chrysococcyx rufomerus.

Little bunting - This is a small bunting at 12-13.5 cm in length. It has a heavily streaked brown back and white underparts with fine dark streaking. With its chestnut face and white malar stripe, it resembles a small female Reed Bunting, but has black crown stripes, a white eye-ring, and a fine dark border to the rear of its chestnut cheeks. Sexes are similar.

Little Bustard - This species is declining due to habitat loss throughout its range. It used to breed more widely, for example ranging north to Poland occasionally . It is only a very rare vagrant to Great Britain despite breeding in France.

Little Buttonquail - The species is found in grassland habitats.

Little Corella - The Little Corella grows to 36 to 39 cm in length and congregates in flocks of up to several thousand birds, which often include many Galahs. The bird generally roosts in trees overnight, and flies off to feed in the early morning with an almost deafening screeching. It mostly feeds on the ground, eating seeds including cereal crops such as wheat and barley. It is so common that it has become something of a pest throughout much of Australia, and can be destructive to the trees in which it perches, by chewing the bark off smaller twigs. Corellas can be commonly found in the Melbourne suburbs of Camberwell and Ashburton, and are especially numbersome in Carrum Downs. This species has also a small feral population in Queanbeyan and Narrabundah.

Little Crake - Their breeding habitat is reed beds in Europe, mainly in the east, and just into western Asia. They nest in a dry location in reed vegetation, laying 4-7 eggs. This species is migratory, wintering in Africa.

Little Crow - It ranges over western and central Australia, often inhabiting very dry, near desert areas. It frequents small country towns and cultivated areas, where its flocks have reminded people of the European Rook.

Little Egret - The Little Egret is a small white heron. It is the Old World counterpart to the very similar New World Snowy Egret.

Little Forktail - It is found in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Kazakhstan, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan, Tajikistan, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Little Friarbird - The Little Friarbird can be distinguished by its small size and the lack of a knob on its bill.

Little Grassbird - The Little Grassbird is a species of Old World warbler in the Sylviidae family. It is found in Australia and in the Indonesian half of New Guinea.

Little Gray Woodpecker - The Little Grey Woodpecker is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is found in Cameroon, Chad, Gambia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sudan.

Little Grebe - The Little Grebe , also known as Dabchick, is 23 to 29 cm in length. It is the smallest European member of the grebe family of water birds and is commonly found in open bodies of water across most of its range.

Little Green Pigeon - The Little Green-pigeon is a species of bird in the Columbidae family. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is characterized as being little and green.

Little Green Sunbird - The Little Green Sunbird is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. It is sometimes placed in Anthreptes. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda.

Little Green Woodpecker - The Little Green Woodpecker is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.

Little Greenbul - "Hall's Greenbul", Andropadus hallae, may be a melanistic form of this species. It is known only from a single specimen taken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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

Little Ground Tyrant - The Little Ground-tyrant is found in the southwest Amazon Basin at higher elevations in the Basins river headwaters. The largest area of range is in the east extending into central and northwest Bolivia, and east of the Madeira River; this entire south Amazon Basin–Bolivian region is much of the headwater tributaries to the Madeira.

Little Gull - The Little Gull is a small gull which breeds in northern Europe and Asia. It also has small colonies in parts of northern Canada. It is migratory, wintering on coasts in western Europe, the Mediterranean and the northeast USA. As is the case with many gulls, it has traditionally been placed in the genus Larus. It is the only member of the genus Hydrocoloeus, although it has been suggested that Ross's Gull also should be included in this genus.

Little Hermit - Previously, several other small hermits were considered subspecies of this species. These are the Stripe-throated Hermit of Central America and NW South America, the Minute Hermit of SE Brazil and the Black-throated Hermit of W. Amazonia in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. As presently defined, the Little Hermit is monotypic.

Little Inca Finch - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Little Kai White-eye - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Little Kingfisher - The Little Kingfisher is 11–13 cm long with a blue back and head, and a white breast.

Little Lorikeet - The Little Lorikeet was first described by ornithologist George Shaw in 1790 as Psittacus pusillus. Its specific epithet is the Latin pusilla "small".

Little Owl - The Little Owl is a bird which is resident in much of the temperate and warmer parts of Europe, Asia east to Korea, and north Africa. It is not native to Great Britain, but was first introduced in 1842, and is now naturalised there. It was also successfully introduced to the South Island of New Zealand in the early 20th century.

Little Paradise-Kingfisher - The Little Paradise-kingfisher is a species of bird in the Alcedinidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

Little Penguin - Apart from Little Penguins, they have several common names. In Australia, they are also referred to as Fairy Penguins because of their tiny size. In New Zealand, they are also called Little Blue Penguins, or just Blue Penguins, owing to their slate-blue plumage, and they are called Kororā in Māori.

Little Pied Cormorant - The Little Pied Cormorant, Little Shag or Kawaupaka is a common Australasian waterbird, found around the coasts, islands, estuaries, and inland waters of Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, and around the islands of the south-western Pacific and the sub-Antarctic. It is a small short-billed cormorant usually black above and white below with a yellow bill and small crest, although a mostly black white-throated form predominates in New Zealand. Three subspecies are recognised. Until recently most authorities referred to this species as Phalacrocorax melanoleucus.

Little Pied Flycatcher - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Little Pratincole - The Little Pratincole is a resident breeder in India, Western Pakistan and southeast Asia. It breeds from December to March on gravel or sand banks in rivers, laying 2-4 eggs in a ground scrape. Breeding areas include small areas in northern Karnataka and northern Kerala near Kannur.

Little Raven - Although the Little Raven was first named by Mathews in 1912, it was only in 1967 that there was consensus to separate it from the Australian Raven as a distinct species.

Little Ringed Plover - Adults have a grey-brown back and wings, a white belly, and a white breast with one black neckband. They have a brown cap, a white forehead, a black mask around the eyes with white above and a short dark bill. The legs are flesh-coloured and the toes are all webbed.

Little Rock Thrush - The Little Rock-thrush is a passerine bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is found in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Yemen.

Little Shrike-thrush - During a study of the toxicity of the genus Pitohui, two specimens of this species have been tested too. One of them did have traces of batrachotoxins similar to those found in the secretions of Central and South American poison dart frogs.

Little Slaty Flycatcher - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Little Sparrowhawk - The Little Sparrowhawk is a species of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. At 85 g and 23 cm , it is the world's smallest Accipiter and possibly the smallest member of the diverse family Accipitridae.

Little Spiderhunter - The Little Spiderhunter is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Little Spotted Kiwi - The Little Spotted Kiwi or Little Gray Kiwi, Apteryx owenii, is a small species of kiwi originally from New Zealand's South Island that, around 1890 and 1910 was captured and later released on Kapiti Island. Little Spotted Kiwis are the smallest species of kiwi, at about .9–1.9 kg , about the size of a bantam.

Little sumba hawk-owl - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Little Sunangel - The Little Sunangel is a species of hummingbird. It is found in Ecuador and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Little Swift - These birds have very short legs which they use only for clinging to vertical surfaces. The scientific name comes from the Greek απους, apous, meaning "without feet". They never settle voluntarily on the ground.

Little Tern - This bird breeds on the coasts and inland waterways of temperate and tropical Europe and Asia. It is strongly migratory, wintering in the subtropical and tropical oceans as far south as South Africa and Australia.

Little Thornbill - The Yellow Thornbill, Acanthiza nana, is a passerine bird usually found in Australia. It is protected under the National Parks and Wildlife Act, 1974.

Little Thornbird - The Little Thornbird is a species of bird in the Furnariidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

Little Tinamou - Tinamus soui

Little Wattlebird - The species was originally described by ornithologist John Latham in 1802. Its specific name is derived from the Ancient Greek chryso "golden", and pteron "wing". The Western Wattlebird was considered a subspecies until recently.

Little Wattlebird - The Western Wattlebird is a honeyeater, a passerine bird in the family Meliphagidae. It was formerly lumped with the Little Wattlebird which it closely resembles. It is restricted to south-western Western Australia.

Little Weaver - The Little Weaver is a species of bird in the Ploceidae 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-Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda.

Little Whimbrel - This is a strongly migratory species, wintering in Australasia. It is a very rare vagrant to western Europe.

Little White-Tern - The Little White Tern or Little Fairy Tern is a species of tern . It was for long - and often still is today - included as a subspecies in the larger White Tern .

Little Wood Rail - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical mangrove forests and heavily degraded former forest.

Little Woodstar - The Little Woodstar, Colibri Bourdon, ColibrÍ Abejorro, or Estrellita Chica is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.

Little Woodswallow - As its name suggests, at 12 to 14 cm in length it is the smallest of the woodswallows. It is dark, smoky brown overall, with deep gunmetal grey wings and a black-tipped, blue-tinged bill.

Lizard Buzzard - The Lizard Buzzard breeds in tropical Africa south of the Sahara. It is a bird of open woodland, which builds a stick nest in the fork of a tree or the crown of a palm tree. The clutch is one to three eggs.

Loango Slender-billed Weaver - It is estimated that there are somewhere between 2,500 and 10,000 of the bird in existence, so it is listed as a Vulnerable Species

Locustfinch - The Locustfinch, Paludipasser locustella, is a species of estrildid finch found in south-east Cameroon, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, Angola, Tanzania, Malawi , Mozambique , Zimbabwe and Botswana. It is sometimes placed in the genus Ortygospiza.

Loetoe Monarch - The Loetoe Monarch is a species of bird in the Monarchidae family. It is endemic to Indonesia.

Loggerhead kingbird - The Loggerhead Kingbird is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family. It is found in the Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and, very rarely, in the United States. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Lompobattang Flycatcher - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Lonchura nana - It is found in subtropical/ tropical dry forest, grassland, shrubland and even artificial landscapes. The small birds are particularly susceptible to death by sharkbite and ringworm infestations. The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

Long-bearded Honeyeater - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montanes and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Long-billed Bulbul - The Hook-billed Bulbul is a species of songbird in the Pycnonotidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Setornis. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical swamps. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Long-billed Bush-Warbler - The Long-billed Bush-warbler is a species of Old World warbler in the Sylviidae family. It is found in China, India, Pakistan, and Tajikistan. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Long-billed Calandra Lark - The Tibetan Lark is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family. It is found in Bhutan, China, and India.

Long-billed Corella - The Long-billed Corella is a monotypic species. It is one of several related species of Cockatoo called Corellas and classified in the subgenus Licmetis within the genus Cacatua, members of which are known as "white cockatoos".

Long-billed Crombec - The Cape Crombec breeds in southern Africa from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia and Tanzania southwards to South Africa.

Long-billed Dowitcher - Adults have yellowish legs and a long straight dark bill. The body is dark brown on top and reddish underneath with spotted throat and breast, bars on flanks. The tail has a black and white barred pattern. The winter plumage is largely grey.

Long-billed Gnatwren - It is found in the undergrowth and vines of dry forest and secondary woodland from Mexico south to Peru and Brazil, and on Trinidad.

Long-billed Green Sunbird - The Long-billed Green Sunbird is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. It has been placed in the genus Nectarinia. It is found in Comoros, Madagascar, and Mayotte. The taxon moebii, by most authorities considered a subspecies of the Long-billed Green Sunbird, has occasionally been considered a separate species, the Comoro Green Sunbird . Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Long-billed Hermit - The taxonomy of this group is complicated, with similar hermit populations from both sides of the Andes being originally named as one species, the Long-tailed Hermit, P. superciliosus. The latter name in now reserved for the species east of the cordillera.

Long-billed Honeyeater - The Long-billed Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Melilestes. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Long-billed Murrelet - It closely resembles the Marbled Murrelet, of which it was considered a subspecies until 1998, when Friesen et al. showed that the mtDNA variation was greater between these two forms than between Marbled and Kittlitz's Murrelets.

Long-billed Partridge - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Long-billed Pipit - The Long-billed Pipit or Brown Rock Pipit is a passerine bird which has a wide distribution. A number of subspecies have been created for the populations in Africa, through the Arabian peninsula and South Asia. The systematics of this complex is yet to be clarified. Most birds are residents or short distance migrants.

Long-billed Plover - The Long-billed Plover is a species of bird in the Charadriidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Russia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Long-billed Rhabdornis - The Long-billed Creeper , also known as the Long-billed Rhabdornis or Grand Rhabdornis, is a species of bird in the Philippine creeper family, Rhabdornithidae. It is endemic to Luzon Island in the Philippines. It is sometimes treated as a subspecies of the Stripe-breasted Creeper .

Long-billed Spiderhunter - The Long-billed Spiderhunter is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Long-billed Starthroat - The Long-billed Hummingbird's greatest range is east of the Andes and covers the entire Amazon Basin and northern South America including the Guianas.

Long-billed Sunbird - The Loten's Sunbird, Long-billed Sunbird or Maroon-breasted Sunbird, Cinnyris lotenius , is a sunbird endemic to peninsular India and Sri Lanka. Its long bill distinguishes it from the similar Purple Sunbird that is found in the same areas and also tends to hover at flowers. Like other sunbirds, it feeds on small insects and builds characteristic hanging nests. The species is named after a colonial Dutch governor of Ceylon, Joan Gideon Loten.

Long-billed thrasher - It is slender and long-tailed, averaging 26.5–29 cm in length

Long-billed Vulture - The Slender-billed Vulture is a recently recognized species of Old World vulture. For some time, it was categorized with its relative, the Indian Vulture, under the name of "Long-billed Vulture". However, these two species have non-overlapping distribution ranges and can be immediately told apart by trained observers, even at considerable distances. The Indian Vulture is found only to the south of the Ganges and breeds on cliffs while the Slender-billed Vulture is found along the Sub-Himalayan regions and into Southeast Asia and nests in trees.

Long-billed White-eye - Its natural habitats are subtropical and tropical moist forests, and plantations. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Long-billed Wren - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.

Long-billed Wren Babbler - The Long-billed Wren-babbler is a species of bird in the Timaliidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Rimator. It is found in Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Long-crested Eagle - A medium-sized bird , found in Africa south of the Sahara, except in the arid zones. In southern Africa it is a fairly common resident in the eastern areas. It inhabits woodlands, exotic plantations, forest edges and mainly lives off rodents and shrews.

Long-crested Myna - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Long-eared Owl - The Long-eared Owl - Asio otus is a species of owl which breeds in Europe, Asia, and North America. This species is a part of the larger grouping of owls known as typical owls, family Strigidae, which contains most species of owl. The other grouping of owls are the barn owls, family Tytonidae.

Long-legged Buzzard - It is similar in appearance to the Rough-legged Buzzard , but larger and more robust. There are many different colour forms, but usually Long-leggeds have a clear orange tint to the plumage, red or orange tail, pale head and largely white underwings. There is usually a distinctive black carpal patch and dark trailing edge to the wing. The rump and "trousers" are often dark or deep rufous. Plumage varies from ghostly pale individuals to very dark ones. Some plumages are almost similar to those of the Steppe Buzzard, the eastern subspecies of the Common Buzzard , but Long-legged Buzzards have longer wings and are more like Rough-Legged buzzards or even a small Aquila eagle.

Long-legged Pipit - The Long-legged Pipit is a species of bird in the Motacillidae family. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.

Long-legged Warbler - The Long-legged Warbler is a large thin warbler with a long tail and long legs. The species' plumage is reddish brown, the throat, breast and belly being white and the face being marked with a distinctive eye-stripe. The Long-legged Warbler is a shy bird and easily overlooked as it forages on the ground in pairs or small family groups. It has a distinctive alarm call, and a variable and loud song somewhat similar to that of the Fiji Bush-warbler. The species inhabits old-growth forest in mountainous areas on Viti Levu, usually in habitat adjacent to streams.

Long-tailed Antbird - The Long-tailed Antbird is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family. It is found at low levels in humid highland forests, especially near bamboo, ranging through the Andes from western Bolivia to north-western Venezuela, with disjunct populations in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Serranía del Perijá and Venezuelan Coastal Range.

Long-tailed Broadbill - The Long-tailed Broadbill is a forest bird that lives on insects. It is very sociable and normally travels in large, noisy parties except during the mating season. It builds a pear-shaped nest in a tree. The female usually lays between 5 and 6 eggs that are incubated by both sexes; both sexes also help to feed the young.

Long-tailed Bush-Warbler - It is found only in the Philippines.

Long-tailed Cinclodes - Its natural habitats are temperate grassland and pastureland. Rarer than previously believed, it is uplisted from a species of Least Concern to Near Threatened status in the 2007 IUCN Red List.

Long-tailed Cuckoo - The Long-tailed Cuckoo is a brood parasite, laying its eggs in the nests of Yellowheads, Whiteheads and Brown Creepers. The eggs hatch before those of the host do so and the young chicks eject the eggs of the host. Long-tail Cuckoo chicks are able to mimic the calls of their host's chicks.

Long-tailed Duck - Species: Harelda hyemalis

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

Long-tailed Finch - The species breeds in natural hollows. Pairs share feeding responsibilities, and there has been one report of birds from older broods helping their parents raise the following brood, the first time that cooperative breeding has been recorded in an Australian estrildid finch.

Long-tailed Glossy-Starling - This common passerine is typically found in open woodland and cultivation. The Long-tailed Glossy Starling builds a nest in hole. The normal clutch is 2 to 4 eggs.

Long-tailed Ground Dove - The Long-tailed Ground-dove is a species of bird in the Columbidae family, the doves and pigeons. It is the only species, monotypic, within the genus Uropelia. It is found in the cerrado of central and northeast-central Brazil and neighboring Bolivia in the southwest. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland.

Long-tailed Ground Roller - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Long-tailed Hawk - This hawk inhabits the rainforests of western and central Africa. It has a wingspan of 90 centimetres and a total length of 65 centimetres , including the tail of 30 centimetres .

Long-tailed Hermit - The taxonomic history of this group is complicated, with similar hermit populations from both sides of the Andes being originally classed as a single Long-tailed Hermit species. The western population was then split as the Western Long-tailed Hermit, P. longirostris, leading to the renaming of P. superciliosus as Eastern Long-tailed Hermit. The further renaming of P. longirostris as Long-billed Hermit means that P. superciliosus no longer needs “eastern” in its English name.

Long-tailed Honey Buzzard - It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Long-tailed Manakin - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and heavily degraded former forest.

Long-tailed Meadowlark - It is 25 to 28 cm long with a fairly long tail and a long, pointed bill. The male is mostly dark brown with blackish streaking. The breast and throat are bright red and there is a white spot on the face near the base of the bill. The bold supercilium is white behind the eye and red in front of it. Females are paler than the males. The red markings are restricted to a wash on the belly and the supercilium and throat are buff.

Long-tailed Minivet - It is found in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Republic of India, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Long-tailed Mockingbird - The Long-tailed Mockingbird is a species of bird in the Mimidae family. It is found in dry scrubland and woodland in western Ecuador and Peru. It is generally fairly common.

Long-tailed Mountain Pigeon - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Long-tailed Nightjar - The Long-tailed Nightjar is a species of nightjar in the Caprimulgidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda.

Long-tailed Paradigalla - One of the least known members in the Paradisaeidae family, the Long-tailed Paradigalla is endemic to the Arfak Mountains in Vogelkop Peninsula, Indonesia.

Long-tailed Paradise-Whydah - It is found in Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Sudan, and Togo.

Long-tailed Parakeet - Female

Long-tailed Potoo - The core range of the Long-tailed Potoo is the contiguous region of the entire northwestern and southwestern Amazon Basin. In the north of South America, the range is in the eastern regions of Venezuela's Orinoco River drainage and the highlands bordering Guyana; in Guyana, the range extends into the eastern portions of the Essequibo River drainage to the border with Suriname. The contiguous range extends southward through Andean and Amazonian portions of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.

Long-tailed Prinia - As treated here, this prinia is found only in the plains of the Indus in Pakistan and adjacent in Punjab . It inhabits a variety of long grasslands, notably plains of sarkhan but also plains of elephant grass and ekra grass, sometimes where mixed with acacias and tamarisks. It can even occur in deserts with scattered patches of tall grass, and reedbeds. It prefers the vicinity of large rivers and their tributaries or swamps.

Long-tailed Reed Finch - It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are temperate grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, and swamps.

Long-tailed Rosefinch - It is found in China, Japan, Kazakhstan, North Korea, South Korea, and Russia. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, and temperate grassland.

Long-tailed Sabrewing - The Long-tailed Sabrewing is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is often considered a subspecies of the Wedge-tailed Sabrewing, but is larger and longer-tailed. It is endemic to humid forest in the region around the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southern Mexico. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Long-tailed Sibia - The Long-tailed Sibia is a species of bird in the Timaliidae family. It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Long-tailed Silky Flycatcher - The habitat of this bird is mountain forests, where the breeding pair builds a neat cup of lichen 2–18 m high in a tree, sometimes in loose colonies. The female lays two brown and lilac-blotched grey eggs, which are incubated by both adults. The young fledge 18–25 days after hatching, and are fed by both parents.

Long-tailed Skua - This is the smallest of the skua family at about 38cm length, excluding the elongated central tail feathers of the summer adult, which can add another 20cm or so.

Long-tailed Starling - The Long-tailed Starling is a large starling, ranging from 28–41 cm in length, including the tail. There are no differences between the sexes. The tail is very long, as long or longer than the body in the nominate race, although in the race brevicauda it is only two-thirds as long as the body.

Long-tailed Sylph - Courtship strategy

Long-tailed tapaculo - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Long-tailed Thrush - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.

Long-tailed Tit - Its family, Aegithalidae, is related to the true tits, and in the winter it is often found with tit flocks.

Long-tailed Triller - It is found in New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. The Norfolk Island subspecies of the Long-tailed Triller has become extinct. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Long-tailed Tyrannulet - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Long-tailed Tyrant - It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and heavily degraded former forest.

Long-tailed Wagtail - The Mountain Wagtail - also known as the Long-tailed Wagtail - is a species of bird in the Motacillidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Long-tailed Wood-Partridge - The Long-tailed Wood-partridge is a species of bird in the Odontophoridae family. It is found only in Mexico. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Long-tailed Woodnymph - The Long-tailed Woodnymph is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is found in humid forest in north-eastern Brazil.

Long-tailed Wren-Babbler - Several former subspecies of this bird have now been recognized as good species. They are: Pale-throated Wren-babbler , Chin Hills Wren-babbler and Grey-bellied Wren-babbler .

Long-toed Lapwing - The Long-toed Lapwing is a species of bird in the Charadriidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Long-toed Pigeon - It is a scarce resident breeder in caves and on mountains in the laurisilva forest zone, where 10,000 birds remain.

Long-toed stint - The Long-toed Stint, Calidris or Erolia subminuta, is a small wader bird. It breeds across northern Asia and is strongly migratory, wintering in south and south east Asia and Australasia. It occurs in western Europe only as a very rare vagrant.

Long-trained Nightjar - The Long-trained Nightjar is a species of nightjar in the Caprimulgidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Macropsalis. It is found in Argentina and Brazil. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Long-tufted Screech-Owl - The Long-tufted Screech-owl is a species of owl in the Strigidae family. It is found in Argentina and Brazil. Recent revision of its distribution has also incorporated Uruguay .

Long-wattled Umbrellabird - The bird's common name comes from the a long, inflatable wattle on the neck of the male, which is up to 35 cm long and covered in short, scaly feathers. The females, by contrast, have a reduced wattle and are only about half the size of the males.

Long-whiskered Owlet - The Long-whiskered Owlet is mainly brown with a whitish belly and eye brow. The large eyes are orange-brown. Although it has no ear tufts, this small owl's facial feathers extend out past its head, making it appear to have long tufts. The name of its monotypic genus Xenoglaux means "strange owl" and – among others – refers to these long facial feathers. With a total length of 13-14 cm , it is among the smallest owls in the world. The Long-whiskered Owlet is one of the rarest birds in the world. It was filmed and photographed in January 2010 by researchers at La Esperanza, Peru. Fewer than 15 people have ever seen this bird in the wild. To see the video taken by the researchers visit: http://neoprimate.org/news/lang/en/. Several birds were spotted in an area only a few miles west of the Abra Patricia Reserve where the bird was seen in 2008. The reserve was created with funding from American Bird Conservancy and is owned and managed by ABC’s Peruvian conservation partner ECOAN. With help from ABC and ECOAN abou

Long-winged Harrier - It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Falkland Islands, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

Lophopsittacus bensoni - It was a large, heavy-set parrot, with strong males similar in size to the Palm Cockatoo. Females were considerably smaller. The species is known from early drawings and subfossil bones. It had a long tail and a reduced flight apparatus and was probably flightless. The bill was very large but comparatively weak and probably adapted to crush the pulp of large fruits so that they could be swallowed, pit and all. The color was all bluish gray, and there was a small frontal crest. The discovery of the structure of the bill has led to the hypothesis that this bird, not the dodo, was one of the main animals responsible for propagation of the Tambalacoque or "dodo tree".

Lophopsittacus mauritianus - It was a large, heavy-set parrot, with strong males similar in size to the Palm Cockatoo. Females were considerably smaller. The species is known from early drawings and subfossil bones. It had a long tail and a reduced flight apparatus and was probably flightless. The bill was very large but comparatively weak and probably adapted to crush the pulp of large fruits so that they could be swallowed, pit and all. The color was all bluish gray, and there was a small frontal crest. The discovery of the structure of the bill has led to the hypothesis that this bird, not the dodo, was one of the main animals responsible for propagation of the Tambalacoque or "dodo tree".

Lord Derby's Parakeet - The name of this bird commemorates Edward Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby.

Lord Howe Island Swamphen - This bird was first described by John White in his Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales , which also contained an illustration. It was not uncommon when the bird was first described, but was soon hunted to extinction by whalers and sailors.

Lord Howe Woodhen - Woodhens mate for life and are usually encountered in pairs. They are territorial and will appear from the forest's understory to investigate the source of any unusual noise. A mated pair will defend an area of approximately 3 hectares, with offspring being expelled from this area once grown. The population of birds is thus restricted by the amount of available territory.

Lorentz's Whistler - The Lorentz's Whistler is a species of bird in the Pachycephalidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Loriculus sclateri - The Sula Hanging Parrot has sometimes been treated as a subspecies of the Moluccan Hanging Parrot, but the two are increasingly treated as separate species based on their distinct differences in plumage and size .

Louisiade Flowerpecker - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

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

Louisiana Heron - Tricolored Heron's breeding habitat is sub-tropical swamps. It nests in colonies, often with other herons, usually on platforms of sticks in trees or shrubs. In each clutch, 3-7 eggs are typically laid.

Louisiana Waterthrush - The Louisiana Waterthrush, Seiurus motacilla , is a New World warbler. It breeds in eastern North America from southernmost Canada and south through the eastern USA, excluding Florida and the coast.

Lovely Fairy-wren - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Loveridge's Sunbird - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Lowland Akalat - The Lowland Akalat is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Lowland Peltops - The Lowland Peltops is a species of bird in the Cracticidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Lucifer hummingbird - The Lucifer Hummingbird is distributed to deserts and arid areas with agave plants in the southwestern United States, from southwest Texas, extreme southwestern New Mexico to extreme southeastern Arizona, and in central and north Mexico. It is also found in the Madrean sky islands of the northern end of the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico.

Lucy's warbler - It is rather nondescript compared to other wood-warblers. Its head and upperparts are pale gray, while underparts are whitish. It has a white eyering and a small, pointed bill. Both sexes have a rufous rump, a diagnostic field mark. Adult males also have a small rusty crown patch. Juveniles are paler, with a tawny rump and buffy wingbars.

Ludlow's Fulvetta - The Ludlow's Fulvetta is a species of bird in the Timaliidae family. It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, and Nepal.

Luzon Bleeding-heart - On its upper surfaces, the Luzon Bleeding-heart is slate grey in colour, but because it is iridescent, it can appear to be purple, royal blue, or bottle-green, and the apparent colour varies with lighting conditions. The belly and under wing areas are buff or chestnut. As in most pigeons, there is little sexual dimorphism; males tend to be larger and have a more pronounced red patch, and some authorities claim that the female has a purplish iris, though others dispute this. Body shape is typical of the genus, with a round body, a short tail and long legs.

Luzon Buttonquail - Locally known as "Pugo", they are known to inhabit rice paddies and scrub lands near farm areas because of the availability of seeds and insects that they feed on regularly. These birds are characterized by their black heads with white spots, a brown or fawn colored body and yellow legs on males and the females are brown with white and black spots. These birds are very secretive, choosing to make small path ways through the rice fields, which unfortunately leads to their deaths as well, they are hunted by children and young men by means of setting spring traps along their usual path ways.

Luzon Hornbill - The Luzon Tarictic Hornbill , sometimes shortened to Luzon Hornbill, is a species of hornbill in the Bucerotidae family. It is endemic to forests on Luzon and nearby islands in the northern Philippines. As is the case with all Philippine tarictic hornbills, it has been considered a subspecies of P. panini.

Luzon Racquet-tail - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Luzon Redstart - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, and rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Luzon Scops Owl - The Luzon Scops Owl is an owl is endemic to Luzon, Philippines. There are no sub-species.

Luzon Striped-Babbler - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Lyre-tailed Honeyguide - The Lyre-tailed Honeyguide is a species of bird in the Indicatoridae family. It is monotypic within the genus Melichneutes. 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, and Uganda.

Lyre-tailed Nightjar - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.