Birds beginning with P

Pachycare flavogriseum - The placement of this species and genus within the passerines is uncertain. There are four subspecies.

Pachycephala phaionota - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.

Pacific antwren - The Pacific Antwren is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family. It is found in Colombia and Ecuador.

Pacific Elaenia - The Pacific Elaenia is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family. It is found in Ecuador and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

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

Pacific Golden Plover - The Pacific Golden Plover is a medium-sized plover.

Pacific Gull - Much larger than the ubiquitous Silver Gull, and nowhere near as common, Pacific Gulls are usually seen alone or in pairs, loafing around the shoreline, steadily patrolling high above the edge of the water, or zooming high on the breeze to drop a shellfish or sea urchin onto rocks.

Pacific Imperial-Pigeon - While the species has suffered from habitat loss and hunting pressure, and has declined locally in some areas, it remains common over much of its range, and is listed as least concern by the IUCN. The species is most vulnerable in smaller islands. The Pacific Imperial-pigeon was hunted in prehistoric times in Tonga and Samoa with elaborate traps on stone platforms, and these hunts were of considerable cultural significance.

Pacific Marsh Harrier - The Swamp Harrier is largely dark brown, becoming lighter with age, and has a distinct white rump. It hunts by flying slowly, low to the ground, on upswept wings. The body length is 50 to 60 cm , and the wingspan is 120 to 145 cm. The recorded weights of adults range from 580 to 1100 g, and females are significantly larger than the males.

Pacific Parrotlet - Parrotlets are the second smallest group of all parrots. Pacific Parrotlets are between 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 inches in length. They come from the South American countries of Peru and Ecuador. There are seven species of Parrotlets. Only three of these species are kept as pets. Of these, the Pacific Parrotlet is the most common.

Pacific Reef-Egret - Pacific Reef Herons are medium-sized herons, reaching 57 to 66 centimeters in length. They have a wingspan of between 90 and 110 centimeters and reach an average weight of 400 grams.

Pacific Screech-Owl - The Pacific Screech-owl is a species of owl in the Strigidae family. It is found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and heavily degraded former forest.

Pacific Swallow - This species is a small swallow at 13 cm. It has a blue back with browner wings and tail, a red face and throat, and dusky underparts. It differs from Barn Swallow and the closely-related Welcome Swallow in its shorter and less forked tail.

Pacific 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. Pacific Swifts spend most of their lives in the air, living on the insects they catch in their beaks.

Paddyfield Warbler - It breeds in temperate central Asia. It is migratory, wintering in Pakistan and India. It is a rare vagrant to western Europe. This passerine bird is a species found in low vegetation such as long grass, reeds and rice. 4-5 eggs are laid in a nest in grass.

Painted Bunting - The Painted Bunting was one of the many species originally described by Linnaeus in his eighteenth century work Systema Naturae.

Painted Bush Quail - The Painted Bush Quail is a species of quail found in the hill forests of India. They move in small coveys on hillsides and are distinguished by their red bills and legs. They have a liquid alarm call and small groups will run in single file along paths before taking flight when flushed.

Painted Buttonquail - Painted Buttonquail, Turnix varius, is a species of buttonquail, the family Turnicidae, which resemble, but are unrelated to, the quails of Phasianidae. This species is resident in Australia.

Painted Firetail - It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 1,000,000 km². It is found in semi-desert area, grassland and subtropical dry grassland. The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

Painted Francolin - This species is endemic to the Indian Subcontinent. It is distributed patchily from Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh south into peninsular India and in Sri Lanka. The species interbreeds with the Black Francolin along its northern margin and appears similar to the female of that species but has no rufous hindcollar, instead having a bright rufous face and throat. The underside has white spots while the legs are orange-yellow to red.

Painted Honeyeater - It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Painted Parakeet - Traditionally, the Painted Parakeet included the Santarém Parakeet , Bonaparte's Parakeet and Rose-fronted Parakeet as subspecies. Following a review in 2002, it was recommended treating these as separate species. Following this treatment, the Painted Parakeet includes the following subspecies:

Painted Parrot - The Painted Tiger Parrot is a species of parrot in the Psittacidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

Painted Quail-thrush - The Painted Quail-thrush is a species of bird in the Cinclosomatidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Painted redstart - Painted Redstarts grow to be about 12.5 – 15 cm in length. The plumage of these birds is mostly black in color, although these birds have white wing patches, white outer tail feathers, white bellies, and white semicircles around the bottoms of their eyes. The most distinguishable feature of a mature Painted Redstart is its vivid scarlet-red breast. Painted Redstarts are unusual amongst birds, and especially amongst warblers in that the female Painted Redstart is capable of singing just as well as a male, and during spring courtship a pair will often bond by singing together.

Painted Spurfowl - The Painted Spurfowl Galloperdix lunulata is a bird of the pheasant family found in rocky hill and scrub forests in India.

Painted Stork - The Painted Stork is a large wading bird in the stork family. It is found in the wetlands of the plains of tropical Asia south of the Himalayas in South Asia and extending into Southeast Asia. Their distinctive pink tertial feathers of the wing are pink giving them their name. They forage in flocks in shallow waters along rivers or lakes. They immerse their half open beaks in water and sweep them from side to side and snap up their prey of small fish that are sensed by touch. As they wade along they also stir the water with their feet to flush hiding fish. They nest colonially in trees, often along with other waterbirds. They only sounds they produce are a weak moan or sounds produced by bill clattering. They are not migratory and only make short distance movements in some parts of their range in response to food and for breeding. Like other storks, they are often seen soaring on thermals.

Painted Tody Flycatcher - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.

Palau Bush Warbler - The Palau Bush-warbler is a species of Old World warbler in the Sylviidae family. It is found only in Palau.

Palau fantail - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Palau Fruit Dove - The Palau Fruit-dove is a species of bird in the Columbidae family. It is endemic to Palauand it is also Palau's national bird.

Palau Ground Dove - The Palau Ground-dove is a species of bird in the Columbidae family. It is endemic to Palau.

Palau owl - The Palau Owl is a species of owl in the Strigidae family. Formerly united with the scops owls in Otus, it is now placed in its own genus Pyrroglaux.

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

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

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

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

Palawan Hornbill - Nine species of hornbill are found in the Philippines and the Palawan Hornbill is endemic to Palawan island, but has also been recorded on nearby islands of Balabac, Busuanga, Calauit, Culion and Coron. Most visiting birdwatchers travel to St Paul's National Park, Palawan to see this bird, but it is now uncommon. It acts as a bio-indicator due to its sensitivity to environmental changes. It is officially classified as "vulnerable" and its numbers have reduced by at least 20% in the last 10 years, due to habitat destruction and hunting for food and the live bird trade.

Palawan Peacock-Pheasant - The male is the handsomest and most peacock-like member of the genus Polyplectron. It has an erectile crest, a white stripe over the eyes and highly iridescent metallic green and black plumage. The tail feathers are decorated with large blue-green ocelli, which may be spread fanlike in courtship displays. The female is smaller than the male. It has a dark brown plumage with a short crest and is whitish on the throat, cheeks and eyebrows.

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

Palawan Striped-Babbler - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Palawan Sunbird - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

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

Pale Chanting-Goshawk - This species is 56–65 cm long. The adult has grey upperparts with a white rump. The central tail feathers are black tipped with white, and the outer feathers are barred grey and white. The head and upper breast are pale grey; the rest of the underparts are finely barred in dark grey and white. Its eyes are red, the bill is mostly red, and it has long red legs. It is paler than the grey-rumped Dark Chanting Goshawk, Melierax metabates.

Pale Cicadabird - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Pale Flycatcher - The Pale Flycatcher is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna, and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

Pale Mountain Pigeon - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Pale Niltava - It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Pale Olive Greenbul - The Pale-olive Greenbul is a species of songbird in the Pycnonotidae family. It is found in Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Gabon. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and moist savanna.

Pale Prinia - The Pale Prinia is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Sudan. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

Pale Thrush - It is 23 cm long. The feet are pale pinkish-brown and the bill is grey above and yellow below. The male is brown above with a blue-grey head and throat. The underparts are pale brown, darker on the flanks and whitish on the belly and undertail-coverts. The flight feathers of the wing are dark grey and the underwing-coverts are grey or white. The tail is dark grey with white tips to the outer feathers. The female is similar to the male but duller with a browner head and pale throat.

Pale-bellied Hermit - It is found in Colombia, Panama, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.

Pale-bellied Mourner - It is found in Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

Pale-bellied Myna - The Pale-bellied Myna is a species of starling in the Sturnidae family. It is found in Christmas Island, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore.

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

Pale-billed Antpitta - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Pale-billed Firefinch - It is found in Angola, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

Pale-billed Hornbill - The Pale-billed Hornbill is a species of hornbill in the Bucerotidae family. It is found in Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia.

Pale-billed Scrubwren - It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Pale-billed Sicklebill - The Pale-billed Sicklebill is distributed to lowland rainforests of northwestern New Guinea. Its diet consists mainly of fruits and arthropods.

Pale-billed Woodpecker - The habitat of this species is wet forests and adjacent second growth or semi-open woodland. Two white eggs are laid in an unlined nest hole 3–30 m high in a tree and incubated by both sexes. The young hatch naked and are fed by both parents.

Pale-breasted Illadopsis - The Pale-breasted Illadopsis is a species of bird in the Timaliidae 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, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Pale-breasted Spinetail - It is a member of the South American bird family Furnariidae, a group in which many species build elaborate clay nests, giving rise to the English name for the family of "ovenbirds".

Pale-breasted Thrush - It is found a wide range of wooded habitats in eastern and northern South America, with localized population in the west.

Pale-browed Tinamou - Crypturellus is formed from three Latin or Greek words. kruptos meaning covered or hidden, oura meaning tail, and ellus meaning diminutive. Therefore Crypturellus means small hidden tail.

Pale-browed Treehunter - It is endemic to Brazil.

Pale-capped Pigeon - It is a 36-40.5 cm long, large, all-dark pigeon with a contrasting pale crown. The male has whitish-grey crown, purplish-maroon upperparts with faint green gloss on neck, more strongly iridescent mantle and back, dark slate-coloured rump and uppertail-coverts, vinous-brown ear-coverts, throat and underparts, slaty-grey undertail-coverts, blackish tail and flight feathers. Red eye-ring and base of bill. Female has more greyish crown. Juvenile initially has crown colour as with mantle, duller wing-coverts and scapulars with rufous fringes, much reduced gloss on upperparts and greyer underparts.

Pale-chinned Blue-Flycatcher - The Pale-chinned Blue-flycatcher is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, and Nepal. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Pale-crested Woodpecker - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Pale-crowned Cisticola - At 9-10cm. this is a small, streak backed cisticola with short or medium tail which may get longer in the breeding season.

Pale-edged Flycatcher - The Pale-edged Flycatcher is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montanes and heavily degraded former forest.

Pale-eyed Pygmy Tyrant - The Pale-eyed Pygmy-Tyrant is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family, where it makes up the monotypic genus Atalotriccus.

Pale-faced Antbird - The Pale-faced Antbird , sometimes known as the Pale-faced Bare-eye, is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Skutchia, but based on genetic evidence this genus should be merged with Phlegopsis. It is endemic to the humid forest in the south-central Amazon in Brazil.

Pale-footed Shearwater - It breeds in colonies, and has two main breeding areas: one in the South West Pacific Ocean includes Lord Howe Island and northern New Zealand ; the other is along the coast of Western Australia from Cape Leeuwin to the Recherche Archipelago. Another 600 pairs breed on St Paul Island in the Indian Ocean, as well in the Astola Island of Pakistan in the Arabian Sea. It occurs as a summer visitor in the North Pacific Ocean as far north as British Columbia. Flesh-footed shearwaters have been sighted in the Central-North Pacific, above the main Hawaiian Islands as well.

Pale-footed Swallow - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Pale-fronted Negrofinch - It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo & Uganda. The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

Pale-headed Brush Finch - It is threatened by habitat loss and the nest-parasitic Shiny Cowbird. Most of its tiny known range, estimated at only 1 km² by BirdLife International, is within the Yunguilla reserve, which, following the rediscovery of this species in 1998, was set up by the Jocotoco Foundation. Following intensive management, including the removal of cowbirds, the population of the Pale-headed Brush-finch is currently increasing. Further increase, however, may be limited by a lack of suitable habitat.

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

Pale-headed Jacamar - It is found in Colombia and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Pale-headed Rosella - Found in open woodland, it feeds on seeds and fruit. As with other rosellas, the Pale-headed Rosella nests in hollows of large trees. It readily adapts to aviculture and is sold as a cagebird.

Pale-headed Woodpecker - The Pale-headed Woodpecker is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Pale-legged Hornero - It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela. It occurs in a wide range of wooded habitats, especially near water.

Pale-legged Warbler - The Pale-legged Warbler is a species of bird in the Parulidae family. It is native to Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia and Peru.

Pale-legged Willow Warbler - The Pale-Legged Leaf-Warbler is a species of Old World warbler in the Sylviidae family. It is found in Cambodia, China, India, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is temperate forests.

Pale-naped Brush Finch - The Pale-naped Brush-finch is a species of bird in the Emberizidae family. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Pale-rumped Swift - The Pale-rumped Swift is a species of swift in the Apodidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Pale-rumped Warbler - This is a bird of coniferous mountain woodlands. The nest is built in a tree. Like most Old World warblers, this small passerine is insectivorous.

Pale-tailed Barbthroat - The taxonomy of the Threnetes leucurus/T. niger complex has caused much confusion in recent years: Schuchmann & Hinkelmann considered the Sooty Barbthroat a melanistic variant of T. leucurus, but as it was described first, its scientific name was adopted for the entire species; Pale-tailed Barbthroat . This, however, has not been accepted by all authorities, notably SACC, which consider both T. niger and T. leucurus as valid species.

Pale-throated Serra-Finch - It is endemic to Brazil. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland. It is becoming rare due to habitat loss.

Pale-throated Tapaculo - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Pale-tipped Tyrannulet - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and heavily degraded former forest.

Pale-vented Pigeon - The Pale-vented Pigeon, Patagioenas cayennensis, is a large pigeon found in the tropical American. Formerly often placed in Columba, it actually belongs to a clade of the older New World genus Patagioenas. With its relatives it represents an evolutionary radiation extending through most of the warm-temperate to tropical Americas. Grey-hued birds, even their males generally lack iridescent display plumage, although the present species has some coppery gloss on the nape.

Pale-vented Thrush - It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and heavily degraded former forest.

Pale-winged Trumpeter - The Pale-winged Trumpeter's habitat is tropical moist lowland forests .

Pale-yellow Robin - The Pale-yellow Robin was first described by ornithologist John Gould in 1854. Like all Australian Robins, it is not closely related to either the European Robin or the American Robin, but belongs rather to the Corvida parvorder comprising many tropical and Australian passerines including pardalotes, Fairy-wrens and honeyeaters as well as crows.

Paler Chin Spot Puff-back Flycatcher - The Pale Batis is a species of bird in the Platysteiridae family. It is found in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and dry savanna.

Palestine Sunbird - The Palestine Sunbird or Northern Orange-tufted Sunbird is a small passerine bird of the sunbird family which is found in parts of the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa. It is also known as Orange-tufted Sunbird, a name which is also used for the similar Orange-tufted Sunbird , found further south in Africa.

Palila - The palila has a yellow head and breast, with white to light gray plumage ventrally, medium gray plumage dorsally, and olive-green wings and tail. The wings and the tails are greenish. The bird also has a heavy dark bill with swollen sides, a brown iris, and dark feet with yellowish soles. The palila is one of the largest living Hawaiian honeycreepers, measuring around 6–7.5 inches .

Pallas's Bunting - It breeds across northern and central Asia across to Mongolia. It is a migrant, which winters in south east Asia. It is a very rare vagrant to western Europe, but has occurred as far west as Great Britain.

Pallas's Cormorant - The species was first identified by Georg Steller in 1741 on Vitus Bering's disastrous second Kamchatka expedition. He described the bird as large, clumsy and almost flightless — though it was probably reluctant to fly rather than physically unable — and wrote "they weighed 12 – 14 pounds, so that one single bird was sufficient for three starving men." Though cormorants are normally notoriously bad-tasting, Steller says that this bird tasted delicious, particularly when it was cooked in the way of the native Kamtchadals, who encased the whole bird in clay and buried it and baked it in a heated pit.

Pallas's Fish Eagle - Pallas's Fish-eagle , also known as Pallas's Sea-eagle or Band-Tailed Fish-eagle, is a large, brownish sea-eagle. It breeds in Central Asia, between the Caspian Sea and the Yellow Sea, from Kazakhstan and Mongolia to the Himalayas, Pakistan, northern Republic of India and Bangladesh. It is partially migratory, with central Asian birds wintering among the southern Asian birds in northern India, and also further west to the Persian Gulf.

Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler - This small passerine bird is a species found in tall grass with some thicker vegetation, usually close to water in bogs or wet meadows. From 4 to 7 eggs are laid in a nest on the ground in grass. This species is a very rare vagrant to western Europe. One of the best places to see this skulking species as a vagrant is Fair Isle, Shetland; for a species that only rarely appears in western Europe, it can be found there with some regularity. This has made it a popular species among UK "twitchers" in whose jargon it is known as "PG Tips".

Pallas's Leaf Warbler - This is a bird of coniferous mountain woodlands. The nest is built in a tree. Like most Old World warblers, this small passerine is insectivorous.

Pallas's Sandgrouse - This species breeds across middle latitudes of central Asia on dry steppes and similar habitats. Its nest is a ground scrape into which 2-3 greenish eggs with cryptic markings are laid. It is a partial migrant, especially from the northern parts of its range in Kazakhstan and Mongolia, but the extent and distance of the southerly winter movement depends on the amount of snowfall.

Pallid Cuckoo - The Pallid Cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. It is found in Australia, Christmas Island, Indonesia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.

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

Pallid Harrier - This medium-sized raptor breeds on open plains, bogs and heathland. In winter it is a bird of open country.

Pallid Honeyguide - The Pallid Honeyguide is a species of bird in the Indicatoridae family. It is found in Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Pallid Scops Owl - The Pallid Scops Owl is a small Scops Owl ranging from the Middle East to West and Central Asia, sometimes called the Striated Scops Owl.

Pallid Spinetail - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Pallid Swift - Swifts 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. Swifts spend most of their lives in the air, living on the insects they catch in their beaks. They drink on the wing.

Palm Cockatoo - The Palm Cockatoo , also known as the Goliath Cockatoo, is a large smoky-grey or black parrot of the cockatoo family. It is the only member in subfamily Microglossinae and the only member of the monotypic genus, Probosciger. Its unique position within the cockatoo family has been confirmed by molecular studies.

Palm Crow - Both forms appear to be closely related to the Fish Crow of the East Coast of the United States and also two smaller species, the Tamaulipas Crow and Sinaloan Crow of Mexico and forms a species group with them.

Palm Tanager - It occurs in semi-open areas including cultivation and gardens. The bulky cup nest is built in a tree, usually a palm, or under the eaves of a house, and the female incubates three, sometimes two, brown-blotched cream eggs for 14 days, with another 17 days to fledging.

Palm Warbler - The species comprises two distinct subspecies that may merit specific status.

Palm-nut Vulture - This bird is an Old World vulture, and is only distantly related to the New World vultures, which are in a separate family, Cathartidae.

Palmchat - The Palmchat is the national bird of the Dominican Republic.

Paltry Tyrannulet - The Paltry Tyrannulet is a common bird from the lowlands to 3000 m altitude, mainly in humid regions. It can be found in forests, second growth, pasture and plantations with trees, and shady gardens.

Pampas Meadowlark - The Pampas Meadowlark is a species of bird in the Icteridae family. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay.

Panama Flycatcher - The Panamanian Flycatcher is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.

Panay Striped Babbler - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Pangani Longclaw - The Pangani Longclaw is a species of bird in the Motacillidae family. It is found in Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.

Papuan Frogmouth - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Papuan Hawk-Owl - Though generally found in lowland rainforest or gallery forest in lowland savanna, the Papuan Hawk Owl is occasionally found at elevations up to 1,500 metres above sea level. It is probably a resident species in its restricted range, New Guinea.

Papuan King-Parrot - First described by Australian ornithologist Edward Pierson Ramsay in 1879,

Papuan Needletail - Endemic to New Guinea where it is widespread in the lowlands and hills up to 550 m. It has been recorded from Boigu Island, Queensland, Australian territory in north-western Torres Strait.

Papuan Nightjar - The Papuan Nightjar is a species of nightjar in the Caprimulgidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.

Papuan Parrotfinch - It is found in subtropical/ tropical montane moist forest. The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

Papuan Scops-Owl - The Biak Scops Owl is an owl endemic to the twin islands of Biak-Supiori in Geelvink Bay, Papua , Indonesia. It is classified as Endangered due to its very small range and destruction of its habitat.

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

Papuan Thornbill - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Papuan Treecreeper - It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

Papuan Whipbird - It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

Papyrus Canary - The Papyrus Canary, also known as Van Someren's Canary is a species of passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae.

Para Oropendola - The sexes of this icterid are very different in size: the male is 52 cm long and weighs 550 g ; the smaller female is 41 cm long and weighs 260 g . Confusingly, the name "Olive Oropendola" has sometimes been used for this combined species, despite the fact that the nominate subspecies has no olive to its plumage, as its head and chest are black . The back, wings and belly of this large oropendola are brown, the outer rectrices are yellow , the bare facial skin is pink, the eyes are brown, and the bill is black with an orange tip. The superficially similar Green Oropendola has an olive back and wing-coverts, lacks extensive bare facial-skin, has a pale bill with an orange tip, and blue eyes.

Paradise Jacamar - The Paradise Jacamar is distributed throughout tropical rainforests and savanna of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and the Guyanas. The bird's range encompasses nearly the entire Amazon Basin, except in the northwest basin in parts of Colombia and Venezuela, . The diet consists mainly of butterflies and other flying insects.

Paradise Riflebird - Endemic to eastern Australia, the Paradise Riflebird is distributed to rainforests of New South Wales and central Queensland. The diet consists mainly of insects and fruits.

Paradise Shelduck - The Paradise Shelducks usually live as pairs, grazing on grass and weeds, and will raid crops, particularly when molting.

Paradise Tanager - Found in humid tropical and subtropical forests in the western and northern Amazon Basin in South America, it occurring in Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil and the Guianas. Despite its scientific name, it is not found in Chile.

Paradise-crow - One of the few monogamous birds of paradise, the Paradise-crow is endemic to lowland forests of the Maluku islands in Indonesia. The diet consists mainly of fruits and arthropods. Three subspecies are recognized, with the nominate subspecies having the least or no white patch on the inner flight feathers.

Parakeet Auklet - The Parakeet Auklet is a small seabird of the North Pacific. It used to be placed on its own in the genus Cyclorrhynchus but recent morphological and genetic evidence suggest it should be placed in the genus Aethia. It is associated with the boreal waters of Alaska and Kamchatka and Siberia. It breeds on the cliffs, slopes and boulder fields of offshore islands, generally moving south during the winter.

Paramo Pipit - The Paramo Pipit is a species of bird in the Motacillidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland and pastureland.

Paramo Seedeater - The Paramo Seedeater is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montanes, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.

Paramo tapaculo - The Paramillo Tapaculo resembles other Scytalopus tapaculos, being overall dark grey, but lacking the brown lower flanks of the Paramo Tapaculo.

Paran - It is threatened by habitat loss and currently considered Endangered by BirdLife International.

Parasitic Weaver - The Cuckoo Finch , also known as the Parasitic Weaver or Cuckoo Weaver, is a small passerine bird now placed in the family Viduidae with the indigobirds and whydahs. It occurs in grassland in Africa south of the Sahara. The male is mainly yellow and green while the female is buff with dark streaks. The eggs are laid in the nests of other birds.

Pardusco - The Pardusco is a species of tanager that is endemic to woodland near the timberline in the Andes of central Peru. It is monotypic within the genus Nephelornis. This small olive-brown bird is typically seen in groups, which sometimes join mixed species flocks. It has a small range, but is locally fairly common, and consequently considered to be of least concern by BirdLife International and IUCN.

Parker's antbird - The Parker's Antbird is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family. It is endemic to Colombia.

Parker's spinetail - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.

Parkinson's Petrel - The species is an endemic breeder of New Zealand, breeding only on islands off the North Island, on Great Barrier Island and Little Barrier Island. At sea it disperses as far as Australia and Peru.

Parmoptila jamesoni - Jameson's Antpecker is a songbird species found in central Africa. Like all antpeckers, it is tentatively placed in the of estrildid finch family . It has traditionally been included as a subspecies of P. rubrifrons and the common name "Jameson's Antpecker" was sometimes used for both taxa. But today, they are often considered distinct species.

Parodi's Tanager - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Parrot Crossbill - This bird breeds in the pine forests of northwest Europe and into western Russia. There is also a small population in Scotland, adding to the difficulty of distinguishing it from Common Crossbill and the endemic Scottish Crossbill, both of which breed within its range.

Parrot-billed Sparrow - It is often considered a type of Grey-headed Sparrow.

Parus amabilis - The Palawan Tit is a species of bird in the tit family Paridae. It is endemic to Palawan and the smaller islands of Calauit and Balabac in the Philippines. Within its range it is found in lowland forest habitats, including secondary forests, forest edge, swamps as well as submontane forest. It feeds on small insects, insect larvae, seeds, and fruit. It generally occurs singly or in pairs, and will join mixed-species feeding flocks.

Parus caeruleus - The Blue Tit, Cyanistes caeruleus, is a 10.5 to 12 cm long passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is a widespread and common resident breeder throughout temperate and subarctic Europe and western Asia in deciduous or mixed woodlands. It is a resident bird, ie.

Parus cristatus - It is an easy tit to recognise, for besides its erectile crest, the tip of which is often recurved, its gorget and collar are distinctive. It is, like other tits, talkative, and birds keep up a constant zee, zee, zee Birdsong , similar to that of the Coal Tit .

Parus cyanus - It is found in temperate and subarctic deciduous or mixed woodland, scrub and marshes. It is resident, and most birds do not migrate. It nests in a tree hole, laying about 10 eggs. The bird is a close sitter, hissing and biting when disturbed. Its food is insects and seeds.

Parus dichrous - The Grey-crested Tit is a species of bird in the Paridae family.

Parus elegans - The Elegant Tit is a species of bird in the tit family Paridae. The species was formerly included in the much larger genus Parus, and some authorities have suggested that along with the closely related Palawan Tit and Yellow-bellied Tit it should be placed in a new genus, Pardaliparus. The species has nine recognised subspecies, one of which, the race P. e. panayensis from Panay, is potentially a separate species. It is endemic to the Philippines, ranging across most of the islands.

Parus flavipectus - Its natural habitat is temperate forests.

Parus lugubris - The Sombre Tit is a member of the tit family found in southeast Europe and southwest Asia.

Parus melanolophus - It is closely related and similar to the Coal Tit, and is sometimes considered to be conspecific. It interbreeds with that species in western Nepal.

Parus montanus - The Willow Tit is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is a widespread and common resident breeder throughout temperate and subarctic Europe and northern Asia. It is more of a conifer specialist than the closely related Marsh Tit, which explains it breeding much further north. It is resident, and most birds do not migrate.

Parus palustris - The Marsh Tit Poecile palustris is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae and genus Poecile, closely related to the Willow, Père David's and Songar Tits. It is small with a black crown and nape, pale cheeks, brown back and greyish-brown wings and tail. Between 8 and 11 subspecies are recognised. This bird's close resemblance to the Willow Tit can cause identification problems, especially in the United Kingdom where the local subspecies of the two are very similar .

Parus rubidiventris - The Rufous-vented Tit is an Asian songbird species in the tit and chickadee family . Some of its subspecies were formerly assigned to its western relative the Rufous-naped Tit , or these two were considered entirely conspecific. It was formerly placed in the genus Parus.

Parus rufonuchalis - The Rufous-naped Tit , also known as the Black-breasted Tit or Dark-grey Tit, is an Asian songbird species in the tit and chickadee family . It was sometimes considered conspecific with the Rufous-vented Tit , and was formerly placed in the genus Parus.

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

Parus venustulus - The Yellow-bellied Tit is a species of bird in the Paridae family.

Passenger Pigeon - Some estimate that there were three billion to five billion passenger pigeons in the United States when Europeans arrived in North America.

Patagonian Canastero - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

Patagonian Mockingbird - The Patagonian Mockingbird is a species of bird in the Mimidae family. It is found in Argentina and locally in Chile. Vagrants have been recorded in the Falkland Islands. Its natural habitats are subtropical dry shrubland and heavily degraded former forest.

Patagonian Negrito - The Patagonian Negrito or Austral Negrito is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family. It breeds in Argentina and Chile, migrating north as far as Bolivia, southern Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. It is a vagrant to the Falkland Islands. Its natural habitats are freshwater lakes and saline marshes.

Patagonian Sierra Finch - Its diet consists mainly of seeds, flower parts, nectar, fruit, and insects,

Patagonian Tinamou - 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.

Patagonian Tyrant - The Patagonian Tyrant is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family, the only one in the genus Colorhamphus.

Patagonian Yellow Finch - The Patagonian Yellow-finch's range is in the southern half of Argentina, both in the eastern and central regions. To the south, the range covers the northern half of Tierra del Fuego, and the contiguous areas of extreme southern Chile.

Pauraque - This medium-sized nightjar is 8.7-11 in long and has two colour morphs, the plumage being variegated greyish-brown or rufous-brown. It is long-tailed and has broad rounded wings. The buff 'eyering' and 'facial stripe' contrast with the reddish sides of the face.

Pavonine Cuckoo - The Pavonine Cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Pavonine Quetzal - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Peach-faced Lovebird - It was described by the French ornithologist Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot in 1818. It was originally named Psittacus roseicollis but later moved to the genus Agapornis with the other lovebirds.

Peach-fronted Parakeet - The Peach-fronted Parakeet , more commonly known as the Peach-fronted Conure in aviculture, is a species of parrot in the Psittacidae family. It is widespread and often common in semi-open and open habitats in eastern Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, far northern Argentina and southern Suriname . Both its common and scientific name is a reference to the orange-yellow forehead, although this is reduced in juveniles.

Peacock Coquette - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montanes and heavily degraded former forest.

Peale's Imperial-Pigeon - Its natural habitats are mature tropical moist lowland forests and tropical moist montane forest. The species is one of two imperial-pigeons found in Fiji, the other, the Pacific Imperial-pigeon, is found on smaller islands.

Pearl Kite - This tiny kite breeds from Panama, Colombia and Venezuela south to Bolivia and northern Argentina, with an isolated sedentary population in Nicaragua. It is expanding its range and was proved to breed on Trinidad in 1970. It is expected to reach Costa Rica in the near future.

Pearl-breasted Swallow - This is a bird of dry scrub, farmland and clearings. It is often found around human habitation. The Pearl-breasted Swallow builds a bowl-shaped mud nest reinforced with grass or hair and with a soft lining. It sometimes uses old nests of the Greater Striped Swallow, Hirundo cucullata.

Pearl-spotted Owlet - Pearl-spotted Owlet is a common and easily seen bird in open woodland and savannah. It nests in a hole in a tree, such as a disused barbet nest, laying 2-4 eggs.

Pearled Treerunner - It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Pearly Antshrike - The Pearly Antshrike is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Megastictus. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Pearly Parakeet - The Pearly Parakeet , more commonly known as the Pearly Conure in aviculture, is a species of parrot that is endemic to east Amazonian forests in Brazil. Its taxonomic history is potentially confusing. It was formerly known as Pyrrhura perlata, but following a review it was discovered that the type specimen, long believed to belong to this species, actually was a juvenile of the closely related Crimson-bellied Parakeet. Consequently, P. perlata was transferred to that species, while the next name in line for the Pearly Parakeet, P. lepida, became its valid scientific name. While the Pearly Parakeet remains locally fairly common, it has suffered due to extensive habitat destruction, especially in the eastern part of its range where the subspecies coerulescens may be approaching extinction.

Pearly-breasted Conebill - It is found in Brazil and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Pearly-breasted Cuckoo - The Pearly-breasted Cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.

Pearly-eyed thrasher - It prefers to live in bushes and trees in mountain forests and coffee plantations. The Pearly-eyed Thrasher is described as an aggressive, opportunistic omnivore that feeds primarily on large insects, but also feeds on fruits and berries, and will occasionally eat lizards, frogs, small crabs and other bird’s eggs and nestlings. It grows to 28 to 30 cm in length.

Pearly-vented Tody-Tyrant - It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

Pectoral Antwren - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is locally common within its range, but has a highly fragmented distribution. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Pectoral Quail - The Stubble Quail, Coturnix pectoralis is an Australian quail of the family Phasianidae. It has sometimes been considered conspecific with the extinct New Zealand Quail. In this case, the latter species' name would have priority and the Stubble Quail would become Coturnix novaezelandiae pectoralis. However, while phylogenetic analysis of three separate mitochondrial control region sequences in 2009 showed a close phylogeneic relationship between the two birds, it confirmed that they are separate species.

Pectoral Sandpiper - The Pectoral Sandpiper, "Calidris" melanotos, is a small wader. It is sometimes separated with the "stint" sandpipers in Erolia. This may or may not represent a good monophyletic group, depending on the placement of the phylogenetically enigmatic Curlew Sandpiper , the type species of Erolia. In any case, the genus name Ereunetes – formerly used for the Western Sandpiper and Semipalmated Sandpiper , which are also members of the stint clade – was established before Erolia.

Pectoral Sparrow - It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Peg-billed Sparrow - The Peg-billed Finch is a long-tailed species, 13.5 cm long and weighing 16 g. It has a distinctive long upturned bill with a black upper mandible and yellow lower mandible. The adult male is slate grey, becoming paler on the belly. The female is olive-brown above, becoming paler below and with a grey tinge to the head and upper back. She has bright cinnamon wing bars and buff supercilia. Young birds are similar to the female, but have paler plumage and weaker wing bars.

Pel's Fishing Owl - It is found throughout a large part of sub-Saharan Africa, but it is generally rather local, uncommon and absent from drier regions. Adults are rich ginger-rufous with dense dark bars to the upperparts and scaling to the underparts. The two related African fish-owls are smaller and lack the dark barring and scaling . Juveniles are more uniform buff than adults. Unlike the eagle-owls, the ear tufts of the Pel's Fishing-owl are barely visible, giving it a very round-headed appearance.

Pellorneum fuscocapillus - The Brown-capped Babbler is an endemic resident breeding bird in Sri Lanka. Its habitat is forest undergrowth and thick scrub. This species, like most babblers, is not migratory, and has short rounded wings and a weak flight.

Pelzeln's Tody-Tyrant - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

Pemba Islands Green Pigeon - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, plantations , and rural gardens. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Pemba Scops Owl - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and plantations . It is threatened by habitat loss.

Pemba Sunbird - The Pemba Sunbird is a species of bird in the sunbird family. It is endemic to Pemba Island, in Tanzania.

Pemba White-eye - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and dry savanna.

Penduline Tit - It builds an elaborate hanging nest, formerly used in Central Europe as children's slippers.

Penelopides samarensis - The Samar Tarictic Hornbill , sometimes shortened to Samar Hornbill, is a species of hornbill in the Bucerotidae family. It is found in forests on the islands of Samar, Calicoan, Leyte and Bohol in the east-central Philippines. As is the case with all Philippine tarictic hornbills, it has been considered a subspecies of P. panini. Alternatively, it is considered a subspecies of P. affinis.

Peninsular Yellowthroat - It is closely related to Common Yellowthroat, Altamira Yellowthroat and Bahama Yellowthroat, with which it forms a superspecies, and was formerly considered conspecific.

Pennant-winged Nightjar - Their preferred habitat south of the equator is plateau woodlands, especially Miombo, where they are partial to stony or boulder-strewn hillsides. They are observed as bi-annual and social passage migrants along the Kenyan Rift Valley and Lake Victoria regions, and spend the non-breeding season in subtropical savanna from Nigeria to Sudan.

Percnostola arenarum - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.

Peregrine Falcon - Falco atriceps Hume Falco kreyenborgi Kleinschmidt, 1929Falco pelegrinoides madens Ripley & Watson, 1963 Rhynchodon peregrinus and see text

Perija Metaltail - The Perijá Metaltail is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is endemic to paramo and elfin forest at high altitudes of the Perijá Mountains in Colombia and Venezuela. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Pernambuco Pygmy-owl - This owl is classified as critically endangered by BirdLife International. It is assumed to have a tiny and declining population within an extremely small known range. The population is estimated at less than fifty adult birds.

Perplexing Scrubwren - 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.

Perrin's Bush-shrike - The Perrin's Bushshrike is a species of bird in the Malaconotidae family. It is found in Angola, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are boreal forests, subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.

Peruvian Antpitta - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Peruvian Booby - After ENSO 1982-83, less than 0.2 million birds were left. Peruvian Booby population was recovering since 1984 and reached in 1996 more than 2.6 million birds. ENSO 1997-98 started after most boobies finished the breeding season and caused a southward migration of birds. The number of Peruvian Boobies in Peru decreased through 1997 in about 87.1% due to this reason, few birds were found dead along the coast.

Peruvian Diving Petrel - The Peruvian diving petrel has become locally extinct on many of its former colonies and nests nowadays only on a few offshore islands. A total population of 12 216 breeding pairs was estimated for San Gallán and La Vieja Islands in Peru, with some small additional breeding colonies reported for Corcovado Island in Peru, as well as Pan de Azucar Island, Choros islands, Grande and Pajaros islands in Chile. They breed year round, laying a single egg in a burrow dug into guano.

Peruvian Martin - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, pastureland, and urban areas. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Peruvian Pelican - The Peruvian Pelican, Pelecanus thagus, is a member of the pelican family. It lives on the west coast of South America, from Lobos de Tierra Island in Peru to Pupuya Islet in Chile.

Peruvian Piedtail - The Peruvian Piedtail, Colibri De Hartert, or ColibrÍ Colipinto Peruano is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is found only in Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Peruvian Pigeon - The Peruvian Pigeon is a species of bird in the Columbidae family. It is found in Ecuador and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, and plantations . It is threatened by habitat loss.

Peruvian Pygmy-Owl - The Peruvian Pygmy-owl is a species of owl in the Strigidae family. It is found in Ecuador and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.

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

Peruvian Red-breasted Meadowlark - To see the range of the Peruvian Meadowlark click on the link here:

Peruvian Sheartail - The Peruvian Sheartail is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is found in Peru west of the Andes and has been recorded in Ecuador. It has spread into northernmost Chile in recent decades. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.

Peruvian Sierra-Finch - The Peruvian Sierra-finch is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family. It is found in Bolivia and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.

Peruvian Thick-knee - The Peruvian Thick-knee is a species of bird in the Burhinidae family. It is found in Chile, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, and pastureland. The irony however of this birds' name is that they are known for their very thin legs. It feeds with little insects and granes.

Peruvian Tyrannulet - The natural habitat of the Peruvian Tyrannulet is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Peruvian Wren - The Peruvian Wren is a species of bird in the Troglodytidae family. It formerly included the Sepia-brown Wren or Sharpe's Wren and the Fulvous Wren as subspecies, but with all three under the common name Sepia-brown Wren. As presently defined, the Peruvian Wren is endemic to dense undergrowth of humid Andean forests in Peru.

Pesquet's Parrot - Pesquet's Parrot is a large parrot with a total length of approximately 46 cm and a weight of 680–800 g . Its plumage is black, with greyish scaling to the chest, and a red belly, uppertail coverts and wing-panels. The adult male has a red spot behind the eye, which is not seen in the adult female. Compared to most other parrots it appears unusually small-headed, in part due to the bare black facial skin and the relatively long, hooked bill. This rather vulture-like profile is the reason behind its alternative common name.

Petchora Pipit - A. gustavi is a small pipit, which somewhat resembles the non-breeding Red-throated Pipit. The species is heavily streaked brown above, with whitish mantle stripes, and with black markings on a white belly and buff breast below. It can be distinguished from Red-throated by its heavier bill, whiter mantle stripes, and contrast between its buff breast and white belly.

Peters's Twinspot - It is commonly seen in Angola, Burundi, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia & Zimbabwe. The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

Petit's Cuckoo Shrike - The Petit's Cuckoo-shrike is a species of bird in the Campephagidae family. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Peto Bird - These birds have grey upperparts and white underparts with a white face, a grey crest, a dark forehead and a short stout bill; they have rust-coloured flanks. The song is usually described as a whistled peter-peter-peter. They make a variety of different sounds, most having a similar tone quality.

Petronia brachydactyla - The Pale Rockfinch or Pale Rock Sparrow is a small sparrow found in Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. It is the only living member of the genus Carpospiza. Some authorities include it in the genus Petronia.

Pfrimer's parakeet - The Pfrimer's Parakeet , in aviculture also known as Pfrimer's Conure, is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae. It is endemic to Goiás and Tocantins in Brazil. It is restricted to deciduous and semi-deciduous Caatinga forest.

Phainopepla - The Phainopepla is a striking bird, 16–20 cm long with a noticeable crest and a long tail; it is slender, and has an upright posture when it perches. Its bill is short and slender. The male is glossy black, and has a white wing patch that is visible when it flies; the female is plain gray and has a lighter gray wing patch. Both sexes have red eyes, but these are more noticeable in the female than the male.

Phapitreron brunneiceps - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Pheasant Coucal - The Pheasant Coucal's summer voice is a low descending 'boop boop boop'. Its winter voice is a sharp hissing.

Pheasant Pigeon - The pheasant pigeon is an unusual pigeon of uncertain affinities within the Columbidae, and is monotypic within the genus Otidiphaps , and the sub-family Otidiphabinae. Its scientific name makes reference to its similarities to the bustard family . Its common name reflects its adaptation to living on the forest floor in the fashion of a South East Asian pheasant, which it resembles in external morphology, particularly in its laterally compressed tail and the rounded wings. No galliform birds occur in New Guinea, and the pheasant pigeon has filled the ecological niche of a partridge or small pheasant . It is a highly secretive species, feeding on seeds and fallen fruits. It nests on the ground below trees and bushes, laying one egg that it incubates for around 4 weeks.

Pheasant-tailed Jacana - Jacana is one Linnæus' pseudo-Latin misspelling for the Brazilian Portuguese Jaçanã whose pronunciation is approximately .

Philadelphia Vireo - Adults are mainly olive-brown on the upperparts with yellow underparts; they have dark eyes and a grey crown. There is a dark line through the eyes and a white stripe just over them. They have thick blue-grey legs and a stout bill.

Philby - The name commemorates the British explorer St. John Philby.

Philemon novaeguineae - The New Guinea Friarbird is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Philentoma pyrhoptera - The Rufous-winged Philentoma is a bird species. Long placed in the flycatcher family when these were used as a "wastebin taxon", they are now tentatively assigned to the Prionopidae pending detailed study. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Philentoma velata - The Maroon-breasted Philentoma is a bird species. Long placed in the flycatcher family when these were used as a "wastebin taxon", they are now tentatively assigned to the Prionopidae pending detailed study. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical swamps. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Philippine Bulbul - The Philippine Bulbul is a songbird species in the bulbul family . It is often placed in the genus Ixos, but is better retained in Hypsipetes as long as this is not entirely merged into Ixos, as it is quite closely related to the type species of Hypsipetes, the Black Bulbul .

Philippine Bullfinch - It is found only in the Philippines. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Philippine Bush-Warbler - The Philippine Bush-warbler is a species of Old World warbler in the Sylviidae family. It is found only in the Philippines.

Philippine Coucal - The Philippine Coucal is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. It is endemic to the Philippines.

Philippine Cuckoo-Dove - The Philippine Cuckoo-dove is a species of bird in the Columbidae family. It is found in the Philippines and Taiwan.

Philippine Duck - It has a black crown, nape and eye stripe, with a cinnamon head and neck. Rest of body is greyish brown with a bright green speculum. Its legs are greyish brown, and its bill is blue grey.

Philippine Eagle-Owl - With a total length of 40–50 cm and a wing-length of about 35 cm , it is the largest owl in the Philippines, but among the smallest members of the genus Bubo. It is overall rufous with a lighter belly and yellow eyes.

Philippine Falconet - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Philippine Frogmouth - The nest is built from a horizontal branch that is placed two to five meters above ground. It is made from the parent's own downy feathers which is held in place using spider silk, moss and lichens. The female lays one egg per season. The male incubates the egg during the day and the female at night.

Philippine Hawk Owl - The Philippine Hawk Owl is an earless species. The males and females look much alike. The subspecies differ in size and pattern on the bottom side. N. p. reyi and N. p. spilonota are the biggest and N. p. philippensis, N. p. spilocephala and N. p. mindorensis the smallest. The pattern on the bottom side of N. p. reyi, N. p. spilonota and N. p. mindorensis is checked. The pattern on all the other subspecies is striped.

Philippine Hawk-Eagle - The Philippine Hawk-eagle, known in French as aigle des Philippines and in Spanish as aguila-azor Filipina is a species of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family. The subspecies pinskeri may be a candidate for raising to full species. It is endemic to the Philippines.

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

Philippine Leaf Warbler - The Philippine Leaf-warbler is a species of Old World warbler in the Sylviidae family. It is found only in the Philippines.

Philippine Leafbird - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.Its stronghold appears to be Mindanao, with populations small in Leyte and in Cebu, the species could already be extinct.

Philippine Needletail - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is becoming rare due to habitat loss.

Philippine Nightjar - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Philippine Oriole - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. Though the species is fairly common throughout its range, the Cebu race has not been sighted since 1906 and is believed extinct; with the near-total lack of forest on the island, this does not seem impossible.

Philippine Scops Owl - This owl grows to a length of 20 cm. Their big forward-facing eyes are dark with an orange-red rim. Their crown, ear tufts and feathers are dark brown, with dark streaks above. The facial disk has a dark rim. The forehead has a whitish pale color. They have big erect ears, as their name "megalotis" indicates.

Philippine Serpent-Eagle - It is endemic to the Philippines. The species is found on most part of the major islands, except for Palawan. It inhabits primary and secondary forest. The bird is often seen soaring over clearings and river valleys. The bird feeds on amphibians, reptiles and other live prey. The Philippine serpent eagle is distinguished from other species of serpent eagle by more well-defined spots on the underpants and wings.

Philippine Tailorbird - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.

Philippine Trogon - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Philippine Verditer Flycatcher - The Island Flycatcher is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is found in Indonesia and the Philippines. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Philippine White-eye - It is endemic to the Philippines.

Philippine Woodpecker - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Phoenicurus caeruleocephala - It is found in Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, Kashmir, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

Phoenix Petrel - The Phoenix Petrel, Pterodroma alba is a medium-sized, up to 35cm long, tropical seabird with a wingspan of 83cm. It has a dark brown upperparts plumage, white below and whitish throat. Both sexes are similar.

Phylloscopus claudiae - The Claudia's Warbler is a species of Old World warbler in the Sylviidae family. It is found only in China. Its natural habitat is temperate forests.

Phylloscopus emeiensis - It is found in China and Myanmar. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Phylloscopus goodsoni - The Hartert's Warbler is a species of Old World warbler in the Sylviidae family. It is found only in China. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Phylloscopus ibericus - It is a migratory passerine which winters in southern and western Europe, southern Asia and north Africa. Greenish-brown above and off-white below, it is named onomatopoeically for its simple chiff-chaff song. It has a number of subspecies, some of which are now treated as full species. The female builds a domed nest on or near the ground, and assumes most of the responsibility for brooding and feeding the chicks, whilst the male has little involvement in nesting, but defends his territory against rivals, and attacks potential predators.

Phylloscopus kansuensis - It is 10 cm long, slightly larger than Pallas's Warbler. It has greenish upperparts, pale underparts and a pale rump. The head has a long white supercilium and a pale stripe along the centre of the crown. The wings have one conspicuous wingbar, a slight second bar and whitish edges to the tertials.

Phylloscopus yunnanensis - The Chinese Leaf-warbler is a species of Old World warbler in the Sylviidae family. It is found only in China.

Piapiac - In size it is a little smaller and slimmer than the European Magpie though the bill is relatively thicker. The overall colouring of the bird is black with the feathers quite silky in texture and having a purplish gloss in good light. The base of the tail tends to be more brown in colour than the rest of the body. The nasal plumes are somewhat upturned on top of the bill but fully cover the nostrils. The bill itself is black in the adult but partly reddish-pink towards the base in juvenile specimens. The bird's legs and feet are black and the iris is variable, but tends towards violet, purple or mauve with a bluish-purple outer ring.

Picazuro Pigeon - Patagioenas picazuro is a brown bird with white dashes on the back of its neck and darker brown wing patterns. It is similar in appearance to the Spotted Dove.

Pictorella Munia - Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. More common than previously believed, it is downlisted again from Near Threatened status - which was assigned in 1994 - to a species of Least Concern in the 2007 IUCN Red List.

Piculus litae - The Lita Woodpecker is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is found in Colombia and Ecuador.

Picumnus dorbignyanus - The Ocellated Piculet is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montanes and heavily degraded former forest.

Pied - This is an insectivorous bird of open country, often near habitation and water. It prefers bare areas for feeding, where it can see and pursue its prey. In urban areas it has adapted to foraging on paved areas such as car parks.

Pied Barbet - The Pied Barbet or Acacia Pied Barbet is a species of bird in the Ramphastidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Pied Bronze Cuckoo - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Pied Bushchat - The Pied Bushchat is a small passerine bird found ranging from West and Central Asia to South and Southeast Asia. About sixteen subspecies are recognized through its wide range with many island forms. It is a familiar bird of countryside and open scrub or grassland where it is found perched at the top of short thorn trees or other shrubs, looking out for insect prey. They pick up insects mainly from the ground, and were, like other chats, placed in the thrush family Turdidae, but are now considered as Old World flycatchers.

Pied Butcherbird - It is common in woodlands and in urban environments. Its diet consists mostly of small vertebrates and insects. They have been known to accept food from humans.

Pied Cormorant - In New Zealand its range on the east coast extends as far south as Christchurch, though this is a recent extension—older books report it no further south than Kaikoura.

Pied Crow - Structurally, the Pied Crow is better thought of as a small crow-sized Raven, especially as it can hybridise with the Somali Crow where their ranges meet in the Horn of Africa. Its behaviour, though, is more typical of the Eurasian Carrion Crows, and it may be a modern link between the Eurasian crows and the Common Raven.

Pied Cuckoo-Dove - Formerly classified as a Species of Least Concern by the IUCN.

Pied Cuckoo-shrike - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Pied Currawong - Within its range, the Pied Currawong is generally sedentary, although populations at higher altitudes relocate to lower areas during the cooler months. It is omnivorous, with a diet that includes a wide variety of berries and seeds, invertebrates, bird eggs and juvenile birds. It is a predator which has adapted well to urbanization and can be found in parks and gardens as well as rural woodland. The habitat includes all kinds of forested areas, although mature forests are preferred for breeding. Roosting, nesting and the bulk of foraging take place in trees, in contrast with the ground foraging behaviour of its relative the Australian Magpie.

Pied Falconet - The Pied Falconet, Fauconnet Noir-et-blanc, or Falconete Pío is a species of bird of prey in the Falconidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Hong Kong, India, Laos, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is temperate forests.

Pied Fantail - It is found in Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Pied Goshawk - The Pied Goshawk is a species of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family. It is found in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Pied Harrier - This medium-sized harrier nests in steppes and associated wetlands. Wintering individuals are often seen hunting above rice paddies and marshes.

Pied Heron - The Pied Heron, Ardea picata, also known as the Pied Egret is a bird found in coastal and subcoastal areas of monsoonal northern Australia as well as some parts of Wallacea and New Guinea.

Pied Honeyeater - The Pied Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family. It is endemic to Australia.

Pied Imperial Pigeon - Its taxonomy is confusing and remains unsettled. It has sometimes included the Torresian, Yellowish and White Imperial-pigeons as subspecies.

Pied Kingfisher - This kingfisher is about 17cm long and is white with a black mask, a white supercilium and black breast bands. The crest is neat and the upperparts are barred in black. Several subspecies are recognized within the broad distribution. The nominate race is found in sub-Saharan Africa, extending into West Asia. A former subspecies syriaca is considered as merely a larger northern bird of the nominate species .

Pied Lapwing - The Pied Lapwing is a species of bird in the Charadriidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is rivers.

Pied Monarch - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Pied Oystercatcher - The name "oystercatcher" is something of a misnomer for this species, because they seldom eat oysters, which are found mainly on rocky coastlines. Pied Oystercatchers frequent sandy coastines, where they feed mainly on bivalve molluscs, which are prised apart with their specially adapted bill.

Pied Puffbird - It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.

Pied Thrush - The Pied Thrush is a member of the thrush family found in India and Sri Lanka. The males are conspicuously patterned in black and white while the females are olive brown and speckled. They breed in the central Himalayan forests and winter in the hill forests of southern India and Sri Lanka. Like many other thrushes, they forage on leaf litter below forest undergrowth and fly into trees when disturbed and sit still making them difficult to locate.

Pied Water Tyrant - This species is found in marshy savannahs and the edges of mangrove swamps. The nest is a feather-lined oval ball of grasses and other plant material, with a side entrance. It is placed at the end of a branch near or over water. Both sexes incubate the typical clutch of two or three creamy-white eggs, which are marked with a few brown spots. Cowbirds sometimes parasitise the nest.

Pied Wheatear - This migratory central Asiatic wheatear occurs from the extreme southeast of Europe to China, and has been found wintering in India and northeastern Africa. It is a very rare vagrant to western Europe.

Pied-billed grebe - The Pied-billed Grebe is small, stocky, and short-necked. It is 31–38 cm in length, it has a wingspan of 45–62 cm and weighs 253-568 g . It is usually brown or gray in color. It has a short, blunt chicken-like bill, which in summer is encircled by a broad black band . It is the only grebe that does not show a white wing patch in flight. The sexes look alike .

Pied-crested Tit-Tyrant - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist shrubland and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.

Pigeon Guillemot - Adult birds have black bodies with a white wing patch broken by a black wedge, a thin dark bill and red legs and feet. They are similar in appearance to the Black Guillemot but show dark wing linings in flight. In winter, the upper parts are mottled grey and black and the underparts are white. They walk well and habitually have an upright posture.

Pigeon hawk - The Merlin is a smallish falcon from the Northern Hemisphere. A bird of prey sometimes known colloquially as a pigeon hawk in North America, the Merlin breeds in the northern Holarctic; some migrate to subtropical and northern tropical regions in winter.

Pileated Antwren - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Pileated Bush Tanager - The Sooty-capped Bush-Tanager is found in mossy mountain forests, second growth and adjacent bushy clearings, typically from 1600 m altitude to above the timberline. The bulky cup nest is built on bank, in a dense bush, or hidden amongst epiphytes up to 11 m high in a tree. The normal clutch is two pink-brown marked white eggs.

Pileated Finch - It is found in Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, and Venezuela. 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.

Pileated Flycatcher - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Pileated Parrot - Unlike all other species previously placed in the genus Pionopsitta, the Pileated Parrot does not have a contrasting brownish-olive chest, and recently it was established via mtDNA that it is indeed distinct enough for the others to be moved into a separate genus, Pyrilia, again making Pionopsitta monotypic. The plumage of the Pileated Parrot is overall green with bluish flight feathers, a faint brownish-maroon auricular patch and, in the male, a bright red forehead that extends down to just below the eyes.

Pileated woodpecker - Adults are mainly black with a red crest and a white line down the sides of the throat. They show white on the wings in flight. Adult males have a red line from the bill to the throat, in adult females these are black. The only North American birds of similar plumage and size are the Ivory-billed Woodpecker of the Southeastern United States and Cuba, and the related Imperial Woodpecker of Mexico. However, unlike the Pileated, both of those species are extremely rare, if not extinct. Most reports of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker are believed to be erroneous reports of the far more common Pileated.

Pilot Bird - The Pilotbird is a large, plump species of acanthizid, measuring around 18 cm in length and weighing 27 g. It has a large head and a short bill. The plumage is mostly brown with scalloping on the chest and an orangeish throat. The species is highly terrestrial. The name of the species comes from its supposed habit of following lyrebirds, taking prey that they flush. This habit is well known but seldom observed.

Pin-tailed Manakin - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Pin-tailed Parrotfinch - It is found in subtropical/ tropical in both montane and lowland moist forest. The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

Pin-tailed Pigeon - The Pin-tailed Green-pigeon is a species of bird in the Columbidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Pin-tailed Sandgrouse - The nominate race breeds in Iberia and southern France, and the eastern form P. a. caudacutus is found in northwest Africa, and from southeast Turkey east to Kazakhstan. It is a partial migrant, with some Asian birds moving to the Middle East and northern Pakistan in winter.

Pin-tailed whydah - This whydah is found in many open habitats including open woodland, scrub and cultivation.

Pine Bunting - The Pine Bunting breeds across much of temperate Asia, migrating south to central Asia, north India and southern China in winter. It is common in all sorts of open land with some scrub or trees, including cultivation, but has a greater preference for open forest than the closely related Yellowhammer. It is a rare vagrant to western Europe, but often winters in NE Italy and Tuscany.

Pine Flycatcher - The Pine Flycatcher is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in the montane tropical and subtropical coniferous forests of Mexico and southwestern Guatemala.

Pine Grosbeak - Adults have a long forked black tail, black wings with white wing bars and a large bill. Adult males have a rose-red head, back and rump. Adult females are olive-yellow on the head and rump and grey on the back and underparts. Young birds have a less contrasting plumage overall, appearing shaggy when they moult their colored head plumage.

Pine Siskin - Adults are brown on the upperparts and pale on the underparts, with heavy streaking throughout. They have a short forked tail. They have yellow patches in their wings and tail, not always visible; otherwise, it appears to be a very small streaked sparrow.

Pine Warbler - The Pine Warbler, Dendroica pinus, is a small songbird of the New World warbler family.

Pink Robin - Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Pink-backed Pelican - The nest is a large heap of sticks, into which 2-3 large white eggs are laid. The chicks feed by plunging their heads deep into the adult’s pouch and taking the partially digested regurgitated fish.

Pink-bellied Imperial-Pigeon - According to the IUCN Red List and BirdLife International's Red Book, the Pink-bellied Imperial Pigeon is a "near threatened" species as of 2000. This is due to the loss of habitat and exploitation by humans.

Pink-billed Lark - The Pink-billed Lark is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family. It is found in Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, and Zambia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.

Pink-billed Parrot-finch - The Pink-billed Parrotfinch is approximately 11 cm long. This species is a greenish finch with outsized bill. It has olive-green with black face, bluish crown and nape and red rump. This species is easily seen with a large, glossy-pink bill. Its young is similar in color but duller, having orange-horn bill with black tip. It has high-pitched chee-chee voice and a clicking sound.

Pink-breasted Lark - M. poecilosterna is estimated to have a global Extent of Occurrence of 560,000 km2. covering a broad range over Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.

Pink-browed Rosefinch - The Pink-Browed Rosefinch is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family. It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. Its natural habitats are boreal forests and subtropical or tropical dry forests.

Pink-capped Fruit Dove - The Rose-crowned Fruit-dove is distributed in lowland rainforests of eastern Australia, and monsoon forests of northern Australia, Lesser Sunda Islands and Maluku Islands of Indonesia. The diet consists mainly of various fruits, palms and vines. The female usually lays a single white egg.

Pink-eared Duck - It is the only living member of the genus Malacorhynchus; a closely related, but slightly larger extinct form from New Zealand was described as Scarlett's Duck . This peculiar duck may be most closely related to the shelducks but its relationships are enigmatic. It may be closer to the Musk Duck and the stiff-tails and, formerly placed in the paraphyletic "perching ducks" it is in any case not close to the dabbling ducks.

Pink-faced Nuthatch - The Black Sittella is a species of bird in the Neosittidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

Pink-footed albatross - The Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross, Thalassarche chlororhynchos, is a large seabird in the albatross family. This small mollymawk was once considered conspecific with the Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross and known as the Yellow-nosed Albatross. Some authorities still believe the species to be the same, such as Jeff Clements

Pink-footed Goose - It is a medium-sized goose, 60–75 cm long, the wingspan 135–170 cm, and weighing 1.8–3.3 kg. It has a short bill, bright pink in the middle with a black base and tip, and pink feet. The body is mid grey-brown, the head and neck a richer, darker brown, the rump and vent white, and the tail grey with a broad white tip. The upper wing-coverts are of a somewhat similar pale bluish-grey as in the Greylag Goose, and the flight feathers blackish-grey. The species is most closely related to the Bean Goose Anser fabalis , sharing a similar black-and-coloured pattern bill, but differing in having pink on the bill and legs where the Bean Goose is orange, and in the paler, greyer plumage tones. It is similar in size to the small rossicus subspecies of Bean Goose, but distinctly smaller than the nominate subspecies fabalis. It produces a medley of high-pitched honking calls, being particularly vocal in flight, with large skeins being almost deafening.

Pink-footed Puffback - It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Pink-footed Shearwater - This species is pelagic, occurring in the Pacific Ocean. It predominantly nests on offshore islands off Chile, ie.

Pink-headed duck - The Pink-headed Duck is a large diving duck that was once found in parts of the Gangetic plains of India, Bangladesh and in the riverine swamps of Myanmar but feared extinct since the 1950s. Numerous searches have failed to provide any proof of continued existence. It has been suggested that it may exist in the inaccessible swamp regions of northern Myanmar and some sight reports from that region have led to its status being declared as "critically endangered" rather than extinct. The genus placement has been disputed and while some have suggested that it is close to the pochards, particularly Netta rufina, others have placed it in a separate genus of its own. It is somewhat unique in the pink colouration of the head combined with a dark body. A small wing patch is prominent, a feature also found in the common Indian Spot-billed Duck. The eggs have also been held as particularly peculiar in being nearly spherical.

Pink-headed Fruit-Dove - The Pink-headed Fruit-dove is a resident breeding endemic bird in Indonesia where it occurs in the mountain forests of Sumatra, Java and Bali at altitudes of 1000-2200 m. It builds a flimsy nest in a tree and lays one or sometimes two white eggs which are incubated for 20 days to hatching, with a further 15-16 days to fledging. It is a shy and inconspicuous species, generally seen singly or in pairs, but flocks of up to 17 birds may form at favoured fruit trees.

Pink-headed Imperial Pigeon - The Pink-headed Imperial-pigeon is a species of bird in the Columbidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Timor-Leste. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Pink-headed Warbler - Its plumage is mostly dark, "dried blood" red, which contrasts with a unique pearlescent silver-pink head and darker face.

Pink-legged Graveteiro - The Pink-legged Graveteiro’s most distinctive feature is, as the name suggests, its bright-pink legs and feet . The plumage, as an adult, is mainly black and gray . As juveniles they are commonly more brown in color . Its size is comparable to that of a warbler, and is thought to be stout for a bird its size . A more specific measurement of the bird is about 14 cm as an adult . One way to tell you have found a Pink-legged Graveteiro is by its unique song. The song is usually high-pitched and begins with sparse notes, then it accelerates, and finally finishes with a long trill .

Pink-necked Green Pigeon - It is found in Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Pink-throated Becard - The Pink-throated Becard is a species of bird in the Tityridae family. It has traditionally been placed in Cotingidae or Tyrannidae, but evidence strongly suggest it is better placed in Tityridae, where now placed by SACC. 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.

Pink-throated Brilliant - The Pink-throated Brilliant is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is becoming rare due to habitat loss..

Pinnated Bittern - The Pinnated Bittern , also known as the South American Bittern, is a large member of the heron family found in the New World tropics. Like the other Botaurus bitterns, its plumage is mostly buffy-brown and cryptically patterned. Though it is a widespread species, it is rarely seen – presumably due to its skulking habits – and much about its life history remains little known.

Pinon Imperial Pigeon - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Pintail Snipe - Its breeding habitat is damp marshes and tundra in Arctic and boreal Russia. Birds in their non-breeding range use a variety of wetlands, often with Common Snipe, but may be found also in drier habitats than their relative. They nest in a well-hidden location on the ground.

Piping Crow - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Piping Hornbill - The Piping Hornbill is a species of hornbill in the Bucerotidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, and Uganda.

Piping Plover - There are 2 subspecies of Piping Plovers: the eastern population is known as Charadrius melodus melodus and the mid-west population is known as Charadrius melodus circumcinctus. The bird's name is derived from its plaintive bell-like whistles which are often heard before the bird is visible.

Pipipi - In the late 19th century when flocks of Brown Creepers were still abundant, they would occasionally descend on slaughteryards in sheep stations when food was short to feed on the meat of butchered animals.

Piratic Flycatcher - This tyrant flycatcher is found in savannah and other semi-open habitat with large trees. It gets its name because it does not build its own nest, but appropriates the domed or enclosed nests of other, often far larger, bird species, such as Yellow-rumped Cacique or Crested Oropendola. Once the persistence of the flycatchers has driven the rightful owners away, their eggs are removed, and the female flycatcher lays up to four, but usually two, black-streaked brown eggs. She incubates these on her own for 16 days to hatching, with a further 18-20 days to fledging.

Pirre Bush Tanager - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Pirre Hummingbird - Found in Colombia and Panama, its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Pirre Warbler - The Pirre Warbler is a species of bird in the Parulidae family. It is found in Colombia and Panama. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Pitcairn Reed Warbler - It is endemic to Pitcairn Island in the southern Pacific. Locally known as the "Sparrow" , it used to be common throughout the island, where it is the only land bird. It was formerly classified as a Vulnerable species by the IUCN due to its small range.

Pithys castaneus - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. This little-known bird was formerly considered a data deficient species by the IUCN.

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

Pitta-like Ground Roller - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Piura Chat Tyrant - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Plain Antvireo - The Plain Antvireo is typically 11.4 cm long, and weighs 13.5 g. The adult male has a slate grey head and upperparts, blackish cheeks, three narrow white wing bars, pale grey underparts and a white belly. The female has olive brown upperparts, a rufous crown, a white eye-ring, yellowish-buff underparts and weakly buff-barred rufous wings. A white or buff shoulder stripe is only visible when the wing is spread. Immature males are much like the adult male, but have brown edgings to the flight feathers, an olive rump and yellowish underparts.

Plain chachalaca - In Central America, this species occurs in the Pacific lowlands from Chiapas, Mexico to northern Nicaragua and as a separate population in Costa Rica, where its range is separated by a short distance, as a disjunct population.

Plain Flowerpecker - The Plain Flowerpecker is a tiny bird in the flowerpecker family. Like others of the group, it feeds predominantly on nectar and fruits. They forage within the canopy of forests and are found distributed across South and Southeast Asia. They are non-migratory and the widespread distribution range includes several populations that are non-overlapping and morphologically distinct, some of which are recognized as full species. They are important pollinators and dispersers of mistletoes in forests.

Plain Flyeater - The Plain Gerygone is a species of bird in the Acanthizidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Timor-Leste. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.

Plain Honeyeater - The Plain 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 lowland forests.

Plain Laughingthrush - Its natural habitat is temperate forests.

Plain Leaf Warbler - The Plain Leaf-Warbler is a species of Old World warbler in the Sylviidae family. It is found in Afghanistan, Bahrain, India, Iran, Oman, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, and Uzbekistan. Its natural habitat is temperate forests.

Plain Martin - It has a wide range in Africa and across India and other parts of southern Asia. Iit is a partially migratory species, with some populations making seasonal movements. It is usually associated closely with water.

Plain Mountain-Finch - It is found in Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, India, Kazakhstan, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. Its natural habitat is temperate grassland.

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

Plain Parakeet - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, and heavily degraded former forest. It is very common in the urban area of São Paulo, Brazil.

Plain pigeon - The Plain Pigeon is a species of bird in the Columbidae family. It is found in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico. Its natural habitats are forest, woodland, coastal desert, mangrove and swampy areas. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Plain Softtail - The Plain Softtail is a species of bird in the Furnariidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical swamps.

Plain Sunbird - The Plain Sunbird is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.

Plain Swift - Swifts have very short legs that they use only for clinging to vertical surfaces. They never settle voluntarily on the ground, and spend most of their lives in the air, feeding on insects that they catch in their beaks. They drink on the wing.

Plain Tyrannulet - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

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

Plain Wren - The subspecies zeledoni of eastern Nicaragua, eastern Costa Rica and north-west Panama is sometimes considered to be a separate species, Canebrake Wren.

Plain Xenops - It is a member of the South American bird family Furnariidae, a group in which many species build elaborate clay nests, giving rise to the English name for the family of "ovenbirds".

Plain-backed Antpitta - It is found in Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.

Plain-backed Pipit - It is found in open habitats, especially short grassland and cultivation. It builds its cup-shaped nest on the ground and usually lays three eggs. Like other pipits, this species is insectivorous.

Plain-backed Sunbird - The Plain-backed Sunbird has a disjunct distribution, with one subpopulation in the coastal lowlands of Kenya and north-eastern Tanzania, and another in Mozambique and Zimbabwe. It may be at risk from clearance of lowland forest throughout its range.

Plain-bellied Emerald - The Plain-bellied Emerald is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is found from north-eastern Venezuela, through the Guianas, to around São Luís in Brazil. Smaller disjunct population are found in north-eastern Brazil as far south as Bahia. It occurs in a wide range of semi-open habitats, primarily in coastal regions. It is generally fairly common, and therefore considered to be of least concern by BirdLife International and consequently the IUCN. The flanks and upperparts are green, often tinged golden on the lower back and rump, while the underparts are white. The central rectrices are golden, while the outer rectrices are dark blue with narrow whitish tips. The slightly decurved bill is black with a flesh-coloured base to the lower mandible.

Plain-breasted Earthcreeper - The Plain-breasted Earthcreeper is a species of bird in the Furnariidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland.

Plain-breasted Ground Dove - It is found in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, and heavily degraded former forest.

Plain-breasted Piculet - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.

Plain-brown Woodcreeper - This woodcreeper is typically 22 cm long, and weighs 37 g. It is drab even by woodcreeper standards. As its name implies, it lacks the streaking shown by most of its relatives, and is plain brown above and below. The bill is longish and straight.

Plain-capped Ground-Tyrant - The Paramo Ground-tyrant is a species of bird in the tyrant flycatcher family, Tyrannidae. Plain-capped Ground-tyrant was formerly considered to be a subspecies of M. alpinus but is now commonly treated as a separate species. The name "Plain-capped Ground-tyrant" is sometimes used for M. alpinus.

Plain-capped starthroat - Adults are colored predominantly metallic bronze on their upper-parts, tail, back and crown. The bird has a dark eye-stripe with a white stripe above and below. The Starthroat also has a white patch on the rump. The throat patch, or gorget, is a metallic violet-red. The breast and underparts are a grayish white. The bill is straight, long and very slender. It is darkly colored. The female is slightly less colorful than the male.

Plain-coloured Seedeater - It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland.

Plain-coloured Tanager - The Plain-coloured Tanager is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, and Panama. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.

Plain-crested Elaenia - Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland.

Plain-crowned Spinetail - The Plain-crowned Spinetail is a species of bird in the Furnariidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.

Plain-flanked Rail - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical mangrove forests and coastal saline lagoons. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Plain-mantled Tit-Spinetail - It is 15 to 18 cm in length with the long, pointed tail feathers accounting for much of this. The bill is short and pointed and the wings are short and rounded. The plumage varies among the four subspecies. The nominate subspecies L. a. aegithaloides of central Chile is mainly brown with paler underparts, rufous markings on the wings and crown and a white stripe above the eye. The head and upper breast are streaked while the back is plain. L. a. berlepschi occurs high in the Andes in the northern part of the species' range and is larger and more buff-coloured than the other forms. L. a. grisescens is found in the arid lowlands of north Chile and south Peru. It is rather greyish in colour with little streaking on the breast. In most of Argentina and south Chile, L. a. pallida occurs. It is pale and greyish with only a small area of rufous in the wing.

Plain-pouched Hornbill - The Plain-pouched Hornbill is a species of hornbill in the Bucerotidae family. It is found in forests in southern Burma, adjacent parts of western Thailand and in northern Peninsular Malaysia.

Plain-tailed nighthawk - Its natural habitat is dry savanna. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Plain-tailed Warbling Finch - The Plain-tailed Warbling-finch is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family. It is endemic to Peru.

Plain-throated Antwren - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. Unlike other Myrmotherula, it stays near ground level often clinging sideways to saplings.

Plain-throated Sunbird - The Brown-throated Sunbird is a relatively large, heavy sunbird with a thick bill. Measuring some 14 centimetres in length, it has a mass of 7.4–13.5 g , with males averaging slightly larger than females.

Plain-winged Antshrike - The Plain-winged Antshrike is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical swamps.

Plain-winged Antwren - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Plains-wanderer - This is a quail-like ground bird, measuring 15–19 cm. The adult male is light brown above, with fawn-white underparts with black crescents. The adult female has a distinctive white-spotted black collar. They are poor flyers, preferring to run when startled. Females lay four eggs, which the male then incubates.

Plaintive Cuckoo - It is a fairly small cuckoo, 21-23.5 centimetres long. The adult male is grey-brown above and orange below with a grey head, throat and upper breast. There are white tips to the tail feathers. The legs and feet are yellow, the eye is red and the bill is black above and yellow below. The adult female is sometimes similar to the male but often occurs in a "hepatic" morph. This form is reddish-brown above with dark bars. The underparts are paler with fainter barring. There is a pale stripe over the eye and the tail has dark bars along its whole length. Juvenile birds are similar to hepatic females but are paler and have dark streaks rather than bars on the crown and throat.

Planalto Hermit - It is usually easily recognized by its relatively large size, broad white tips to all the rectrices, and cinnamon-buff underparts and rump – the latter contrasing clearly with its tail and remaining upperparts.

Planalto Tyrannulet - The Planalto Tyrannulet is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family. It is widespread in wooded habitats of eastern Brazil, extreme north-eastern Bolivia, eastern Paraguay, and far north-eastern Argentina. It is generally common , and consequently rated as Least Concern by BirdLife International and IUCN. There are three relatively distinctive subspecies, differing in measurements, plumage and voice, and it is possible they are better regarded as separate species. It can be separated from other members of its genus found in its range by the combination of a greyish-tinged forecrown and an all-black bill.

Plate-billed Mountain Toucan - While it remains fairly common locally, it has declined due to habitat loss.

Pleske's Ground Jay - The Persian Ground-jay is a species of bird in the Corvidae family. It is endemic to Iran.

Ploceus flavipes - The Yellow-legged Weaver is a species of bird in the Ploceidae family. It is endemic to Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Ploceus superciliosus - The Compact Weaver is a species of bird in the Ploceidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia.

Plum-crowned Parrot - The Speckle-faced Parrot is a species of parrot from the humid Andean forests from Colombia, through Ecuador and Peru, to Bolivia. It is sometimes split into two species, in which case the southern Pionus tumultuosus retains the common name Speckle-faced Parrot or is re-named Plum-crowned Parrot or Plum-crowned Pionus, while the northern Pionus seniloides is referred to as the White-capped Parrot or White-headed Pionus . The two were originally described as separate species, are morphologically distinctive, and there is no evidence of intergradation, but this in itself is not remarkable, as their distributions are separated by a gap of approx. 150 km.

Plum-faced Lorikeet - The Plum-faced Lorikeet is a mainly green small parrot about 15 cm  long with a long pointed tail. It has two white stripes under each eye. It has a narrow pointed black bill and dark-brown irises. The adult male as a red forehead and the adult female has a green forehead.

Plum-headed Finch - It is found in dry savanna and subtropical/ tropical dry shrubland in Australia. The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

Plum-headed Parakeet - The Plum-headed Parakeet is a mainly green parrot, 33 cm long with a tail up to 22 cm. The male's head is red, becoming purple-blue on the back of the crown, nape and cheeks. There is a narrow black neck collar and a black chin stripe. There is a red shoulder patch and the rump and tail are bluish-green, the latter tipped white. The upper mandible is orangish-yellow, and the lower mandible is dark.

Plumbeous Antbird - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical swamps.

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

Plumbeous Euphonia - The Plumbeous Euphonia is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.

Plumbeous Hawk - The Plumbeous Hawk is a species of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Plumbeous Ibis - The Plumbeous Ibis is a species of bird in the Threskiornithidae family. It is found in grassland, savanna, fields and marshes in central South America, ranging in south-central and south-eastern Brazil, eastern and northern Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and northern Argentina. It is generally fairly common and is easily seen in the Pantanal among others. It is distinctive, being overall grey with elongated plumes on the nape and neck, a narrow white band on the forehead and reddish legs. Unlike many other ibises, the Plumbeous Ibis is rather asocial and typically seen alone or in pairs.

Plumbeous Kite - The Plumbeous Kite breeds in the tropical New World, from eastern Mexico through Central America to Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. It also breeds on Trinidad.

Plumbeous Pigeon - The Plumbeous Pigeon is a species of bird in the Columbidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.

Plumbeous Sierra Finch - It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland and pastureland.

Plumbeous Vireo - The Plumbeous Vireo is 4.75 inches in length, with a gray head, back, and flanks, and whitish underparts. It has a solid white eye ring and white wing bars.

Plumbeous Warbler - The Plumbeous Warbler is a species of bird in the Parulidae family. It is found only in Dominica and Guadeloupe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Plumbeous-backed Thrush - The Plumbeous-backed Thrush is a species of bird in the Turdidae family. It is found in Ecuador and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Plumbeous-crowned Tyrannulet - The Plumbeous-crowned Tyrannulet is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Plumed Guineafowl - The Plumed Guineafowl is a member of the guineafowl bird family. It is found in humid primary forest in Central Africa. It resembles some subspecies of the Crested Guineafowl, but has a straighter and higher crest, and a relatively long wattle on either side of the bill. The bare skin on the face and neck is entirely dull grey-blue in the western nominate subspecies, while there are a few orange patches among the grey-blue in the eastern subspecies schubotzi.

Plumed Longbill - The Dwarf Longbill Plumed Longbill or Dwarf Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Melanocharitidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Plumed Whistling Duck - Described by English naturalist Thomas Campbell Eyton in 1838, its specific epithet honours its namer. Its generic name is derived from the Ancient Greek terms dendron "tree", and kuknos "swan". Alternate common names include; Eyton's Plumed, Red-legged or Whistling Tree-duck, and Grey or Red-legged Whistler

Plush-capped Finch - It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Plush-crested Jay - This is an elegant medium sized bird, dark plumaged with a cream-yellow breast; the bulky tail is also cream colored, top and underneath, for the lower half.

Pochard - The adult male has a long dark bill with a grey band, a red head and neck, a black breast, red eyes and a grey back. The adult female has a brown head and body and a narrower grey bill band. The triangular head shape is distinctive. Pochards are superficially similar to the closely related North American Redhead and Canvasback.

Poecilodryas cerviniventris - The Robin has a green to brown back with a dark brown tail and wings streaked with white, creamy white chest, with pale orange around and beneath the wings. It is distinguished from the similar White-browed Robin, which it was formerly lumped, by its larger size, thicker and longer white superciliary stripe, duskier upper back, broad black face band, broader white remigial bar, rich tawny-rufous flanks, and white tipping on all retrices.

Pogoniulus makawai - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.

Pohnpei Flycatcher - The Pohnpei Flycatcher is a species of bird in the Monarchidae family. It is endemic to Micronesia.

Pohnpei Lorikeet - The Pohnpei Lorikeet is 24 cm long and weights around 80 g. The plumage is mainly reddish-maroon with vague approximately transverse striations of darker maroon. The head a slightly darker maroon. The flight feathers and tail are olive-yellow. Its legs are grey. The male has an orange beak and yellow-orange irises, while the female has a yellow beak and light grey irises. The juveniles have brown beaks and brown irises.

Pohnpei Starling - The Pohnpei Starling reached a size of 19 cm. It was generally dark with sooty brown upperparts. The head was darker and exhibit a black forehead and black lores. The wings, the rump, the uppertail coverts and the tail were paler and were showing a stronger brown colouring at the head. The underparts were washed olive brown. The bill and the feet were black. The iris was brown. The juveniles were looking similar to the adults except for the upperparts of their plumage which had exhibit a paler brown. Its call consists of a bell-like shrill see-ay.

Point-tailed Palmcreeper - It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.

Polynesian Storm-Petrel - The Polynesian Storm-petrel is a species of seabird in the Hydrobatidae family. It is placed in the monotypic genus Nesofregetta.

Polynesian Triller - It is 15 to 16 cm long. The plumage varies geographically; some populations are contrastingly black and white while others have more grey or brown coloration.

Pomarine Skua - Its relationships are not fully resolved; its mitochondrial DNA is most similar to the Great Skua . Judging from characteristics of the skeleton and behavior, the former seems more likely, as the Pomarine Skua shares several similarities with the "Catharacta" Skuas, while the Great Skua does not seem much different from its Southern Hemisphere relatives.

Pomatorhinus melanurus - Most Scimitar-babbler species are referred as parandel kurulla

Pompadour Green Pigeon - This is a common species in rainforest and similar dense wet woodlands. It builds a stick nest in a tree and lays two white eggs. Its flight is fast and direct, with the regular beats and an occasional sharp flick of the wings that are characteristic of pigeons in general.

Ponape Fantail - It is a small bird with a long, fan-shaped tail which is often fanned or wagged. The plumage is mostly dark grey with a white eyebrow, moustache and tips to the tail feathers. The belly is white and the breast is blackish with white feather edges giving a scaly appearance.

Porphyrio kukwiedei - It is known only from subfossil remains, and it is not known when it became extinct. However a passage from an 1860 article refers to birds the size of turkeys being present in marshy areas of New Caledone, suggesting that it may have survived into historic times. The native name n'dino is thought to refer to this bird.

Porto Rican crow - A stocky bird, this forest crow is now found principally on the large island of Hispaniola that comprises the countries of Dominican Republic and Haiti. It was also found on Puerto Rico but is now considered to be extinct on that island since the early 20th Century due to considerable forest clearance and hunting. It inhabits both lowland and mountain forest and unlike the related Cuban Crow, does not appear to tolerate areas that have been cleared for farming. It often flies high over the forest canopy and soars on thermals unlike the conspesific Palm Crow which rarely if ever soars.

Porto Rican thrush - The Red-legged Thrush is a species of bird in the Turdidae family. It is found in the Bahamas, Cayman Brac, Cuba, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Puerto Rico. It formerly occurred on the Swan Islands, Honduras. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, and heavily degraded former forest. This species may be considered the Caribbean counterpart of the American Robin, as it has similar habits, including being a common visitor to gardens and lawns.

Porzana astrictocarpus - After American ornithologist Alexander Wetmore described bones of the large Saint Helena Swamphen from Prosperous Bay, Saint Helena, in 1963, American paleontogologist Storrs Olson found almost complete skeletons of the Saint Helena Crake in the same region in 1973. These skeletons consists of bones which were smaller than the bones of Atlantisia podarces. Due to the peculiar shape of the carpometacarpus Olson named this species Porzana astrictocarpus.

Porzana nigra - The Miller's Rail was a species of bird in the Rallidae family. It was endemic to Tahiti. It was discovered and painted by Georg Forster during the second Cook voyage.

Powerful Owl - The Powerful Owl has large brown eyes, grey-brown V-barring on all features, large feathers and dull yellow feet. They are aptly named, with very powerful and heavy claws. Average length is 60 cm with a wingspan of 140 cm and weight of 1.5 kg .

Powerful Woodpecker - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Prairie Warbler - These birds have yellow underparts with dark streaks on the flanks, and olive upperparts with rusty streaks on the back; they have a yellow line above the eye, a dark line through it, and a yellow spot below it. These birds have black legs, long tails, pale wing bars, and thin pointed bills. Coloring is duller in female and immatures.

Prarie Lark - The Western Meadowlark is a medium-sized icterid bird, about 8.5 in long. It nests on the ground in open country in western and central North America. It feeds mostly on insects, but also seeds and berries. It has distinctive calls described as watery or flute-like, which distinguish it from the closely related Eastern Meadowlark.

Preuss's Weaver - The Preuss's Weaver is a species of bird in the Ploceidae 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, and Sierra Leone.

Prevost's Ground Sparrow - This bird is found typically at altitudes between 600 and 1600m in the undergrowth and thickets of semi-open woodland, coffee plantations, hedgerows and large gardens. The nest, built by the female, is a neat lined cup constructed less than 2 m up in a bush or large tussock. The female lays two or three ruddy-blotched white eggs, which she incubates for 12-14 days. The male helps in feeding the chicks. This species is sometimes parasitised by the Bronzed Cowbird.

Prigogene's Nightjar - It is appears to be a forest species, but nothing is known of its habits or breeding, although it is likely to nest on bare ground like its relatives. It is assumed to be a nocturnal insectivore like other nightjars.

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

Prigogine's Owlet - The Albertine Owlet, Glaucidium albertinum, is a species of owl in the Strigidae family. It is found in Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Princess Stephanie's Astrapia - Princess Stephanie's Astrapia was discovered by Carl Hunstein in 1884. It is endemic to the mountain forests in central and eastern Papua New Guinea.

Principe Seedeater - The Príncipe Seedeater is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family. It is found only in Sao Tomé and Príncipe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Pringle's Puffback - The Pringle's Puffback is a species of bird in the Malaconotidae family. It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania. Its natural habitat is dry savanna.

Pririt Batis - It is a small stout insect-eating bird, found in dry broadleaf woodland and thorn scrub. The nest is a small neat cup low in a tree or bush.

Prong-billed Barbet - It often has been placed with the other barbets in the Capitonidae. However, DNA studies have confirmed that this arrangement is paraphyletic; New World Barbets are more closely related to toucans than they are to Old World barbets. As a result, the barbet lineages are considered distinct families; the Prong-billed Barbet and the Toucan Barbet now form a separate family, Semnornithidae.

Prosobonia ellisi - Two specimens were collected by William Anderson between September 30 and October 11, 1777, during Captain Cook’s third voyage, but both have since disappeared and the bird became extinct in the nineteenth century. The only hint at its former existence are Anderson's notes and the descriptions based on them, a painting by William Ellis and a plate by J. Webber which apparently depicts the other specimen.

Protea Canary - This species is found in mature protea scrub , tangled valley thickets and forests in the mountains of southwestern Cape Province. Its range does not reach the coast.

Prothonotary Warbler - The Prothonotary Warbler is 13 cm long and weighs 12.5 g. It has an olive back with blue-grey wings and tail, yellow underparts, a relatively long pointed bill and black legs. The adult male has a bright orange-yellow head; females and immature birds are duller and have a yellow head.

Przevalski's redstart - Its natural habitat is temperate forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Przevalski's Rosefinch - The Przewalski's Finch is a small bird similar in appearance to the Long-tailed Rosefinch. The tail is long, and the sexes are sexually dimorphic, with the males having bright pink on the throat, breast and belly. Both sexes have brown streaked plumage on the back and wings. The bill is thinner than those of the rosefinches. The morphological feature which most distinguishes the species from the rosefinches is the outer primary; in finches and buntings this feather is vestigial but in the Przewalski's Finch it is two-thirds the length of the next primary.

Pteroglossus bailloni - The Saffron Toucanet is a species of bird in the Ramphastidae family. It was formerly placed in the monotypic genus Baillonius, but Kimura et al. was able to show that the Saffron Toucanet belong in the genus Pteroglossus. It is found in Atlantic Forest in far north-eastern Argentina, south-eastern Brazil, and eastern Paraguay.

Pteroptochos castaneus - The Chestnut-throated Huet-huet is a species of bird in the Rhinocryptidae family. It is found in Argentina and Chile. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and heavily degraded former forest.

Puaiohi - The plumage is mostly nondescript, with slaty-brown upperparts and a light gray breast and belly below. Birds have a black bill and pinkish feet. A white eye ring is also fairly prominent and helps distinguish this bird from the other Hawaiian Thrushes. Both males and females are highly similar in appearance. Juveniles show a pattern transitioning from a spotted whitish-buff above to a scalloped gray-brown below.

Puerto Rican Bullfinch - The Puerto Rican Bullfinch has black feathers with red areas above the eyes, around its throat, and underneath the tail's base. The species measures from 17 to 19 cm and weighs approximately 32 grams.

Puerto rican emerald - The species displays sexual dimorphism with males and females differing in coloration. The male has iridescent green feathers on its body and a black tail while the female has a white breast and white out tail feathers. They measure 9-10 cm and weigh about 3 grams. The species is found mainly in mountainous regions of Puerto Rico but also occurs along the southwest coast of the main island. Puerto Rican Emeralds are highly territorial, often defending territories with intense aerial pursuits.

Puerto rican nightjar - It was described from bones found in cave deposits and a single specimen taken in 1888. The species was considered extinct, the specimen being the last remnant of a "prehistoric" bird. However, it was found to be still extant in 1961; it had been overlooked due to its secretive habits and because its habitat was not surveyed.

Puerto rican parrot - The Puerto Rican Amazon reaches sexual maturity between three and four years of age. It reproduces once a year and is a cavity nester. Once the female lays eggs she will remain in the nest and continuously incubate them until hatching. The chicks are fed by both parents and will fledge 60 to 65 days after hatching. This parrot's diet is varied and consists of flowers, fruits, leaves, bark and nectar obtained from the forest canopy.

Puerto rican screech-owl - The Puerto Rican Screech Owl or Múcaro is a nocturnal endemic owl of the archipelago of Puerto Rico belonging to the Megascops genus of the Strigidae family. The subspecies, M. n . newtoni, which was endemic to the Virgin Islands, was locally referred to as the Cuckoo Bird.

Puerto rican spindalis - The Puerto Rican Spindalis, Spindalis portoricensis, is a tanager endemic to the island of Puerto Rico. It is widely distributed throughout the island and is an important part of the Puerto Rican ecosystem because of its help in seed dispersal and plant reproduction. The Puerto Rican Spindalis is also the national bird

Puerto rican tanager - On average the Puerto Rican Tanager measures 16 cm and weights 36 g. These birds are found in groups of about 12 individuals. They are usually found in dense vegetation. This tanager roosts in palm trees or bamboo. The Puerto Rican Tanager eats palm fruits, ants and species from the Cecropia genus. Evidence shows that they also eat spiders, lizards and frogs. Its cup-shaped nest is no higher than 9 m in trees. Cream colored eggs speckled with a darker shade of brown. The species breeds from January to August.

Puerto rican tody - The Puerto Rican Tody can be described as having green feathers with a yellow flanks, a bright yellow almost white belly, a red throat and lower mandible and a long beak. It is a very small bird and is the smallest representative of the order Coraciiformes. This tody measures on average 11cm and weighs from 5 to 6 grams. Males and females can be distinguished by the coloration of their eyes. Males have grey eyes while females have white eyes.

Puerto rican vireo - The Puerto Rican Vireo has a gray head, a white breast and a yellowish belly. The species measures, on average, 12 cm and weighs from 11 to 12 grams .

Puerto rican woodpecker - The Puerto Rican Woodpecker has a black body and a bright red throat and breast. It has a white patch that runs across the head from eye to eye. Its flanks and lower body have a light tangerine coloration. As with the majority of birds sexual dimorphism is present in this species. The males' throat and breast are more brightly colored than the females' with females tending to be all-around duller in coloration. There is also a substantial difference in bill length between sexes. Its body length varies between 23 and 27 centimetres.

Puffin - The Atlantic Puffin is a seabird species in the auk family. It is a pelagic bird that feeds primarily by diving for fish, but also eats other sea creatures, such as squid and crustaceans. Its most obvious characteristic is its brightly coloured beak during the breeding seasons. Also known as the Common Puffin, it is the only puffin species which is found in the Atlantic Ocean. The curious appearance of the bird, with its colourful huge bill and its striking piebald plumage, has given rise to nicknames such as "clown of the ocean" and "sea parrot".

Pulitzer's Longbill - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Puna Ground Tyrant - The Puna Ground-tyrant is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland and swamps.

Puna Ibis - The Puna Ibis is a species of bird in the Threskiornithidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. Its natural habitat is swamps.

Puna Snipe - This small snipe breeds in most of South America away from the Pacific coast and eastern Brazil, and also the Falkland Islands, Trinidad and possibly Tobago The nominate lowland race G. p. paraguaiae is resident, but southern G. p. magellanicae migrates north in winter, abandoning Tierra del Fuego altogether, and the Andean G. p. andina moves to lower ground.

Puna tapaculo - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montanes and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.

Puna Teal - The Puna Teal is a species of dabbling duck in the genus Anas. It was previously regarded as a subspecies of the Silver Teal.

Puna Thistletail - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montanes and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland.

Puna Tinamou - 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.

Puno Canastero - The Puna Canastero is a species of bird in the Furnariidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru. Its natural habitats are temperate grassland and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland.

Purple Cochoa - It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, 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.

Purple Finch - The Purple Finch, Carpodacus purpureus, is a bird in the finch family Fringillidae.

Purple Gallinule - There are 13 or more subspecies of the Purple Swamphen which differ mainly in the plumage colours. The subspecies groups are:

Purple Glossy-Starling - The adults of these stocky 22–23 cm long birds have a metallic purple head and body, and glossy green wings. They have a short tail and a yellow eye. The sexes are similar, but juveniles are much duller, with grey underparts and a brown iris.

Purple Grenadier - The length averages 13.3 cm . All ages and sexes have a black tail, and adults have a red bill. The male has a cinnamon-colored head and neck with a blue patch surrounding the eye. The rump is purplish blue and the underparts are violet-blue with variable rufous patches. The female is smaller and mostly cinnamon brown with white barring on the underparts and silver-blue eyepatches. Juveniles are like females, but mostly unbarred tawny-brown with a reddish-brown bill.

Purple Heron - The Purple Heron is a large bird, 80-90 cm tall, with a 120-150 cm wingspan, but slender for its size, weighing only 0.5-1.3 kg. It is somewhat smaller than the Grey Heron, from which it can be distinguished by its darker reddish-brown plumage, and, in adults, darker grey back. It has a narrower yellow bill, which is brighter in breeding adults.

Purple Honeycreeper - The Purple Honeycreeper is 4.5 in long, weighs 0.42 oz and has a long black decurved bill. The male is purple with black wings, tail and belly, and bright yellow legs. Females and immatures have green upperparts, and green-streaked yellowish-buff underparts. The throat is cinnamon, and there is a blue moustachial stripe. The call of Purple Honeycreeper is a thin high-pitched zree.

Purple Indigobird - The Purple Indigobird is a species of bird in the Viduidae family. It is also known as the Dusky Indigobird, a name which can refer to Vidua funerea. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitat is dry savanna.

Purple Jay - This jay has a very restricted distribution occurring only on the southern Japanese islands of Amami Ōshima and Tokunoshima in pine forest, sub-tropical woodland and cultivated areas especially around villages.

Purple Martin - The Purple Martin is the largest North American swallow. These "aerial acrobats" have speed and agility in flight, and when approaching their housing, will dive from the sky at great speeds with their wings tucked.

Purple Needletail - This bird lives in various forests and open country. They may found in the lowlands or in hills, from 150-2000 m high in elevation.

Purple Roller - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and plantations . It is negatively affected by habitat loss. For some time, it was assumed to be decreasing in numbers quite rapidly and it was uplisted to Vulnerable in the 2000 IUCN Red List. However, more recently it was determined to be - although still declining - more common than previously believed and thus it is downlisted to Near Threatened in 2007.

Purple Sandpiper - The Purple Sandpiper, Calidris, Arquatella or Erolia maritima is a small shorebird.

Purple Sunbird - The Purple Sunbird is a small sunbird. Like other sunbirds they feed mainly on nectar, although they will also take insects, especially when feeding young. They have a fast and direct flight and can take nectar by hovering like a hummingbird but often perch at the base of flowers. The males appear all black except in some lighting when the purple iridescence becomes visible. Females are olive above and yellowish below.

Purple-backed Starling - The Purple-backed Starling , also known as the Daurian Starling, is a species of starling in the Sturnidae family. It is found in Cambodia, China, Christmas Island, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Norway, Pakistan, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, the United Kingdom, Vietnam, and Yemen. Its natural habitats are boreal forests and temperate forests.

Purple-backed Sunbeam - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland and plantations. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Purple-banded Sunbird - The Tsavo Sunbird, sometimes lumped with the Purple-banded, is here considered a separate species.

Purple-bellied Lory - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Purple-bellied Parrot - It is a relatively long-tailed parrot with a total length of c. 28 cm .

Purple-breasted Cotinga - The Purple-breasted Cotinga is a species of bird in the Cotingidae family. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Purple-capped Fruit-Dove - The Purple-capped Fruit-dove , also known as the Crimson-crowned Fruit-dove , is a species of bird in the Columbidae family. It is found in American Samoa, Fiji, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Niue, Samoa, Tonga, and Wallis and Futuna Islands. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.

Purple-collared Woodstar - The Purple-collared Woodstar is a species of bird in the hummingbird family, Trochilidae. It is found in Ecuador and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.

Purple-crested Turaco - This bird has a purple coloured crest above a green head, a red ring around their eyes, and a black bill. The neck and chest are green and brown. The rest of the body is purple, with red flight feathers.

Purple-crowned Fairy - Its breeding habitat is forest canopy and edges at altitudes up to 1675m, and this bird can also be found in tall second growth and shady gardens . The female lays two white eggs in a small conical cup nest, which is made of plant down and sited near the tip of a thin branch.

Purple-crowned Lorikeet - The Purple-crowned Lorikeet was first described by Lionel Dietrichsen in 1837, its specific epithet derived from the Ancient Greek words porphuros "purple" and kephalē "head".

Purple-gaped Honeyeater - Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation.

Purple-headed Glossy-Starling - The Purple-headed Glossy-starling is a species of starling in the Sturnidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Nigeria, and Uganda.

Purple-naped Lory - The Purple-naped Lory is 28 cm long. It is mostly red with an all red tail that fades to darker red towards the tip. The top of its head is black, which fades to purple on the back of its neck. It has green wings, blue thighs, and a variable approximately transverse yellow band across the chest. It has an orange beak, dark-grey eyerings, and orange-red irises. Juveniles have a brown beak, grey-white eyerings, brown irises, a wider yellow band across the chest, and a more more extensive purple patch on the back of neck.

Purple-naped Sunbird - It is found in Brunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Purple-rumped Sunbird - The Purple-rumped Sunbird is a sunbird endemic to the Indian Subcontinent. Like other sunbirds, they are small in size, feeding mainly on nectar but sometimes take insects, particularly when feeding young. They can hover for short durations but usually perch to feed. They build a hanging pouch nest made up of cobwebs, lichens and plant material. Males are brightly coloured but females are olive above and yellow to buff below.

Purple-tailed Imperial-Pigeon - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Purple-throated Carib - It breeds on Antigua, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, Saba, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and Sint Eustatius. It has occurred as a vagrant in Barbados, Barbuda, Grenada and the Virgin Islands.

Purple-throated Cotinga - The Purple-throated Cotinga, Porphyrolaema porphyrolaema, is a species of bird in the Cotingidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Porphyrolaema. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical swamps and heavily degraded former forest.

Purple-throated Euphonia - It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

Purple-throated Fruitcrow - It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela; also in southern Central America in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Purple-throated Mountain-gem - The Purple-throated Mountain-gem is a hummingbird which breeds in the mountains of southern Nicaragua, northern Costa Rica and western Panama. This bird inhabits forested areas in hilly terrain, and is found at altitudes from 800 m to 2500 m.

Purple-throated Sunangel - The Purple-throated Sunangel, Heliangelus viola, is a species of midsized hummingbird in the genus Heliangelus. It is found in western Ecuador and northwestern Peru.

Purple-throated Sunbird - The Purple-throated Sunbird , also known as Van Hasselt's Sunbird, is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.

Purple-throated Woodstar - The Purple-throated Woodstar, Calliphlox mitchellii, is a species of hummingbird, and it is one of the four Calliphlox genera, the woodstars. The species is found in Colombia and Ecuador, and a minor localized population in Panama, 600 km from its main species distribution.

Purple-winged Ground-Dove - The Purple-winged Ground Dove is a critically endangered species of dove, native to Atlantic forest, mainly near bamboo, in south-eastern Brazil, far eastern Paraguay, and northern-eastern Argentina . It is threatened by habitat loss and possibly the wild bird trade. There are few recent sightings and the total population is estimated to number less than 250 individuals.

Purplish Jacamar - It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Purplish-backed Jay - A Purplish-backed Jay eating at the Henry Doorly Zoo

Pycroft's Petrel - The Pycroft's Petrel is a species of seabird in the Procellariidae family. It is found in Japan, New Zealand, Norfolk Island, the United States, United States Minor Outlying Islands, and Wallis and Futuna Islands. It breeds only in New Zealand, nesting only on Stephenson, Poor Knights Islands, Hen and Chickens Islands, and Mercury Islands. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, temperate shrubland, and open seas.

Pygmy Antwren - The Pygmy Antwren is a bird of the entire Amazon Basin, the Guianan region, and the southeast Orinoco River Basin in Venezuela; besides northern Brazil, it occurs in Amazonian Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.

Pygmy Babbler - The Mindanao Pygmy-babbler is a bird species endemic to the Philippines. The genus Sterrhoptilus was formerly included in Stachyris and is usually placed in the family Timaliidae. It is a close relative of the white-eyes however, and like these might arguably be placed in a distinct family Zosteropidae.

Pygmy Blue-Flycatcher - It is found in Bhutan, China, East Timor, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Pygmy Cormorant - The Pygmy Cormorant breeds colonially in wetlands with still or slowly flowing fresh water in coastal deltas and well-vegetated freshwater lakes. It builds a nest of grass and twigs in a low tree or reedbed, into which it lays its 3-6 eggs. Both parents incubate for 27–30 days, and nestlings become independent after 70 days.

Pygmy Cuckooshrike - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

Pygmy Flowerpecker - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Pygmy Honeyguide - The Dwarf Honeyguide is a species of bird in the Indicatoridae family. It is found in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, and possibly Burundi. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Pygmy Longbill - The Pygmy Longbill or Pygmy Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Melanocharitidae family. It is placed in the genus Toxorhamphus or in Oedistoma, which sometimes also includes the Dwarf Longbill . It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea on New Guinea and adjacent islands. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Pygmy Nightjar - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.

Pygmy Owl - The owl preys on birds – some nearly as large as itself – and small mammals, such as voles.

Pygmy Puff-back Flycatcher - The Pygmy Batis is a species of bird in the Platysteiridae family. It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitat is dry savanna.

Pygmy Swiftlet - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. At under 9 cm , it the world's smallest swift.

Pygmy Tit - It is endemic to Indonesia, where it occurs only on the island of Java. On Java it is restricted to montane forests and plantations above 1,000 m ) in the west of the island. It frequents conifer forest and other open forest types, and is often encountered on the forest edge.

Pygmy White-eye - The Pygmy White-eye is a species of bird in the white-eye family Zosteropidae. It is monotypic within the genus Oculocincta. It is endemic to the hill forest and lower montane forest of north Borneo. It feeds on small berries, fruits, seeds and insects, foraging in small flocks of 4 to 8 birds. It will associate with other birds when feeding, including other white-eyes, cuckoo-doves, yuhinas and erpornises. The species is common but inconspicuous.

Pygmy Woodpecker - Pygmy Woodpecker in South Korea

Pyrilia caica - The Caica Parrot is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae. It was formerly placed in Pionopsitta which is now monotypic. It is found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela.

Pyrilia haematotis - The Brown-hooded Parrot is a small parrot which is a resident breeding species from southeastern Mexico to north-western Colombia. Until recently, it was placed in the genus Pionopsitta, which now is restricted to the type species, the Pileated Parrot. It is sometimes considered conspecific with the Rose-faced Parrot .

Pyrilia pulchra - Gypopsitta pulchra

Pyrrhuloxia - Its name comes from Greek terms describing its coloration and the shape of its bill .