Birds beginning with S

Sabine's gull - This species is easy to identify through its striking wing pattern. The adult had a pale grey back and wing coverts, black primary flight feathers and white secondaries. The white tail is forked. The male's hood darkens during breeding season. Their bills are black with a yellow tip. Young birds have a similar tricoloured wing pattern, but the grey is replaced by brown, and the tail has a black terminal band. The juveniles take two years to attain full adult plumage. They have a very high-pitched and squeaking call.
Sabine's Puffback - The Large-billed Puffback is a species of bird in the Malaconotidae 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, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical swamps.
Sabota Lark - The Sabota Lark is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family.
Sacred Ibis - The bird nests in tree colonies, often with other large wading birds such as herons. It builds a stick nest often in a baobab and lays 2-3 eggs.
Sacred Kingfisher - The Sacred Kingfisher is a tree kingfisher found in the mangroves, forests, and river valleys of Australia, Fiji, Indonesia, New Caledonia, New Zealand , Norfolk Island, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and the Wallis and Futuna Islands.
Sad Flycatcher - The Sad Flycatcher is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family. It is endemic to Jamaica. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and heavily degraded former forest.
Saddle-billed Stork - This is a close relative of the widespread Asian Black-necked Stork, the only other member of the genus Ephippiorhynchus.
Saddleback - The Tieke or Saddleback Philesturnus carunculatus is a previously rare and endangered New Zealand bird of the family Callaeidae. It is glossy black with a chestnut saddle. Its taxonomic family is also known as that of the "wattlebirds" and includes the two subspecies of the Kokako as well as the extinct Huia. All members of this family have coloured fleshy appendages on either side of the beak known as "wattles". In the case of Saddleback/Tieke, they are a vivid red in colour.
Saffron Finch - The male is bright yellow with an orange crown which distinguishes it from other yellow finches in the continent. The females are more confusing as they can sometimes be just a duller version of the male but some sub-species such as, S. f. pelzelni, are olive-brown with heavy dark streaks.
Saffron Siskin - The Saffron Siskin is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family. It is found in Ecuador and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and urban areas. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Saffron-breasted Redstart - The Guaiquinima Whitestart , also known as the Saffron-breasted Whitestart, is a species of bird in the Parulidae family. It is endemic to humid highland forests on Cerro Guaiquinima in south-eastern Venezuela. It is sometimes known by the less accurate names Guaiquinima Redstart and Saffron-breasted Redstart. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Saffron-cowled Blackbird - The Saffron-cowled Blackbird is a species of bird in the Icteridae family, in the monotypic genus Xanthopsar. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, and pastureland. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Saffron-crested Tyrant-Manakin - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
Sage grouse - The sage-grouse are the species in the bird genus Centrocercus. They are the largest grouse from temperate North America. Adults have a long, pointed tail and legs with feathers to the toes. Like in most Galliformes, there is pronounced sexual dimorphism.
Sage Sparrow - Sage Sparrows are indeed often tied to sagebrush habitats, although they can also be found in brushy stands of saltbush, chamise, and other low shrubs of the arid Interior West.
Sage thrasher - O. montanus are pale grey-brown on the upperparts and white on the underparts with dark streaks. They have a slim straight relatively short bill, yellow eyes and a long tail, although not as long as that of other thrashers.
Sakalava Rail - Its natural habitats are rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes, and freshwater marshes. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sakalava Weaver - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
Saker - The Saker Falcon is a very large falcon. This species breeds from eastern Europe eastwards across Asia to Manchuria. It is mainly migratory except in the southernmost parts of its range, wintering in Ethiopia, the Arabian peninsula, northern Pakistan and western China. During the end of the last ice age–oxygen isotope stages 3-2, some 40,000 to 10,000 years ago–it also occurred in Poland .
Saker Falcon - It is a bird of semi-desert and dry open hills. It typically lays its eggs in cliff-ledge nests.
Salmon-crested Cockatoo - In the wild the Salmon-crested Cockatoo inhabits lowland forests below 1000m. The diet consists mainly of seeds, nuts and fruit, as well as coconuts. There is additional evidence that they eat insects off the ground, and pet Moluccan cockatoos have tested positive for anemia if their diet does not include enough protein.
Saltmarsh sharp-tailed sparrow - Adults have brownish upperparts with grey on the crown and nape, a cream-coloured breast with dark streaks and a white throat and belly; they have an orange face with grey cheeks and a short pointed tail.
Salvadori - The Salvadori's Serin is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family. It is found only in Ethiopia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Salvadori's Antwren - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Salvadori's Fig-Parrot - The Salvadori's Fig Parrot diet consists mainly of figs and other fruit.
Salvadori's Nightjar - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Salvadori's Pheasant - This species is classified as vulnerable. In Kerinci Seblat National Park numbers are reducing due to heavy trapping and hunting by local people for food.
Salvadori's Teal - Initially, it was believed to belong to the "perching ducks", a paraphyletic assemblage of species which generally fell between dabbling ducks and shelducks. With the breaking-up of the "perching ducks", it was rather provisionally placed in the dabbling duck genus Anas, which also contains the Torrent Duck and Blue Duck which convergently have evolved adaptations to mountain stream habitat. All or some of these species may actually be surviving lineages of an ancient Gondwanan radiation of waterfowl .
Salvin's Curassow - The Salvin's Curassow is a species of bird in the Cracidae family. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Salvin's Prion - The Medium-billed Prion, Pachyptila salvini, also known as Salvin's Prion, is a species of seabird in the petrel family Procellariidae.
Samoan Fantail - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Samoan Flycatcher - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, and rural gardens. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Samoan Moorhen - The Samoan Wood Rail , also known as Samoan Moorhen, is a nearly flightless rail endemic to the Samoan island of Savai'i, and probably extinct. As it has evolved adaptations for a more terrestrial lifestyle and at least partly nocturnal habits, it is probably better placed in a distinct genus, Pareudiastes , but this issue has not yet been thoroughly researched. It was known as puna'e to the native Samoans; this was said to relate to the bird's habit of making a jumping dash into cover when startled from its resting place.
Samoan Triller - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and plantations . It is threatened by habitat loss.
Samoan Whistler - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Samphire Thornbill - The Slender-billed Thornbill is a small bird native to Australia. It includes three separate sub-species:
San Blas Jay - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
San Cristobal Flowerpecker - The White-mottled Flowerpecker or Mottled Flowerpecker is a species of bird in the Dicaeidae family. It is endemic to Makira in the Solomon Islands. Its inhabits primary forest and secondary growth, most commonly in the mountains.
San Cristobal Leaf Warbler - The Makira Leaf-Warbler is a species of Old World warbler in the Sylviidae family. It is found only in Solomon Islands. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
San Cristobal Melidectes - The San Cristobal Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family. It is endemic to Solomon Islands.
San Cristobal Mockingbird - The San Cristobal Mockingbird or Chatham Mockingbird is a species of bird in the Mimidae family. It is endemic to San Cristóbal Island in the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador.
San Cristobal Moorhen - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.
San Cristobal Myiagra Flycatcher - The Ochre-tailed Flycatcher is a species of bird in the Monarchidae family. It is endemic to Solomon Islands.
San Cristobal Starling - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
San Lucas ani - The Groove-billed Ani is about 34 cm long, and weighs 70-90 g . It is completely black, with a very long tail almost as long as its body. It has a huge bill with horizontal grooves along the length of the upper mandible. It is very similar to the Smooth-billed Ani, some of which have bills as small as the Groove-billed and with grooves on the basal half. The two species are best distinguished by voice and range. In flight, the ani alternates between quick, choppy flaps and short glides.
Sand Lark - It is found east of Jammu, through Haryana, Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh, Nepal terai and plains, Bihar, northern West Bengal, Bhutan foothills, Brahmaputra valley in Assam, and in Bangladesh, extending into Myanmar along the rivers such as the lower Irrawady and Chindwin. Also Madhya Pradesh south to Hoshangabad and Mhow.
Sand Martin - The Sand Martin is a migratory passerine bird in the swallow family. It has a wide range in summer, embracing practically the whole of Europe and the Mediterranean countries, part of northern Asia and also North America. It winters in eastern and southern Africa, South America and South Asia. It is known as Bank Swallow in North America, and as Collared Sand Martin in South Asia, and sometimes as European Sand Martin.
Sand Partridge - This partridge has its main native range from Egypt and Palestine east to south Arabia. It is closely related and similar to its counterpart in southeast Turkey and east to Pakistan, the See-see Partridge, Ammoperdix griseogularis.
Sanderling - It is somewhat unlike other sandpipers in appearance, which has led to the suggestion that it should be placed into a monotypic genus Crocethia. A more recent review indicates, however, that the sanderling is a fairly typical "stint" or small sandpiper and should be separated from the large knots with its closest relatives in a distinct genus.
Sandhill Crane - Ardea canadensis Linnaeus, 1758 Grus minor Grus proavus and see text
Sandwich tern - The Sandwich Tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis, syn. Sterna sandvicensis, is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. It is very closely related to the Lesser Crested Tern T. bengalensis, Chinese Crested Tern T. bernsteini, and Elegant Tern T. elegans, and has been known to interbreed with Lesser Crested.
Sandy Gallito - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
Sandy Scops-Owl - The Sandy Scops Owl is an owl found in Africa.
Sanford's White-eye - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sangihe Hanging Parrot - This is an arboreal parrot. It is predominantly green, with a red throat patch, rump, elongated uppertail-coverts and tip of tail.
Santa Cruz Jay - Santa Cruz Island is run as a preserve, partly by The Nature Conservancy and partly by Channel Islands National Park. The Island Jay can often be seen right at Prisoner's Cove, where many of the boats visiting the Island drop off and pick up passengers. This species is plentiful; it is classed as near-threatened by the IUCN mainly to reflect that a disaster, disease, or invasive species could quickly kill off the thriving population as it is limited to a single island. The Island Scrub-jay is not known to have occurred anywhere else historically, and no fossil remains have been found on the well-researched neighboring islands .
Santa Marta Antpitta - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Santa Marta Brush Finch - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montanes and heavily degraded former forest.
Santa Marta Bush-Tyrant - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Santa Marta Conure - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Santa Marta Mountain-Tanager - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest.
Santa Marta Sabrewing - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montanes, subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, and plantations . It is threatened by habitat loss.
Santa Marta Warbler - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montanes and heavily degraded former forest. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Santa Marta Woodstar - The Santa Marta Woodstar is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is found only in Colombia.
Santa Marta Wren - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sao Paulo Tyrannulet - The São Paulo Tyrannulet is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sao Thome Giant Sunbird - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sao Thome Olive Pigeon - The São Tomé Olive-pigeon or Maroon Pigeon is a pigeon native to the São Tomé and Príncipe islands off the coast of west Africa.
Sao Thome Oriole - The São Tomé Oriole is a species of bird in the Oriolidae family. It is endemic to São Tomé and Príncipe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sao Tome Ibis - The São Tomé Ibis's measurements include: wings 248 mm; bill 73 mm; tarsus 52 mm; and tail 95 mm. The head is dull olive with black surrounding the eyes and base of the bill. The wing-coverts and mantle are slightly bronzed.
Sapayoa - The Sapayoa is a small, olive-colored bird, somewhat paler below and with a yellowish throat. Its habitus resembles a bigger, longer-tailed, broader-billed female manakin. It is rare to uncommon in the forest understory, favoring ravines and small streams.
Sapphire Flycatcher - It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Sapphire Quail Dove - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Sapphire-bellied Hummingbird - The Sapphire-Bellied Hummingbird is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It has bright plumage, with blue undersides and green uppersides and black wings. The forked tail is blue-black. It is found only in Colombia. The species is endemic to the Atlantic coasts. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical mangrove forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sapphire-spangled Emerald - The species has an estimated range of 1,500,000 km², and while its population size is uncertain, it is believed to be large since it has been described as "frequent" in at least some parts of its range . It is not considered to be in decline and has been therefore evaluated as Least concern.
Sardinian Warbler - The Sardinian Warbler, Sylvia melanocephala, is a common and widespread typical warbler from the Mediterranean region.
Sarus Crane - The Sarus Crane is a large non-migratory crane found in parts of the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia and Australia. The tallest of the flying birds, standing at a height of up to 1.8 m , species of open wetlands. The Sarus Crane is easily distinguished from other cranes in the region by the overall grey colour and the contrasting red head and upper neck. They forage on marshes and shallow wetlands for roots, tubers, insects, crustaceans and small vertebrate prey. Like other cranes, they form long-lasting pair-bonds and maintain territories within which they perform territorial and courtship displays that include loud trumpeting, leaps and dance-like movements. In India they are considered symbols of marital fidelity, believed to mate for life and pine the loss of their mates even to the point of starving to death. The main breeding season is during the rainy season, when the pair builds an enormous nest "island", a circular platform of reeds and grasses nearly two metres in diameter and high enough t
Satin Bowerbird - Like all bowerbirds, the Satin Bowerbird shows highly complex courtship behaviour. Mate choice in Satin Bowerbirds has been studied in detail by a group of researchers at the University of Maryland, College Park. Males build specialized stick structures, called bowers, which they decorate with blue, yellow, and shiny objects if these are available, including berries, flowers, and even ballpoint pens, drinking straws and other discarded plastic items. As the males mature they use more blue objects than other colours. Females visit these and choose which male they will allow to mate with them. In addition to building their bowers, males carry out intense behavioural displays called dances to woo their mates, but these can be treated as threat displays by the females. Nestbuilding and incubation are carried out by the females alone. Recent research has shown that female mate choice takes place in three stages:
Satin Flycatcher - The Satin Flycatcher It is found in Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Saunders - The Saunders's Tern is a species of tern in the Sternidae family. It is found in Bahrain, Iran, Israel, Kenya, Madagascar, Pakistan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
Saunders's Gull - The Saunders' Gull is named after British ornithologist, Howard Saunders.
Savaii White-eye - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Savanna Hawk - The Savanna Hawk is a large raptor found in open savanna and swamp edges. It was formerly placed in the genus Heterospizias. It breeds from Panama and Trinidad south to Bolivia, Uruguay and central Argentina.
Savannah Sparrow - The Savannah Sparrow is a small American sparrow. It is the only widely accepted member of the genus Passerculus. Recent comparison of mtDNA NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 and 3 sequences indicates that the Ipswich Sparrow, formerly usually considered a good species , is a well-marked subspecies of the Savannah Sparrow, whereas the southwestern subspecies should be recognized as distinct species Large-billed Sparrow .
Savi's Warbler - This small passerine bird is a species found in reed beds, usually with some bushes. 3-6 eggs are laid in a nest in reeds. It is a medium-sized warbler. The adult has an unstreaked grey-brown back, whitish grey underparts and a concolourous undertail, which is a distinction from River Warbler. The sexes are identical, as with most warblers, but young birds are yellower below. Like most warblers, it is insectivorous.
Savile's Bustard - The Savile's Bustard is a species of bird in the Otididae family. It is found in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sudan.
Saw-billed Hermit - The Saw-billed Hermit is a hummingbird from southeastern Brazil, the only member of the genus Ramphodon. It is around 14–16 cm long and is one of the heaviest of the hermits; its straight bill has a hooked tip. It lives in humid forests, where it aggressively defends feeding routes from individuals of its own species as well as other hummingbirds. It is currently considered near-threatened, since it has a restricted range in threatened Atlantic forests.
Saxaul Sparrow - The Saxaul Sparrow is a passerine bird of the sparrow family Passeridae. A large sparrow at 14–16 cm , it is a mostly dull-coloured bird, with a distinctive pattern of head stripes. Three subspecies are recognised, differing mostly in the overall tone of their plumage and in the head striping of the female. The subspecies ammodendri occurs in the west of the Saxaul Sparrow's range, while stoliczkae and nigricans occur in the east. This distribution falls into six disjunct areas across Central Asia, where it is a bird of deserts, favouring areas with shrubs such as the saxaul, near rivers and oases. It is not seriously threatened by human activities, but is not common and has lost parts of its range to habitat destruction caused by agriculture.
Saxicoloides fulicatus - The Indian Robin is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is widespread in South Asia found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The males of northern populations have a brown back whose extent gradually reduces southwards with populations in the southern peninsula having an all black back. They are commonly found in open scrub areas and often seen running along the ground or perching on low thorny shrubs and rocks. Their long tails are held erect and their chestnut undertail covert and dark body make them easily distinguishable from the Pied Bushchat and the Oriental Magpie Robin.
Say's Phoebe - Adults have brownish-gray upperparts with an orange-brown belly and light gray on the throat and breast. Juveniles have cinnamon wing bars; adults have no wing bars.
Sayaca Tanager - It is a common resident in northeastern, central, and southeastern Brazil, and Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and northeast Argentina. There are a few records from far south-eastern Peru, but its status there is unclear, in part due to the potential of confusion with the very similar juveniles of the Blue-grey Tanager.
Scale-backed Antbird - The Scale-backed Antbird is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family, the antbirds. It has often been included in the genus Hylophylax, but is now known to be part of a different clade, leading to its placement in the monotypic genus Willisornis. It was briefly placed in Dichropogon, but this name is preoccupied by a genus of asilid flies .
Scale-crested Pygmy Tyrant - It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Venezuela, and possibly Honduras.
Scale-feathered Malkoha - The Scale-feathered Malkoha is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. It is endemic to the Philippines.
Scale-throated Hermit - The Scale-throated Hermit is a species in the hummingbird family, Trochilidae.
Scaled Antbird - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.
Scaled Antpitta - It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Scaled Dove - The Scaled Dove is a species of bird in the Columbidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, and heavily degraded former forest.
Scaled Flowerpiercer - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montanes and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.
Scaled Fruiteater - It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Scaled Ground Cuckoo - The Scaled Ground-cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. It is endemic to the Amazon Rainforest near the Tapajos River in Brazil, but much confusion exists over the exact limits of its range and the features useful for separating it from the very similar Rufous-vented Ground-cuckoo . Consequently, it has often been considered a subspecies of the Rufous-vented Ground-cuckoo.
Scaled ground-roller - The Scaly Ground-roller is a species of bird in the Brachypteraciidae family. It is endemic to Madagascar.
Scaled petrel - This species is highly pelagic, rarely approaching land, except to nest and rear young. The Mottled Petrel feeds on mostly fish and squid, with some crustaceans taken. It is a transequatorial migrant, breeding in New Zealand and some of the lesser islands, then moving to the Bering Sea, concentrating in the Gulf of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands.
Scaled Piculet - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and heavily degraded former forest.
Scaled Pigeon - The Scaled Pigeon, Patagioenas speciosa , is a large New World tropical dove. It is a resident breeder from southern Mexico south to western Ecuador, southern Brazil, northern Argentina, and Trinidad.
Scaled quail - Ortyx squamatus Vigors, 1830
Scaled Spinetail - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical swamps.
Scaled Woodcreeper - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Scallop-breasted Antpitta - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Scalloped Antbird - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Scalloped woodcreeper - It is found in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay.
Scaly Kingfisher - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Scaly Laughingthrush - It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Scaly Weaver - The Scaly Weaver , also known as the Scaly-feathered Finch, is a species of bird in the Ploceidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Scaly-bellied Woodpecker - Its natural habitats are boreal forests, temperate forests, and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Scaly-breasted Hummingbird - It is found in Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama.
Scaly-breasted Lorikeet - The Scaly-breasted Lorikeet was first described by German zoologist Heinrich Kuhl in 1820. Other names this bird is known by include the Gold and Green Lorikeet, Greenie, Green Lorikeet, Green and Yellow Lorikeet, Green Keet, Green Parrot, Green Leek, Greenie, and Green Leaf. It is often colloquially referred to as a "Scaly". Its specific epithet is derived from the Ancient Greek root chloro- "green", and Latin lepidotus "scaly".
Scaly-breasted Munia - The Scaly-breasted Munia is a small gregarious bird which feeds mainly on seeds. It frequents open woodland and cultivation. The nest is a large domed grass structure in a tree or under the eaves of a house into which 4–10 white eggs are laid.
Scaly-breasted Thrasher - The Scaly-breasted Thrasher is a species of bird in the Mimidae family. It was formerly united with the Pearly-eyed Thrasher in Margarops but now is again placed in the monotypic genus Allenia.
Scaly-breasted Woodpecker - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Scaly-breasted Wren - It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Scaly-breasted Wren-Babbler - It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Vietnam. The Taiwan Wren-babbler was once treated as a subspecies of this species.
Scaly-crowned Honeyeater - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Scaly-headed Parrot - It is found in eastern Brazil, central and eastern Bolivia, Paraguay, and northern Argentina. It is found in a wide range of wooded habitats, from humid subtropical forest to arid Caatinga. It is remains fairly common throughout a large part of its range. It is typically seen in pairs or small flocks. The scaling to the head for which it is named is typically far less distinct than the bright red undertail coverts .
Scaly-naped pigeon - The scaly-naped pigeon is a large slate grey pigeon , with maroon coloured plumage around the neck. The plumage on the species' nape appears scaly, explaining the both the common, and scientific name of the species. There is a bare patch of skin which surrounds the birds red eyes; this patch tends to be reddish in males and more yellow in females. The legs and the base of the bill of the species are red, while the remainder of the bill is light coloured.
Scaly-throated Foliage-gleaner - The Scaly-throated Foliage-gleaner is a species of bird in the Furnariidae family. It is found in Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Panama. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Scaly-throated Leaftosser - It is found in Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Scarlet Finch - The Scarlet Finch is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family. It is found in the Himalayas from central Nepal eastwards to Vietnam and is found spottily in the adjacent hills of Northeast India and Southeast Asia as far south as Thailand. It is resident in the Himalayas, but many birds winter to the immediate south. Its natural habitat is temperate forests.
Scarlet ibis - Adults are 56–61 cm long and weigh 650g. They are completely scarlet, except for black wing-tips. They nest in trees, laying two to four eggs. Their diet is fish, frogs, reptiles and crustaceans. A juvenile Scarlet Ibis is grey and white; as it grows the ingestion of red crabs in the tropical swamps gradually produces the characteristic scarlet plumage.
Scarlet Macaw - It is about 81 centimetres long, of which more than half is the pointed, graduated tail typical of all macaws. The average weight is about 1 kilogram . The plumage is mostly scarlet, but the rump and tail-covert feathers are light blue, the greater upperwing coverts are yellow, the upper sides of the flight feathers of the wings are dark blue as are the ends of the tail feathers, and the undersides of the wing and tail flight feathers are dark red with metallic gold iridescence. Some individuals may have green in the wings. Three subspecies present varying widths in their yellow wing band. There is bare white skin around the eye and from there to the bill. Tiny white feathers are contained on the face patch. The upper mandible is mostly pale horn in color and the lower is black. The only difference between ages is that young birds have dark eyes, and adults have light yellow eyes. It is frequently confused with the slightly larger Red-and-green Macaw, which has more distinct red lines in the face an
Scarlet Minivet - The Scarlet Minivet is 20-22 cm long with a strong dark beak and long wings. The male has black upperparts and head, and scarlet underparts, tail edges, rump and wing patches. The shape and colour of the wing patches and the shade or orange in the male varies across populations. The female is grey above, with yellow underparts , tail edges, rump and wing patches.
Scarlet Myzomela - It was originally described as Certhia sanguinolenta by ornithologist John Latham in 1802. It is a member of the small genus Myzomela with two other red species, the Red-headed Honeyeater of northern Australia and the Cardinal Honeyeater of Vanuatu, as well as the Dusky Honeyeater. It belongs to the honeyeater family Meliphagidae. More recently, DNA analysis has shown honeyeaters to be related to the Pardalotidae, and the Petroicidae in a large corvid superfamily; some researchers considering all these families in a broadly defined Corvidae.
Scarlet Robin - The Pacific Robin is a small passerine, 11.5–13.5 cm long and weighing 9–11 g. Over much of its range it is the smallest species of bird. The plumage of the males and females is dimorphic, and the extent of this varies depending on the subspecies. The male of the nominate race has a black head with a white forehead, a black back and tail, and the wings are also black with a white bar. The breast an belly are red, and the lower belly and rump are white. The female lacks the white forehead and the white bar on the wing; and the black plumage of the male is replaced by dark brown feathers instead. The breast is a duller red than the male and has more brown on the sides, and the white on the rump also smaller. Both sexes have black legs and bills. Amongst the subspecies, some males have more female-like plumage, for example P. m. femenina of central Vanuatu; in others the female more closely resembles the male. The males of P. m. polymorpha of Makira in the Solomon Islands have two different plumage morphs, inclu
Scarlet Tanager - The Scarlet Tanager is a medium-sized American songbird. Formerly placed in the tanager family , it and other members of its genus are now classified in the cardinal family . The species's plumage and vocalizations are similar to other members of the cardinal family.
Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker - The specific epithet cruentatus 'bloodstained' is derived from the Latin verb cruentare 'to stain with blood'.
Scarlet-bellied Mountain Tanager - It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest.
Scarlet-bibbed Myzomela - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Scarlet-breasted Fruit Dove - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Scarlet-browed Tanager - It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Scarlet-chested parakeet - The Scarlet-chested Parrot was originally named by the renowned ornithologist and artist John Gould in 1841 as Euphema splendida, before it was given its current binomial name in 1891 by moving into the new genus Neophema.
Scarlet-crowned Barbet - It is found in Amazonian Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, and heavily degraded former forest.
Scarlet-fronted Parakeet - The Scarlet-fronted Parakeet or is a long-tailed South American species of parrot, which is sometimes called the Scarlet-fronted Conure or Wagler's Conure. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, and especially high-altitude shrubland and forest; it is also known to visit heavily degraded former forest.
Scarlet-headed Blackbird - This species is about 24 cm long. The bill is oddly shaped: long, slender, and very sharp, looking almost upturned. Adults of both sexes are described by their name. Juveniles have entirely black plumage; orange-red feathers first appear on their breast and throat, later spreading to the neck, head, and thighs. The song is given as "loud, clear, and melodic, a ringing 'cleer-cleer-clur, clulululu'." Calls are simpler but have a similar quality.
Scarlet-headed Flowerpecker - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.
Scarlet-hooded Barbet - The Scarlet-hooded Barbet is a species of bird in the Capitonidae family. It is endemic to humid lowland forest in the south-western Amazon Basin in south-eastern Peru, north-western Bolivia and south-western Brazil; the majority of its range is in Peru-. It is generally uncommon. It is the only member of the genus Eubucco where both sexes have red to the head, the female being superficially similar to the male Lemon-throated Barbet.
Scarlet-horned Manakin - It is found in Brazil, Guyana, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Scarlet-shouldered Parrotlet - It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Scarlet-thighed Dacnis - Iris bright red in male, duller red in female. Male unmistakable with bright turquoise blue crown and nape, sides of head and neck, centre of back, rump and scapulars.; forehead lores, sides of back, wings and tail, and mid-throat and entire remaining underparts black; the thighs are scarlet, but these are usually hidden. Female dull greenish blue above, brightest on cheeks, scapulars, and rump, duskier on back, wings, and tail; below dingy buffy greyish, buffiest on belly and undertail coverts.
Scarlet-throated Tanager - The Scarlet-throated Tanager is one of the largest tanagers; 21 cm in length and with a weight of 72.5g. Females are entirely black, while males have red throat. It is endemic to north-eastern Brazil, being almost entirely restriced to the region dominated by Caatinga. It is often found near water and typically at elevations of 200-1000 m . Typically seen in pairs or groups of up to 8 individuals. Has a habit of perching on branches high in trees. Slow-moving. In the breeding season, males fluff the feathers of the back to show off the white bases. The nest is well hidden, and typically placed deep in vegetation or in an abandoned woodpeckers hole.
Schistocichla leucostigma - The Spot-winged Antbird is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family. Until recently, it included the Roraiman, Humaita, Brownish-headed and Rufous-faced Antbird as subspecies, but based on differences in voice and plumage it has been recommended treating them as separate species. As presently defined, the Spot-winged Antbird includes the subspecies infuscata, subplumbea and intensa.
Schistocichla saturata - The Roraiman Antbird is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family. Until recently, it was considered a subspecies of the Spot-winged Antbird, but based on differences in voice and plumage it has been recommended that they are treated as separate species. As presently defined, the Roraiman Antbird includes the subspecies obscura.
Schlegel - The Schlegel's Francolin is a species of bird in the Phasianidae family. It is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, and Sudan.
Schlegel's Petrel - The species feeds mostly on squid, which comprises 87% of its diet in some studies; it will also feed on lanternfishes as they ascend to the surface at night, as well as on crustaceans.
Schlegel's Whistler - The Regent Whistler is a species of bird in the Pachycephalidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Schneider's Pitta - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss. The Schneider's Pitta, Pitta schneideri, is a species of bird in the Pittidae family. It is endemic to Indonesia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss. It was only rediscovered in 1988 after last been seen in 1918.
Schouteden's Swift - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Schrenck's Bittern - This is a small species at 38 cm in length, with a short neck, longish yellow bill and yellow legs. The male is uniformly chestnut above, and buff below and on the wing coverts. The female and juvenile are chestnut all over with white speckles above, and white streaks below. When in flight, it shows black flight feathers and tail.
Schrenk's Reed Warbler - The Black-browed Reed-warbler is similar and closely related to the more common and widespread Reed Warbler. The bird spends its time foraging close to the ground inside undisturbed reed beds. Like many other wetland birds, it is of conservation concern owing to habitat loss-destruction of native marsh vegetation and its replacement by rice paddies and fishponds.
Scimitar-billed Woodcreeper - The Scimitar-billed Woodcreeper is a species of bird in the Dendrocolaptinae subfamily. It is in the monotypic genus Drymornis. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
Scimitar-winged Piha - The Scimitar-winged Piha is a species of bird in the Cotingidae family. It is found in Bolivia and Peru.
Scintillant Hummingbird - This tiny bird inhabits brushy forest edges, coffee plantations and sometimes gardens at altitudes from 900-2000 m, and up to 2500 m when not breeding. It is only 6.5 cm long. The male weighs 2 g and the female 2.3 g. The black bill is short and straight.
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - Adult birds have pale gray heads and upper parts, light underparts, salmon-pink flanks, and dark gray wings. Their extremely long, forked tails, which are black on top and white on the underside, are characteristic and unmistakeable. At maturity, the bird may be up to 14.5 inches in length. Immature birds are duller in color and have shorter tails.
Scissor-tailed Hummingbird - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Scissor-tailed Kite - The African Swallow-tailed Kite or Scissor-tailed Kite is a species of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family. It is monotypic within the genus Chelictinia. It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Togo, Uganda, and Yemen.
Scissor-tailed Nightjar - The Scissor-tailed Nightjar is a species of nightjar in the Caprimulgidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, and heavily degraded former forest.
Sclater - Sclater's Monal is distributed to mountain forests of southeast China, northern Burma and northeast India, at altitudes of 2,500 to 4,200 metres . The diet of the Sclater's Monal is like that of other members of the genus Lophophorus, probably consists mainly of tubers, roots, bulbs, arthropods, rodents, seeds and flowers. The female usually lays between three to five eggs. The male Himalayan Monal guards the nest and helps rear the chicks. It is not known if the Sclater's Monal male participates in nest defense but it is likely.
Sclater's Antwren - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Sclater's Lark - The Sclater's Lark is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family. It is found in Namibia and South Africa. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Scolopax bukidnonensis - This species is restricted to mountain forests on the islands of Mindanao and Luzon in the Philippines. Its habitat is extremely remote and rugged, and is unsuitable for either logging or agriculture, and it is listed as Least Concern by the IUCN.
Scott's oriole - It is primarily found in the Southwestern United States and south to Baja California Sur and central Mexico.
Scottish Crossbill - The British Ornithologists Union first classed the Scottish Crossbill as a separate and distinct species in 1980, but some ornithologists believed there was insufficient scientific research for its status. It was considered to be possibly a race of either the Common Crossbill or the Parrot Crossbill, both of which also occur in the Caledonian Forest.
Screaming Piha - While the plumage of both sexes is dull grey , its voice is extraordinary, exceptionally loud and among the most commonly heard sounds in the Amazon. The Cofan people of Ecuador call it the Pwe-pwe Yoh, which is a reference to its voice. Males often gather in loose leks, where they sing to attract females.
Scrub Greenlet - It is a bird of forest edges and savanna which builds a deep cup nest suspended from a tree branch. The typical clutch is three white eggs, which are marked with brown.
Scrub Tanager - It is found in Colombia and Ecuador. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.
Scrub Warbler - The Streaked Scrub-warbler is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, India, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Western Sahara, and Yemen.
Scytalopus latrans - The Blackish Tapaculo is a species of bird in the Rhinocryptidae family. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Scytalopus pachecoi - It is about 12 cm long and weighs around 15 grams. The upperparts are mainly dark grey, the underparts are paler grey. The flanks are buff with dark bars. Adult males of the Mouse-coloured Tapaculo are uniformly dark grey with no flank barring.
Scytalopus rodriguezi - It is a restricted-range endemic presently known only from two localities on the eastern slope of the Cordillera Central at the head of the Magdalena Valley, Colombia at 2000 m or more above sea-level. Its range is believed to be no greater than 170 km², and its population around 2,200 pairs; due to its recent description, no formal evaluation of its conservation status has taken place yet, however. It is found in humid forests with dense understorey.
Scytalopus stilesi - It has been found at 21 sites in montane forest between 1,420 and 2,130 m altitude in the northern Cordillera Central of the Colombian Andes; although having a restricted range, within this limited area it is a common understorey bird. Initiually, it seemed as if the species would classify as Near Threatened , but it turned out to be more plentiful and thus is classified as species of Least Concern in the 2007 IUCN Red List.
Seaside Finch - Adults have brownish upperparts with grey on the crown and nape, and a grayish buff colored breast with dark streaks; they have a dark face with grey cheeks, a white throat, and a short pointed tail. Birds show a small yellow streak just above the eye.
Secretarybird - It appears on the coats of arms of Sudan and South Africa.
Sedge Warbler - This is a medium-sized warbler, 11.5-13 cm long and weighing around 12 g.
Sedge Wren - The Sedge Wren, Cistothorus platensis, is a small songbird of the Wren family. It is also known as the Short-billed Marsh Wren and in South America as the Grass Wren. There are about 20 different subspecies which are found across most of the Americas. Some of these forms may be separate species.
See-see Partridge - This partridge has its main native range from southeast Turkey through Syria and Iraq east to Iran and Pakistan. It is closely related and similar to its counterpart in Egypt and Arabia, the Sand Partridge, Ammoperdix heyi.
Seicercus omeiensis - Martens's Warbler is a species of Old World warbler in the Phylloscopidae family. It is found in China and Myanmar. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Seicercus soror - Its natural habitat is temperate forests.
Seicercus valentini - It is found in China, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Seleucidis melanoleucus - The sole representative of the monotypic genus Seleucidis, the Twelve-wired Bird-of-paradise is a bird of lowland forests. The male displays on an exposed vertical perch with its breast-shield flared. Its diet consists mainly of fruits and arthropods.
Selva Cacique - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Semi-palmated Plover - The Semipalmated Plover is a small plover.
Semi-plumbeous Hawk - It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, and Panama. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Semicollared Flycatcher - This is a 12-13.5 cm long bird, intermediate in appearance between Collared Flycatcher and European Pied Flycatcher. It has often been classed as a subspecies of Collared Flycatcher.
Semicollared Hawk - It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is becoming rare due to habitat loss.
Semipalmated Sandpiper - The Semipalmated Sandpiper, Calidris pusilla, is a very small shorebird. It is sometimes separated with other "stints" in Erolia but although these apparently form a monophyletic group, the present species' old genus Ereunetes had been proposed before Erolia.
Semper's Warbler - The bird is about 14.5 centimetres in length. The plumage of the adults is dark gray at the upperparts and greyish white at the underparts. The immatures are brownish-grey above and have buffish underparts, and the long legs are pale yellow. It lives in the undergrowth of montane and elfin forests. The call consists of tuck-tick-tick-tuck noises. Nothing is known about its ecology but it is probably a ground-nesting bird.
Senegal Coucal - It is a widespread species through Africa, except the northwest and into south Arabia. The Senegal Coucal is a bird of grassy habitats with trees, such as bush and savannah. It nests off the ground in vegetation, and the typical clutch is 2-4 eggs laid in a large nest built from stalks and leaves.
Senegal Lapwing - The Senegal Lapwing or Lesser Black-winged Lapwing is a species of bird in the Charadriidae family. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Senegal Parrot - The Senegal Parrot is a Poicephalus parrot which is a resident breeder across a wide range of west Africa.
Senegal Thick-knee - It is a resident breeder in Africa between the Sahara and the equator, and in the Nile valley.
Sennar Penduline-Tit - The Sennar Penduline-tit is a species of bird in the Remizidae family. It is found in Cameroon, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sudan. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
Sentinel Rock Thrush - The Sentinel Rock-thrush is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is found in Lesotho, South Africa, and Swaziland. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland.
Sepia-capped Leptopogon - It is found in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.
Seram Friarbird - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.
Seram Honeyeater - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Seram Rufous Fantail - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Serendib Scops-owl - It is the first new bird to be discovered in Sri Lanka since 1868, when the Sri Lanka Whistling Thrush Myophonus blighi was discovered. It is also the 24th endemic bird species for Sri Lanka.
Serra Antwren - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.
Seven Islands Thrush - Reaching a length of approximately 23 cm, the Izu Thrush has a distinctive dark plumage, with a black head and tail contrasting with yellow eye-ring and bill, chestnut brown wings, and a rust-red belly. This color pattern often elicits comparisons to the American Robin.
Seven-coloured Tanager - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Severtzov - It is a sedentary bird which inhabits conifer-rich mixed montane forests of central China. The bird is very similar in appearance to the Hazel Grouse apart from less of a white stripe on the head and neck.
Severtzov's Tit Warbler - Its natural habitat is boreal forests.
Seychelles Blue Pigeon - The pigeon is about 10 inches in length. Its head and breast are silver-grey, and these feathers can be raised when the bird is excited, giving it a ruffled look. Its wings, underbody and tail are dark blue. It has a distinctive bright crimson patch of orbital skin extending from forehead to crown. Its bill is dull yellow and it has dark grey legs.
Seychelles Bulbul - The breeding season of the Seychelles Bulbul usually begins at the start of the monsoon, around October to January, although breeding can occur at any time. It builds a circular nest out of palm fibres, leaves, twigs and moss in a forked tree branch, usually 10 m or more above the ground. Two whitish eggs with spots are usually laid per season, although in most cases only one chick is successfully raised to fledging age. Incubation lasts for 15 days and fledging occurs 21 days after hatching, but young fledglings will accompany adults after fledging, possibly to learn foraging skills.
Seychelles Fody - It shares the same habitat in the Seychelles with a related introduced species, the Madagascar Fody.
Seychelles Grey White-eye - This ten to eleven centimetre long bird has a plumage with olive grey upperparts and dull coloured underparts. It is further characterized by a white narrow eye-ring, a rather long dark grey tail and a small sharp bill. Its diet consists of insect larvaes, locusts, and grasshoppers as well as berries and seeds. The breeding season is from September to April and a clutch of two to seven eggs is laid into a cup-shaped nest. The incubation time is thirteen to fifteen days and the young are fully fledged after eleven to sixteen days. After that the parents are looking after them another two months. Its melodious and complex song consists of nasal tones. Due to its ecology and foraging in the canopy of high trees it is difficult to observe.
Seychelles kestrel - The Seychelles Kestrel is a small bird of prey belonging to the genus Falco in the falcon family, Falconidae. It is endemic to the Seychelles Islands where it is the only breeding bird of prey. It is known in Seychellois Creole as the Katiti after its loud, shrill call.
Seychelles Magpie Robin - This species of magpie robin is approximately 25 cm in length. It has a glossy coal-black plumage with a white-colored bar on each wings. It is considered a long-lived species whose lifespan is over 15 years of age. Its habitat is woodlands, plantations and the vicinity of gardens. Their range on the island of Fregate was limited by the area of open ground with leaf litter.
Seychelles Paradise Flycatcher - The length of the males is about 20 cm. In addition there are two long black central tail feathers which can reach a length of 30 cm. The females can reach a length between 16 and 18 cm . The males are entirely glossy black with a deep blue sheen. The upperparts of the females including wings and tail are reddish brown. The underparts are pale cream white. Facial skin, bill, and legs are blue.
Seychelles Parakeet - It was endemic to Mahé and Silhouette and was once sighted on Praslin. It was rare when described even in 1867. The last specimens were collected by Warry in 1881, and the last birds recorded in captivity on Silhouette in 1883. The species was extinct by 1906.
Seychelles Scops-Owl - It reaches a length between 19 and 22 cm. The wings are about 17 cm. Its plumage is rufous brown and exhibits black shaft streaks. The underparts and the facial disc are rufous. The long grey legs are unfeathered. The eyes are large and golden yellow. The ear tufts are very small. Its call which sounds like a rasping "whaugh" with various "tok tok" notes can be heard from a far distance and in particular in the darkness. Its diet consists of geckos, tree frogs and insects .
Seychelles Sunbird - It can reach a length from eleven to twelve centimetres. The plumage is dull grey. The male exhibits an iridescent violett-green patch on its throat and yellow tufts under its wings. The long slender bill is downcurved. The legs are black. The song of the males is surprisingly high pitched, noisy and harsh.
Shaft-tailed Whydah - The Shaft-tailed Whydah is distributed in open habitats and grasslands of Southern Africa, from south Angola to south Mozambique. It is a brood parasite to the Common Grenadier. The diet consists mainly of seeds.
Shag - This is a medium-large black bird, 68–78 cm long and with a 95–110 cm wingspan. It has a longish tail and yellow throat-patch. Adults have a small crest in the breeding season. It is distinguished from the Great Cormorant by its smaller size, lighter build, thinner bill, and, in breeding adults, by the crest and metallic green-tinged sheen on the feathers. Among those differences are that a shag has a lighter, narrower beak; and the juvenile shag has darker underparts. The European Shag's tail has 12 feathers; the Great Cormorant, 14 feathers. The green sheen on the feathers results in the alternative name "Green Cormorant" sometimes being given to the European Shag.
Sharp-beaked Ground Finch - The subspecies on the islands of Darwin and Wolf has gained a level of notoriety due to its habit of feeding on blood of large birds, notably boobies, gaining it the common name Vampire Finch. Other subspecies do not exhibit this behavior, insteading feeding mainly on insects.
Sharp-billed Treehunter - It is found in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Sharp-tailed Grass-Tyrant - It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sharp-tailed grouse - The Sharp-tailed Grouse, Tympanuchus phasianellus , is a medium-sized prairie grouse. It is also known as the sharptail, and is known as "fire grouse" or "fire bird" by Native American Indians due to their reliance on brush fires to keep their habitat open.
Sharp-tailed Ibis - The Sharp-tailed Ibis is a species of bird in the Threskiornithidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Cercibis. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland.
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper - More recently, a review of new data has indicated that this bird should perhaps better be placed into the genus Philomachus - as P. acuminatus - which now contains only the ruff but if the Sharp-tailed Sandpiper is merged into it would need to accommodate the Broad-billed Sandpiper also .
Sharp-tailed Streamcreeper - This bird is about 6 in long, with a short tail and a long, thin, slightly curved bill. The plumage is dark brown, densely spotted white on the underparts. There is a white stripe over the eye and the tail is blackish.
Sharpbill - It inhabits the canopy of wet forest and feeds on fruit and some invertebrates. It has an orange erectile crest, black-spotted yellowish underparts and scaling on the head and neck. As its name implies, it has a sharp bill.
Sharpe's Akalat - The Sharpe's Akalat is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is found in Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are boreal forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Shear-tailed Grey Tyrant - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and heavily degraded former forest.
Shelley's Crimson-wing - It is approximately 13 cm long, brightly-coloured terrestrial finch. The male Shelley's Crimson-wing has bright red crown, face and back, with contrasting black wings and tail, as well as olive-yellow underparts with warmer tones on flanks and belly. The female drabber has an olive head and some red on mantle and rump. Both sexes have bright red bills. Its voice is sharp and high-pitched with "tit tit tit" call. Rising and falling series of high-pitched "tu tutu ti ti ti".
Shelley's Eagle-Owl - The Shelley's Eagle-owl is a species of owl in the Strigidae family. This dark eagle-owl is found in Central and Western Africa, but it is local and generally rare. At about 58 centimetres , it is the among the largest owls in the world and by far the largest eagle-owl found in the African rainforests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Shelley's Greenbul - The subspecies A. m. kakamegae is sometimes regarded as a separate species, the Kakamega Greenbul.
Shelley’s Francolin - The Shelley's Francolin is a species of bird in the Phasianidae family. It is found in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The species is named after Sir Edward Shelley, cousin of George Ernest Shelley.
Sheppardia aurantiithorax - The species is thought to be fairly common in montane forests within its small range, but its very limited distribution has let to it being classified as Endangered species in the 2008 IUCN Red List.
Shikra - The Shikra is a widespread resident breeder throughout south Asia, especially India, and sub-Saharan Africa. It nests in trees, building a new nest each year. It lays 3–7 eggs.
Shining Honeycreeper - This is a forest canopy species, but also occurs in forest edges and secondary growth. The female builds a shallow cup nest in a tree, and incubates the clutch of two eggs.
Shiny cowbird - It is a bird associated with open woodland and cultivation. The male’s song is a purr and whistle, purr purr purrte-tseeeee. The male’s call is a sharp whistled tsee-tsee, but the female makes a harsh rattle.
Shore Plover - The Shore Plover is an endangered species with a world population of around 200 birds. It once was found across the South Island in New Zealand but became extinct there, probably due to the predations of introduced cats and rats. It survived on one island, Rangatira, in the Chatham Islands, from where it has been introduced to other offshore islands in the Chathams and near the North Island.
Short-billed Bush-Tanager - The Yellow-whiskered Bush-tanager or Short-billed Bush-tanager is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
Short-billed Crombec - The Short-billed Crombec is a species of African warbler, formerly placed in the family Sylviidae. It is found in Ethiopia and Somalia. Its natural habitat is dry savanna.
Short-billed Dowitcher - The body of adults is dark brown on top and reddish underneath. The tail has a black and white barred pattern. The legs are a yellowish color. There are three subspecies with slight variations in appearance:
Short-billed Minivet - The Short-billed Minivet is a species of bird in the Campephagidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Short-billed Pigeon - The Short-billed Pigeon, Patagioenas nigrirostris , is a largish pigeon which breeds from southern Mexico south to northwestern Colombia. It is a member of a clade of Patagioenas that contains the smaller and rather plain species with characteristic calls that constitute the subgenus Oenoenas .
Short-billed Pipit - It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are temperate grassland and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland.
Short-clawed Lark - The species lays clutches of between 2-3 eggs . The incubation lasts for around 15 days, the longest of any African lark species. After fledging chick remain with their parents for 6–8 weeks. There is some variation in nesting strategies in the species, with the eastern population having numerous broods per breeding season and the western population breeding once per season.
Short-crested Blue Monarch - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Short-crested Flycatcher - It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.
Short-eared Owl - The Short-eared Owl is a species of typical owl . Owls belonging to genus Asio are known as the eared owls, as they have tufts of feathers resembling mammalian ears. These "ear" tufts may or may not be visible. Asio flammeus will display its tufts when in a defensive pose. However, its very short tufts are usually not visible. The Short-eared Owl is found in open country and grasslands. The word flammeus is Latin for "flaming, or the color of fire".
Short-legged Ground Roller - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Short-tailed Albatross - The Short-tailed Albatross or Steller's Albatross, Phoebastria albatrus, is a large rare seabird from the North Pacific. Although related to the other North Pacific albatrosses, it also exhibits behavioural and morphological links to the albatrosses of the Southern Ocean. It was described by the German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas from skins collected by the intrepid Georg Wilhelm Steller . Once common, it was brought to the edge of extinction by the trade in feathers, but with protection has recently made a recovery.
Short-tailed Antthrush - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Short-tailed Batis - The Dark Batis of south-west Tanzania and northern Malawi was formerly included in this species but was described a new separate species in 2006. Reichenow's Batis of coastal south-east Tanzania is often treated as a subspecies of the Cape Batis or as a species in its own right but may be a subspecies of the Forest Batis.
Short-tailed Emerald - The binomial name was given by Jules Bourcier , a French naturalist and expert on hummingbirds.
Short-tailed Field Tyrant - It is found in Chile, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and pastureland.
Short-tailed Finch - It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland.
Short-tailed Grasswren - Its natural habitats are temperate shrubland and rocky areas.
Short-tailed Lark - Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.
Short-tailed Nighthawk - It is found in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical swamps.
Short-tailed Paradigalla - The Short-tailed Paradigalla is distinguished from its nearest relative, the Long-tailed Paradigalla, by its smaller size, shorter tail feathers and lack of red on the wattles. Formerly presumed to have been monogamous, it is now considered to breed polygynously. It inhabits the mountain forests of New Guinea. The diet consists mainly of fruits, seeds and insects.
Short-tailed Parrot - The closest relative is the Yellow-faced Parrot and the members of the genus Pionus.
Short-tailed Pipit - The Short-tailed Pipit is a species of bird in the Motacillidae family. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland and subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland.
Short-tailed Pygmy Tyrant - This bird is a resident of tall humid forests, but is occasionally found in more open woodland, specifically around treefalls and tall trees in clearings. It is fairly common through most of its range, but is easily overlooked - in part due to its insect or frog-like voice.
Short-tailed Starling - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Short-tailed swift - The Short-tailed Swift is about 10.5 cm long, and weighs 20 g. It has long narrow wings, a robust body and a short tail. The sexes are similar. It is mainly black with a pale rump and tail. It can be distinguished from related species in its range, such as the Band-rumped Swift or the Gray-rumped Swift by the lack of contrast between the rump and the tail, the latter being much darker in the other species.
Short-tailed Tody-Flycatcher - It is threatened by habitat loss.
Short-toed Coucal - The Short-toed Coucal is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Short-toed Eagle - This is an Old World species spread throughout the Mediterranean basin and into Russia and the Middle East, and into parts of Asia .
Short-toed Rock Thrush - Birds in the eastern part of its range are sometimes regarded as a separate species, the Pretoria Rock-thrush or Transvaal Rock-thrush .
Short-toed Treecreeper - Short-toed Treecreeper is one of a group of four very similar Holarctic treecreepers, including the closely related North American Brown Creepers, and has five subspecies differing in appearance and song. Like other treecreepers, Short-toed is inconspicuously plumaged brown above and whitish below, and has a curved bill and stiff tail feathers. It is a resident in woodlands throughout its range, and nests in tree crevices or behind bark flakes, laying about six eggs. This common, unwary, but inconspicuous species feeds mainly on insects which are picked from the tree trunk as the treecreeper ascends with short hops.
Short-winged Cuckoo - This is a medium sized cuckoo with both sexes alike. It has grey upperparts while the underside has broad black barring. The tail is barred with a broad subterminal dark band and a white tip. Young birds have white markings on the crown and white chin and throat contrasting with a dark face. Juveniles are browner and have broad white tips to the head and wing feathers. The eye-ring is gray to yellow . The iris is light brown to reddish. The female differs from the male in being slightly paler grey on the throat and in having more brown on the breast and tail. The barring on the belly is narrower than in the male. Nestlings have an orange-red mouth and yellow flanges to the gape.
Shovel-billed Kookaburra - The sole representative of the genus Clytoceyx, the Shovel-billed Kookaburra is endemic to New Guinea. It primarily occurs in hill forests, but has been recorded from sea-level up to an altitude of 2400 m . It finds its food in mud or on moist ground. The diet consists mainly of earthworms, snails, beetles, lizards and insects. It is inconspicious and infrequently seen. It is likely that it is partially nocturnal.
Shrike-like Cotinga - The Shrike-like Cotinga , also known as the Shrike-like Laniisoma or the Elegant Mourner, is a species of bird in the family Tityridae. As suggested by its common name, it was formerly considered a cotinga. As it is far from being "shrike-like", this means that the widely used common name is entirely misleading. It is the only member of the genus Laniisoma.
Shy Ground-Dove - The Shy Ground-dove is a species of bird in the Columbidae family. The species was formerly known as the Friendly Ground Dove. It is found in American Samoa, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, and Wallis and Futuna Islands. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Siamese Fireback - The Siamese Fireback is distributed to the lowland and evergreen forests of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia. This species is also designated as the national bird of Thailand. The female usually lays between four to eight rosy eggs.
Siberian accentor - This is a Dunnock-sized bird, 13-14.5 cm in length. It has a streaked reddish-brown back, but adults have a brownish-black crown, dark cheeks, and a buff supercilium. The entire underside is yellowish rusty-buff. Like other accentors, this species has an insectivore's fine pointed bill.
Siberian Blue Robin - The Siberian Blue Robin, Luscinia cyane, is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, family Muscicapidae. It, and similar small European species, are often called chats. Recent research suggests that this species is one of some East Asian Luscinias which should be classified in a new genus together with the Japanese and Ryūkyū Robins.
Siberian Jay - The Siberian Jay Perisoreus infaustus, is a jay who is found in north Eurasia. The species has a wide range and a large global population .
Siberian Rubythroat - It is a migratory insectivorous species breeding in mixed coniferous forest with undergrowth in Siberia. It nests near the ground. It winters in India and Indonesia. It is an extremely rare vagrant to Western Europe, having occurred on a very few occasions as far west as Britain.
Siberian Spruce Grouse - The Siberian Grouse, Falcipennis falcipennis, is a medium-sized grouse.
Siberian Thrush - It breeds in taiga in Siberia. It is strongly migratory, with most birds moving to southeastern Asia during the winter. It is a very rare vagrant to western Europe. It is very secretive.
Sichuan Jay - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sick's swift - It breeds in south-eastern Brazil and adjacent parts of Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia, but is believed to spend the Austral winter further north in the Amazon basin, northern South America and Panama. Its exact wintering range is, however, poorly known due to the highly complex matter of field identification of a number of very similar Chaetura swifts found in central and northern South America. In addition to the previously mentioned countries, there are records from Colombia, Venezuela, Suriname and French Guiana.
Sickle-crested Bird of Paradise - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Sickle-winged Guan - It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Sickle-winged Nightjar - The Sickle-winged Nightjar is a species of nightjar in the Caprimulgidae family. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, dry savanna, moist savanna, and swamps. It is becoming rare due to habitat loss.
Sicklewing Chat - The Sickle-winged Chat is 14–15 cm long and weighs around 19 gm. Its upperparts are dark grey, but it has brown wings and a rufous patch behind the eye. The tail and rump are buff-pink, with an inverted wedge of black at the end of the tail. Its underparts are off-white, the short straight bill, legs and feet are black and the eye is brown. The sexes are similar, but the juvenile has buff tips to its feathers.
Sidamo Lark - Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss and unlike previously believed its population is rapidly declining. Listed as Vulnerable since 2000 on the IUCN Red List, it has been uplisted to Endangered in 2007,
Sierra Leone Prinia - The White-eyed Warbler is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in Ivory Coast, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sierra Madre Sparrow - It is the sole species in the genus Xenospiza; the genus is closely related to Ammodramus , differing mainly in the longer, less pointed tail, and restriction to high altitude alpine grassland habitats.
Sierran Elaenia - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montanes and heavily degraded former forest.
Silktail - The systematic position of the Silktail has been a long-standing mystery.
Silky-tailed Nightjar - The Silky-tailed Nightjar is a species of nightjar in the Caprimulgidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Sillem's mountain finch - The Sillem's Mountain-Finch is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family. It is found only in China and is only known from two specimens collected in 1929 from the Aksai Chin area of southern Xinjiang Autonomous Region. The bird is believed to have survived and there are no known threats to the species.
Silver Gull - The Silver Gull also known simply as "seagull" in Australia, is the most common gull seen in Australia. It has been found throughout the continent, but particularly coastal areas. The South African Hartlaub's Gull and the New Zealand Red-billed Gull were formerly sometimes considered to be subspecies of the Silver Gull. As is the case with many gulls, it has traditionally been placed in the genus Larus but is now placed in the genus Chroicocephalus.
Silver Pheasant - As other pheasant, the Silver Pheasant was placed in the genus Phasianus when described by Linnaeus in 1758. Since then it – or at least some of the subspecies associated with it – have been placed either in Euplocamus
Silver-backed Needletail - The Silver-backed Needletail is a species of swift in the Apodidae family. It is found in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore, Republic of India, Thailand, and Vietnam. It is a vagrant to Christmas Island. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Silver-beaked Tanager - Silver-beaked Tanagers are 18 cm long and weigh 25 g. Adult males are velvety crimson black with a deep crimson throat and breast. The upper mandible of the bill is black, but the enlarged lower mandible is bright silver in appearance. The bill is pointed upwards in display. The female is much duller, with brownish upperparts, reddish brown underparts and a black bill.
Silver-breasted Broadbill - It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Silver-capped Fruit Dove - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Silver-crowned Friarbird - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.
Silver-eared Mesia - The Silver-eared Mesia is a species of bird in the Timaliidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Silver-throated Tanager - It is common from about 600 m to 1700 m altitude in the lower and middle levels of wet mountain forests and adjacent semi-open areas like clearings with shade trees, second growth and woodland edges. In the heavy rains of the wet season, it will descend to sea level. The compact cup nest is built 1–13 m high in a tree on a branch. The normal clutch is two brown-blotched off-white eggs. This species will raise two broods in a season
Silverbird - The Silverbird is a stunning flycatcher of open areas west of the Rift Valley, silvery grey above and tawny orange below. Juveniles have black-bordered tawny spots on upperparts, mottled buff and black on throats and breasts.
Silvered Antbird - This is a skulking terrestrial bird of wet shaded areas, such as in undergrowth or under overhanging vegetation near streams, lagoons or swamps. It is usually found in pairs, foraging on the ground for small insects and other arthropods taken from leaf litter or the water’s surface.
Silvereye - There are numerous subspecies; among others:
Silvery Wood-Pigeon - The Silvery Pigeon , also known as Silvery Wood-pigeon or Grey Wood-pigeon is a species of pigeon. It was thought to be extinct but photographs taken in 2008 near Masokut Island might represent this species.
Silvery-throated Spinetail - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montanes and heavily degraded former forest.
Silverycheeked Hornbill - The Silvery-cheeked Hornbill is a large bird, with length from 75 to 80 cm, characterized by a very large creamy casque on the beak, smaller in females. The head is silver-grey and the rest of the plumage is black, except for a broad white stripe on the lower back. Silvery-cheeked Hornbills are uncommon localized residents of the tall evergreen forests of East Africa from Ethiopia to South Africa. In Zimbabwe they are threatened by habitat destruction. Usually they live in pairs and sometimes roost in flocks of hundreds of individuals. This hornbill feeds on fruits, insects, small birds, rodents, small reptiles and centipedes. They breed in spring and lay clutches of 1 to 3 white eggs, incubated for 40 days. The young remain with both parents for circa 80 days.
Simeulue Scops-Owl - The Simeulue Scops Owl is an owl endemic to the island of Simeulue, Indonesia.
Sinaloa Crow - It occurs on the Pacific slope from southern Sonora south to central Nayarit. The crow inhabits coastal regions where it forages on the seashore, semi-desert, open woodlands, river banks and hills up to 300 metres or more. It is very common around coastal towns and villages.
Sinaloa Wren - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.
Sind Jungle Sparrow - Nest at Sultanpur National Park in India.
Sind Woodpecker - The Sind Woodpecker is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is found in Iran, Pakistan and the Republic of India . Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
Singing Bushlark - M. javanica is brown with grey streaks and mottling.
Singing Honeyeater - Singing Honeyeaters are commonly found in Western Australia, mainly past the Great Dividing Range and on Western Australian Coastal Islands. They can also be spotted in city parks, gardens and in bushlands.
Singing Parrot - The Song Parrot is a species of parrot in the Psittacidae family. It is found in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Singing Starling - Adult Singing Starlings have glossy black plumage and bright red irises. Immature birds are paler, with streaked underparts and brown irises. They are distinguished from Metallic Starlings by shorter, square tails and thicker bills.
Sipora Scops Owl - The Mentawai Scops Owl is endemic to larger islands of Mentawai, off west Sumatra, Indonesia.
Sira Tanager - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sirkeer Malkoha - The Sirkeer Malkoha or Sirkeer Cuckoo , is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, which also includes the roadrunners, the anis, and the Hoatzin. It is a resident bird in the Indian subcontinent.
Siskin - This bird breeds across northern temperate Europe and into Russia. There is a separate population in eastern Asia. It is partially resident, but the northern breeders migrate further south in Europe in the winter. The eastern Asian birds winter in China or further south. In some years there are large eruptions into the wintering range, when the preferred food of alder or birch seed fails. This species will form large flocks outside the breeding season, often mixed with redpolls.
Sjostedt's Greenbul - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Skylark - The Skylark is 16 to 18 cm long. It is a bird of open farmland and heath, known throughout its range for the song of the male, which is delivered in hovering flight from heights of 50 to 100 m, when the singing bird may appear as just a dot in the sky from the ground. The song generally lasts 2 to 3 minutes, but it tends to last longer later in the season. The male has broader wings than the female. This adaptation for more efficient hovering flight may have evolved because of female Skylarks' preference for males that sing and hover for longer periods and so demonstrate that they are likely to have good overall fitness.
Slate-breasted Rail - The Lewin's Rail is a species of bird in the Rallidae family. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. The Lewin's Rail is also known as the Water Rail, Lewin's Water Rail, Lewin's Grind Rail, Slate-breasted Rail, Slate-breasted Water Rail, Pectoral Rail, Pectoral Water Rail, Short-toed Rail and Short-toed Water Rail.
Slate-coloured Boubou - The Slate-coloured Boubou is a species of bird in the Malaconotidae family. It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.
Slate-crowned Antpitta - It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Slate-headed Tody Flycatcher - It is found in Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and heavily degraded former forest.
Slate-throated Redstart - It is found disjunctly in humid highland forests in Mexico, Central America, the Andes from western Venezuela to north-western Argentina, the Venezuelan Coastal Range, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the Tepuis.
Slaty Antwren - This is a common bird in the understory of wet forest and in adjacent tall second growth in foothills typically from 700 m to 1700 m altitude, although locally it may be found down to sea level or up to 2000 m. The female lays two red-brown spotted white eggs, which are incubated by both sexes, in a deep pouch nest constructed from plant fibres. The nest is suspended from the fork of a thin twig less than 2 m up. The male and female parents both feed the chicks.
Slaty Becard - The Slaty 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 Ecuador and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Slaty Bristlefront - It inhabits the forests of south-east Brazil. It is currently under threat due to habitat loss, especially to the lowland forests.
Slaty Bunting - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.
Slaty Cuckoo-Dove - The Slaty Cuckoo-dove is a species of bird in the Columbidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Timor-Leste. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Slaty Cuckooshrike - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.
Slaty Egret - It is classified as Vulnerable, the biggest threat being habitat loss.
Slaty Finch - It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest.
Slaty Flower-piercer - This is a common bird in mountain forest canopy and edges, and especially in sunlit clearings and areas with flowering shrubs, which can include gardens. The lower altitudinal limit of its breeding range increases from 1200 m in the north of Costa Rica to 1900 m in the southern mountains. It is found well above the timberline in páramo habitat.
Slaty Monarch - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Slaty 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".
Slaty Tanager - The Slaty Tanager is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family. It is found in Bolivia and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Slaty Vireo - It differs from all other vireos in its predominantly slate gray plumage and long tail. These distinctions once afforded it its own genus, Neochloe. It also has green feather edgings on its wings and tail. Its eyes, belly, and chin are snow white, offsetting the otherwise dark gray plumage.
Slaty-backed Chat-Tyrant - Clements splits this species, with the subspecies thoracica being raised to species level as Maroon-chested Chat-tyrant, Ochthoeca thoracica.
Slaty-backed Flycatcher - It is found in Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, and Thailand. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Slaty-backed Forktail - It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Slaty-backed Gull - The Slaty-backed Gull is a very large gull at 27 inches long. It has a white head, belly, and tail with a dark slaty-gray back and wings with a broad white trailing edge. The wings and back are slightly darker than those of the Western Gull. The underside of the wings features a "string of pearls" pattern along their edges; these can be seen from below when the bird is in flight. Its eyes are yellow. The legs are pink and short when compared with those of similar-looking gulls, and the body appears more stout. The bill is yellow with orange-red subterminal spot. Immature gulls' plumage is brown, similar to the that of the Great Black-backed Gull, but paler, and is practically indistinguishable from the immature Herring Gull in the field.
Slaty-backed Hemispingus - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Slaty-backed Thrush - The Slaty-backed Thrush, Zoothera schistacea, is a passerine bird in the Asian thrush genus. It is common in Indonesia.
Slaty-bellied Tesia - It is found in 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.
Slaty-blue Flycatcher - It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Slaty-breasted Tinamou - Tinamus boucardi
Slaty-headed Scimitar Babbler - The White-browed Scimitar-babbler is a species of bird in the Timaliidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Slaty-legged crake - Its breeding habitat is swamps and similar wet areas in well-wooded country across south Asia east from Pakistan, the Republic of India and Sri Lanka to the Philippines and Indonesia. It nests in a dry location on the ground or low bush, laying 4-8 eggs.
Slaty-tailed Trogon - It is a resident of the canopy and higher levels of damp tropical forests, but comes lower in adjacent semi-open areas. It nests 3 to 15 m high in an occupied termite nest or decaying tree trunk, with a typical clutch of three white or bluish-white eggs laid in a chamber reached by an ascending tunnel. Both sexes excavate the nesting chamber.
Slavonian Grebe - The Horned Grebe or Slavonian Grebe, Podiceps auritus, is a member of the grebe family of water birds.
Slender-billed Babbler - The Slender-billed Babbler is a species of bird in the Timaliidae family. It is found in India, Nepal, and possibly Myanmar. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Slender-billed Black-Cockatoo - Carnaby's Black-Cockatoo is recognised as Endangered under the federal Environment Protection and Conservation Act 1999,
Slender-billed Crow - The Slender-billed Crow is a species of bird in the Corvidae family. Its eastern populations are called Violaceous Crow and sometimes separated as Corvus violaceus.
Slender-billed curlew - This species has occurred as a vagrant in western Europe, the Canary Islands, the Azores, Oman, Canada and Japan. The only time it was seen in North America was in Crescent Beach, Ontario, Canada in 1925.
Slender-billed Finch - Xenospingus is a genus of finch-like tanager. It contains a single species, the Slender-billed Finch . The slender billed finch is restricted to southwest Peru and northern Chile, and inhabits mainly riverine vegetation along coastal valleys It has been considered endangered due to loss of habitat. Riparian thickets that were common are under pressure from logging by farm owners. Some information has indicated that it has adaptated to threats using olive trees areas and other artificial habitats successfully.
Slender-billed Flufftail - Its natural habitats are swamps and arable land. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Slender-billed Grackle - The Slender-billed Grackle was endemic to central Mexico. It is recorded as having occurred in the Valley of Mexico and the Toluca Valley. Although later records indicated that it might be a marsh specialist, older observations recorded in the General History of the Things of New Spain by fray Bernardino de Sahagún indicate that it was formerly found in cultivate areas and towns. It became extinct due to habitat loss.
Slender-billed Gull - The Slender-billed Gull, Chroicocephalus genei, is a mid-sized gull which breeds very locally around the Mediterranean and the north of the western Indian Ocean on islands and coastal lagoons. Most of the population is somewhat migratory, wintering further south to north Africa and India, and a few birds have wandered to western Europe. A stray individual was reportedly seen on Antigua, April 24, 1976 .
Slender-billed Nightingale Thrush - It is found in the undergrowth of wet mountain oak forests and second growth, typically from above 1350 m altitude to patches of scrubbery beyond the timberline. The nest is a bulky lined cup constructed 1–5 m high in a scrub or small tree, and the typical clutch is 2 brown-blotched greenish-blue eggs
Slender-billed Oriole - It is found in 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.
Slender-billed Parakeet - It is endemic to southern Chile and is known by the common name Choroy.
Slender-billed Prion - The Slender-billed Prion is a member of the Pachyptila genus and along with the Blue Petrel make up the prions. They are then members of the Procellariiformes order, and they share certain identifying features. First, they have nasal passages that attach to the upper bill called naricorns. Although the nostrils on the Prion are on top of the upper bill. The bills of Procellariiformes are also unique in that they are split into between 7 and 9 horny plates. They produce a stomach oil made up of wax esters and triglycerides that is stored in the proventriculus. This is used against predators as well as an energy rich food source for chicks and for the adults during their long flights.
Slender-billed Scimitar Babbler - It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Slender-billed shearwater - This species appears to be related to the New Zealand muttonbird and the Great Shearwater, all blunt-tailed, black-billed species, but its precise relationships are obscure . These are among the larger species of shearwater which might belong into a separate genus, Ardenna .
Slender-billed Tyrannulet - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
Slender-billed Weaver - Female Queen Elizabeth NP, Uganda
Slender-billed White-eye - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Slender-footed Tyrannulet - The Slender-footed Tyrannulet is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in humid forests of the west Amazon Basin in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil. Until recently, it included the Guianan Tyrannulet as a subspecies.
Small Blue Kingfisher - This species is sometimes called the Small Blue Kingfisher but in India and some other regions, the name of Small Blue Kingfisher was used for the Alcedo atthis ..
Small Buttonquail - This tiny buttonquail is notoriously difficult to see. It is a small 15cm long drab running bird, which avoids flying. It is a species which inhabits warm grasslands or scrub jungle and feeds on insects and seeds.
Small Cuckoo - It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Hong Kong, Japan, Kenya, North Korea, South Korea, Laos, Malawi, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Republic of India, Russia, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Vietnam, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Small Minivet - The Small Minivet is a widespread and common resident breeding bird in thorn jungle and scrub. The nest is a cup-like structure into which two to four spotted eggs are laid and incubated by the female.
Small Niltava - It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Small Skylark - These skylarks frequently rocket up into the sky, fluttering and singing before descending down to earth. Male Oriental Skylarks may also hover in the air and sing, in order to attract a mate.
Small Slaty Flycatcher - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Small Snowfinch - Père David's Snowfinch, also known as the Small Snowfinch , is a species of bird in the sparrow family.
Small Sparrowhawk - It is threatened by habitat loss. There are not many verified recordings of this species, but it is known to occur at least in Lore Lindu National Park.
Small Tree-Finch - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
Small Whitethroat - Unlike many typical warblers, the sexes are almost identical. This is a small species with a grey back, whitish underparts, a grey head with a darker "bandit mask" through the eyes and a white throat. It is slightly smaller than the Whitethroat, and lacks the chestnut wings and uniform head-face color of that species. The Lesser Whitethroat's song is a fast and rattling sequence of tet or che calls, quite different from the Whitethroat's scolding song.
Small-billed Elaenia - It is found in Argentina, Aruba, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Netherlands Antilles, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and heavily degraded former forest.
Small-billed Tinamou - The Small-billed Tinamou is approximately 22 cm in length. Its upperparts are dark brown, with grey to brownish under parts and head. Its bill and legs are red.
Small-billed Wattled Sunbird - Yellow-bellied Sunbird-asities are active nectar feeders. They will aggressively defend a nectar source from rivals of the same species as well as from sunbirds.
Smaller Black-bellied Sunbird - The Black-bellied Sunbird is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania. At an average weight of around 5 grams, this is the smallest known species of sunbird.
Smaller Green-backed Eremomela - This tiny passerine is typically found in open woodland. The Green-backed Eremomela builds a cup-shaped nest of leaves and silk low in a bush or tree. The normal clutch is two eggs.
Smew - The Smew is a small duck which is somewhat intermediate between the typical mergansers and the goldeneyes . It is the only member of the genus Mergellus; sometimes included in Mergus, this genus is well distinct and might actually be a bit closer to the goldeneyes. The Smew has interbred with the Common Goldeneye .
Smith's Longspur - These birds have a short cone-shaped bills, streaked backs, and dark tails with white outer retrices. In breeding state plumage , the male has pumpkin orange throat, nape, and underparts contrasting with an intricate black-and-white face pattern. The white lesser coverts are quite pronounced on a male in spring and early summer. Females and immatures have lightly-streaked buffy underparts, dark crowns, brown wings with less obvious white lesser coverts, and a light-colored face. The tail is identical at all ages.
Smoke-coloured Pewee - It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and heavily degraded former forest.
Smoky Bush-Tyrant - It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Smoky Honeyeater - The species is endemic to the island of New Guinea, where it occurs in the Central Ranges across the length of the island as well as two isolated populations on north west and north of the island. There are three subspecies; the nominate race occurs in the East Herzog Mountains and south east New Guinea, M. f. kumawa is restricted to the southern Bomberai Peninsula and M. f. goliathi ranges from the Weyland Mountains to the west Herzog mountains.
Smoky Warbler - The Smoky Warbler is a species of Old World warbler in the Sylviidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, and Nepal.
Smoky-fronted Tody-Flycatcher - The Smoky-fronted Tody-Flycatcher is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family. It is found in Brazil, French Guiana, and Suriname. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Snail-eating Coua - Delalande's Coua , also known as Snail-eating Coua and Delalande's Coucal, is an extinct species of non-parasitic cuckoo. It only was known to science as an extant bird for a very short time in the early 19th century. There is some disagreement about its area of occurrence: Although there were claims that the bird was also found in the area of Fito and Maroantsetra as well as near Toamasina - ie.
Snares Crested Penguin - This is a medium-small, yellow-crested penguin, at a size of 50-70 cm and a weight of 2.5–4 kg . It has dark blue-black upperparts and white underparts. It has a bright yellow eyebrow-stripe which extends over the eye to form a drooping, bushy crest. It has bare pink skin at the base of its large red-brown bill.
Snoring Rail - An Indonesian endemic, the Snoring Rail is confined to lowland and hill forests of northern, central and southeastern part of Sulawesi and Buton island. Their diet consists mainly of small crabs and lizards. The bird's call is snoring-like sound "ee-orrrr".
Snow Bunting - The Snow Bunting , sometimes colloquially called "snowflake", is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae. It is an arctic specialist, with a circumpolar Arctic breeding range throughout the northern hemisphere. There are small isolated populations on a few high mountain tops south of the Arctic region, including the Cairngorms in central Scotland and the Saint Elias Mountains on the southern Alaska-Yukon border.
Snow Mountain Munia - An Indonesian endemic, the Snow Mountain Munia is distributed in alpine grassland of Snow Mountains and Star Mountains in western New Guinea. It usually found in flocks of six to twenty birds. The diet consists mainly of seeds, grasses and other vegetation matters.
Snow Mountain Quail - An Indonesian endemic, the Snow Mountain Quail is confined to New Guineas highest elevations, the Snow Mountains of Irian Jaya. This little known bird is protected only by the remoteness of its habitat; an inaccessible area at an altitude above 3,000 metres .
Snow Partridge - The Snow Partridge is a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds. It is a large spurred partridge found in the Himalayan regions of Pakistan, Kashmir and the Republic of India, Nepal and China. It measures 38-40 cm in length. Females weigh 450–580 g; males, 550–700 g.
Snow Petrel - The Snow Petrel is the only member of the genus Pagodroma. It is one of only three birds that breed exclusively in Antarctica and has been seen at the South Pole. It has the most southerly breeding distribution of any bird.
Snow-capped Manakin - The Snow-capped Manakin is a species of bird in the Pipridae family. It is found in Bolivia and Brazil. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Snowcap - Its habitat is the canopy and edges of wet forest, and it will also use adjacent more open woodland. It occurs mainly on the Caribbean mountain slopes, breeding mainly at heights of 300-800 m. After breeding, most descend to the adjacent lowlands, but some may wander up to heights of 1400 m.
Snowy Egret - The Snowy Egret is a small white heron. It is the American counterpart to the very similar Old World Little Egret, which has established a foothold in the Bahamas.
Snowy plover - It breeds in most subtropical and tropical parts of the world, from southern Europe to Japan and in Ecuador, Peru, Chile, the southern USA and the Caribbean. The two races which breed in the Americas are collectively called Snowy Plover. The western snowy plover breeds from Texas and Oklahoma west to California and up the coastline to Oregon and Washington, with the coastal form's primary breeding concentration in central and southern California. The Pacific Coast population has been designated a Threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
Snowy-bellied Hummingbird - The Snowy-breasted Hummingbird , sometimes placed in the genus Saucerottia, is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is found in Costa Rica, Panama and extreme north-western Colombia . Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, and heavily degraded former forest.
Snowy-browed Flycatcher - It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Snowy-throated Babbler - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sociable Lapwing - The Sociable Lapwing or Sociable Plover is a wader in the lapwing family of birds.
Sociable Weaver - The Sociable Weaver was first described by ornithologist John Latham in 1790.
Social Flycatcher - The Social Flycatcher and Vermilion-crowned Flycatcher are passerine birds from the Americas, a member of the large tyrant flycatcher family .
Socorro Dove - The Socorro Dove is a dove that is extinct in the wild. It was endemic to Socorro Island in the Revillagigedo Islands; the last sighting in its natural habitat was in 1972. There are not more than some 200 and probably fewer than 100 purebred birds in captivity. A reintroduction program is in the early stages of preparation.
Socorro Thrasher - The Socorro Mockingbird, Mimus graysoni, is an endangered mockingbird endemic to Socorro Island in the Revillagigedo Islands. The specific name commemorates the American ornithologist Andrew Jackson Grayson.
Socotra Bunting - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Socotra Cisticola - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Socotra Cormorant - The Socotra Cormorant is an almost entirely black bird. In breeding condition, its forecrown has a purplish gloss and its upperparts have a slaty-green tinge, there are a few white plumes around the eye and neck and a few white streaks at the rump. Its legs and feet are black and its gular skin blackish. All these deviations from pure black are less marked outside the breeding season. Wing breadths of 275–310 cm have been recorded.
Socotra Starling - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, and rural gardens. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Socotra Sunbird - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Soft-plumaged Petrel - It breeds on islands in the Southern Hemisphere, nesting on Tristan da Cunha, Gough Island, the Prince Edward Islands, Crozet Islands and on the Antipodes Islands of New Zealand. It disperses outside the breeding season, reaching eastern South America north to Brazil, southern Africa and Australia. It has occurred as a vagrant in Israel and Jordan.
Solander's Petrel - Of roughly pigeon like proportions , the bird was once also numerous on Norfolk Island . However, its population here was consumed by starving epicurean transportees, sent to Norfolk Island as way of punishment. Nonetheless it numbers some 100,000 on Lord Howe. Graceful and supple in flight, the Providence Petrel has a cumbersome propensity on the ground, making it vulnerable from attack by predators.
Solitary Cacique - It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, and heavily degraded former forest.
Solitary Sandpiper - The Solitary Sandpiper, Tringa solitaria, is a small wader . Its only close relative in the genus Tringa is the Green Sandpiper ; they both have brown wings with little light dots, and a delicate but contrasting neck and chest pattern. In addition, both species nest in trees, unlike most other scolopacids. The Solitary Sandpiper lays its eggs in abandoned nests in trees.
Solitary Snipe - This is a large and heavy snipe 29-31 cm long with a stocky body and relatively short legs for a wader. Its upperparts, head and neck are streaked and patterned with medium brown stripes and whitish edges to the feathers forming lines down its back. The face is whitish. The breast is ginger-brown and the belly is white with brown barring on the flanks. The brown and black bill is long, straight and fairly slender. The legs and feet are yellowish-olive to yellowish-brown. All plumages are similar, but females average larger.
Solitary tinamou - The Solitary Tinamou Tinamus solitarius is a species of paleognath ground bird. This species is native to Atlantic forest of eastern Brazil.
Solomon Islands Flowerpecker - The Midget Flowerpecker is a species of bird in the Dicaeidae family. It is found in the Solomon Islands including Bougainville Island which belongs to Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Solomon Islands Hawk-Owl - This species lives only on the Solomon Islands in lowlands and foothills at elevations up to 1500 meters above sea level. It is often found in primary or tall secondary forests.
Solomon Islands Sea-Eagle - The Sanford's Sea-eagle was discovered by and named after Dr. Leonard C. Sanford, a trustee for the American Museum of Natural History. The first description was by Ernst Mayr in 1935. It can reach a length between 70 and 90 cm and a weight between 2.3 and 2.7 kg. The wingspan is between 165 and 185 cm. It is the only large predator on the Solomon Islands. The eagles inhabits coastal forests and lakes up to an altitude of about 1500 m asl.
Solomon Islands White-eye - There are three distinct subspecies. Z. k. kulambangrae is widespread in the New Georgia Group, occurring on Kolombangara, Vonavona, Kohinggo, New Georgia, Vangunu and Nggatokae. Z. k. paradoxus is found only on Rendova and Z. k. tetiparius only on Tetepare.
Somali Fiscal - The Somali Fiscal is a species of bird in the Laniidae family. It is found in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
Somali Lark - The range of M. somalica is somewhat large, with an estimated global Extent of Occurrence of 270,000 km2.
Somali Pigeon - Its natural habitat is temperate grassland.
Somali Short-toed Lark - The Rufous Short-toed Lark , also known as the Somali Short-toed Lark, is a small passerine bird.
Somali Starling - The Somali Starling is a species of starling in the Sturnidae family. It is found in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Yemen.
Somali Wheatear - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.
Sombre Chat - The Sombre Chat is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is found in Ethiopia and Somalia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
Sombre Greenbul - The Sombre Greenbul is 15–18 cm long, with mainly dull greyish olive-green plumage, paler on the underparts than above. It has a white iris. The sexes are similar in plumage, but juveniles are even duller than the adult and have dark eyes.
Sombre Hummingbird - The Sombre Hummingbird is the only species in the genus Aphantochroa. It is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is found only in Brazil. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.
Sombre Kingfisher - The Sombre Kingfisher is a species of bird in the Alcedinidae family. It is endemic to Indonesia.
Sombre Pigeon - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Song Sparrow - The Song Sparrow, Melospiza melodia, is a medium-sized American sparrow.
Song Thrush - The Song Thrush breeds in forests, gardens and parks, and is partially migratory with many birds wintering in southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East; it has also been introduced into New Zealand and Australia. Although it is not threatened globally, there have been serious population declines in parts of Europe, possibly due to changes in farming practices.
Song Wren - It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Sooty Albatross - Sooty Albatrosses are a type of Albatross that belong to Diomedeidae family and come from the Procellariiformes order, along with Shearwaters, Fulmars, Storm-petrels, and Diving-petrels. They share certain identifying features. First, they have nasal passages that attach to the upper bill called naricorns. Although the nostrils on the Albatross are on the sides of the bill. The bills of Procellariiformes are also unique in that they are split into between 7 and 9 horny plates. Finally, they produce a stomach oil made up of wax esters and triglycerides that is stored in the proventriculus. This is used against predators as well as an energy rich food source for chicks and for the adults during their long flights.
Sooty Ant-Tanager - It is endemic to Colombia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.It is becoming rare due to habitat loss.
Sooty Antbird - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Sooty Barbthroat - The Sooty Barbthroat is a hummingbird species in the family Trochilidae.
Sooty Chat - It is 15 to 16 cm long, stocky and relatively short-tailed for a chat. The adult male's plumage is glossy black except for white patches on the upper wings that are usually visible or only partly concealed when the bird is at rest. The female and young are very dark brown .
Sooty Falcon - This is an elegant bird of prey, 32–37 cm long with a 78–90 cm wingspan. It is shaped like a large Hobby or a small Eleonora's Falcon, with its long pointed wings, long tail and slim body. The adults are blue-grey, and lack the black underwing coverts of the Eleonora’s Falcon. The young bird is like a large juvenile Hobby, or small juvenile Eleanora’s Falcon. Its dark trailing edge to the wings and tail distinguish it from the former species, and it lacks the underwing contrast caused by the dark coverts of the larger falcon.
Sooty Flycatcher - The Sooty Flycatcher is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Sooty Grassquit - It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.
Sooty grouse - Adults have a long square tail, light gray at the end. Adult males are mainly dark with a yellow throat air sac surrounded by white, and a yellow wattle over the eye during display. Adult females are mottled brown with dark brown and white marks on the underparts.
Sooty Gull - The Sooty Gull is a species of gull in the Laridae family. It is found in Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Maldives, Mozambique, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Republic of India, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. As is the case with many gulls, it has traditionally been placed in the genus Larus.
Sooty hawk - The Short-tailed Hawk is an American bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes the eagles and Old World vultures. As a member of the genus Buteo, it is not a true hawk and thus also referred to as a "buteo" or "buzzard". The White-throated Hawk is a close relative and was formerly included in the species B. brachyurus.
Sooty Owl - The Sooty Owl , also known as the Greater Sooty Owl, is a medium to large owl found in south-eastern Australia, Montane rainforests of New Guinea and have been seen on Flinders Island in the Bass Strait. They have a finely white spotted head with scattered white spots on the wings. The females are lighter colored than the males. The females length is 37-43 cm and weighs 750-1000 gm. The male is smaller and length is 37-43 cm and weighs 500-700 gm. The wing length is 30-40 cm. The large dark eyes are set in a round large facial disk. The facial disk is dark gray silver or sooty black and has a heavy black edge. The upper part of the owl is black to dark gray and the under part is lighter. Their call is a piercing shriek which can last up to two seconds. The tail is short and the legs are feathered large black talons. They are nocturnal and hide in hollow tree trunks, caves and in tall trees with heavy foliage.
Sooty Oystercatcher - All of its feathers are black. It has a red eye, eye ring and bill, and pink legs.
Sooty Robin - This is an abundant bird of open areas and oak forest edge normally above 2200 m altitude. It builds a heavy grass-lined cup nest in a tree 2-8 m above the ground, and the female lays two unmarked greenish-blue eggs between March and May.
Sooty shearwater - It appears to be particularly closely related to the Great and Short-tailed Shearwaters, all blunt-tailed, black-billed species, but its precise relationships are obscure
Sooty storm-petrel - The Markham's Storm-petrel is a species of seabird in the Hydrobatidae family. It is found in Chile, Colombia, French Polynesia, Peru, possibly Costa Rica, and possibly Ecuador. Its natural habitat is open seas. It is named in honor of Sir Albert Hastings Markham.
Sooty storm-petrel - The Tristram's Storm-petrel has long angular wings and is 24 cm long. The plumage is all over dark with a slightly pale rump and a pale grey bar on the upperwing. The species is colonial, nesting in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, and in several small islands south of Japan, including the Bonin Islands and Izu. Colonies are attended nocturnally, and the species breeds during the winter. At sea the species is pelagic, feeding on squid and fish.
Sooty Tern - Onychoprion fuscata Sterna fuscata Linnaeus, 1766 Sterna fuscata fuscata Linnaeus, 1766 Sterna fuscata nubilosa and see text
Sooty Thicket Fantail - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Sooty Woodpecker - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Sooty-capped Babbler - The Sooty-capped Babbler is also known in Malay as Rimba Tinjau Belukar. Its main diet is small insects.
Sooty-capped Hermit - The binomial commemorates the French entomologist Auguste Sallé.
Sooty-capped Puffbird - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and arable land. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sooty-headed Bulbul - Pycnonotus aurigaster
Sooty-headed Tyrannulet - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and heavily degraded former forest.
Sooty-headed Wren - It is found in Colombia and Panama. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Sora - Adults Soras are 20–25 centimetres .
Souimanga Sunbird - The Souimanga Sunbird is a small passerine bird of the sunbird family, Nectariniidae. It is native to the islands of the western Indian Ocean where it occurs on Madagascar, the Aldabra Group and the Glorioso Islands.
Sousa's Shrike - The Souza's Shrike is a species of bird in the Laniidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zambia. Its natural habitat is dry savanna.
South African Cliff Swallow - Nests are commonly build from mud under artificial structures such as huts and bridges.
South African Shelduck - This is a 64 cm long bird which breeds in southern Africa, mainly in Namibia and South Africa. In the southern winter, many birds move north-east from the breeding range to favoured moulting grounds, where sizable concentrations occur.
South American 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.
South American Tern - The South American Tern is a species of tern found in coastal regions of southern South America, including the Falkland Islands, ranging north to Peru and Brazil . It is generally the commonest tern in its range. It closely resembles the smaller, highly migratory Common Tern.
South Georgia Pipit - It builds nests from dried grass, and lays four eggs a year. It lives off insects and spiders, and beach debris.
South Island Oystercatcher - Easily identifiable as a pied oystercatcher – a large wader with striking black and white plumage, long red-orange bill and red legs. Distinguish from pied morph of Variable Oystercatcher by white lower back, more white on wing and demarcation line of black and white on breast further forward. Distinguish from Pied Oystercatcher by longer bill and shorter legs as well as forward demarcation line of white on back being pointed rather than square. Measurements: length 46 cm; wingspan 80-86 cm; weight 550 g.
South Island Wren - The Rockwren is the only surviving species in the genus Xenicus, and is thought to have been closely related to the formerly more widespread Bushwren. Like the Bushwren and the Rifleman it is a poor flier, rarely flying more than two metres off the ground or for distances or more than 30 m. It is highly terrestrial, feeding in low scrub and open scree and rockfalls in alpine areas.
South Polar Skua - The South Polar Skua is a large bird that can grow up to 53 cm in length. It breeds on Antarctic coasts, usually laying two eggs in November and December. Like other skuas, it will fly at the head of a human or other intruder approaching its nest. It is a migrant, wintering at sea in the Pacific Indian and Atlantic Oceans. In the eastern North Atlantic it is replaced by the Great Skua.
Southern Antpipit - The range of the Southern Antpipit is a 3200 km by 3000 km contiguous area of southern Brazil bordered on the west by the pantanal and the southern cerrado. The range covers extreme eastern Bolivia, and extends eastward including the eastern half of Paraguay with the northeast tongue region of Argentina.
Southern Banded Snake Eagle - The Southern Banded Snake-eagle or Fasciated Snake-eagle is a species of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family. It is found in Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Southern Beardless Tyrannulet - The Southern Beardless Tyrannulet is 10.2 cm long, weighs 7.5g and often resembles a tiny Yellow-bellied Elaenia. The head is dark brown or grey with an erectile crest and pale supercilium. The upperparts are grey-green becoming paler on the rump. The wings are brown with yellow feather-edging and two whitish, yellowish or cinnamon wing bars. The tail, which regularly is held cocked, is brown, the throat grey, the breast yellowish, and the abdomen yellow. The bill is black, but at least the base of the lower mandible is pale.
Southern Black-Flycatcher - This species has a large range, with an estimated global extent of occurrence of 4,200,000 km². The global population size has not been quantified.
Southern Black-Tit - The Black Tit is a species of bird in the tit family Paridae. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and dry savanna.
Southern Boobook - The subspecies Lord Howe Boobook and the Norfolk Island Boobook became both extinct during the 20th century. The name boobook is used by the Eora Australian Aboriginal tribe, who were the original inhabitants of the Sydney region.
Southern Boubou - This species is found in southeastern Africa, mainly in southeastern Zimbabwe, eastern Botswana, Mozambique and southern and eastern South Africa. It frequents dense thickets in forests, mangroves, scrub and gardens. In drier regions, it is found in riverside woodland.
Southern Bristle-Tyrant - The Southern Bristle-tyrant is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Southern Cassowary - It has hard and stiff plumage, a brown casque, blue face and neck, red nape and two red wattles hanging down its throat. The three-toed feet are thick and powerful, equipped with a lethal dagger-like claw up to 12 cm on the inner toe. It is technically the largest Asian bird and the largest Australian bird .
Southern Double-collared Sunbird - This sunbird is common in gardens, fynbos, forests and coastal scrub. The Southern Double-collared Sunbird breeds from April to December, depending on region. The closed oval nest is constructed from grass, lichen and other plant material, bound together with spider webs. It has a side entrance which sometimes has a porch, and is lined with wool, plant down and feathers.
Southern Emu-wren - It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation.
Southern Fulmar - It is largely pale grey above and white below with a distinctive white patch on the wing. It breeds on the coast of Antarctica and on surrounding islands, moving north in winter. It nests in colonies on cliffs, laying a single egg on a ledge or crevice. Its diet includes krill, fish and squid picked from the water's surface.
Southern Giant-Petrel - The Southern Giant Petrel is one of two members of the genus Macronectes, which in turn, along with 14 other genera, comprise the Procellariidae family. Macronectes, also referred to as the Giant Petrels, along with the genus Fulmarus, Cape Petrel, Antarctic Petrel, and the Snow Petrel form a sub-family within the larger family.
Southern Lapwing - Belonopterus chilensis Dorypaltus prosphatus Brodkorb, 1959 Parra chilensis Molina, 1782 and see text
Southern Martin - It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.
Southern Martin - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, pastureland, and heavily degraded former forest.
Southern Pied-Babbler - The southern pied babbler is a medium-sized cooperatively breeding passerine. Groups range in size from 2-16 adults. The species is sexually monomorphic, with males and females indistinguishable from physical characteristics. Each group comprises a dominant breeding pair that monopolise access to breeding opportunities. Occasional mixed parentage has been observed, but genetic analyses are required to determine to what extent subordinate group members gain parentage. All group members cooperate to help raise the young from a single clutch. Clutch size varies between 2 and 5, with a modal clutch size of three. Cooperative behaviours include: provisioning young , sentinel behaviour, territory border defense, teaching behaviour and babysitting behaviour . The breeding season extends from late-September to early April, although this varies between years and is strongly rain-dependent. Groups can raise up to three successful clutches per breeding season. Average incubation time is 14 days, and average time between
Southern Pochard - The Southern Pochard is a duck.
Southern Rough-winged Swallow - It occurs in Central and South America from Honduras south to northern Argentina and Uruguay. It also occurs on Trinidad. Southern birds of the nominate race S. r. ruficollis, are migratory, moving north in winter, but the northern S. r. aequalis is sedentary.
Southern Screamer - The Southern Screamer is a good swimmer, having partially webbed feet, but prefers to move on the ground. The bony spurs on its wings are used for protection against rival screamers and other enemies. Although it is non-migratory, it is an excellent flier. It lives in large flocks, feeding on the ground in grasslands and cultivated fields until nesting season, when birds pair off.
Southern Shrikebill - It is found in New Caledonia and Vanuatu. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Southern Tchagra - This species is a bushshrike, a group closely related to the true shrikes in the family Laniidae, and formerly included in that family.
Southern Tree Pie - The white of the head and body makes it easy to distinguish from the sympatric Rufous Treepie. This tends to be found in more dense forest and is less associated with human habitation than the Rufous Treepie.
Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill - They have a white belly, grey neck, and black back with abundant white spots and stripes. They feed mainly on the ground, where they forage for seeds, small insects, spiders and scorpions. Termites and ants are a preferred food source in the dry season.
Spangle-cheeked Tanager - It is common from about 1200 m to 3000 m altitude in the canopy of epiphyte laden wet mountain forests, and at lower levels in semi-open areas like clearings with trees, second growth and woodland edges. The bulky cup nest, lined with bromeliad leaves, is built in a tree fork or on a branch high amongst the epiphytes. The normal clutch is two eggs.
Spangled Cotinga - The species is sexually dimorphic with the male being a bright turquoise-blue with a large deep wine-red throat and black to the wings, tail and back. The female is overall dull brownish-gray with darker wings and faint mottling below. As other members of the genus Cotinga, this species is frugivorous, but it has also been recorded feeding on insects.
Spangled Drongo - The Spangled Drongo is the only Drongo to be found in Australia. "Drongo" is Australian slang for "idiot", possibly referring to the bird's uninhibited and sometimes comical behaviour as it swoops and perches in search of insects, small birds and occasionally, small skinks.
Spanish Imperial Eagle - The Imperial Eagle, Aquila heliaca, is very similar to the Golden Eagle, but slightly smaller in body length and wingspan . Like all eagles, A. heliaca belongs to the bird of prey family Accipitridae.
Spanish Sparrow - The Spanish Sparrow is a rather large sparrow. at 15 to 16 centimetres in length, and a weight of 22 to 36 grams . It is slightly larger and heavier than House Sparrows, and also has a slightly longer and stouter bill.
Sparkling-tailed Hummingbird - The Sparkling-Tailed Hummingbird is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montanes and heavily degraded former forest.
Speckle-breasted Wren - It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.
Speckle-chested Piculet - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Speckled Chachalaca - Several taxa here included as subspecies of the Speckled Chachalaca have been considered valid species instead; the Colombian Chachalaca in the inter-Andean valleys in Colombia, the Scaled Chachalaca in south-eastern Brazil, and the East Brazilian Chachalaca in eastern Brazil. The last of these has also been referred to as the Brazilian Chachalaca or the White-bellied Chachalaca, although the former arguably is problematic as numerous other chachalacas are found in Brazil, while the latter leads to easy confusion with the Central American Ortalis leucogastra. Alternatively, araucuan and squamata have been included as subspecies of the Little Chachalaca . All three, columbiana, araucuan and squamata, were originally described as valid species, but – without reason – changed to subspecies of O. guttata in the Peters' check-list. Nevertheless, they all have white scaling/spotting on the lower neck and chest, thus resembling the Amazonian nominate group , and most recent authorities continue to treat all as subsp
Speckled Hawk-Owl - This owl is found mainly in Indonesia and lives mainly in forests near streams, open woodland, and cultivated regions with scattered trees. It is mainly found below 1100 meters, but is occasionally seen at up to 2300 meters above sea level. It is fairly common throughout its range.
Speckled Hummingbird - The Speckled Hummingbird , is a species of hummingbird. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
Speckled Mousebird - This bird is about 35 cm long, with the tail comprising approximately half the length, and weighs about 57 grams . It is well-named, because it is dull-mousy brown in overall color on the back and on the head . The bill is black on the upper part and is a pinkish color on the lower part. The rare White-headed Mousebird can be confused with this species, but the differently colored mandibles and the lack of a bare grey orbital patch render the Speckled species distinctive.
Speckled Piculet - It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Republic of India, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are boreal forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Speckled Reed Warbler - This bird is also called the Speckled Reed Warbler.
Speckled Tanager - It is probably a close relative of the Spotted Tanager which replaces it to the south. These two species are generally presumably to be fully allopatric, but may actually be parapatric: in 1998 a Speckled Tanager was found in the Serranía de los Churumbelos , just about 100 miles north of where Spotted Tanagers are known to occur.
Speckled Tinkerbird - 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, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, and Uganda.
Speckled Warbler - On the IUCN Red List, the Speckled Warbler was uplisted from Least Concern to Near Threatened status in 2000; having turned out to be more common than previously believed, but was downlisted to Least Concern again in the 2007 IUCN Red List.
Speckled Wood Pigeon - The upper body of the Speckled Wood-pigeon is maroon-brown except for its neck, which, like many pigeons, is iridescent. Its lower body features the speckles which give it its name. The bird is 38 centimeters in length.
Spectacled Barwing - It is found in China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Spectacled eider - The lined nest is built on tundra close to the sea, and 5–9 eggs are laid. This species dives for crustaceans and molluscs. The winter range is poorly known, but satellite tracking has led to observations of large flocks of the birds about 100 km southwest of St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea during March-April. This area has large populations of bivalves in the underlying sediments at depths of about 60 m that the ducks dive to feed on.
Spectacled Finch - The Spectacled Finch is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family. It is found in Afghanistan, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. Its natural habitat is temperate forests with a lush landscape.
Spectacled Fulvetta - It is found in China, Laos, and possibly Vietnam. Its natural habitat is temperate forests.
Spectacled Guillemot - This species is about 38 cm long, with red legs, black bill and a blackish iris.
Spectacled Owl - The Spectacled Owl is 46 cm long and weighs 850 g. It is unmistakable with brown upperparts, head and upper breast, white facial markings and buff underparts. The eyes are yellow and the beak is pale. The juvenile is even more distinctive than the adult, being completely white apart from a chocolate brown facial disc.
Spectacled Parrotlet - The Spectacled Parrotlet is a species of parrot in the Psittacidae family. It is found in Colombia, Panama, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and heavily degraded former forest.
Spectacled Prickletail - It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
Spectacled Redstart - It is found in humid Andean forests, woodland and scrub from southern Colombia to Bolivia
Spectacled Tern - The Grey-backed Tern, Onychoprion lunatus, is a seabird in the tern family. A close relative of the Bridled and Sooty Terns , the Grey-backed Tern is less common than the other members of its genus and is has been studied less. The three species, along with the Aleutian Tern were recently split into a new genus Onychoprion from Sterna . They resemble the Sooty Tern but with a grey back instead of a black one. Their breast and underparts are white, and the have a black eye line from the bill to the back of the head which gives them their other name, the Spectacled Tern.
Spectacled Tyrant - It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and swamps.
Spectacled Warbler - It also occurs in tome Atlantic islands. The subspecies orbitalis has been proposed for those of the Cape Verde Islands. The presumed subspecies for the Madeira birds, bella is today usually included in this taxon, as are the nirds of the Canary Islands, where the species is quite common except on El Hierro and known as zarzalero y ratonero .
Speke's Weaver - The eyes are pale and the bill is on the large side for a weaver. Unlike many weavers, it has the same plumage all year. The adult male is yellow with black throat , face, and bill, and variable black mottling on the back. The adult female's upperparts are dull olive-gray with dusky brown streaks; the underparts are pale yellow, whiter on the belly and grayer on the flanks. The juvenile is similar but duller.
Spice Imperial-Pigeon - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.
Spike-heeled Lark - It is found in Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, and Tanzania.
Spillmann's tapaculo - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Spilornis klossi - The South Nicobar Serpent-eagle is a species of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family. It is endemic to India.
Spine-tailed Logrunner - Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Spiny Babbler - The Spiny Babbler is a species of bird in the Timaliidae family. It is found only in Nepal.
Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater - The honeyeater is mainly frugivorous, but will also eat nectar, blossoms, insects, reptiles, and young birds.
Spiny-faced Antshrike - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Spix's Macaw - Spix's Macaw is 55–57 cm long. It is various shades of blue, including a pale blue head, pale blue underparts, and vivid blue upperparts, wings and tail. Its voice is a repeated short grating. Also makes squawking noises.
Spizaetus isidori - The Black-and-chestnut Eagle is a species of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family. It is often placed in the monotypic genus Oroaetus. It is found humid montane forests in the Andes from northern Argentina, through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, to Venezuela, with isolated populations in the Venezuelan Coastal Range, Serranía del Perijá and Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. It is generally local and rare.
Spizaetus melanoleucus - The Black-and-white Hawk-eagle is a bird of prey species in the eagle and hawk family . It is found throughout a large part of tropical America, from southern Mexico to northern Argentina.
Splendid Astrapia - This little known Astrapia is distributed to the mountain forests in western part of the central highlands of New Guinea. Its diet consists mainly of fruit, insects, lizards and frogs.
Splendid Fairywren - Like other fairywrens, the Splendid Fairywren is notable for several peculiar behavioural characteristics; birds are socially monogamous and sexually promiscuous, meaning that although they form pairs between one male and one female, each partner will mate with other individuals and even assist in raising the young from such trysts.
Splendid White-eye - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and plantations . It is threatened by habitat loss.
Spoon-billed Sandpiper - The most distinctive feature of this species is its spatulate bill. The breeding adult bird is 14–16 cm in length, and has a red-brown head, neck and breast with dark brown streaks. It has blackish upperparts with buff and pale rufous fringing. Non-breeding adults lack the reddish colouration, but have pale brownish-grey upperparts with whitish fringing to the wing-coverts. The underparts are white and the legs are black.
Spoonbill - This species is almost unmistakable in most of its range. The breeding bird is all white except for its dark legs, black bill with a yellow tip, and a yellow breast patch like a pelican. It has a crest in the breeding season. Non-breeders lack the crest and breast patch, and immature birds have a pale bill and black tips to the primary flight feathers. Unlike herons, spoonbills fly with their necks outstretched.
Spoonbill duck - The Northern Shoveler , sometimes known simply as the Shoveler , is a common and widespread duck. It breeds in northern areas of Europe and Asia and across most of North America
Spot-backed Antshrike - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Spot-billed duck - This duck is resident in the southern part of its range from Pakistan and India to southern Japan, but the northern subspecies, the Chinese Spotbill , is migratory, wintering in southeast Asia. It is quite gregarious outside the breeding season and forms small flocks. The northernmost populations have been expanding their range northwards by more than 500 km since the early 20th century, possibly in reaction to global warming . These are Mallard-sized mainly grey ducks with a paler head and neck and a black bill tipped bright yellow. The wings are whitish with black flight feathers below, and from above show a white-bordered green speculum and white tertials. The male has a red spot on the base of the bill, which is absent or inconspicuous in the smaller but otherwise similar female. Juveniles are browner and duller than adults.
Spot-billed Ground Tyrant - It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland and pastureland.
Spot-billed Pelican - The Spot-billed Pelican is a relatively small pelican but still a large bird. It is 125–152 cm long and a weight of 4.1–6 kg . It is mainly white, with a grey crest, hindneck and a brownish tail. The feathers on the hind neck are curly and form a greyish nape crest. The pouch is pink to purplish and has pale large spots that are also present on the sides of the upper culmen. The tip of the bill is yellow to orange. In breeding plumage, the skin at the base of the beak is dark and the orbital patch is pink. In flight they look not unlike the Dalmatian Pelican but the tertials and inner secondaries are darker and a pale band runs along the greater coverts. The tail is rounder.
Spot-breasted Antvireo - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is becoming rare due to habitat loss.
Spot-breasted Ibis - The Spot-breasted Ibis is a species of bird in the Threskiornithidae family. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Uganda.
Spot-breasted Lapwing - The Spot-breasted Lapwing is a species of bird in the Charadriidae family. It is endemic to the Ethiopian highlands.
Spot-breasted Laughing Thrush - The Spot-breasted Laughingthrush is a species of bird in the Timaliidae family. It is found in south-west China, north-east India, Laos, Myanmar, north-west Thailand, and northern Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Spot-breasted oriole - It is found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and the United States.
Spot-breasted Scimitar-Babbler - It is found in Bangladesh, China, Pakistan, India, Laos, Myanmar, Taiwan, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Spot-crowned Euphonia - The Spot-crowned Euphonia is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family. It is found in Costa Rica and Panama. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.
Spot-crowned Woodcreeper - This woodcreeper is found in mountains from 1000 m to the timberline in mossy, epiphyte-laden forest and adjacent semi-open woodland and clearings. It builds a leaf-lined nest 0.6 to 8 m up in a tree cavity or old woodpecker or barbet hole, and lays two white eggs.
Spot-fronted Swift - The Spot-fronted Swift is a species of swift in the Apodidae family. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Spot-necked Babbler - It is found in China, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Spot-necked Bulbul - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Spot-tailed Sparrow Hawk - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.
Spot-throat - The Spot-throat is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is found in Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Spot-throated Babbler - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Spot-throated Hummingbird - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
Spot-throated Woodcreeper - The Spot-throated Woodcreeper is a species of bird in the Dendrocolaptinae subfamily. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Spot-winged Falconet - The Spot-winged Falconet is a species of bird of prey in the Falconidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Spiziapteryx. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
Spot-winged Grosbeak - It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Spot-winged Pigeon - The Spot-winged Pigeon is a species of bird in the Columbidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, 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.
Spot-winged Rosefinch - It is found in China, India, Myanmar, and Nepal. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.
Spot-winged Starling - The Spot-winged Starling is a species of starling in the Sturnidae family. It is found in Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and possibly Bhutan. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Spot-winged Thrush - It is an endemic resident breeder in Sri Lanka. This uncommon species breeds in hill rainforests, and to a lesser extent in drier woodlands, at altitudes between 500 and 2000 m.
Spotless Starling - This starling is resident in the Iberian peninsula, northwest Africa, Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica. It does not migrate.
Spotted Antbird - This bird is an open-cup nesting species that lays an average clutch of 2 eggs , which both adults incubate . The nestling period is 11 days .
Spotted Babbler - This bird is a common resident breeder in the Himalayas and the hills of Pakistan and India and parts of southeast Asia. Like most babblers, it is not migratory, and has short rounded wings and a weak flight. Its habitat is scrub and bamboo thickets, where it builds its nest on the ground, laying 2-5 eggs.
Spotted Barbtail - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Spotted Bowerbird - Spotted Bowerbird are not listed as threatened on the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
Spotted crake - Their breeding habitat is marshes and sedge beds across temperate Europe into western Asia. They nest in a dry location in marsh vegetation, laying 6-15 eggs. This species is migratory, wintering in Africa and Pakistan.
Spotted Creeper - The Spotted Creeper has strongly spotted and barred plumage, clearly different from the treecreepers of the subfamily Certhiinae. It weighs up to 16 grams, twice as much as treecreepers of similar length .
Spotted Crocias - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Spotted Eagle - It is about 65 cm in length and has a wingspan of 160 cm. This medium-large eagle is very similar in general appearance to its closest relative the Lesser Spotted Eagle , which shares part of its range. Head and wing coverts are very dark brown and contrast with the generally medium brown plumage; the Lesser Spotted Eagle has a paler head and wing coverts. The head is small for an eagle. The similarites of the Greater Spotted to the Lesser Spotted often results in misidentification as being that species. This is further complicated by occasional hybrids between the two species.
Spotted Eagle-Owl - Spotted at the trey inhabit most of Africa south of the Sahara desert away from dense forests. They are diurnal hunters, spending the night concealed in trees, rock ledges or abandoned burrows. They are found in areas with rocky outcroppings, scrub land, open woods, and semi deserts. Spotted Eagle-owls do not avoid populated areas. They often hunt near roads and are often struck by vehicles. The major cause of death is pesticides used in agriculture for insect and rodent control.
Spotted Fantail - It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Spotted Flycatcher - This is an undistinguished looking bird with long wings and tail. The adults have grey-brown upperparts and whitish underparts, with some streaking on the breast. The legs are short and black, and the bill is black and has the broad but pointed shape typical of aerial insectivores. Juveniles are browner than adults and show the spots on the upperparts which give this species its name.
Spotted Forktail - It is found in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Spotted Greenshank - The Spotted Greenshank or Nordmann's Greenshank Tringa guttifer is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae, the typical waders.
Spotted Ground Thrush - These birds are about 23cm in length, with brown upper parts and white to off-white lower parts which are darkly spotted.
Spotted Harrier - It is similar to the Swamp Harrier, distinguished by grey upperparts, chestnut facial disc and dark rump. Its wing length ranges between 375 and 470 mm, with females being larger.
Spotted Imperial-Pigeon - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Spotted Kestrel - Spread throughout Australasia, Indomalaya, and most of Wallacea, the Spotted Kestrel inhabits grasslands with scattered trees, lightly wooded cultivation, and the edges of primary and tall secondary forest. Along logging roads, it occasionally penetrates forests, and sometimes inhabits clearings within forested areas. It has also been known to live in areas of human habitation.
Spotted Laughingthrush - It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, and Nepal. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Spotted Morning-Thrush - The Spotted Morning-thrush is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is found in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna, and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.
Spotted Nightingale-Thrush - It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela.
Spotted Nothura - The Spotted Nothura, Nothura maculosa, is a tinamou species. This bird is native to the warmer parts of central and southern South America east of the Andes.
Spotted Nutcracker - The Nutcracker was one of the many species originally described by Linnaeus in his 18th century work, Systema Naturae, and it still bears its original name of Nucifraga caryocatactes. Other Germanic languages have etymologically related names: Danish: Nøddekrige; Dutch: Notenkraker; Norwegian: Nøttekråke; Swedish: Nötkråka.
Spotted Owl - This owl has a length of 43 cm , a wingspan of 114 cm , and a weight of around 600 g . Its eggs are a little over 2 inches long, and are white and smooth with a slightly grainy texture. The female sits on the eggs and cares for the young, while the male provides food for them. Juvenile Spotted Owls have an average survival rate of 11%, with an average birth rate of .58 owls per pair.
Spotted Owlet - The Spotted Owlet is a small owl which breeds in tropical Asia from India to Southeast Asia. A common resident of open habitats including farmland and human habitation, it has adapted to living in cities. They roost in small groups in the hollows of trees or in cavities in rocks or buildings. It nests in a hole in a tree or building, laying 3-5 eggs. The species is absent from Sri Lanka, although the birds are found across the Palk Straits, just 30 kilometres away at Rameshwaram. Nests near human habitations may show higher breeding success due to increased availability of rodents for feeding young. The species shows a lot of variation including clinal variation in size and forms a superspecies with the very similar Little Owl.
Spotted Pardalote - All Pardalotes have spots and all nest in tunnels at least sometimes, the Spotted Pardalote has the most conspicuous spots and always nests in tunnels. Pairs make soft, whistling wheet-wheet calls to one another throughout the day which carry for quite a distance.
Spotted Piculet - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
Spotted Quail-thrush - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
Spotted redshank - It is 29-33 cm long. It is black in breeding plumage, and very pale in winter. It has a red legs and bill, and shows a white oval on the back in flight. Juveniles are grey-brown finely speckled white above, and have pale, finely barred underparts. It nests on open boggy taiga, laying four eggs in a ground scrape. The call is a creaking whistle teu-it , the alarm call a kyip-kyip-kyip. Like most waders, it feeds on small invertebrates.
Spotted Sandpiper - The Spotted Sandpiper is a small shorebird, 18–20 cm long. Together with its sister species, the Common Sandpiper they make up the genus Actitis. They replace each other geographically; stray birds may settle down with breeders of the other species and hybridize.
Spotted Shag - Compared with typical cormorants, the Spotted Shag is a light-coloured bird. Its back is brown. Its belly is pale blue-grey , and the white continues up the sides of the neck and face, but the throat and the top of the head are dark blue-green. In the mating season, it has an obvious double crest. There is little sexual dimorphism.
Spotted Thick-knee - At the Milwaukee County Zoological Gardens
Spotted Tody-Flycatcher - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.
Spotted Towhee - The form that breeds on Socorro Island is much smaller than other rufous-sided towhees, and has grey upperparts. It is sometimes split as the Socorro Towhee, Pipilo socorroensis
Spotted Whistling Duck - This duck is known for its ability to swim underwater for long periods of time.
Spotted Wood Kingfisher - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Spotted Wood Owl - The Spotted Wood-owl is an owl of the earless owl genus, Strix. Its range is strangely disjunct; it occurs in many regions surrounding Borneo, but not on that island itself.
Spotted Wood Quail - It occurs in highlands from 1000 m or higher up to the timberline, usually in dense understory thickets or bamboos. The nest, as with several other wood-quails remains undescribed, but the eggs are known to be creamy-white with brown spots.
Spotted Woodcreeper - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is not considered a threatened species by the IUCN.
Spotted Wren-Babbler - It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, and Vietnam.
Sprague's pipit - Found in mixed or short grass prairie throughout the Northern Great Plains of North America. In Canada, you can find Sprague's Pipit in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. In the United States, they can be found in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota.
Sprosser - It is a migratory insectivorous species breeding in forest in Europe and Asia . The distribution is more northerly than the very closely related Nightingale, Luscinia megarhynchos. It nests low in dense bushes. It winters in Africa.
Spur-winged Goose - The Spur-winged Goose, , is a large bird in the family Anatidae, related to the geese and the shelducks, but distinct from both of these in a number of anatomical features, and therefore treated in its own subfamily, the Plectropterinae. It occurs in wetlands throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
Spur-winged Lapwing - The Spur-winged Lapwing or Spur-winged Plover is a lapwing species, one of a group of largish waders in the family Charadriidae.
Squacco Heron - This is a stocky species with a short neck, short thick bill and buff-brown back. In summer, adults have long neck feathers. Its appearance is transformed in flight, when it looks very white due to the colour of the wings.
Squamate Antbird - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Square-tailed Drongo - The Square-tailed Drongo is a common resident breeder in much of Africa south of the Sahara. These insect-eating birds are usually found in forests or dense bush. Two to three eggs are laid in a cup nest in a fork high in a tree.
Square-tailed Kite - Square-tailed Kites are not listed as threatened on the Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. However, their conservation status varies from state to state within Australia. For example:
Square-tailed Nightjar - The Square-tailed Nightjar is a species of nightjar in the Caprimulgidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Squirrel Cuckoo - This large and extremely long-tailed cuckoo is 43-46 cm long and weighs 95-105 g. The adult has mainly chestnut upperparts and head, becoming paler on the throat. The lower breast is grey and the belly is blackish. The central tail feathers are rufous, but the outer are black with white tips. The bill is yellow and the iris is red. Immature birds have a grey bill and eyering, brown iris, and less white in the tail.
Sri lanka bush-warbler - Sri Lanka Bush Warbler is a bird of dense forest undergrowth, often close to water. It is found in the highlands of central Sri Lanka, usually above 1200 m. The nest is built in a shrub, and two eggs are laid.
Sri Lanka Grey Hornbill - The Sri Lanka Grey Hornbill is a gregarious bird found in forest habitats. It feeds mostly on figs, although occasionally it eats small rodents, reptiles and insects. The female lays up to four white eggs in a tree hole blocked off during incubation with a cement made of mud, droppings and fruit pulp. There is only one narrow aperture, barely wide enough for the male to transfer food to the mother and the chicks.
Sri Lanka Hanging-parrot - The Sri Lanka Hanging Parrot is a small, mainly green hanging parrot, only 13 cm long with a short tail. The adult has a red crown and rump. The nape and back have on orange tint. The chin and throat are pale blue. The beak is red and the irises are white.
Sri lanka whistling thrush - Sri Lanka Whisting Thrush is found in the highlands of Sri Lanka in jungle or other dense forest near water. It is omnivorous, eating a wide range of insects, frogs, earthworms and berries. It lays one or two eggs in a neat cup-shaped nest in a bush or on a ledge near water.
St. Andrew Vireo - It is a small bird, 12.5 cm in length. It is olive-green above and whitish or pale yellow below. It has two white bars on the wing, pale edges to the flight-feathers and a pale yellow stripe between the bill and eye. The eye is grey-brown.
St. Domingo duck - The Masked Duck is a small stiff-tailed duck ranging through the tropical Americas. They are found from Mexico to South America and also in the Caribbean. Primarily non-migratory, Masked Ducks are reported as very uncommon vagrants in the southernmost United States, along the Mexican border and in Florida.
St. Helena Plover - The bird was first mentioned in 1638, and is the national bird of Saint Helena, featured on the island's coat of arms.
St. Lucia Amazon - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. It is threatened by habitat loss. The species had declined from around 1000 birds in the 1950s to 150 birds in the late 1970s. At that point a conservation program began to save the species, which galvanised popular support to save the species, and by 1990 the species had increased to 350 birds.
St. Lucia Black Finch - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and plantations . It is threatened by habitat loss.
St. Lucia Oriole - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest. It is threatened by habitat loss.
St. Matthias Fantail - The Mussau Fantail or Matthias Fantail, Rhipidura matthiae is a fantail which is endemic to Mussau Island in the St. Matthias Islands of Papua New Guinea.
St. Matthias Monarch - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and rural gardens. It is threatened by habitat loss.
St. Vincent Amazon - 40 cm long, mostly green, multi-colored amazon parrot with a yellowish white, blue and green head, greenish-bronze upperparts, grey feet, reddish eye, and violet blue-green wings. Its tail feathers are blue with broad yellow tips. There is a less yellow-brown morph and a less common green morph. It has grey feet and reddish eyes. Both sexes are similar. The young has lighter plumage and brown iris.
Standard-winged Nightjar - It is found in dry savannah habitats, with some scrub. No nest is made; the two elongated and elliptical eggs are placed upon the bare ground.
Standardwing - George Robert Gray of the British Museum named this species in honor of Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and author of The Malay Archipelago, who discovered the bird in 1858. Following its original discovery, the Standardwing wasn't seen again for nearly 60 years, and then only a handful of times until 1953. No further sightings were reported until the British ornithologist David Bishop rediscovered the species in 1983 and began making the first detailed observations of its behaviour.
Star Finch - It has three subspecies:
Steely-vented Hummingbird - The Steely-vented Hummingbird is a medium-sized hummingbird that is a resident breeder from western Nicaragua to Costa Rica, and also in Colombia and northwestern Venezuela. The Central American birds differ in voice and behaviour from those in South America and may be a separate species, the Blue-vented Hummingbird . Both forms are sometimes placed in the genus Saucerottia, but this is not recognized by most authorities, notably AOU and Howard & Moore.
Steere's Coucal - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Steinbach's Canastero - It is endemic to western Argentina. Its natural habitat is steep valleys in subtropical high-altitude shrubland from 650-3000 metres above sea-level.
Stejneger's Petrel - This species is highly pelagic, rarely approaching land, except to nest and rear young. It occurs in the Pacific Ocean, nesting in the Juan Fernandez Islands off Chile. It is a transequatorial migrant, finding its way to subtropical waters off Japan before returning to its nesting sites. It has been reported well off the west coast of the United States.
Steller's Eider - It winters somewhat further south in the Bering Sea, northern Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea. It can form large flocks, up to 200,000 birds on suitable coastal waters. It is scarce south of its wintering range.
Steller's Jay - The Steller's Jay shows a great deal of regional variation throughout its range. Blackish-brown-headed birds from the north gradually become bluer-headed farther south. The Steller's Jay has a more slender bill and longer legs than the Blue Jay and has a much more pronounced crest. The head is blackish-brown with light blue streaks on the forehead. This dark colouring gives way from the shoulders and lower breast to silvery blue. The primaries and tail are a rich blue with darker barring.
Steller's Sea-Eagle - Aquila pelagica Pallas, 1811
Stephen's Lorikeet - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Steppe Eagle - The Steppe Eagle, , is a bird of prey. It is about 62–81 cm in length and has a wingspan of 165–200 cm . Females, weighing 2.3-4.9 kg , are slightly larger than males, at 2-3.5 kg . Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae. It was once considered to be closely related to the non-migratory Tawny Eagle, Aquila rapax, and the two forms have previously been treated as conspecific. They were split based on pronounced differences in morphology and anatomy ; two molecular studies, each based on a very small number of genes, indicate that the species are distinct but disagree over how closely related they are.
Sterna albostriata - The Black-fronted Tern also known as Sea Martin, Ploughboy, Inland Tern, Riverbed Tern or Tarapiroe, is a small tern generally found in or near bodies of fresh water in New Zealand and forages for freshwater fish, arthropods and worms. It has a predominantly grey plumage. Restricted to breeding in the eastern regions of South Island, it is declining and threatened by introduced mammals and birds.
Stierling's Woodpecker - The Stierling's Woodpecker is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is found in Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests in the Eastern Miombo woodlands ecoregion. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Stilt Sandpiper - The Stilt Sandpiper, Calidris himantopus or Micropalama himantopus, is a small shorebird; it bears some resemblance to the smaller calidrid sandpipers or "stints". DNA sequence information is incapable of determining whether it should be placed in Calidris or in the monotypic genus Micropalama . It appears most closely allied with the Curlew Sandpiper, which is another aberrant species only tentatively placed in Calidris and could conceivably separated with it in Erolia.
Stitchbird - The Stitchbird is a small honeyeater-like bird with a dark velvety cap and white ear-tufts. Males have a yellow band across the chest separating the black head from the rest of the body, which is grey. Females and juveniles are duller than males, lacking the black head and yellow chest band. The bill is rather thin and somewhat curved, and the tongue is long with a brush at the end for collecting nectar. Stitchbirds are very active and call frequently. Their most common call, a tzit tzit sound, is believed to be the source of their common name, as Buller noted that it "has a fanciful resemblance to the word stitch". They also have a high-pitched whistle and an alarm call which is a nasal pek like a bellbird. Males give a piercing three-note whistle and a variety of other calls not given by the female.
Stizorhina fraseri - Finsch's Flycatcher-thrush is often considered conspecific with it . However, Finsch's Flycatcher-thrush is treated here as a separate species following the Handbook of the Birds of the World . Also, the flycatcher-thrushes are sometimes placed in a separate genus, Stizorhina , but here they are placed in Neocossyphus, again following del Hoyo et al .
Stock Dove - In the northern part of its European and western Asiatic range the Stock Pigeon is a migrant, elsewhere it is a well distributed and often plentiful resident.
Stone Partridge - There is some confusion in the naming of this species because the name of this bird in many languages translates literally into English as "rock partridge". For instance, in Dutch the species is rotspatrij, in German - Felsenhenne, in French - poulette de roche - all literal translations of "rock partridge". The bird known as Rock Partridge in English is actually a member of another genus, the Alectoris graeca. The confusion is further compounded as in some languages Alectoris species are known by names that literally translate as stone partridge. In Dutch, steenpatrij, in German Steinhuhn; Red-legged Partridge being rode steenpatrij in Dutch. Further complication arises as, particularly within the USA, the name "rock partridge" has been used for a variety of Alectoris species and hybrids. The international bird trade, for sport, aviaries and meat, has led to misapplication of various of these common and Latin names. Alectoris and Ptilopachus species are actually very different in size and habits, Ptilopachus
Stonechat - The African Stonechat is a species of the Old World flycatcher family , inhabiting sub-Saharan Africa and adjacent regions. Like the other chats, it was long assigned to the thrush family , to which the chats are convergent. Its scientific name refer to its appearance and habitat and means "collared rock-dweller": Saxicola from Latin saxum + incola , torquatus, Latin for "collared".
Stork-billed Kingfisher - The Stork-billed Kingfisher, Pelargopsis capensis , is a tree kingfisher which is widely but sparsely distributed in tropical south Asia from India and Sri Lanka to Indonesia. This kingfisher is essentially resident throughout its range.
Storm's Stork - This little known species is found in undisturbed forest and freshwater habitats in Sumatra, Mentawai Islands, Borneo and peninsular Malaysia. One of its strongholds are in southeast Sumatra, with remaining populations confined to Kalimantan and Brunei. While in peninsular Malaysia only one very small population and scatter individuals left. The world population of the Storm's Stork is less than 500 individuals.
Stout Cisticola - The southern subspecies C. r. angolensis and C. r. awemba are sometimes considered to form a separate species, the Angola Cisticola .
Straight-billed Hermit - It is found in the Guyanas of Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana; also the northern Amazon Basin of Brazil, and Amazonian Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru; it is in eastern Venezuela and the Orinoco River Basin. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Straight-billed Reedhaunter - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Strange-tailed Tyrant - It is found in northeastern Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and three small separated localities in southern Brazil. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.
Straw-necked Ibis - Straw-necked ibises are large birds, around 60–75 cm long. They have dark wings that show an iridescent, multicoloured sheen in sunlight, and have a dark back and collar. Most of the neck is white, as are the underparts and undertail. They have a long, black, downcurved bill, and their legs are usually red near the top and dark grey toward the feet. Straw-like feathers on the neck of adults give the bird its common name.
Streak-backed Antshrike - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Streak-backed Canastero - It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland.
Streak-backed Oriole - It is primarily found in the west coast of Mexico, but is a very, very rare visitor in the Southwestern United States.
Streak-breasted Bulbul - The Streak-breasted Bulbul or Mottle-breasted Bulbul is a songbird species in the bulbul family .
Streak-breasted Scimitar Babbler - It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Taiwan, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Streak-breasted Treehunter - This large treehunter is found in hills and mountains from 700 m up to 2500 m altitude, rarely to 3000 m, in damp epiphyte-laden forests and adjacent old second growth, especially in shady ravines. It builds a wide saucer nest of rootlets in a 60 cm long burrow in a steep bank, and lays two white eggs between February and August.
Streak-breasted Woodpecker - It is found in Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and perhaps Bangladesh. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.
Streak-capped Antwren - It is found in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Streak-capped Spinetail - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest.
Streak-capped Treehunter - It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Streak-chested Antpitta - The Streak-chested Antpitta or Spectacled Antpitta is a species of bird in the Formicariidae family. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Streak-headed Munia - Mainly dark brown plumage with light streaking on head and yellowish rump; subspecies leucosticta also with white spotting on face, breast and upper wing-coverts.
Streak-headed Woodcreeper - This woodcreeper is found in lowlands up to 1500 m altitude, although normally below 900 m, in damp light woodland, plantations, gardens, and clearings with trees. It builds a leaf-lined nest 4.5 to 24 m up in a tree cavity, or sometimes an old woodpecker hole, and lays two white eggs.
Streak-necked Flycatcher - It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest.
Streak-throated Bush-Tyrant - It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.
Streak-throated Fulvetta - The Grey-hooded Fulvetta is a bird species in the family Sylviidae. Like the other typical fulvettas, it was long included in the Timaliidae genus Alcippe.
Streak-throated Hermit - It is a small hermit with a total length of approximately 9 cm, both subspecies have very pale buff-grey underparts and dark streaks on the throat.
Streak-throated Woodpecker - The Streak-throated Woodpecker Picus xanthopygaeus is a species of woodpecker found in South Asia.
Streaked Bulbul - What is presently known is that some Ixos species are close to Hypsipetes , while others – including the Streaked Bulbul – are closer to Hemixos. But the affiliations of I. virescens remain to be restudied, and it is not clear to which group it belongs.
Streaked Fantail - The Streaked Fantail is a species of bird in the Rhipiduridae family.
Streaked Flycatcher - The Streaked Flycatcher is 22 cm long, weighs 43g and has a strong black bill. The head is brown with a concealed yellow crown patch, white supercilium and dusky eye mask. The upperparts are brown with darker brown streaks on the back, rufous and white edges on the wings, and wide chestnut edges on the rump and tail. The underparts are yellowish-white streaked with brown.
Streaked Laughingthrush - This species is sometimes placed in the genus Trochalopteron.
Streaked Spiderhunter - It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Streaked Tit-Spinetail - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montanes and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.
Streaked Tuftedcheek - It occurs as a resident breeder in wet mountain forests, with many epiphytes, above 1500 m. It lays one white egg in a thickly lined old woodpecker nest or other tree cavity. One parent, probably the female, incubates the single white egg for about 29 days to hatching.
Streaked Weaver - They nest in small colonies often in reed beds near water bodies.
Streaked Wren-Babbler - The Streaked Wren-babbler is a species of bird in the Timaliidae family. It is found in Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Streaked Xenops - The Streaked Xenops is typically 4.8 in long, weighs 0.44 oz , and has a stubby wedge-shaped bill. The head is dark brown with a whitish supercilium and malar stripe. The upperparts are brown, becoming rufous on the tail and rump, and there is a buff bar on the darker brown wings. The underparts are white-streaked olive brown. Males and females looks alike. Visually inconspicuous, it is easier located by its chattering call, a series of 5 or 6 metallic zeet notes.
Streaky-headed Seedeater - Its habitat is open woodland and scrub, including savanna, orchards, and gardens. It builds a compact cup nest in a scrub.
Streaky-headed White-eye - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Streamer-tailed Tyrant - It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland.
Streamertail - When the Black-billed Streamertail of eastern Jamaica is considered a separate species, the Red-billed Streamertail occurs west of a line from Morant Bay following the Morant River, and via Ginger House and the middle Rio Grande to Port Antonio .
Stresemann's Bristlefront - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Stresemann's Bush Crow - The range of this species is quite restricted being confined to thorn Acacia country in southern Ethiopia near Yavello , Mega and Arero. It can be curiously absent from apparently suitable country nearby to these areas, the reasons for this not being apparent.
Stresemann's Maroon Oriole - The Silver Oriole is a species of bird in the Oriolidae family. It is found in Cambodia, China, and Thailand. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Stresemann's Rosefinch - It is found in China and Thailand. Its natural habitat is temperate grassland.
Striated Antbird - The Striated Antbird has one large continuous range in the Amazon Basin's southwest as well as the south-central area in the countries of southeastern Peru, northwestern Bolivia and Brazil. The range is bifurcated in Bolivia, with the northwestern birds in the headwater river basins of the Madeira River of Brazil's Amazonas state, and the eastern Bolivian birds in the headwaters of the Guapore River, the Bolivian-Brazilian border river flowing westward into the Madeira. An extension of the western Bolivian range reaches southeastward into central Bolivia.
Striated Babbler - The Striated Babbler is a species of bird in the Timaliidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan.
Striated Bulbul - It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Burma, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Striated Canegrass Warbler - It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Russia, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Striated Caracara - The adults plumage is almost black in colour, while the legs and lores are orange and the neck is flecked with grey. The first year juveniles have an orange or light red down, which they lose after their first moult. Full adult plumage is acquired only in the fifth year.
Striated Earthcreeper - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montanes and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.
Striated Laughingthrush - It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, and Nepal. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Striated Pardalote - Striated Pardalotes occupy a vast range of habitat types, from tall mountain rainforest to arid scrubland, and are found in all parts of Australia except some of the Western Australian deserts.
Striated Softtail - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Striated Thornbill - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
Striated Wren-Babbler - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Striated Yuhina - It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Hong Kong, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Strickland's woodpecker - A quiet and shy bird, Strickland's Woodpeckers are fairly common in their limited range, usually found in pine forests and mixed pine-oak slopes at heights of about 4,500 to 7,000 feet. The Strickland's Woodpecker's range generally follows a thin east-west band in central Mexico from Michoacán to Veracruz.
Striolated Puffbird - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Striolated Tit-Spinetail - Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.
Stripe-backed Bittern - The Stripe-backed Bittern is a species of heron in the Ardeidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, and possibly Ecuador. Its natural habitat is swamps.
Stripe-backed Wren - The Stripe-backed wren has attracted considerable scientific attention because it is a good example of co-operative breeding. It lives in groups ranging from 2 to 10 adult birds. Of these, only one pair breeds, laying eggs at the beginning of the rainy season . However all members of the group participate in defence of the territory, and in feeding the young both in the nest and after fledging. They therefore qualify as helpers at the nest.
Stripe-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".
Stripe-breasted Starthroat - It is found only in regions of eastern and southeastern Brazil. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and heavily degraded former forest.
Stripe-breasted Woodpecker - The Stripe-breasted Woodpecker is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is found in Bhutan, China, Laos, Myanmar, Republic of India, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Stripe-cheeked Greenbul - The subspecies A. m. olivaceiceps and A. m. striifacies are sometimes regarded as separate species.
Stripe-cheeked Woodpecker - The Stripe-cheeked Woodpecker, along with the Rufous-winged Woodpecker, was formerly thought to be a subspecies of the South American White-throated Woodpecker , but has since been split by the American Ornithological Union due to its distinct facial patterns and voice. It also does not interbreed with the Rufous-winged Woodpecker where their ranges overlap.
Stripe-chested Antwren - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, and heavily degraded former forest.
Stripe-crowned warbler - It is a species mainly of lowland forests, which lays two to four rufous-spotted white eggs in a domed nest in a bank, often by a forest path, or under leaves on the forest floor. Parent birds will feign injury to distract potential nest predators.
Stripe-faced Wood Quail - The binomial of this bird commemorates José Ballivián.
Stripe-headed Sparrow - This common bird is found in lowlands up to 1800 m altitude in the north of its range, and 800 m in Costa Rica. Its habitat is brushy savanna, scrubby second growth and woodland edges, but it avoids the forest interior.
Stripe-headed Tanager - The spindalises were traditionally considered aberrant tanager of the family Thraupidae, but actually they do not seem to belong there. Like the equally enigmatic Bananaquit , they belong to superfamily Passeroidea, wherein they are provisionally treated as incertae sedis among the nine-primaried oscines
Stripe-tailed Hummingbird - White-tailed Hummingbird and Blue-capped Hummingbird are sometimes considered subspecies of this species.
Stripe-throated Hermit - With a total length of 3½-4 in and a weight of 2-3 g, it is among the smaller species of hermits. The wing-coverts, mantle, nape and crown are dull iridescent green, the rump is pale rufous, the belly and flanks are buff, and the central underparts and throat are pale greyish-brown; the latter with small dark streaks that often are faint and difficult to see. The face has a blackish "bandit-mask" border above by a whitish-buff supercilium and below by whitish-buff malar. The flight-feathers and tail are blackish; the latter tipped whitish to ochraceous depending on the subspecies involved. As in most other hermits, it has a long, decurved bill. The basal half of the lower mandible is yellow, but otherwise the entire bill is black.
Stripe-throated Jery - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Stripe-throated Wren - It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Striped Crake - It is found in Algeria, Cameroon, Comoros, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Ghana, Italy, Kenya, Libya, Malawi, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Striped Cuckoo - The Striped Cuckoo is found in open country with trees or shrubs, and the edges of mangrove forests. This species is a brood parasite usually on spinetails, but often also wrens, and other species with domed nests. The female cuckoo lays one, sometimes two, white or bluish eggs in the host’s large stick nest. The eggs hatch in 15 days, with a further 18 days until the cuckoo fledges. The young spinetails disappear.
Striped Gardener Bowerbird - The Streaked Bowerbird is a polygamous species. The nest is built by the male out of sticks. It has a characteristic hut shape with two entrances.
Striped Honeyeater - The Striped Honeyeater is a medium-sized bird with an average length of 22cm. It is adorned with grey feathers covering its body and brown wings and tail.
Striped Kingfisher - The genus name Halcyon comes from a bird in Greek legend generally associated with the kingfisher. There was an ancient belief that the halcyon nested on the sea, which it calmed in order to lay its eggs on a floating nest.
Striped Laughingthrush - It is found in India and Myanmar. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Striped Manakin - It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Striped Owl - The Striped Owl is a medium-sized owl with large ear tufts and a brownish-white facial disk rimmed with black. Its beak is black, and it has cinnamon-colored eyes. It has shorter, rounder wings than most of its close relatives. The upperparts are cinnamon with fine black vermiculation and heavy stripes. The underparts are pale tawny with dusky streaks.
Striped Sparrow - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montanes and temperate grassland.
Striped Tit-Babbler - The species has a distinctive yellowish supercilium and rufous crown. The throat is yellowish with brown streaks.
Striped Treehunter - It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Striped Woodhaunter - It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Striped-throated Yuhina - It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Strong-billed Woodcreeper - It is found in Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Stygian Owl - This species takes in a variety of prey including birds, small mammals, reptiles, amphibians, crustaceans, and insects. All of its hunting is done at night.
Subalpine Warbler - Like most Sylvia species, it has distinct male and female plumages. The adult male has a grey back and head, brick-red underparts, and white malar streaks . The female is mainly brown above, with a greyer head, and whitish below with a pink flush. The Subalpine Warbler's song is fast and rattling, and is similar to the Lesser Whitethroat.
Subantarctic Snipe - The Māori have legends about the hokioi or hakawai, a mythical bird which was only heard. Supposedly a giant bird of prey, this image was influenced by tales of the then-extinct Haast's Eagle and the loud noises attributed to the hokioi. However, Miskelly demonstrated that the tiny New Zealand Snipe was responsible for producing the loud rushing or screaming heard at nighttime during its mating flight, similar to the Common Snipe's "winnowing" and entirely out of proportion in loudness to the bird's diminutive size. Miskelly et al. describe it as
Subdesert Mesite - The Subdesert Mesite is a medium sized terrestrial bird which is often described as rail-like . The species has a long and downward-curved bill distinguishing it from the other members of the family. Both sexes are greyish above and show thin white eyebrows. Both have white underparts; the male has black crescent-shaped spots on the side of the neck and upper breast. The female has rufous spots that may merge into a general rufous tone, and has a tawny cheek patch.
Subtropical Cacique - The Scarlet-rumped Cacique is a passerine bird species in the New World family Icteridae. It breeds from eastern Honduras to Panama and in the Pacific lowlands of South America from western Colombia south to Ecuador, and in the lower reaches of the northern Andes. There are several subspecies, some of which have been proposed for elevation to full species status.
Such's Ant-thrush - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Sudan Golden Sparrow - The Sudan Golden Sparrow is a smaller sparrow, at 12 to 13 centimetres in length, with a wingspan of 5.7 to 7.0 centimetres . Males are distinctive in their bright yellow head and underparts, deep chestnut brown wings and back, and two white wingbars. In the breeding season the male's plumage is brighter still, and the bill changes colour from horn to shiny black. Females are pale sandy-buff with yellowish face, light brown wings, a back faintly streaked with chestnut, and pale yellow fading to whitish on the underparts. Juveniles are similar to females, but greyer.
Sukatschev's Laughingthrush - Its natural habitat is temperate forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sula Cicadabird - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Sula Jungle Flycatcher - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sulawesi Bearded Bee Eater - The Purple-bearded Bee-eater is the only member of the genus Meropogon. Its scientific name commemorates Eltio Alegondas Forsten who collected in the East Indies between 1838 and his death.
Sulawesi Blue-Flycatcher - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Sulawesi Cicadabird - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Sulawesi Drongo - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Sulawesi Goshawk - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Sulawesi Ground-Dove - An Indonesian endemic, this elusive species is distributed to primary rainforests of Sulawesi in Wallacea. The Sulawesi Ground-dove is a terrestrial bird. Its diet consists mainly of seeds and fallen fruits taken from feeding grounds. The female lays a single white egg.
Sulawesi Hanging-Parrot - With a total length of approximately 15 cm, it is a small parrot, but the largest species of hanging parrot. It has traditionally been considered monotypic, but recent work has re-validated the subspecies croconotus from Muna and Buton Island, and quadricolor from the Togian Islands, leaving the nominate for the population on Sulawesi itself.
Sulawesi Hawk Eagle - The Sulawesi Hawk-eagle, Nisaetus lanceolatus , also known as Celebes Hawk-eagle, is a medium-sized, approximately 64cm long, crestless brown raptor in the family Accipitridae. The adults have rufous-brown, boldly marked head and chest feathers, dark brown wings and black-barred white below. The young has white head and underparts.
Sulawesi Hawk-Cuckoo - The Sulawesi Cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. It is often known as the Sulawesi Hawk-cuckoo but appears not to be related to the other hawk-cuckoos. It is endemic to Sulawesi Island in Indonesia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Sulawesi Hornbill - An Indonesian endemic, the Sulawesi Hornbill is distributed in the tropical lowland, swamps and primary forests of Sulawesi and nearby islands, from sea-level to altitude up to 1,100 metres. There are two subspecies of the Sulawesi Hornbill. The nominate subspecies, P. e. exarhatus, occurs in northern Sulawesi. The second subspecies, P. e. sanfordi is found in central, east and south Sulawesi, Buton and Muna Island.
Sulawesi Kingfisher - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sulawesi Mountain Thrush - The coloration of the bird is primarily dark brown with chestnut color on the breast. The long legs, long tail and short wings struck the discoverer as reminiscent of laughingthrushes, and the name Geomalia is itself a reference to another, superficially similar Sulawesi endemic, the Malia, but the two species are not related.
Sulawesi Myna - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Sulawesi Nightjar - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.
Sulawesi Pied Imperial Pigeon - The White Imperial-pigeon , also known as the White-tipped Imperial-pigeon, is a relatively large species of bird in the Columbidae family. It is endemic to forest, woodland and mangrove on Sulawesi and smaller nearby islands. It has sometimes been considered a subspecies of the Pied Imperial-pigeon, but has a yellowish tip to the bill, black spotting near the vent, and silvery-grey remiges.
Sulawesi Roller - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Sulawesi Scops Owl - The Sulawesi Scops Owl is an owl found in southeast Asia.
Sulawesi Shortwing - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Sulawesi Woodcock - This species is restricted to wet mountain forests on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Little is known of its habits.
Sulawesi Woodpecker - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist mountains.
Sulphur-bellied Bulbul - It is one of the species of Ixos that might warrant inclusion in the genus Hypsipetes – as long as this is kept separate from Ixos – as it may be a close relative of the Philippine Bulbul , which in turn is closely related to the type species of Hypsipetes, the Black Bulbul .
Sulphur-bellied flycatcher - The most distinguishing characteristics of this flycatcher are the heavy streaking of its plumage, and its pale yellow belly. The bird also shows a rusty brown tail, and a black eyestripe. Its call sounds like noises made by children's or pet's 'squeaky-toys'.
Sulphur-bellied Willow Warbler - Like other leaf-warblers it gleans insects from small branches and leaves. They are found on rocky hill and scrub forest habitats.
Sulphur-billed Nuthatch - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Sulphur-breasted Antbird - The Yellow-breasted Warbling Antbird is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family. Until recently, it was considered a subspecies of Hypocnemis cantator, but based on vocal differences and to a lesser degree differences in plumages it has been recommended treating them as separate species. As presently defined, the Yellow-breasted Warbling Antbird includes a single subspecies, collinsi.
Sulphur-crested cockatoo - In Australia, Sulphur-crested Cockatoos can be found widely in the north and east, ranging as far south as Tasmania, but avoiding arid inland areas with few trees. They are numerous in suburban habitats in cities such as Adelaide, Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane. Except for highland areas, they occur throughout most of New Guinea and on nearby smaller islands such as Waigeo, Misool, Aru, and various Cenderawasih Bay and Milne Bay islands.
Sulphur-vented Whistler - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Sulphur-winged Parakeet - The Sulphur-winged Parakeet is 23 cm long and weighs 75 g. The adult is mainly green. Scaled with orange-yellow on the head and chest. There is a red spot on the auriculars and the tail is broadly tipped dull red . The outer primaries are blue, but the most obvious feature in flight is the extensive yellow on the inner wing. Young birds are similar to the adults, but duller and with much less yellow in the wing.
Sulphury Flycatcher - This large tyrant flycatcher is found in savannah habitat with Moriche Palms. The nest is an open cup of sticks in the crown of a Moriche Palm, and the typical clutch is two cream-coloured eggs blotched with brown.
Sultan Tit - The Sultan Tit, Melanochlora sultanea, is a large songbird with a yellow crest, dark bill, black upperparts plumage and yellow underparts. The sexes are similar. The female has greenish black upperparts and yellowish throat. The young bird is duller than the adult and has a shorter crest.
Sulu Bleeding-heart - This species is known from two specimens collected in the Sulu Archipelago in 1891, and has not been recorded with certainty since. There were local reports of the bird from several islands in 1995. Any remaining population is likely to be tiny, and for these reasons it is treated as Critically Endangered.
Sulu Hornbill - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sulu Racquet-tailed Parrot - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sumartran Hill Partridge - The Grey-breasted Hill-partridge is a species of bird in the Phasianidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Malaysia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Sumatran Cochoa - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sumatran Drongo - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sumatran Green-Pigeon - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sumatran Ground-Cuckoo - An Indonesian endemic, the Sumatran Ground Cuckoo is distributed to rainforests of southern Sumatra. Before it was rediscovered and photographed in 1997 by Andjar Rafiastanto, this elusive species was known only from eight specimens.
Sumatran Niltava - The Rufous-vented Niltava is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Malaysia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Sumatran Pheasant - Its appearance resembles and sometimes is considered as a subspecies of the Salvadori's Pheasant. The female is different from the latter for having darker brown, lack of buff mottling and plainer plumage.
Sumatran Treepie - The Sunda Treepie or Sumatran Treepie is a species of bird in the Corvidae family. It is endemic to the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. The Bornean Treepie is sometimes considered to be a subspecies of this bird.
Sumba Boobook - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sumba Brown Flycatcher - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sumba Button-Quail - Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, and arable land. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sumba Cicadabird - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Sumba Flycatcher - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Sumba Green-Pigeon - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sumba Hornbill - The Sumba Hornbill is a medium-sized, approximately 70cm long, blackish hornbill. The male dark reddish-brown on crown and nape, and paler neck. The female has an entirely black plumage. Both sexes have a large dull yellowish bill with maroon patch at base, a serrated casque, and an inflatable blue throat.
Sumichrast's Wren - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and plantations . It is threatened by habitat loss.
Summer Tanager - Their breeding habitat is open wooded areas, especially with oaks, across the southern United States. These birds migrate to Mexico, Central America and northern South America. This tanager is an extremely rare vagrant to western Europe.
Sun Parakeet - On average, Sun Parakeets weigh approximately 110 g and are around 30 cm long. They are sexually monomorphic.
Sunbittern - The sunbittern is usually placed in the Gruiformes, but this was always considered preliminary. In some aspects of its morphology the Sunbittern is close to the herons and their relatives , but this appears to be convergent evolution due to similar lifestyles. Altogether, the two species seem to form a minor Gondwanan lineage which possibly also includes the extinct adzebills and/or the mesites, and is of unclear relation to the Gruiformes proper. Notably, the Kagu and mesites also have powder down.
Sunda Coucal - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and swamps. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sunda Frogmouth - It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Sunda Ground-Cuckoo - The Bornean Ground-cuckoo is a large terrestrial species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. It is, as suggested by its common name, endemic to the island of Borneo, being found in the sections belonging to Brunei, Malaysia and Indonesia. It is restricted to humid forest. It is threatened by habitat loss. It was formerly considered conspecific with the Sumatran Ground-cuckoo.
Sunda Hawk-Eagle - An Indonesian endemic, the Flores Hawk-eagle is distributed in lowland and submontane forests of Flores, Lombok and Sumbawa of Lesser Sunda Islands group. The diet consists mainly of birds, lizards, snakes and mammals.
Sunda Laughingthrush - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Sunda Robin - Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.
Sunda Teal - This is a mottled brown duck with white and green flashes on its wings. The male and female Sunda Teal share the same colouration, in contrast to the related Chestnut Teal, whose male and female are strikingly different. The nominate Sunda Teal has almost identical colouration to the female Chestnut Teal and can only be distinguished by its lighter coloured neck, paler face and especially the bulging forehead. The Andaman Teal has a variable amount of white on the forehead and around the eyes. The Rennell Island Teal looked like a smaller version of the nominate subspecies, with a stubbier bill. Juveniles are paler than adults, especially on the head.
Sunda Thrush - Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Sungrebe - It is the only member of the genus Heliornis , and the Heliornithidae family to which it belongs contains just two other species, the African Finfoot, Podica senegalensis, and the Masked Finfoot Heliopais personata, which breeds in eastern India down through southeast Asia to the Wallace Line.
Superb Bird-of-paradise - The Superb Bird-of-paradise is distributed throughout rainforests of New Guinea.
Superb Fairywren - Like other fairywrens, the Superb Fairywren is notable for several peculiar behavioural characteristics; the birds are socially monogamous and sexually promiscuous, meaning that although they form pairs between one male and one female, each partner will mate with other individuals and even assist in raising the young from such pairings. Male wrens pluck yellow petals and display them to females as part of a courtship display.
Superb Fruit Dove - Native to Australasia, the Superb Fruit-dove lives in the rainforests of New Guinea, Australia, Solomon Islands, the Philippines and Sulawesi of Indonesia. In Australia, it is found from southern New South Wales around the town of Moruya and extends further north, where it becomes more common to Cape York in Queensland. In some areas of its range, such as the New Guinean rainforest, it is a resident bird; in more marginal or seasonal habitats such as those in Australia, flocks are known to move about according to the availability of food .
Superb Lyrebird - The male is the bearer of the most elegant of all tails. The tail has sixteen feathers, with the two outermost being lyre-shaped. Next within are two guard plumes and twelve long, lace-like feathers, known as filamentaries. Seven years is required for the tail to fully develop. During courtship display, the male inverts his tail over his head, fanning his feathers to form a silvery white canopy. Young males and females have brown tail feathers which are camouflaged against the forest floor.
Superb Parrot - The Superb Parrot is mostly bright green with darker flight feathers and is about 40 cm  long with a long pointed tail. Adult males have continuous yellow foreheads, and throats, with a red horizontal band across the border of the throat.
Superb Pitta - The Superb Pitta is distributed and endemic to primary and secondary forests of the Manus Island of Papua New Guinea. As with other pittas, it is a secretive and rarely seen terrestrial bird. The diet consists mainly of snails.
Superb Starling - This species is 18 to 19 cm long. Adults have black heads and iridescent blue-to-green back, upper breast, wings, and tail. The belly is red-orange, separated from the blue breast by a white bar. The undertail coverts and the wing linings are white. Juveniles have duller plumage with no more than a suggestion of the white breast band. Their irises are brown, later grayish white, eventually the adult's cream-color.
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Surf Scoter - It winters further south in temperate zones, on the coasts of the northern USA. Small numbers regularly winter in western Europe as far south as Great Britain and Ireland. Some birds may over-winter on the Great Lakes. It forms large flocks on suitable coastal waters. These are tightly packed, and the birds tend to take off together.
Surfbird - The Surfbird is a small stocky wader in the family Scolopacidae. It is usually classified in a genus of its own, as Aphriza virgata, but more recent data suggests it is very close genetically to the Red and Great Knots and should be included in Calidris . Indeed, the Great Knot looks very much like a larger, more long-billed, and somewhat darker surfbird.
Swainson's Buzzard - The Swainson's Hawk , is a large buteo hawk of the Falconiformes, sometimes separated in the Accipitriformes like its relatives. This species was named after William Swainson, a British naturalist. It is colloquially known as Grasshopper Hawk or Locust Hawk, as it is very fond of Acrididae and will voraciously eat these insects whenever they are available.
Swainson's Sparrow - This sparrow was named after the English ornithologist William Swainson.
Swainson's Thrush - Swainson's Thrush , also called Olive-backed Thrush, is a medium-sized thrush. This species is 16–18 cm in length, and has the white-dark-white underwing patterm characteristic of Catharus thrushes. Swainson's Thrush was named after William Swainson, an English ornithologist.
Swainson's warbler - A small and rather non-descript species of New World warbler, Swainson's Warblers will grow to about 5 to 6½ inches in length and 15 grams in weight. They are a plain olive-brown above and pale yellow-white below. They have a whitish eyebrow stripe that runs above their eye, and the top of their head is a rusty brown. Unlike most other New World warblers that are mostly dimorphic, there is no difference in appearance between a male or female Swainson's warbler.
Swallow Tanager - The species is somewhat dimorphic, as the female is a yellow-green, and the male a brighter light emerald-green, with a small deep black face and upper throat patch.
Swallow-tailed Bee-eater - This species, like other bee-eaters, is a richly coloured, slender bird. Its colours and readily visible forked tail make this species unmistakable. It is mainly green with a yellow throat, blue gorget and black eye stripe and beak. It can reach a length of 20–22 cm, including the long forked green or blue feathers. Sexes are alike.
Swallow-tailed Cotinga - Currently, it is monotypic within the genus Phibalura, but it has been suggested that the taxon boliviana should be considered a separate species, the Bolivian Swallow-tailed Cotinga . The nominate taxon is found in Atlantic forest in south-eastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay and Argentina . The taxon boliviana, which only was rediscovered in 2000 , is restriced to the vicinity of Apolo in Bolivia. Both populations are threatened by habitat loss.
Swallow-tailed flycatcher - This bird occurs in a wide variety of habitats including pastures, riparian forests, and open residential areas with scattered trees. Its breeding range is from central Mexico to central Argentina. In most of this range it is usually found year-round, but in the southern parts of its range it retreats northward for the winter. This species is also known to wander widely. It occurs almost annually in the United States and Canada.
Swallow-tailed Gull - It is the only fully nocturnal gull and seabird in the world,
Swallow-tailed Hummingbird - The Swallow-tailed Hummingbird is a species in the hummingbird family , found mainly in east-central South America. Most authorities place it in the monotypic genus Eupetomena, although some place it in Campylopterus based on song and the thick shafts of the males' first primaries. Its common name and specific name refer to the long, deeply forked, somewhat swallow-like tail.
Swallow-tailed kite - The species is 55 to 65 cm in length, with a wingspan of approximately 1.3 m . Male and female individuals appear similar. The body is a contrasting deep black and white. The flight feathers, tail, feet, bill are all black. Another characteristic is the forked tail, hence the name swallow-tailed.
Swallow-tailed Nightjar - It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland.
Swallow-wing Puffbird - It is found in Brazil and the entire Amazon Basin; also Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, the Guianas, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, and heavily degraded former forest.
Swamp Francolin - From Frank Finn's The Game Birds of India & Asia :
Swamp Palm Bulbul - The Swamp Greenbul is a species of songbird in the Pycnonotidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Thescelocichla. It is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, and moist savanna.
Swamp Sparrow - Adults have streaked rusty, buff and black upperparts with a gray breast, light belly and a white throat. The wings are strikingly rusty. Most males and a few females have a rust-colored caps. Their face is gray with a dark line through the eye. They have a short bill and fairly long legs. Immatures and winter adults usually have two brown crown stripes and much of the gray is replaced with buff.
Swan Goose - Anas cygnoid Linnaeus, 1758 Anas cygnoides Linnaeus, 1758 Cycnopsis cygnoides Cygnopsis cygnoides
Swee Waxbill - It breeds in Angola, Benin, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Chad, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 380,000 km².
Swift - The scientific name comes from the Greek απους, apous, meaning "without feet". These birds have very short legs which they use only for clinging to vertical surfaces . They never settle voluntarily on the ground.
Swift Parrot - The Swift Parrot is endangered with only about 1000 pairs remaining in the wild, and its population is declining.
Swinhoe - Identifiable as a Gallinago snipe by its cryptically-patterned black, brown, buff and white plumage, but not easily distinguished from Latham's and Pin-tailed Snipe in the field. Commonly referred to as cho suekyung in South Korea.
Swinhoe's pheasant - The male is a spectacular bird, with glossy blue-purple chest, belly and rump, brown shoulder, red facial wattles and bright white tail feathers, back of the neck and crest. The female, as is typical with pheasant species, is a dark brown barred colour.
Swinhoe's Storm Petrel - Swinhoe's Storm-petrel, Oceanodroma monorhis also known as Swinhoe's Petrel is a small seabird of the storm-petrel family Hydrobatidae.
Sword-billed Hummingbird - It is noted as the only species of bird to have a bill longer than the rest of its body. This adaptation is to feed on flowers with long corollas such as Passiflora mixta. The tongue is therefore also unusually long.
Swynnerton's Robin - The Swynnerton's Robin is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Swynnertonia. It is found in Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Sykes' Nightjar - Sykes's Nightjar or the Sindh Nightjar is a nightjar species found in South Asia.
Sykes's Warbler - Sykes' Warbler is an Old World warbler in the tree warbler. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the Booted Warbler, but is now considered a full species. Its breeding range is from northeast Arabia to Afghanistan. Like the Booted Warbler, many populations of the species migrate in winter to the Indian subcontinent as far south as Sri Lanka.
Syrian Woodpecker - The Syrian Woodpecker is a resident breeding bird from southeastern Europe east to Iran. Its range has expanded further northwest into Europe in recent years.
Szecheny - The Szechenyi's Monal-Partridge or Buff-throated Partridge is a species of bird in the Phasianidae family. It is found in China and the Republic of India. Its natural habitat is boreal forests.

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