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Commmon name

African Grey Parrot
African Jacana
African Penguin
African Pygmy Falcon
African Yellow-billed Duck
American Crow
American Flamingo
American Kestrel
American Robin
American Robin
Amethyst Starling
Andean Condor
Bahama Pintail
Bald Eagle
Bald Eagle
Bali Mynah
Bali Mynah
Bartlett Bleeding Heart Dove
Black Parrot
Black-faced Tanager
Black-headed Woodpecker
Black-naped Fruit Dove
Black-necked Stilt
Black-throated Magpie Jay
Blue Ground Dove
Blue Jay
Blue-bellied Roller
Blue-crowned Pigeon
Blue-Grey Tanager
Blue-naped Mousebird
Blue-necked Tanager
Blue-throated Conure
Blue-winged Mountain Tanager
Boat-billed Heron
Boat-Billed Heron
Brazilian Tanager
Brown Pelican
Cape Thick-knee
Carmine Bee-eater
Chestnut-mandibled Toucan
Chukar Partridge (Chukar)
Collard-Finch Billed Bulbul
Common Grackle
Crested Oropendola
Crested Wood Partridge
Cuban Whistling Duck
Dhyal Thrush
Double-Crested Cormorant
Double-Crested Cormorant
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Screech-Owl
Eurasian Eagle Owl
European Starling
Fairy Bluebird
Fire-tufted Barbet
Giant Cowbird
Gold-crested Mynah
Golden Conure
Golden Plover
Golden-bellied Grosbeak
Golden-Breasted Starling
Goldie's Lorikeet
Gray-winged Trumpeter
Great Argus Pheasant
Green Aracari
Green Woodhoopoe
Green-naped Pheasant Pigeon
Green-winged Macaw
Grosbeak Starling
Guam Rail
Guira Cuckoo
Hamerkop
Harris’s Hawk
Hooded Merganser
Hyacinth Macaw
Inca Tern
Keel-billed Toucan
Kikuyu White-Eye
Mandarin Duck
Military Macaw
Nicobar Pigeon
Nicobar Pigeon
Northern Bobwhite
Northern Cardinal
Ocellated Turkey
Orange Bishop Weaver
Orange-Bellied Leafbird
Oriole Warbler
Palm Cockatoo
Palm Tanager
Pearl-spotted Owlet
Pied Imperial Pigeon (Nutmeg Imperial Pigeon)
Purple-crested Turaco
Purple-throated Fruitcrow
Rainbow Lorikeet
Red-billed Leiothrix
Red-crested Finch
Red-Crowned Crane
Red-fronted Macaw
Red-legged Seriema
Red-tailed Hawk
Rhinoceros Hornbill
Ring Teal Duck
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Roseate Spoonbill
Roseate Spoonbill
Ruddy Duck
Ruddy Duck
Saffron Finch
Scarlet Ibis
Screaming Piha
Silver-eared Mesia
Snowy Owl
Snowy Owl
Spectacled Owl
Spectacled Owl
Steller's Sea Eagle
Sunbittern
Superb Starling
Taveta Golden Weaver
Tufted Titmouse
Two-toed Sloth
Victoria Crowned Pigeon
Waldrapp Ibis
Wattled Curassow
White-cheeked Turaco
White-crested Laughing Thrush
White-crested Laughing Thrush
White-eared Catbird
White-faced Whistling Duck
White-headed wattled Lapwing
White-tailed Trogon
Wompoo Fruit Dove
Yellow-bellied Laughing Thrush
Yellow-billed Cardinal
Yellow-naped Amazon


Scientific name

Actophilornis africanus   African Jacana
Ailuroedus buccoides   White-eared Catbird
Aix galericulata   Mandarin Duck
Ajaia ajaja   Roseate Spoonbill
Ajaia ajaja   Roseate Spoonbill
Alectoris chukar   Chukar Partridge (Chukar)
Amazona auropalliata   Yellow-naped Amazon
Ampeliceps coronatus   Gold-crested Mynah
Anas bahamensis   Bahama Pintail
Anas undulata   African Yellow-billed Duck
Anisognathus somptuosus   Blue-winged Mountain Tanager
Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus   Hyacinth Macaw
Ara chloroptera   Green-winged Macaw
Ara militaris   Military Macaw
Ara rubrogenys   Red-fronted Macaw
Argusianus argus   Great Argus Pheasant
Baeolophus bicolor   Tufted Titmouse
Bubo bubo   Eurasian Eagle Owl
Bubo scandiaca   Snowy Owl
Bubo scandiaca   Snowy Owl
Buceros rhinoceros   Rhinoceros Hornbill
Burhinus capensis   Cape Thick-knee
Buteo jamaicensis   Red-tailed Hawk
Callonetta leucophrys   Ring Teal Duck
Calocitta formosa colliei   Black-throated Magpie Jay
Caloenas nicobarica   Nicobar Pigeon
Caloenas nicobarica   Nicobar Pigeon
Cardinalis cardinalis   Northern Cardinal
Cariama cristata   Red-legged Seriema
Chlorpsis hardwickei   Orange-Bellied Leafbird
Choloepus hoffmanni   Two-toed Sloth
Cinnyricinclus leucogaster   Amethyst Starling
Claravis pretiosa   Blue Ground Dove
Cochlearius cochlearius   Boat-Billed Heron
Colinus virginianus   Northern Bobwhite
Copsychus saularis   Dhyal Thrush
Coracias cyanogaster   Blue-bellied Roller
Coracopsis nigra   Black Parrot
Corvus brachyrhynchos   American Crow
Coryphospingus cucullatus   Red-crested Finch
Cosmopsarus regius   Golden-Breasted Starling
Crax globulosa   Wattled Curassow
Cyanocitta cristata   Blue Jay
Dendrocygna arborea   Cuban Whistling Duck
Dendrocygna viduata   White-faced Whistling Duck
Ducula bicolor   Pied Imperial Pigeon (Nutmeg Imperial Pigeon)
Eudocimus ruber   Scarlet Ibis
Euplectes franciscanus   Orange Bishop Weaver
Eurypyga helias   Sunbittern
Falco sparverius   American Kestrel
Gallicolumba criniger   Bartlett Bleeding Heart Dove
Gallirallus owstoni   Guam Rail
Garrulax galbanus   Yellow-bellied Laughing Thrush
Garrulax leucolophus   White-crested Laughing Thrush
Garrulax leucolophus   White-crested Laughing Thrush
Geronticus eremita   Waldrapp Ibis
Glaucidium perlatum   Pearl-spotted Owlet
Goura cristata   Blue-crowned Pigeon
Goura victoria   Victoria Crowned Pigeon
Grus japonensis   Red-Crowned Crane
Guaruba guarouba   Golden Conure
Guira guira   Guira Cuckoo
Haliaeetus leucocephalus   Bald Eagle
Haliaeetus leucocephalus   Bald Eagle
Haliaeetus pelagicus   Steller's Sea Eagle
Himantonus mexicanus   Black-necked Stilt
Hypergerus atriceps   Oriole Warbler
Irena puella   Fairy Bluebird
Lamprotornis superbus   Superb Starling
Leiothrix argentauris   Silver-eared Mesia
Leiothrix lutea   Red-billed Leiothrix
Leucopsar rothschildi   Bali Mynah
Leucopsar rothschildi   Bali Mynah
Lipaugus vociferans   Screaming Piha
Lorosterna inca   Inca Tern
Megascops asio   Eastern Screech-Owl
Meleagris ocellata   Ocellated Turkey
Mergus cucullatus   Hooded Merganser
Merops nubicus   Carmine Bee-eater
Molothrus oryzivorus   Giant Cowbird
Otidiphaps nobilis   Green-naped Pheasant Pigeon
Oxyura jamaicensis   Ruddy Duck
Oxyura jamaicensis   Ruddy Duck
Parabuteo unicinctus   Harris’s Hawk
Paroaria capitata   Yellow-billed Cardinal
Pelecanus occidentalis   Brown Pelican
Phalacrocorax auritus   Double-Crested Cormorant
Phalacrocorax auritus   Double-Crested Cormorant
Pheucticus chrysogaster   Golden-bellied Grosbeak
Pheucticus ludovicianus   Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Pheucticus ludovicianus   Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Phoeniconais ruber ruber   American Flamingo
Phoeniculus purpureus   Green Woodhoopoe
Picoides pubescens   Downy Woodpecker
Picus erythropygius   Black-headed Woodpecker
Ploceus castaneiceps   Taveta Golden Weaver
Pluvialis dominica   Golden Plover
Polihierax semitorquatus   African Pygmy Falcon
Probosciger aterrimus   Palm Cockatoo
Psilopogon pyrolophus   Fire-tufted Barbet
Psittacus Erithacus   African Grey Parrot
Psitteuteles goldiei   Goldie's Lorikeet
Psophia crepitans   Gray-winged Trumpeter
Pteroglossus viridis   Green Aracari
Ptilinopus magnificus   Wompoo Fruit Dove
Ptilinopus melanospila   Black-naped Fruit Dove
Pulsatrix perpicillata   Spectacled Owl
Pulsatrix perpicillata   Spectacled Owl
Pyrrhura cruentata   Blue-throated Conure
Querula purpurata   Purple-throated Fruitcrow
Quiscalus quiscula   Common Grackle
Ramphastos sulfuratus   Keel-billed Toucan
Ramphocelus bresilius   Brazilian Tanager
Rollulus rouloul   Crested Wood Partridge
Schistoclamys melanops   Black-faced Tanager
Scissirostrum dubium   Grosbeak Starling
Scopus umbretta   Hamerkop
Sicalis flaveola   Saffron Finch
Spheniscus demersus   African Penguin
Spizixos semitorques cinereicapillus   Collard-Finch Billed Bulbul
Sturnus vulgaris   European Starling
Tangara cyanicollis   Blue-necked Tanager
Tauraco leucotis   White-cheeked Turaco
Tauraco porphyreolophus   Purple-crested Turaco
Thraupis episcopus   Blue-Grey Tanager
Thraupis palmarum   Palm Tanager
Trichoglossus haematodus   Rainbow Lorikeet
Trogon viridis   White-tailed Trogon
Turdus migratorius   American Robin
Turdus migratorius   American Robin
Urocolius macrourus   Blue-naped Mousebird
Vanellus albiceps   White-headed wattled Lapwing
Vultur gryphus   Andean Condor
Zosterops kikuyuensis   Kikuyu White-Eye





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