All Entries in the "Birds" Category
Common Factors of Birds
List of Common Birds found in Kerala Scientific Name English Name Acridotheres tristis Common Myna Actitis hypoleucos Common Sandpiper Alcedo atthis Small Blue Kingfisher Amaurornis phoenicurus White-Breasted Waterhen Anhinga melanogaster Darter Bubulcus ibis Cattle Egret Buceros bicornis Great Pied-Hornbill Butorides striatus Little Green Heron [...]
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Penguin
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Infraclass: Neognathae Order: Sphenisciformes Sharpe, 1891 Family: Spheniscidae Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are a group of aquatic, flightless birds living almost exclusively in the southern hemisphere, especially in Antarctica. Highly adapted for life in the water, penguins have countershaded dark and white [...]
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Black-headed Oriole
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordata Class:Aves Order:Passeriformes Family:Oriolidae Genus:Oriolus Species:O. larvatus The Black-headed Oriole (Oriolus larvatus) is an African passerine. It has a very striking appearance with a bright yellow body, contrasting black head and flesh-coloured beak.It breeds in much of sub-Saharan Africa from Sudan and Ethiopia in the north to South Africa in the south.It inhabits dry [...]
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Birds
Birds (class Aves) are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic (warm-blooded), egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from the 5 cm (2 in) Bee Hummingbird to the 2.75 m (9 [...]
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Treepie
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Corvidae The Indian Treepie is extremely agile while searching for food, clinging and clambering through the branches. Its acrobatic dances on the coconut palm leaf (ola) has given it the name olenjali in Malayalam. The treepies comprise four closely related genera [...]
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crow
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Corvidae Genus: Corvus The true crows are large passerine birds that form the genus Corvus in the family Corvidae. Ranging in size from the relatively small pigeon-sized jackdaws (Eurasian and Daurian) to the Common Raven of the Holarctic region and [...]
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Crow Pheasant
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Cuculiformes Family: Cuculidae Genus: Centropus Species: C. sinensis The Greater Coucal or Crow Pheasant (Centropus sinensis) is a large non-parasitic member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes. A widespread resident in Asia, from India, east to south China [...]
admin | May 21, 2011 | Comments 0
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Peafowl [peacock]
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Galliformes Family: Phasianidae Genus: Pavo Species: P. cristatus The Indian Peafowl or Blue Peafowl (Pavo cristatus) is a large and brightly coloured bird of the pheasant family native to South Asia, but introduced and semi-feral in many other parts of the [...]
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Sparrow
They are less than 15cm long. Male House Sparrows can be identified by the grey crown on their heads, and black throat ‘bib’, whereas females and young are mostly plain brown. Sparrows live for four to seven years, with up to five breeding seasons. The breeding season runs through Spring and Summer, and up to [...]
admin | May 18, 2011 | Comments 0