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Accipitridae is a family of birds of prey, which includes hawks, eagles, kites, harriers and Old World vultures. These birds have powerful hooked beaks for tearing flesh from their prey, strong legs, powerful talons and keen eyesight. Black-winged kite, Elanus caeruleus ( Desfontaines, 1789)
The European green woodpecker ( Picus viridis ), also known as the yaffle and sometimes called a nickle, is a large green woodpecker with a bright red crown and a black moustache. Males have a red centre to the moustache stripe which is absent in females. It is resident across much of Europe and the western Palearctic but in Spain and Portugal ...
Melanerpes hypopolius ( Wagler, 1829) 49. Yucatan woodpecker. Melanerpes pygmaeus ( Ridgway, 1885) 50. Red-crowned woodpecker. Melanerpes rubricapillus ( Cabanis, 1862) 51. Gila woodpecker.
The imperial woodpecker ( Campephilus imperialis) is a woodpecker species endemic to Mexico. If it is not extinct, it is the world's largest woodpecker species, at 56–60 cm (22–23.5 in) long. [3] Researchers have discovered that the imperial woodpecker has slow climbing strides and a fast wing-flap rate compared with other woodpeckers.
Many parrots are vividly colored, and some are multi-colored. In size they range from 8 cm (3.1 in) to 1 m (3.3 ft) in length. Old World parrots are found from Africa east across south and southeast Asia and Oceania to Australia and New Zealand. Blue-rumped parrot, Psittinus cyanurus (A) Alexandrine parakeet, Psittacula eupatria
The acorn woodpecker ( Melanerpes formicivorus) is a medium-sized woodpecker with a length of around 20 cm (8 in), [ 2] and an average weight of 85 g (3.0 oz). [citation needed] It is found across Central America, as well as North into the western United States and South into parts of Colombia. [ 1]
Onychospina Bonaparte, 1853. Onychospiza Rey, 1872 (incorrect subsequent spelling) The buntings are a group of Old World passerine birds forming the genus Emberiza, the only genus in the family Emberizidae. The family contains 44 species. They are seed -eating birds with stubby, conical bills.
The largest surviving species is the great slaty woodpecker, which weighs 430 g (15 oz) on average and up to 563 g (19.9 oz), and measures 45 to 55 cm (18 to 22 in), but the extinct imperial woodpecker, at 55 to 61 cm (22 to 24 in), and ivory-billed woodpecker, around 48 to 53 cm (19 to 21 in) and 516 g (18.2 oz), were probably both larger.