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Kinglets and Goldcrests

Class AVES Order PASSERIFORMES Suborder OSCINES Family REGULIDAE (KINGLETS AND GOLDCRESTS) Very small birds with medium-long wings and tail, thin, straight and pointed bill, longish legs; general grey-green plumage coloration offset by pale wingbars, variably contrasting head markings, one species plainer-headed. 8–11 cm. Nearctic, Palearctic and, marginally, Oriental Regions. Coniferous forest, also mixed and deciduous […]

Oxpeckers (Buphagidae)

Class AVES Order PASSERIFORMES Suborder OSCINES Family Buphagidae (OXPECKERS) free text from the Handbook of the Birds of the World. Medium-sized passerines with heavy, flattened bill; plumage coloration dull brownish and buff, with contrastingly bright eye wattle and bill. 20 cm. Africa. Savanna and farmland with large ungulates. 1 genus, 2 species, 3 taxa. No […]

Wrens (Troglodytidae)

Class AVES Order PASSERIFORMESSuborder OSCINES Family TROGLODYTIDAE (WRENS) free text from the Handbook of the Birds of the World. Very small to medium-sized, mostly insectivorous birds with finely pointed and often decurved bill, tail variously long and graduated to extremely short, one species with sturdy legs and bill; plumage colours mostly grey and brown, often […]

Honeyguides (Indicatoridae)

Class AVES Order PICIFORMES Family INDICATORIDAE (HONEYGUIDES) Free text form the Handbook of the Birds of the World Medium-small, rather nondescript arboreal birds with small head, short bill, nostrils often raised, and generally rather drab plumage with white outer-tail markings. 10-20 cm. Sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia. Forest and woodland, including streamside trees in near-desert; […]