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  • Wedge Tailed Eagle

    Wedge Tailed Eagle

    The wedge-tailed eagle is the largest bird of prey in the continent of Australia. The wedge-tailed eagle is one of the world’s most powerful avian predators. Large animals may be attacked by pairs or, occasionally by groups, acting cooperatively. One record shows 15 wedge-tailed eagles hunting kangaroos.

  • Passenger Pigeon

    Passenger Pigeon

    The Passenger Pigeon was once one of the most numerous birds in North America. From the 1600s through early 1800s, people wrote of flocks that filled the sky as far as they eye could see, with some individual flocks estimated at over 2 billion birds. However, the Passenger Pigeon was driven to extinction by uncontrolled…

  • Common Whispergrass

    Common Whispergrass

    A plant or a hungry twig-man?

  • Green Anaconda

    Green Anaconda

    The green anaconda is a boa species found in South America. It is the heaviest and one of the longest known extant snake species. Primarily aquatic, they eat a wide variety of prey, almost anything they can manage to overpower, including fish, amphibians, birds, a variety of mammals, and other reptiles. Particularly large anacondas may…

  • Goliath Heron

    Goliath Heron

    The Goliath heron, also known as the giant heron, is a very large wading bird. It is found in sub-Saharan Africa, with smaller, declining numbers in Southwest and South Asia. This is the world’s largest living heron. The height of the goliath heron is 3 ft 11 in – 5 ft 0 in, the wingspan…

  • Martin

    Martin

    These birds are commonly found in Europe, North Africa, Palearctic, Sub Saharan Africa, and Asia. Common house martins are monogamous birds, this species conduct breeding with the same partner for life. A common house martin can fly at the speed of 39.4 kph (24.5 mph).

  • Green Pigeon

    Green Pigeon

    The yellow-footed green pigeon, also known as yellow-legged green pigeon, is a common species of green pigeon found in the Indian subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia. It is the state bird of Maharashtra. In Marathi, it is called हरोली (Haroli) or हरीयाल (Hariyal). The species feeds on fruit, including many species of Ficus.

  • Swamphen

    Swamphen

    The species makes loud, quick, bleating and hooting calls which are hardly bird-like in tone. It is particularly noisy during the breeding season. Despite being clumsy in flight, it can fly long distances and is a good swimmer, especially for a bird without webbed feet.

  • Asian Palm Swift

    Asian Palm Swift

    The Asian Palm Swift is a common resident in tropical Asia from India to the Philippines. The down and feather nest is glued to the underside of a palm leaf with saliva, which is also used to secure the usually two or three eggs. These swifts spend most of their lives in the air, living on the insects they catch…