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Home Subjects Covers About Contact Culiciformes is an Order of Birds that includes the family Culicidae, with Cuckoos, Anis & Roadrunners, here and Musaphagidae, which includes Turacos. In the Old World, the subfamily of Culicinae are brood parasites, laying their eggs in the nests of other birds. List of Species CULICIFORMES (cuckoos, roadrunners, anis, turacos) […]
Menu Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Nightjar family, Caprimulgidae is in the Order Caprimulgiformes. They are crepuscular or nocturnal, catching flying insects. The small beak hides a huge mouth as one may see as one yawns in video below. Frogmouths are in a different family, Podargidae. NIGHTJARS, FROGMOUTHS (Caprimulgiformes) COMMON NIGHTHAWK (Chordeiles minor) moved,
Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Elegant Trogon, (Trogon elegans) is a member of the family Trogonidae, in the Order Trogoniformes. It barely makes it into the US, in AZ and NM, from its main Central American range to Guatemala. It lives in semi-arid woodlands and forest, usually in mountain canyons. The male is iridescent
Home Subjects Covers About Contact Order Strigiformes (OWLS) Click on the thumbnail to see more of each species. Barn Owl Boreal Owl Saw-whet Owl Short-eared Owl Long-eared Owl Burrowing Owl Great Horned Owl Ferruginous Pigmy Owl Snowy Owl Elf-Owl Eastern Screech Owl Whiskered Screech Owl Great Gray Owl Barred Owl Spotted Owl Western Screech Owl
Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Snowy Owl, (Nyctea scandiaca) breeds mostly in the tundra in the Arctic regions of North America and Eurasia. With the long days, they hunt during the day as well as night. They are among the largest of owls and the heaviest in North America. Recent data indicates they have
Home Subjects Covers About Contact MISCELLANEOUS OWLS ELF OWL (Micrathene whitneyi) Micrathene whitneyi ELF OWL Micrathene whitneyi ELF OWL Micrathene whitneyi ELF OWL Micrathene whitneyi ELF OWL Micrathene whitneyi ELF OWL CLICK HERE FOR MORE ELF OWLS FERRUGINOUS PIGMY OWL (Glaucidium brasillianum) Glaucidium brasillianum FERRUGINOUS PIGMY OWL Glaucidium brasillianum FERRUGINOUS PIGMY OWL Glaucidium brasillianum FERRUGINOUS
Menu Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Saw-whet Owl (Aegolicus acadicus) is native to North America and one of its smallest species and perhaps the ‘cutest’. Often they are found in dense thickets or conifers at eye level. Many migrate south in winter. They prey mainly on small rodents, fewer birds, but have taken Rock
Menu Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Northern Hawk Owl (Surnia ulula) live in the boreal forests of northern Latitudes in North America and Eurasia. They prefer open coniferous forests or those mixed with deciduous trees. “They are found in muskegs, clearings, swamp valleys, meadows, or recently burnt areas, and generally avoid dense spruce-fir forests.”
Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Long-eared Owl (Asio otus) has and extensive breeding range in North America, and Eurasia It prefers open habitat for hunting with groups of trees for nesting and roosting. ground, and there seems to be a preference for conifers. They are migratory, moving south in winter. LONG-EARED OWL (Asio otus)
Menu Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginanus) is the most widespread of American Owls, after the Barn Owl, adaptable to all kinds of habitats from the frozen north to deserts in the Southwest, to man-made structures in populated areas. These ferocious birds have the greatest variety of prey of any
