Birds > Gruiformes
The Grey-Winged Trumpeter (Psophia crepitans) is an enchanting, hunch-backed forest bird native to the shadowy interior of the northern Amazon Basin. Belonging to a primitive lineage of the crane order Gruiformes, trumpeters are celebrated for their highly cooperative...
Birds > Passerines
Stresemann’s Bush Crow (Zavattariornis keithaensis), also known as the Ethiopian Bush Crow or Keith-Abbott’s Ground Jay, is an enigmatic passerine bird endemic exclusively to a tiny geographic zone in southern Ethiopia. Placed in a monotypic genus within...
Birds > Corvids
The Mexican Jay (Aphelocoma wollweberi) is an intelligent, highly sociable corvid native to the Madrean sky island woodlands spanning the southwestern United States and the highlands of Mexico. Featuring soft azure-blue wings, an uncrested blue head, and an ash-gray...
Birds > Bucerotiformes
The Green Wood Hoopoe (Phoeniculus purpureus) is a charismatic, highly vocal arboreal bird renowned for its brilliant dark plumage shimmering with bottle-green and purple structural iridescence. Ranging throughout the wooded savannas of Sub-Saharan Africa, this...
Birds > Songbirds
The Ground Tit (Pseudopodoces humilis), formerly misclassified as Hume’s ground jay in the crow family, is an extraordinary songbird endemic to the vast, windswept Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Molecular genetic research revealed that this hardy alpine bird is...
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