White-cheeked barbet and rufous treepie battling. Both are distributed along the Western Ghats S from the Surat Dangs and along the associated hills of S India. (Nisha Purushothaman)
Egyptian vultures are considered Endangered and are widely distributed; the Egyptian vulture is found from southwestern Europe and northern Africa to India. They are considered extinct in South Africa. (Zafer Tekin)Adelie penguins are among the most southerly distributed of all seabirds, along with the emperor penguin, S Polar skua, Wilson’s storm petrel, snow petrel, and Antarctic petrel. (Steve Hillary)Asian paradise flycatchers inhabit thick forests and well-wooded habitats from Turkestan to Manchuria, all over the Indian Subcontinent and Sri Lanka all the way to the Malay Archipelago on the islands of Sumba and Alor. (Bilal Qazi)Black-throated bushtits are distributed across the foothills of the Himalayas, stretching across northern India through Nepal, Bhutan, northern Burma, Vietnam, and Taiwan. (Rahul Deshpande)Chestnut-bellied rock thrushes are mainly found in the N regions of the Indian subcontinent E to parts of SE Asia, including Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Tibet, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. (Kaustav Banerjee)King penguins are the 2nd largest penguin species and breed on subantarctic islands between 45 and 55°S, at the northern reaches of Antarctica, as well as Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands, and other temperate islands of the region. (Steve Hillary)Mockingbirds are found in the New World and are best known for the habit of some species mimicking the songs of other birds and the sounds of insects and amphibians. (J.Bernardo Sánchez)Hoopoes are widespread in Europe, Asia, and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar. (Eman Nasser)Grey-headed gulls breed sporadically across S America and Africa S of the Sahara. (Richard and Eilleen Flack)Grey-crowned yellowthroats prefer the subtropical or tropical moist shrubland and heavily degraded former forest of Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and the United States. (Owen Deutsch)Gentoo and Adelie Penguins are closely associated and are common along the Antarctic coastline. Both are considered Near-Threatened. (Steve Hillary)Lesser adjutant storks are strongly associated with wetlands and are found from India all the way across to SE Asia in Java. (Somnath Chakraborty)Little pied flycatchers are found in the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia, ranging across Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. (Dhritiman Hore)Long-tailed ground roller is a very rare the monotypic genus (Uratelornis) endemic to arid spiny forests near the coast in SW Madagascar. (Markus Lilje / www.rockjumper.co.za)Magnificent hummingbirds prefer the edges and clearings of montane oak forests from about 2000m altitude up to the timberline, breeding across most of SW United States all the way down to W Panama. (Mauro Roman)Painted spurfowls are found in rocky hill and scrub forests mainly in peninsular India. (Shaurya Shashwat Shukla)Paradise tanagers are Found in humid tropical and subtropical forests in the western and northern Amazon Basin in South America, it occurs in Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil and the Guianas. (Glenn Bartley)Cape parrots are Endangered with less tha 1,000 remaining in the wild. This green-and-gold parrot is only found in South Africa. (Rodnick Biljon)Violet-bellied hummingbirds are a monotypical for genus (Damophila) found in Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Peru. (Adam Riley / www.rockjumper.co.za)Stone curlews have a wide distribution throughout the tropical and temperate parts of the world, with two species found in Australia. (Katarzyna Wojno)Spotted doves are common resident breeders across their distributional range on the Indian Subcontinent and SE Asia. (Kallol Mukherjee)Shikras are widely distributed in Asia and Africa where they are also called the little banded goshawk. (Awais Ali Sheikh)Red-fronted tinkerbirds are widespread and frequently common resident breeders in E South Africa with a separate population from S Sudan and Ethiopia S to central and E Tanzania. (Tim Cockcroft)Purple swamphen are widely distributed across Europe, Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, SE Asia, Australia and New Zealand. They have also been introduced into N America. (Tanuku Manohar)
