Grey herons are found throughout temperate Europe and Asia and also parts of Africa. (Bhavesh Rathod)Cattle egrets have spread across the globe with the expansion of large-scale agriculture, spreading from their original range in parts of S Spain and Portugal, tropical and subtropical Africa and humid tropical and subtropical Asia. (Arunava De)A large, cosmopolitan wader, he Eurasian Curlew gets it’s name from its distinctive call; a loud “curloo-oo”. (Pranesh Kodancha)Northern pintails breed in the N areas of Europe, Asia and N America, wintering S of its breeding range towards the equator. (Chandan Hazra)Long-tailed shrikes range across much of mainland Asia and the eastern archipelagos. Photographed here in India. (Owen Deutsch)Brown pelicans are found in N and S america and are most prominent in the coastal areas of the S and W United States. (Leslie Reagan)Great barbets are resident breeders in the lower-to-middle altitudes of the Himalayas, ranging across N India, Nepal and Bhutan, and some parts of SE Asia as far as Laos. (Pranesh Kodancha)Spotted owlets breed across tropical Asia from India to SE Asia, often in urban areas. (Firoz Al Sabah)Black-winged stilts have a global distribution and seven subspecies. (Bhavesh Rathod)Chestnut-crowned laughingthrushes are found in Bhutan, China, India and Nepal. Photographed here in West Bengal, India. (Ramanan RR)Small pratincoles are resident breeders in India, W Pakistan and SE Asia. (Firoz Al Sabah)Buffy fish owls are found from S Burma and central India to the S and E of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, peninsular Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, the Riau Archipelago, Sumatra Brunei, Cocos Islands, Indonesia down to Java, Bali and Borneo. (Partha Mukherjee)Elegant terns breed on the Pacific coasts of the S United States and Mexico, wintering S in Peru, Ecuador and Chile. Photographed here in United States. (Salah Baazizi)Black-naped monarch flycatcher breeds across tropical southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka E to Indonesia and the Philippines. (Rajesh Chowdury)White-cheeked barbets are endemic to the forest areas of the Western Ghats and adjoining hills in S India. (Rudraksha Chodankar)Black-throated parrotbills prefer the subtropical or tropical moist montane forests of Bhutan, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Tibet and Vietnam. (Shantanu Bhattacharya)The Laggar Falcon is native to the Indian subcontinent, but is not as common as it once was due to increased pesticide use and their use as decoys to trap larger raptors. (Suranjan Mukherjee)Stellers eiders breed along the the Arctic coasts of E Siberia and Alaska. Photographed here in Norway. (Antero Topp)A small, cosmopolitan shorebird, the Kentish Plover, can be seen employing its characteristic “run and stop” method of retrieving arthropod prey from the shorelines across its wide range. (Wasif Yaqeen)Violaceous trogons are found in the humid forests of the Amazon basin and on the island of Trinidad. Photographed here in Panama. (Owen Deutsch)Just like their roller relatives, Indian Rollers are well known for the males’ acrobatic mating display also known as “rolling”. (Ravi’s Click)Tickell’s blue flycatchers have a wide distribution in tropical Asia from India to Indonesia. Photographed here in India. (Pratik Humnabadkar)Who needs two feet to fly? A greater flamingo photographed in India. (Ami Prabal)Ruddy shelducks breed from SE Europe across central Asia to SE Asia, wintering in the Indian Subcontinent. (Sumanta Basu)Wire-tailed swallows are split into two subspecies, one throughout Africa, the other found in S and SE Asia. Photographed here in Pakistan. (Awais Ali Sheikh)
