Bird

📍 San Salvador Green Heron (Butorides virescens) A small, stocky heron that is one of the few birds known to use bait, dropping insects or twigs on the water to lure fish. Sharing the bank are two red-eared sliders (Trachemys scripta elegans), a widespread pond turtle named for the red stripe behind each eye. The green heron ranges widely across the Americas and is a common sight along wooded ponds and slow water year-round in warmer regions. ...

📍 Amazon Rainforest Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao) One of the largest and most dazzling parrots in the Neotropics, unmistakable with its scarlet body, yellow wing coverts, and long blue-and-red tail that can double its total length. A year-round resident throughout the Amazon basin, commonly seen in pairs or small flocks flying above the canopy or visiting forest-edge clearings and lodge gardens. Modeled range · iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0 Wikipedia | iNaturalist | Range map | eBird

📍 Amazon Rainforest Yellow-crowned Amazon (Amazona ochrocephala) A stocky, bright-green parrot with a signature yellow forehead patch and pale eye ring, this one is sheltering under a thatched palapa — a common sight where rainforest meets human settlement. Widespread and year-round across the Amazon basin, often seen in pairs or small flocks near forest edges and clearings. Modeled range · iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0 Wikipedia | iNaturalist | Range map | eBird

📍 Galápagos Islands Blue-footed Booby (Sula nebouxii) A powerful plunge-diver, it folds its wings and hits the water like an arrow from as high as 25 meters to spear schooling fish below the surface. Common throughout the Galápagos Islands year-round, nesting on rocky shores where males show off their bright feet in a high-stepping courtship dance. Modeled range · iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0 Wikipedia | iNaturalist | Range map | eBird ...

📍 Isla Isabela, Galápagos Islands Galápagos Penguin (Spheniscus mendiculus) The only penguin species found north of the equator, and the rarest penguin in the world — fewer than 2,000 remain, all within the Galápagos archipelago. Year-round residents of Isla Isabela, which hosts the majority of the global population thanks to the cold, nutrient-rich Cromwell Current that sweeps past the island’s western coast. Modeled range · iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0 Wikipedia | iNaturalist | Range map | eBird

📍 Los Túneles, Isla Isabela Blue-footed Booby (Sula nebouxii) Their vivid turquoise feet double as a health report: the brighter the blue, the better-fed the bird, and mates choose accordingly. A year-round breeding resident of Isabela Island; Los Túneles is one of the best spots to see them nesting right on the lava. Modeled range · iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0 Wikipedia | iNaturalist | Range map | eBird

📍 Shinobazu Pond, Tokyo Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) A small, elegant gull recognized by its dark chocolate-brown breeding hood, red bill, and pinkish-red legs — this individual’s patchy hood marks the transition between winter and summer plumage. One of Tokyo’s most familiar winter gulls, abundant at Shinobazu Pond in Ueno Park from October through April; the Japanese name ユリカモメ (yurikamome) even lends its name to the city’s waterfront rail line. ...

Red Junglefowl / Feral Chicken (Gallus gallus) Domestic chickens descend from the Red Junglefowl, and feral populations worldwide revert to ancestral habits like roosting in trees — exactly what this rooster is doing. Free-ranging and feral chickens are a common sight across the tropics, thriving anywhere warm weather and scattered food let them nest and roost in the open. Modeled range · iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0 Wikipedia | iNaturalist | Range map

📍 Hudson River, New York City Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) One of the heaviest waterfowl in North America — a Eurasian species identified by its all-white plumage, long S-curved neck, and orange bill with a distinctive black knob at the base. Mute swans are year-round residents along the Hudson River and throughout New York City’s waterways, introduced from Europe in the 19th century and now firmly established. Modeled range · iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0 Wikipedia | iNaturalist | Range map | eBird