When you learn new vocabulary, I always encourage you to use a monolingual dictionary. Or maybe almost always. It’s pretty hard if you have to learn the English names of animal or plant species. In such a case the English definition may be not enough to visualize the animal or plant. This is where a picture is really worth a thousand words.
If you know something about birds and can tell them apart, you will recognize the particular species in the pictures. But if you’re not a big fan of this group of animals, you will need to use a bilingual dictionary, I’m afraid. Anyways, let’s have a look at just a tiny selection of common bird species.
Here’s the video version:
And now let’s have a look at each of the species one by one:
Table of Contents
snipe – the first bird in our collection
a wading species with a long thin beak
gannet
a large fish-eating seabird
nuthatch
a small short-tailed species with a thin beak
mallard
a common species of duck
capercaillie
a large European grouse living in coniferous woodlands
rhea – the biggest bird described here
a large flightless species of South America
starling
a dark brown or black species common in Europe and North America
lovebird – maybe the most lovely bird
a small genus of parrot
plover – a bird with long legs
a short-beaked species living near the sea
blackbird – the blackest bird ever?
a common Eurasian species with black feathers and an orange bill
weaver
a species that constructs elaborate nests of interlaced plants
tit
a small European species
ptarmigan
a grouse with completely feathered feet
waxwing
an American and Eurasian species with a showy crest
jay
a noisy brightly colored species
tern
a seabird with long wings
warbler
a small singing species living in Europe and America
macaw – a colorful bird
a species of South America with a long tail and bright colorful feathers
hornbill
a large species of Africa and Eurasia with an enormous bill
goshawk
a long-tailed hawk with short rounded wings
crossbill – the bird with the strangest bill
a finch that has mandibles with crossing tips
wren
a small species with brown feathers and a short tail pointing upward
moorhen
an aquatic species with a red bill and forehead
egret – the bird you’d regret not to know
a heron with white feathers
spoonbill – a bird with a spoon
a wading species with a flattened bill rounded at the tip
osprey
a large fish-eating species
teal
a small duck living in Europe and America
brant
a small goose with a black head, neck, and chest
flycatcher
a bird that catches and eats flying insects
That’s it for now. There are lots of other species of course.