Eared Dove
Peru’s abundant open-country dove links a small black cheek mark with spotted wings, reddish legs, and flocks that can expand from a few town birds to moving clouds over crops.
São Paulo, Brazil: places and wildlife
Browse the published Explore collection for São Paulo, Brazil. Open a discovery for its field guide, practical details, and background.
Rufous-collared Sparrow
The everyday sparrow of Andean villages announces morning with a simple phrase that changes subtly from place to place.
Black Vulture
A highly social scavenger whose broad circles and white wing patches are familiar above both cities and wild rivers.
Great Kiskadee
A loud, adaptable tropical flycatcher whose name echoes its ringing kis-ka-dee call.
Molina’s Hog-nosed Skunk
A powerful little digger that uses an elongated nose and foreclaws to root insects from South American soil.
Brown Rat
A Brown Rat problem is a route-finding problem: identify the stocky ground-level rat, map fresh sign to food and entry, clean contamination wet, then close the building before measuring whether control worked.
Black Rat
The agile roof-climbing rat of ports and warm cities differs sharply from its heavier, burrowing relative.