Field guide

Field guide
Valentina Alvarez
Birds
Amphibians
Reptiles
Mammals
Plants
Insects
BIRDS
Arpia Eagle (Harpia harpyja)
Native:
Argentina; Belize; Bolivia, Plurinational States of Brazil; Colombia; Costa Rica; Ecuador;
French Guiana; Guatemala; Guyana; Honduras; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama; Paraguay;
Peru; Suriname; Venezuela
• Lives in wet forests and
jungles
• Is hunter
• Prefers day
• Eats little mammals that
live in trees, like
monkeys
• It´s a big bird. Its height
is betwwen 86 an 105
cms, and its weight is
4.8kg (males) and 7.6 to
9 kg (females)
Black Tucan(Ramphastos ambiguus)
• Native: South America,
specially Colombia, Peru
and Venezuela.
• Lives in the mountains of
wet jungles
• Eats fruits
• Its height is 47 to 61 cms
• Its beak is 18 cms long
Gavilan Pollero (Buteo magnirostris)
• It can be fund in Mexico,
Argentina, Ecuador and
Colombia.
• Its one of the most common in
Colombia
• Lives in tropical forests and
lower ground
• Its 31 to 41 cms long
• Weight: 250 – 300 grs.
Carriqui (Cyanocorax afinis)
• Is distributed in
northern Colombia,
north-western
Venezuela, Panama and
Costa Rica
• Lives in a variety of
forest types but not in
the interior of dense
forest
• Its 33 cms long
Amphibians
Sapo (Bufo marinus)
• It can be found in El Salvador,
Mexico, Colombia, Brasil, Perú,
Hawai, Fiji, Filipins, Texas, Australia
an more.
• It throws a liquid like milk
• Eats bugs
• It could be 20 cms long
• Lives in gardens with vebgetation,
places close to the water
Rana dardo (Dendrobates truncatus)
• Its poisonous
• Lives under the
big leaves of
the wet jungles
or in dry forests
• Eats insects,
mostly ants.
• They can be
found in
Colombia,
Panama, Costa
Rica, Honduras
and El Salvador
Rana Platanera (Hyla rufitela)
• This frog can be found in: Colombia,Peru,Brasil,Panama,
Honduras and other parts of Central America
• Lives in tropical forests
• It has night habits
Rana minadora (Elachistocleis
erythogaster)
It´s an endagered species, it´s also considered only present in very few countries, Brasil
And Colombia, it´s a small frog that likes to live on the ground.
Eats mostly insects and worms.
Mammals
Oso Hormiguero (Cyclores didactylus)
• Is found in the tropical places in Central America and South America
• Eats ants and termites
• Lives in topical jungles and is very active at night
opossum(Didelphimorphia)
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It can be found all over America
It is a marsupial
Includes 92 spicies
Its eats insects and small mammals, birds and fruits.
Its very active at night
Reptiles
lisard (Anolis sp)
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It is found in tropical and sub tropical places
It eats insects
Its in the same family that camalions
The anolis family is very large with alot of spcies
Babilla (Caiman crocodilus)
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Is a small crocodrile
It is found in South of Mexico, Central America,and South America
Eats smalls mammals, reptiles, frogs and fishes
It can grow up to 2 meters
Saltarroyos (Basiliscus basiliscus)
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Also known as christ lizard because looks like he can walk on water
Its found in Central and South America
It eats insects
Its height can be 50 cm
Iguana (Iguana iguana)
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It lives in tropical countries in South America
They like to live around humans
It can grow uo to almost 2 meters
Its insects, fruits,birds ,other reptiles, but mostly leaves
They live in trees
Lobo (tupinabis tiguixin)
Its a very agresive Lisard
It lives in south america
It comes from the same family that comodo dragon
Ieats birds,dead animals ,small mammals, and frogs
It can grow up to 2meters
Arachnids
Araña Jardinera (Nephilia clavipes)
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Its foud on tropical contries
It makes very big spiderwebs to catch insects
Eats insects
Its 3 cm big
Tarantula (Theraphosidae)
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Its found its foud in tropical contries
Its eats insects other spiders , reptails ,small mamels and frogs
Its bite is very painfull
Its can measure up to 15 centimeters
Banana espider (Phoneutria
boliviensis)
• Its found in Colombia, Ecuador , Brasil ,Costa Rica and Honduras
• Its very agresive
• Its one of the most dangeorus poisonous spiders of the world, its bite is very painful
Escorpion (Scorpionida)
There are many scorpion species, this one lives on rotten trees.
They feed from insects and are very territorial
The females carry their babies in the back
They are very poisonus
Insects
Gorgojo (brentido)
The gorjojo is a specie of beetle.
They feed on plants and some
Times can be pests for commercial
Crops.
Tiger Beetle(Cincidela)
Its the fastes beetle in the world
Its a very good hunter, feeds
from other insects, they like to
live near water
Praying Mantis(Acanthops falcata)
The mantis is a great hunter and a master of cammoflauge, this one looks like a dry leave
Feeds from other insects, and the females eats the male.
Mantis are cousins of the
Cocroaches.