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The Italian sparrow is the national bird of Italy.. This is a list of the bird species recorded in Italy.This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (English, scientific, and Italian names) follow those of the Handbook of the Birds of the World & BirdLife International Checklist.
The Italian sparrow (Passer italiae), also known as the cisalpine sparrow, is a passerine bird of the sparrow family Passeridae, found in Italy and other parts of the Mediterranean region. In appearance, it is intermediate between the house sparrow , and the Spanish sparrow , a species of the Mediterranean and Central Asia closely related to ...
The Italian fauna includes 56,213 species of invertebrates, of which 37,303 species of insects. [22] Commonly seen insects in Italy are the sail swallowtail , the scarlet dragonfly , Cleopatra butterfly , European praying mantis , cicada , glow-worm , hummingbird hawk-moth , Italian stinkbug , firebug , field cricket , European hornet , cuckoo ...
Bonelli's eagle (Aquila fasciata) is a large bird of prey.The common name of the bird commemorates the Italian ornithologist and collector Franco Andrea Bonelli.Bonelli is credited with gathering the type specimen, most likely from an exploration of Sardinia.
The order passerines (perching birds) alone accounts for well over 5,000 species. Taxonomy is very fluid in the age of DNA analysis, so comments are made where appropriate, and all numbers are approximate. In particular see Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy for a very different classification.
The Helm Identification Guides are a series of books that identify groups of birds.The series include two types of guides, those that are: Taxonomic, dealing with a particular family of birds on a worldwide scale—most early Helm Guides were this type, as well as many more-recent ones, although some later books deal with identification of such groups on a regional scale only (e.g., The Gulls ...
Calliptamus italicus, the Italian locust, is a species of 'short-horned grasshopper' belonging to the family Acrididae, subfamily Calliptaminae. This species is native of the steppes of Central Asia, but it is also present in most of Europe , in the eastern Palearctic realm , in North Africa , and in the Near East .
In this list of birds by common name 11,278 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. [1] Species marked with a "†" are extinct. Contents