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Like&subscribe 🙏👍🥳💖The tropical region of our planet is filled with biodiversity and wonders of nature.
The flora, fauna and animal population has been endlessly studied and admired along with the colorful bird population.
Here we have curated a list of most unusual birds that can be found in the tropical region.

To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. They are that part of the earth that forms a band around the equator bordered by the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in the south. Birds native to this band are considered tropical birds. Some birds aren’t native to the tropics but were introduced there, accidentally or on purpose. Birds native to the tropics have also been introduced in places outside the equator. These types of tropical birds are considered exotic birds. An example is the endangered yellow-headed amazon parrot, which is native to Central America but can be found in Florida, where it is exotic.


The tropics are also called the torrid or tropical zone. Because this zone gets more direct sunlight it tends to be hotter and wetter, so people associate it with the rainforest and the jungle. However, not all tropical habitats are warm and wet. The central Andes Mountains, for example, are found in the tropic zone and are cold and dry there all year. Yet, it is also home to different types of tropical birds. People also think of tropical birds as being invariably brilliantly colored and easily kept as pets, but some are drab as a house sparrow and impossible to domesticate. Read on to learn about eight different types of tropical birds.

Of all the different types of tropical birds, the Rhea is one of the largest. At as much as 67 inches tall from head to foot, it’s the perfect example of a tropical bird that not only lacks brilliant colors but doesn’t live in the rainforest or the jungle. Found from Brazil to Argentina, this flightless bird lives in a habitat of open grassland, pampas, and salt marshes. Like its distant cousin the ostrich, it has an oval body, a long neck, and long, shaggy feathers. The overall impression is of a bird whose plumage is a combination of black, grayish-brown, and white. It has three short, thick, dinosaur-like toes.


Though the Rhea doesn’t fly, it has strong wings that it opens up to give itself some speed as it runs and to court females. Males mate with several females who then lay their eggs in a nest that he builds on the ground. When the nest is full, he drives the females away and incubates the eggs by himself. The females in turn just move on to the nest of another male. The bird is also found in Germany and the United Kingdom. It’s exotic in these places but has adapted surprisingly well.
This huge, near threatened eagle of the South American rainforests, has an admittedly terrifying look about it. Its talons are massive, as is its deep, hooked bill. The harpy eagle has talons and a bill making it an apex predator and allowing it to eat animals as big as sloths and monkeys. This bird of prey also takes iguanas, snakes, parrots, squirrels, armadillos, coatis, agoutis, and anteaters. Even porcupines are no match for it. Females are much bigger than males and can subsequently take larger prey.

Found only on New Caledonia, this blue-gray bird prefers to walk instead of fly, even though it can glide if it must. When it does fly its wings reveal patterns of chestnut, black and white. Its habitats are the mountain forest and areas around small streams, where it can tap the ground with its bill to find insects and little invertebrates such as earthworms. About 22 inches long, the kagu’s pretty feathers are combined with red legs and a crest that lies against the back until the bird raises it in an impressive fan.
Also found on islands in the South Pacific and northern Australia, the colors of the sexes of this beautiful bird are so different that they look like different species. The male is brilliant green with areas of red, blue, and yellow. The female has a scarlet head, a blue patch on the nape of her neck, a maroon back and wings, a purple belly, and yellow coverts under her tail. Not only this, but the parrot has nine subspecies whose color patterns differ slightly depending on where they’re found. The parrot’s favored habitats are the lowland forest or more open country. The Eclectus parrot is a fructivore and also eats seeds, nuts, buds, nectar, and flowers.