This Old World vulture is in the eagle and hawk family (Accipitridae) and uses mainly eyesight for discovering the carrion it eats. This bird is large, searchs for food by soaring, circles over sighted carrion, flocks in trees, and its head and neck lack feathers.
This New World vulture is in the family Cathartidae and some use the sense of smell as well as sight in hunting. It is large, searchs for food by soaring, circles over sighted carrion, flocks in trees, and its head and neck lack feathers.
This member of the family Parulidae occurs in North and Central America. It breeds in mature coniferous and mixed coniferous-deciduous woodlands and winters in open areas along woodland edge, second growth, dunes, marshes, and residential areas. It feeds on insects and some fruit, especially bayberries in winter.
The warbler finch is one of the descendants of the original finch colonists to the Galapagos Islands, which are thought to be related to the blue-black grassquit finch, Volatina jacarina in the family Emberizidae, commonly found along the Pacific coast of South America. Although a finch descendant, it has the habits and beak more like those of an insect-eater than a seed-eater.
Palaeotherium ('old beast') is an extinct genus of primitive perissodactyl ungulate. Recent anatomical studies also suggest that Palaeotherium, along with other palaeothere genera such as Hyracotherium, were closely related to horses. The average species of Palaeotherium was about 75 cm (2 ft 6 in) tall at the shoulder and lived in the tropical forests covering Europe around 45 million years ago, during the early to mid Eocene. The largest species, P. magnum of Mid Eocene France, grew to be almost as large as a horse.
The horse (Equus caballus) is a hoofed (ungulate) mammal, one of eight living species of the family Equidae. The horse is adapted to survive in areas of wide-open terrain with sparse vegetation where other large grazing animals, especially ruminants, could not. Horses and other equids are odd-toed ungulates of the order Perissodactyla, a group of mammals that was dominant during the Tertiary period. Przewalski's horses are the last surviving subspecies of wild horse.
The Palestine sunbird or northern orange-tufted sunbird (Cinnyris oseus) is a small passerine bird in the family Nectariniidae which is found in parts of the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa. The diet consists mainly of insects and nectar. The tongue is long and brush-tipped to extract nectar from flowers. The birds usually feed while perched beside a flower but they are also capable of hovering.
The black-chinned hummingbird is in the family Trochilidae, and is common throughout much of the western United States. It occupies a range of habitats, from urban areas
to desert, and from sea level to over 2,500 meters (8,200 ft).List of examples of convergent evolution Palestine sunbird, Black-chinned Hummingbird, Palestine Sunbird
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