🇦🇷 Animals of Argentina

The American kestrel is the smallest falcon in the Americas and the most numerous.

The Andean condor is a huge black vulture of the Andes and the Pacific coast of South America.

The aurochs was the wild ox of Europe, North Africa and much of Asia, and the ancestor of domestic cattle.

The barn swallow is the most widespread swallow on earth, with a steel blue back and a deeply forked tail.

The black vulture is a glossy black scavenger of the Americas, with a bare grey head and white patches at the wingtips.

The budgerigar is a small green and yellow parrot from the dry interior of Australia.

The burrowing owl is a small, long-legged owl of open country in the Americas.

The capybara is the largest rodent in the world.

The cockatiel is the smallest cockatoo, and it lives across the dry inland of Australia.

The common starling is a glossy black songbird of Europe and Asia, spangled with white spots in winter.

The cougar is a large solitary cat that ranges from the Yukon to the tip of South America.

The false killer whale is a large black dolphin of warm, deep seas that hunts tuna and squid in pods bound by lifelong ties.

The gentoo penguin is the third largest penguin and the fastest swimmer of the family.

The great egret is a tall white heron that hunts fish in shallow water on six continents.

The great horned owl is a heavy, ear-tufted owl of the Americas, at home from Alaska to Argentina.

The guanaco is the wild camelid of South America and the ancestor of the llama.

The harpy eagle is the most powerful bird of prey in the American rainforest, with rear talons the length of a grizzly bear's claws.

The house sparrow is a small brown and grey bird that lives beside people almost everywhere on earth.

The humpback whale is a large baleen whale found in every ocean.

The jaguar is the largest cat in the Americas and the third largest in the world.

The king penguin is the second largest penguin, an orange-throated bird of subantarctic island beaches.

The leopard seal is a long, spotted seal of the Antarctic pack ice that hunts penguins, seals, fish and krill.

The maned wolf is the tallest wild dog in the world and the largest canid in South America.

The monk parakeet is a small green parrot from southern South America with a pale grey face and breast.

The Muscovy duck is a large tree-perching duck of tropical America, black with white wing patches and a bare red face.

The nutria, or coypu, is a large semiaquatic rodent from the marshes of South America with orange teeth and a round rat-like tail.

The ocelot is a medium-sized spotted cat of the Americas, from Texas to northern Argentina.

The orca is the largest dolphin and the top predator of the sea.

The peregrine falcon is the fastest animal on Earth.

The rock dove is the wild pigeon of sea cliffs and rocky gorges in Europe, North Africa and southern Asia.

The southern elephant seal is the largest seal on Earth, and a bull can weigh more than four times as much as a cow.

The sperm whale is the biggest of the toothed whales and the largest predator with teeth.

The turkey vulture is the most widespread vulture in the Americas, and it finds its food by smell.

The vicuña is the smallest wild camelid and the ancestor of the alpaca, living on the high grassland of the central Andes.

The western honey bee lives in colonies of tens of thousands and turns nectar into honey.

The wild boar is the wild pig of Europe, Asia and North Africa and the ancestor of the domestic pig.