🇨🇴 Animals of Colombia

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

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

The golden poison frog is the most poisonous animal known.

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

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 hoatzin is a crested bird of Amazon swamp forest that lives on leaves and ferments them in a huge crop.

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

The kinkajou is a small nocturnal relative of the raccoon that lives in the canopy of tropical forests from Mexico to Brazil.

Leafcutter ants carry pieces of leaf back to the nest, but they do not eat them.

The merlin is a small, stocky falcon of open northern country that hunts small birds in fast low flight.

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

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

The red-eyed tree frog sleeps by day under a leaf with its colours hidden.

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

The scarlet macaw is a large, loud parrot of the American tropics.

The spectacled bear is South America's only bear and the last of the short-faced bears, named for the pale rings that circle its eyes.

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