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Yellow-legged Clubtail

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  • Birds
    • Bee-eaters and Rollers
      • European Bee-eater
      • European Roller
    • Birds of prey and Vultures
      • Black Kite
      • Black-winged Kite
      • Booted Eagle
      • Cinereous Vulture
      • Common Buzzard
      • Common Kestrel
      • Eurasian Hobby
      • Eurasian Sparrowhawk
      • European Honey
      • Griffon Vulture
      • Hen Harrier
      • Lesser Kestrel
      • Montagu's Harrier
      • Osprey
      • Peregrine Falcon
      • Red Kite
      • Western Marsh Harrier
      • White-tailed Eagle
    • Cormorants
      • Great Cormorant
    • Cranes
      • Common Crane
    • Crows and jays
      • Carrion Crow
      • Common Raven
      • Eurasian Jay
      • Eurasian Magpie
      • Hooded Crow
      • Iberian Magpie
      • Rook
      • Western Jackdaw
    • Cuckoos
      • Common Cuckoo
    • Ducks, Geese and Swans
      • Barnacle Goose
      • Common Goldeneye
      • Common Merganser
      • Common Pochard
      • Common Shelduck
      • Domestic Duck
      • Domestic Goose
      • Egyptian Goose
      • Eurasian Teal
      • Eurasian Wigeon
      • Ferruginous Duck
      • Gadwall
      • Garganey
      • Greater Canada Goose
      • Greater White-fronted
      • Greylag Goose
      • Hooded Merganser
      • Lesser White-fronted
      • Long-tailed Duck
      • Mallard
      • Mandarin Duck
      • Muscovy Duck
      • Mute Swan
      • Northern Pintail
      • Northern Shoveler
      • Red-breasted Goose
      • Ruddy Shelduck
      • Snow Goose
      • Tufted Duck
      • Tundra Swan
    • Flycatchers
      • Black Redstart
      • Bluethroat
      • Common Nightingale
      • Common Redstart
      • Eurasian Pied Flycatcher
      • European Robin
      • European Stonechat
      • Northern Wheatear
      • Spotted Flycatcher
      • Whinchat
    • Goldcrests and Wrens
      • Common Firecrest
      • Goldcrest
      • Wren
    • Grasshopper Warbler
      • Common Grasshopper
      • Savi's Warbler
    • Gulls, Terns and Skimmers
      • Audouin's Gull
      • Black-headed Gull
      • Caspian Tern
      • Common Tern
      • Great Black-backed Gull
      • Herring Gull
      • Lesser Black backed
      • Little Tern
      • Pontic Gull
      • Whiskered Tern
      • Yellow-legged Gull
    • Herons, Storks and Ibises
      • Black Stork
      • Black-crowned Night Heron
      • Cattle Egret
      • Eurasian Bittern
      • Glossy Ibis
      • Great Egret
      • Greater Flamingo
      • Grey Heron
      • Little Bittern
      • Little Egret
      • Purple Heron
      • Spoonbill
      • Squacco Heron
      • White Stork
    • Hoopoes and Kingfishers
      • Common Kingfisher
      • Eurasian Hoopoe
    • Larks
      • Calandra Lark
      • Crested Lark
      • Greater Short-toed Lark
      • Skylark
      • Thekla's Lark
      • Woodlark
    • Leaf warblers
      • Canary Islands Chiffchaff
      • Common Chiffchaff
      • Willow Warbler
    • Loons and Grebes
      • Black-necked Grebe
      • Black-throated Loon
      • Great Crested Grebe
      • Horned Grebe
      • Little Grebe
      • Red-necked Grebe
    • Nuthatches and Treecreepers
      • Eurasian Nuthatch
      • Short-toed Tree Creeper
    • Owls
      • Eurasian Eagle-Owl
      • Little Owl
      • Long eared Owl
      • Short-eared Owl
      • Tawny Owl
      • Western Barn Owl
    • Pheasants and allies
      • Common Peafowl
      • Common Quail
      • Pheasant
      • Red-legged Partridge
    • Pigeons and Doves
      • Common Wood Pigeon
      • Eurasian Collared Dove
      • Feral Pigeon
      • Rock Dove
      • Stock Dove
    • Rails, crakes, and coots
      • Common Coot
      • Common Moorhen
      • Water Rail
      • Western Swamphen
    • Reed warblers
      • Cetti's Warbler
      • European Reed Warbler
      • Great Reed Warbler
      • Icterine Warbler
      • Marsh Warbler
      • Sedge Warbler
      • Zitting Cisticola
    • Shrikes
      • Great Grey Shrike
      • Iberian Grey Shrike
      • Red-backed Shrike
      • Woodchat Shrike
    • Sparrows, Finches and Buntings
      • Atlantic Canary
      • Brambling
      • Bullfinch
      • Cirl Bunting
      • Common Chaffinch
      • Common Linnet
      • Common Redpoll
      • Common Waxbill
      • Corn Bunting
      • European Goldfinch
      • European Greenfinch
      • European Serin
      • Hawfinch
      • House Sparrow
      • Lesser Redpoll
      • Red Crossbill
      • Reed Bunting
      • Siskin
      • Snow Bunting
      • Tenerife Blue Chaffinch
      • Yellowhammer
    • Starlings
      • Spotless Starling
      • Star
    • Stilts(Avocetss, Plovers, Curlews…)
      • Black tailed Godwit
      • Black-winged Stilt
      • Common Greenshank
      • Common Redshank
      • Common Sandpiper
      • Common Snipe
      • Curlew Sandpiper
      • Dunlin
      • Eurasian Curlew
      • Eurasian Oystercatcher
      • Eurasian Whimbrel
      • Grand Gravelot
      • Green Sandpiper
      • Grey Plover
      • Kentish Plover
      • Lapwing
      • Little Ringed Plover
      • Pied Avocet
      • Ruddy Turnstone
      • Ruff
      • Sanderling
      • Spotted Redshank
    • Swallows and martins
      • Barn Swallow
      • Crag Martin
      • Red-rumped Swallow
      • Sand Martin
      • Western House Martin
    • Swifts
      • Common Swift
    • The accentors
      • Dunnock
    • The Sylviid Warblers
      • Blackcap
      • Common Whitethroat
      • Dartford Warbler
      • Garden Warbler
      • Lesser Whitethroat
      • Sardinian Warbler
      • Spectacled Warbler
    • Thrushes
      • Blue Rock Thrush
      • Common Blackbird
      • Fieldfare
      • Mistle Thrush
      • Redwing
      • Ring Ouzel
      • Song Thrush
    • Tits and chickadees
      • Bearded Reedling
      • Blue Tit
      • Coal Tit
      • Crested Tit
      • Great Tit
      • Long-tailed Tit
      • Marsh Tit
      • Penduline Tit
    • Wagtails and pipits
      • Berthelot's Pipit
      • Blue-headed Wagtail
      • Grey Wagtail
      • Iberian Wagtail
      • Meadow Pipit
      • Tree Pipit
      • Water Pipit
      • White Wagtail
    • White-throated Dipper and Bohemian Waxwing
      • Bohemian Waxwing
    • Woodpeckers
      • Black Woodpecker
      • Eurasian Wryneck
      • European Green Woodpecker
      • Great Spotted Woodpecker
      • Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
      • Middle Spotted Woodpecker
    • ZZ-Imported and escaped bird species
      • Greater rhea
      • Monk Parakeet
      • Ring-necked Parakeet
      • Weavers
        • Black-headed Weaver
  • Butterflies
    • Brush-footed(four-footed) butterflies
      • Comma Butterfly
      • Hedge Brown Gatekeeper
      • Large Wall Brown
      • Lesser Purple Emperor
      • Map Butterfly
      • Marbled White
      • Meadow Brown
      • Painted Lady
      • Peacock Butterfly
      • Pearly Heath
      • Plain Tiger
      • Red Admiral
      • Ringlet
      • Silver washed Fritillary
      • Small Heath
      • Small Tortoiseshell
      • Speckled Wood(Aegeria)
      • Speckled Wood(Tircis)
      • Striped Grayling
      • Two tailed Pasha
      • Wall Brown
    • Geometer moths
      • Blood vein
      • Common Carpet
      • Latticed Heath
      • Purple barred Yellow
      • Vestal
    • Gossamer-Winged Butterflies
      • Adonis Blue
      • Brown Argus
      • Common Blue
      • Geranium Bronze
      • Holly Blue
      • Long-tailed Blue
      • Small Copper
    • Grass moths
      • Box tree Moth
      • Mint Moth
    • Leafroller moths(tortrix moths)
      • Carnation Tortix
    • Macro moths
      • Crimson Speckled
      • Dingy Footman
      • The Cinnabar
      • Two Lines
    • Owlet moths
      • Clancy's Rustic
      • Dewick’s Plusia
      • Goldwing
      • Silver Y
      • White point
    • Skippers
      • Essex Skipper
      • Large Skipper
      • Lulworth Skipper
      • Mediterranean Skipper
      • Oberthür's Grizzled Skipper
      • Small Skipper
    • Sphinx(hawk) moths
      • Hummingbird Hawk moth
    • Swallowtails
      • Spanish Festoon
      • Swallowtail
    • Yellows and Whites
      • Bath White
      • Brimstone
      • Clouded Yellow
      • Eastern Dappled White
      • Green veined White
      • Large White
      • Small White
  • Damselflies
    • Bluets
      • American Bluets
        • Common Bluet
      • Bluetails
        • Citrine Forktail
        • Common Bluetail
        • Iberian Bluetail
        • Iland Bluetail
        • Oasis Bluetail
        • Small Bluetail
      • Brighteyes
        • Blue-Eye
        • Large Redeye
        • Small Redeye
      • Eurasian Bluets
        • Artic Bluet
        • Azure Bluet
        • Crescent Bluet
        • Cretan Bluet
        • Dainty Bluet
        • Dark Bluet
        • Mediterranean Bluet
        • Mercury Bluet
        • Ornate Bluet
        • Siberian Bluet
        • Spearhead Bluet
        • Variable Bluet
      • Large Red Damsels
        • Greek Red Damsel
        • Large Red Damselfly
      • Sedgling
      • Small Red Damsels
        • Small Red Damsel
        • Turkish Red Damsel
    • Demoiselles
      • Banded Demoiselle
      • Beautiful Demoiselle
      • Copper Demoiselle
      • Western Demoiselle
    • Featherlegs
      • Blue Featherleg
      • Ivory Featherleg
      • Orange Featherleg
      • White Featherleg
    • Odalisques
      • Odalisque
    • Spreadwings
      • Common Spreadwing
      • Dark Spreadwing
      • Eastern Willow Spreadwing
      • Migrant Spreadwing
      • Robust Spreadwing
      • Small Spreadwing
      • Western Willow Spreadwing
    • Winter Damsels
      • Common Winter Damsel
      • Siberian Winter Damsel
      • Turkestan winter damselfly
  • in the spotlight
  • Mammels
    • Predators and Hares
      • European Hare
      • Red Fox
    • Rodents and Insectivores
      • Beaver
      • Eastern Gray Squirrel
      • Eurasian Red Squirrel
      • European Rabbit
      • Western European Hedgehog
    • Ungulates
      • European Roe Deer
      • Polish Konik
  • Praying Mantises, Grasshoppers, Crickets, and Locusts
    • Grasshoppers, Locusts, and Allies(Caelifera)
      • Grasshoppers
        • Blue Band-winged Grasshopper
        • Bow-winged Grasshopper
        • Common Cylindric Grashopper
        • Common Field Grasshopper
        • Egyptian Bird Grasshopper
        • Handsome Cross Grasshopper
        • Italian locust
        • Lamenting grasshopper
        • Large Gold Grasshopper
        • Large Marsh Grasshopper
        • Meadow Grasshopper
        • Mediterranean Splendid Grasshopper
        • Migratory Locust
        • Slender Green-winged Grasshopper
        • Steppe Grasshopper
        • Water-Meadow Grasshopper
        • Woodland Grasshopper
    • Katydids, Crickets, and Allies(Ensifera)
      • Katydids, Wētā, and Allies
        • Bog Bush-Cricket
        • Great Green Bush-Cricket
        • Long-winged Conehead
        • Sickle-bearing Bush-cricket
    • Praying Mantises(Mantidae)
      • European Praying Mantis
  • The biology of birds in the wild
    • 1 – Birds in Animal Paradise
    • 2 – The evolution of birds: a look at their fosil past
    • 3 – Specification and systematics are important components of biology:
    • 4 – Bird feathers: what, where and why
    • 5 – The art of flying, how birds do it
    • 6 – Fuel for the bird engine
    • 7 – Every bird sings as it is beaked
  • True Dragonflies
    • Chasers
      • Chasers
        • Blue Chaser
        • Broad-bodied Chaser
        • Four-spotted Chaser
      • Darters
        • Banded Darter
        • Black Darter
        • Common Darter
        • Moustached Darter
        • Red-veined Darter
        • Ruddy Darter
        • Southern Darter
      • Dropwings
        • Orange-winged Dropwing
        • Violet Dropwing
      • Groundlings
        • Northern Banded Groundling
      • Scarlet
      • Skimmers
        • Black-tailed Skimmer
        • Keeled Skimmer
        • Long Skimmer
      • Whitefaces
        • Lilypad Whiteface
        • Ruby Whiteface
        • Small Whiteface
        • Yellow-spotted Whiteface
    • Clubtails
      • Pincertails
        • Small Pincertail
      • River Clubtails
        • Yellow-legged Clubtail
    • Downy Emeralds
      • Downy Emerald
    • Mosaic Hawkers
      • Emperors
        • Blue emperor
        • Lesser Emperor
      • Hairy Hawkers
        • Hairy Hawker
      • Mosaic Hawkers
        • Blue Hawker(Southern Hawker)
        • Green-eyed Hawker
        • Migrant Hawker
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