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Least Tern: Courtship
From the field - current news photoblog
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Summer Semipalmated Plover ASY vs SY vs plumage dilution
(3)
Piping vs Snowy Plover - Hypomelanism - dilution
(1)
Bill chromatic aberrations (color mutations) in birds
(1)
Samples of abnormal melanin distribution in bill and legs (soft parts) in aberrant Laughing Gulls
(1)
Aberrant Black Skimmers; Hypomelanism - presumably “brown” mutation
(1)
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth - Introducing Tyrannosaurus melodus
(1)
Texas City Fork-tailed Flycatcher
(1)
Ardeidae - hybrids
(5)
Night-Heron hybrid Texas Central Coast Mustang Island
(7)
Egret hybrid – Upper Texas Coast
(6)
Glaucous Gull UTC April 21, 2018
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Great Black-backed Gull UTC April 21, 2018
(1)
Great Black-backed Gull UTC March 17, 2018
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Red Knot alphanumeric flags becoming unreadible
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Red Knot with attached geolocator
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Black-bellied Plovers with alphanumeric flags - Texas
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Elegant Tern - UTC December 3, 1017
(7)
Iceland Gull (Thayer’s) - UTC December 2, 1017
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Tamaulipas Crow (Corvus imparatus) - South Padre Island - November 24, 2017
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Sanderlings (2) paralyzed by BoNt neurotoxin – Avian Botulism
(1)
White-tailed Eagle
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Mute Swan
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Grey Seal
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Semipalmated vs Common Ringed Plover WEBS BETWEEN DIGITS
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Common Ringed Plover - banded - summer 2017
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Dunlin - banded - summer 2017
(1)
Great Cormorant July 15, 2017
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Surf Scoter - May 27, 2017 Bolivar Peninsula including close ups of bill, tongue and lobed hallux
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Parasitic Jaeger - March 26, 2017 Bolivar Peninsula, Texas
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Peregrine Falcon with bi-color black over blue band - Texas
(1)
Seagulls
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Great Black-backed Gull - Bolivar Peninsula Texas October 15, 2016
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Great Black-backed Gull HY and Franklin’s Gull HY - Bolivar Peninsula Texas October 8, 2016
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Royal Tern with mysterious “conjoined” head on its body flank
(1)
‘Flying’ spider makes stop on Least Tern incubating eggs
(2)
Sanderlings - VHF radio tagged with green alphanumeric flags
(2)
Quiz - remarkable seagull
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Royal Tern - band 1054-28583 or 1094-28583 - Texas
(1)
American Herring Gull - October 16, 2015 - UTC
(3)
Cayenne-type Tern with predominantly orange bill in basic plumage - Texas
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Red Knot - banded - flag TU3
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Least Tern - 12 years old (13 cy)
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Piping Plover tangled in fishing line - need for regulations and laws
(1)
Common Tern - examples of wavy edges of primary feathers
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Common Tern with many longipennis characteristics - Texas
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Cayenne-type Terns April 2015 - Upper Texas Coast
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Pomarine Jaeger - Quintana Island - Texas - June 8, 2015
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Pomarine Jaeger (2) - Bolivar Peninsula - Texas - May 2015
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Laughing Gull with stolen embryo
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Surf Scoter - May 23, 2014 - Bolivar Peninsula, Texas
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20 thousands Common Tern migrating flock – Texas
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Cabot’s and Royal Tern - pink flush - spring 2015
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Cayenne Terns (2) – April 9, 2015 – Texas Upper Coast
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American Herring Gull with odd leg color - Galveston Ferry Landing - April 2015
(3)
Wilson’s and Snowy Plover - bands
(3)
Piping Plover - bands - wintering grounds in Texas
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Least Tern - bands 2009 - present
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Ring-billed Gull March 14, 2015
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Black Tern - Upper Texas Coast - March 14, 2015 - my earliest spring record
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Sabine’s Gull SY - Upper Texas Coast
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Black Tern - underwing color and winter head patterns
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Birds feeding on catfish and crayfish February 2, 2015 UTC
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Double-crested Cormorant killing large catfish
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Duck ID - Upper Texas Coast 2015
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American Herring Gull - green alphanumeric band # 69C
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Black Tern HY with tail and uppertail covert subterminal bands
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Black Tern - pink flush
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Black Tern with brown belly
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Semipalmated Plover with orange bill - December 20, 2014
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Merlin with prey
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Mountain Plover - Upper Texas Coast - Bolivar Peninsula - December 20, 2014
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Mountain Plover - Upper Texas Coast - Bolivar Peninsula - December 14, 2014
(7)
Black-legged Kittiwake - Upper Texas Coast - Texas City Dike - December 14, 2014
(2)
Elegant Tern - November 1, 2014 - Upper Texas Coast - new state record
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Elegant Tern - Bolivar Peninsula - Upper Texas Coast - September 14, 2013
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Elegant Tern - Bolivar Peninsula - Upper Texas Coast - September 14, 2013
(9)
Iceland Gull - UTC - July-September 2014
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Presumed Grant’s Storm-Petrel (Band-rumped Storm-Petrel complex) onshore June 28, 2014 UTC
(6)
Common Tern with extremely long steamers
(1)
Banded birds: Least Tern, Piping and Snowy Plover, Red Knot
(1)
Sandwich Tern stubbing and biting Royal’s butt during copulation
(1)
Glaucous Gull - UTC April 13, 2014
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American White Pelican - birds oiled during Galveston Bay oil spill
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Least Tern - birds oiled during Galveston Bay oil spill
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Terns courting - Bolivar Peninsula - March 22 2014. During the day of oil spill in the Galveston Bay near Texas City Dike
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Turkey Vulture feeding on Caspian Tern and American Herring Gull carcasses
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Fun with Texas Terns during winter - how many species can you see? (quiz)
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Great-tailed Grackle - technique of cracking open bivalve mollusc shells
(3)
Least, Forster’s, Gull-billed, Caspian, Royal and Black Tern, Black Skimmer, Osprey and other birds flying upside-down
(2)
Grackles - Trio traveling and foraging together
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Osprey harassed by American White Pelican who unsuccessfully tried to steal fish in mid-air
(1)
American White and Brown Pelican robbing Osprey - successful attempts to steal fish
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3cy Thayer's Gull?
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HY Caspian Terns - in juvenile peach color plumage with light crown - UTC summer 2013
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Caspian Tern - very light juvenile UTC 2012
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Ruff Gull
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Red-headed Woodpecker - Quintana - UTC -October 20, 2013
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Laughing Gull with fishing line - UTC - October 5, 2013
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Lesser Black-backed Gull - flock of 27 birds - UTC - October 5, 2013
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Playing with the wind; incredible aerial acrobats: terns and skimmers
(2)
Brown Pelicans attacking Laughing Gull
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Forster’s Tern with gray body feathers
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Terns UTC - September 2, 2013
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Common Tern HY - UTC - September 2, 2013
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Royal Tern - swallowing large fish
(3)
Caspian Tern with “Colombian necktie”
(1)
Ring-billed and American Herring Gull - summer arrivals - UTC - 2013
(2)
Black Tern - juvenile Chlidonias n. surinamensis with niger hood pattern and other plumage variations
(6)
Royal Tern manipulating and swallowing tetraodontiform
(1)
Least Tern chasing Willet
(3)
Common Nighthawk attacked by Least Tern
(2)
Least Tern chasing Laughing Gull
(1)
Least Tern - growth and plumages during first year of life
(1)
Summering Lesser Black-backed Gulls: UTC - June-July 2013 - examples
(2)
Least Tern - aerial dispute
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Royal Tern catching and transporting tetraodontiform
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Terns - foraging - surface dipping
(1)
Least Tern SY - Banded - found spring 2013
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Least Tern - feeding young in shallow water - UTC - Spring 2013
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Least Tern - feeding young - UTC - Spring 2013
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Least Tern - Fledglings - UTC - Spring 2013
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Alien Birds
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Royal Tern plunge-dive into school of fish - double catch
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Royal Tern - low angle plunge-dive into school of fish
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Royal Tern - medium angle plunge-dive into school of fish
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European (Numenius p. phaeopus) and Hudsonian (Numenius hudsonicus) Whimbrel wing underparts
(2)
Least Tern - breeding - disturbance factors - loose dogs
(1)
Eurasian Whimbrel - Bolivar Peninsula - Texas
(5)
Golden-winged Warbler - searching, finding and catching prey at Russ Pitman Park
(31)
Great White Heron and Great Blue Heron breeding pair - Texas - April 2013
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Reddish Egret - Breeding plumage - portraits - April 2013
(2)
Great Blue Heron - Lower foreneck plumes - April 2013
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American Avocet Copulatory Posture and Postcopulatory Ceremony - UTC April 16
(20)
Common Tern 2nd calendar year April - UTC
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Least Tern - ground attack and air strike - physical fights
(2)
Black Skimmer with white tipped outer primary
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Willet - fight - UTC
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Two Least Terns collide and flight upside down during flock maneuver
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Reddish Egret foraging in side and back winds - UTC 2013
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Reddish Egret displaying - white morphs - UTC 2013
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Least Tern - Migration March 2013 Texas
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Leucistic American Coot - - UTC - March 2013
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"Mystery" bird - seen on March 27
(7)
Quiz - 5 seabirds in one photo - can you find and name them?
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Terns and Gulls - pink plumage flush - UTC - March 2013
(1)
American Oystercatchers foraging at night
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Can you find and identify 2 bird species in this photo?
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Terns and Skimmer – UTC - March 15, 2013
(1)
Common Tern - head molt - UTC March 15, 2013
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Bird without face - ID Quiz
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Osprey dragging feet in water after aborting strike
(1)
Great Egret displaying - Stretch Display - UTC March 12, 2012
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Roseate Spoonbill - UTC March 12, 2012
(3)
Brown Pelican - breeding plumages in Texas; Pacific - Atlantic type examples
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Brown Pelican with yellow/orange gular pouch - Texas
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Brown Pelican stretching its pouch - close up
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Black-legged Kittiwake - Port Aransas, Texas 2013
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Quiz - Texas shore - June
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Black Skimmer with distal limb necrosis (dry gangrene) - foraging
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Black Skimmer with distal limb necrosis (dry gangrene) - prebasic molt
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Black Skimmer with distal limb necrosis (dry gangrene) - on the wing
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Black Skimmer with distal limb necrosis (dry gangrene) - body shake on the wing
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Black Skimmer with distal limb necrosis (dry gangrene) - landing on the water
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Black Skimmer with distal limb necrosis (dry gangrene) - bathing
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Black Skimmer with distal limb necrosis (dry gangrene) - preening on the ground
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Black Skimmer with distal limb necrosis (dry gangrene) - trying to scratch
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Black Skimmer with distal limb necrosis (dry gangrene) - roosting
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Black Skimmer with distal limb necrosis (dry gangrene) - defending posture
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Black Skimmer with distal limb necrosis (dry gangrene) - close-ups
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Black Skimmer with distal limb necrosis (dry gangrene) - defecating
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Forster’s Terns (2) attacking school of fish - plunge-dive paths
(1)
Ospreys (2) bitten by needlefish
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Boat-tailed vs. Great-tailed Grackle from Quintana, Texas
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GULLS TERNS SKIMMERS - NECKS
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Forster's Tern - HEAD TURNING AND FLICKING
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Rough Green Snake with visitor
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Forster’s Tern - quiz
(2)
National Wildlife Federation Photo Contest 2012
(2)
American White Pelican with cattle ear tag
(2)
Forster’s Tern - juvenile
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BROWN and AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN - FOOD CAPTURE BEHAVIORS
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Black Skimmer catching very large fishes
(5)
Black Skimmer 2-1 catch
(2)
Glaucous Gulls - Upper Texas Coast - February 2013 - Individual differences
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Glaucous Gull - Upper Texas Coast - February 5, 2013
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Seagull - Upper Texas Coast - February 2, 2013
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Glaucous Gull - Upper Texas Coast - February 2, 2013
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Forster’s Tern with dark carpal bar
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Bonaparte’s Gull flock feeding in breakers - UTC January
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Forster’s Tern and Black Skimmer flock
(2)
Forster’s Tern with misleading impression of having a dark carpal bar
(1)
American White Pelican stealing fish from Double-crested Cormorant
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Caspian Tern with band -January 18, 2013
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Forster’s Tern - Head patterns - Mid-January - UTC
(1)
Common Loon showing extensive white on flanks - January 12, 2013 UTC
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Bonaparte’s Gull - Eared Grebe raft - feeding - January 12, 2012
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"Mystery" birds - test posted on 010812
(4)
Brown Pelican preening on the wing
(3)
Forster’s Tern - Both wings stretch and takeoff
(1)
Two Great Black-backed Gulls at Quintana - Dec 24 2012
(3)
Terns with swallowed fisherman’s hooks - Texas Upper Coast - December 2012
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Great Black-backed Gulls - UTC 2012 - plumage differences
(2)
Great Black-backed Gull - Texas City Dike - December 18, 2012
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“Mystery” bird - UTC May 2012
(1)
Great Black-backed Gull 1cy - Follet’s Island, UTC - December 13, 2012
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Osprey - funny postures
(1)
Osprey - Banking Turn
(1)
El Rio November 2005
(2)
Great Black-backed Gull 1cy - Follet’s Island, UTC - December 3, 2012
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Common vs. Forster’s Tern - diagnostic traits during November in Texas
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Calliope Hummingbird November 26-28, 2012
(36)
Broad-billed Hummingbird November 26-28, 2012
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Calliope Hummingbird primary molt November 28, 2012
(1)
Calliope and Broad-billed Hummingbirds in Russ Pitman Park, Bellaire, Texas November 26-28, 2012
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Cooper’s Hawk takes White-winged Dove at Russ Pitman Park Nov 26, 2012
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Royal Tern in breeding plumage during fall months
(8)
Laughing Gull in breeding plumage during fall- October 25 2011
(2)
Seagull UTC December 18 2012
(9)
Portuguese man o’ war washed ashore and dying - Quintana November 18, 2012
(9)
Sanderling - territorial fight UTC November 2012
(21)
Jets and Full Moon
(10)
Seagull - Bryan - UTC - November 9, 2012
(9)
Other seagulls Nov 9
(2)
Avian species plunging into water - examples - quiz
(1)
Forster’s Tern - Roughly estimated dive speed
(1)
Black Simmer - skimming related actions in close-up photos
(23)
Franklin’s Gull - Quintana October 20, 2012
(10)
Least Tern - hunting - aerial shake
(4)
Least Tern - hunting - plunge into the water
(35)
Least Tern hunting - leaving the water after strike
(90)
Least Tern hunting - search and dive - wing and tail maneuvers
(34)
Black Skimmer - molt discussion
(9)
Caspian Tern - very light juvenile UTC 2012
(12)
Boat-tailed Grackle with very dark iris - Quintana - September 15, 2012
(1)
Laughing Gull feeding on sargassum fish
(67)
Lesser Black-backed Gull - Quintana - September 2012
(1)
Royal Tern feeding on sargassum fish
(45)
Lesser Black-backed Gull - FOS adult - Quintana September 1, 2012
(2)
Marbled Godwit - fight #1
(14)
Marbled Godwit - fight #2
(10)
Marbled Godwit upper mandible movements during fight
(4)
Black Tern juvenile - UTC - September 3, 2012
(7)
Least Tern - feeding juvenile offshore in water
(3)
3cy (TY) Lesser Black-backed Gulls - comparison of eye and leg color
(1)
Great Egret in stained plumage
(1)
Laughing Gull preying on Black Skimmer chicks - Texas 2012
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Laughing Gull preying on Black Skimmer eggs - Texas 2012
(13)
Laughing Gull challenging Black Skimmer in midair - Texas 2012
(1)
Black Skimmer defecating on Laughing Gull inside skimmer nesting colony - Texas 2012
(4)
Laughing Gull stealing fish from Black Skimmer in flight - Texas 2012
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Laughing Gull stealing fish from Black Skimmer on ground - Texas 2012
(9)
Black Skimmer decoys
(1)
Black Simmer – gravid female on wing - Texas 2012
(2)
Laughing Gull territorial fights inside Black Skimmer nesting colony - Texas 2012
(2)
Lesser Black-backed Gull 2cy molt progress July 2012 UTC
(2)
Lesser Black-backed Gull - asynchronous secondary molt UTC July 22, 2012
(1)
American Herring Gull - Need for molt – UTC – July 2012
(6)
Lesser Black-backed Gull - quiz
(2)
Possible Kelp Gull – Quintana UTC July 22, 2012
(1)
First record of ‘pikei’ Least Tern incubating eggs - UTC - June 21, 2012
(19)
First record of ‘pikei’ female Least Tern copulating - UTC - June 13, 2009
(13)
Black Skimmer – female pushing away male from the nest
(18)
Black Skimmer pair – behavior – quiz
(6)
Black Skimmer - aftermath of coastal flooding - Laughing Gulls killing weak/dying skimmer chicks and trying to eat dead ones
(23)
Black Skimmer - Laughing Gulls trying to tear apart skimmer chick carcass - Florida - tropical storm Debby June 2012
(6)
Black Skimmer - aftermath of coastal flooding - Laughing Gull gorging on skimmer eggs - Florida - tropical storm Debby June 2012
(6)
Black Skimmer - aftermath of coastal flooding Fish Crow trying to tear off chick’s head
(5)
Black Skimmer - aftermath of coastal flooding - Fish Crow caching skimmer eggs - Florida - tropical storm Debby June 2012
(4)
Fish Crow caching Black Skimmer egg - adding debris and dirt to camouflage cache
(16)
Fish Crow caching Black Skimmer egg
(4)
Franklin’s Gull - molt - June 9, 2012 Aransas Co
(1)
Laughing Gull - molt - May 05, 2012 Brazoria Co
(1)
Black-throated Blue Warbler UTC May 5, 2012
(8)
Caspian Tern with Elvis Presley Syndrome – UTC - May 19, 2012
(1)
Cape May Warbler UTC May 5, 2012
(5)
Yellow Warbler UTC May 5, 2012
(7)
Quintana May 13, 2012
(2)
Osprey - Mid-air maneuvers: using tail
(1)
Osprey – Comfort Movements – Dragging Talons and Feet in water
(3)
Osprey – Comfort Movements – Dragging Feet in water
(7)
Osprey – Intraspecific Interactions: defensive mid-air maneuvers
(5)
Florida Scrub Jay – Portraits
(9)
Florida Scrub Jay – Food: Beetles
(1)
Florida Scrub Jay – Food: Beetles: Ox Beetle (Strategus aloeus?)
(12)
Florida Scrub Jay – Food: Beetle larvae (grubs) (Strategus aloeus?)
(3)
Florida Scrub Jay – Food: caterpillars
(1)
Florida Scrub Jay – Foraging: probing dead leaves
(5)
Florida Scrub Jay – Food: unidentified remains
(6)
Florida Scrub Jay – Food: “roasted” acorns
(4)
Florida Scrub Jay –Sentinel Duty
(5)
Florida Scrub Jay – home habitat – burned scrub
(8)
Florida Scrub Jay – Florida April 2012
(22)
Osprey: Comfort movements - adult - full body stretch
(2)
Least Tern - "The Brute and Female Ecstasy"
(1)
Osprey – Intraspecific Interactions: Locking Talons and falling into Death Spiral #1
(5)
Osprey – Intraspecific Interactions: Locking Talons and falling into Death Spiral #2
(10)
Osprey - Adult - Full Body Stretch
(0)
Osprey - Juvenile - Full Body Stretch
(0)
Osprey - copulation (cloacal kiss) - on perch
(2)
Osprey – Intraspecific Interactions: defensive mid-air flick with outstretched talons
(10)
White-throated (leucistic) Indigo Bunting - UTC - April 18, 2012
(2)
Molt - Terns - Spring 2012
(23)
Winter Asymmetrical Multi Loci Secondary Molt - 3cy (second winter) Lesser Black-backed Gull
(1)
Lesser Black-backed Gulls - molt - individuals wintering on UTC 2011-12
(67)
Laughing Gull pecks his mate’s eyelid before copulation; There is no pleasure without pain
(5)
Forster’s Tern - courtship feeding - March 28, 2012
(17)
Boat-tailed Grackle - ear
(2)
Seagull - hybrid from Quintana - February 5, 2012
(8)
Sanderling stung by Portuguese man o' war (Physalia physalis)
(6)
Portuguese man o' war (Physalia physalis) - Quintana (Freeport, Texas) February 2012
(43)
Laughing Gull - Adult pirating food from juvenile
(9)
2012 Books with my photographs - The Illustrated Birds of Texas
(41)
2012 Books with my photographs - The Illustrated Birds of North Carolina
(15)
Laughing Gull - jump-plunge & surface-plunge
(5)
Laughing Gull on wing trying to swallow mullet
(5)
Portuguese Man o' War
(1)
Cattle Egret - Breeding plumage - Cobalt blue skin of head and neck
(1)
Cattle Egret - stalking and trying to catch dragonfly
(9)
Osprey - Nests with 3 Fledglings
(3)
Great-tailed Grackle - drinking Bud Light on beach
(6)
Do not leave your trash behind
(3)
Wilson’s Snipe - Cocked Tail Display
(2)
Wilson’s Snipe - Intraspecific Aggression - Physical Fights - striking with legs
(7)
Wilson’s Snipe - Intraspecific Aggression - Cocked Tail and Sparring Display
(3)
Wilson’s Snipe - Alert Posture
(1)
Wilson’s Snipe - Flutter Leap
(1)
Wilson’s Snipe - Displacement Feeding
(0)
Horned Grebe feeding on shrimps - Texas City Dike - December 23, 2011
(17)
El Franco Lee Park Peregrine - November 22, 2011
(7)
Ruddy Turnstone flipping over stuff
(1)
Anatomical Directions & Flight Dynamics Parameters
(2)
Common Tern - leg pathology - displaced fracture
(4)
Who am I and what happened to me?
(4)
Rusty Blackbird pair - El Franco Lee Park - November 25, 2011
(32)
Ruff - El Franco Lee Park - Houston, Texas, November 22, 2011
(7)
Ruff (juvenile male) - size comparison to other birds
(7)
American Oystercatcher - bathing - diving into a wave
(5)
Great Blue Heron catching mullets - surf zone - Quintana November 19, 2011
(28)
Lesser Black-backed Gull - adult head and neck feathers
(2)
American Herring Gull - juvenile head and neck feathers
(2)
Lesser Black-backed Gull molt - PMS data 2011-12
(1)
Lesser Black-backed Gull juveniles - Upper Texas Coast - November 2011
(4)
Lesser Black-backed Gull flocks - Upper Texas Coast - November 2011
(1)
Harlan’s Hawk - Quintana - November 13, 2011
(5)
American Oystercatcher joining flies to dine on dead fish
(8)
American Oystercatcher - agitated pair - Cocked-tail Display
(10)
Osprey Takeoff: Downstroke & Upstroke
(8)
Lesser Black-backed Gull - shaking bag to get food out
(11)
Ruby-throated Hummingbird stretching tongue and bill
(5)
Ruby-throated Hummingbird scratching
(2)
Hermit Thrush Quintana October 29, 2011
(3)
Bottlenose Dolphin jumping
(3)
Banded birds UTC October 2011
(3)
Loggerhead Shrike dining table - Quintana October 29, 2011
(3)
Lesser Black-backed Gull - examples of wing molt and feather patterns - October 2011 - Texas Upper Coast
(8)
Lesser Black-backed Gull wing and head molt progress in 21 days on wintering ground in Texas
(2)
Franklin’s Gull early arrival - UTC September 24, 2011
(5)
Forster’s Tern eating beans
(1)
Coot with pink bill - Quintana, October 22, 2011
(4)
Little Blue Heron hybrid Upper Texas Coast - October 2010
(5)
Laughing Gull pirating food from Black Skimmer - Rockport Beach Park
(44)
Sooty Tern - Rockport, Texas, July 2, 2011
(5)
"Specialists" Laughing Gulls fighting over stolen Black Skimmer chick
(15)
Black Skimmer - double catch - catching two fishes in one skim 071611
(6)
Sora - July 16, 2007 Brazoria NWR
(8)
Tricolored Heron - fledgling 071611
(4)
Long-billed Curlew 071611
(1)
Osprey - Adult: defecation over the edge of the nest
(1)
Black Skimmer - unique feature - vertical slit (cat-like) shaped pupils
(3)
Osprey - smallest fishes caught and transported
(2)
Snail Kite Food: Apple Snail
(28)
Snail Kite Portraits
(18)
Snail Kite on wing
(57)
Snail Kite in their habitat
(17)
Snail Kite defecating
(4)
Whooping Crane Photography Tours: Winter 2011-12 Workshops
(1)
Osprey - female manipulating offspring carcass
(4)
Osprey - female moving offspring carcass around the nest
(5)
Osprey - juvenile manipulating sibling carcass
(3)
Osprey - juvenile moving sibling carcass around the nest
(7)
Osprey - Cannibalism
(10)
Osprey - Sibling Rivalry - Cainism (Siblicide)
(14)
Leucistic Black-necked Stilt female - Brazoria NWR - Spring 2011
(7)
Whooping Crane - family foraging on clams
(20)
Whooping Crane - Animal food items - Bivalvia (bivalves) - Jackknife Clam (?)
(3)
Whooping Crane – Animal food items – Fish – flounder
(7)
Whooping Crane – Animal food items – Fish – minnows
(1)
Whooping Crane - subadult and juvenile secondary and primary wing coverts - feathers comparison
(7)
Whooping Crane female - Black secondary feathers - Wood Buffalo/Aransas flock - winter 2010-11
(7)
Whooping Crane male - Supernumerary primary feather - Wood Buffalo/Aransas flock - winter 2010-11
(4)
Whooping Crane - second winter subadult plumage
(3)
Whooping Crane - taking off – run over water
(17)
Whooping Crane - Plant Food - Carolina Wolfberry (Lycium carolinianum) fruits
(24)
CAMERA EQUIPMENT I USE AND/OR RECOMMEND
(1)
Painted Bunting foraging - Quintana, April 16, 2011
(34)
Golden-winged Warbler - LaFitte's Cove - April 16, 2011
(4)
Herons and Egrets in breeding plumage March-April 2011
(24)
Great-tailed Grackle - Great Fight - lasted at least 3 minutes
(81)
Whooping Crane - Animal food items - Bivalvia (bivalves)
(16)
American Oystercatcher - Nest - March 13, 2011
(4)
Whooping Crane - Scarbaby defecating
(1)
Whooping Crane - taking fiddler crabs
(3)
Whooping Crane - taking eels
(10)
Whooping Crane - Black-bellied Whistling-Duck: Interspecific Interactions - defending feeder territory
(15)
Whooping Crane dance elements: bow, wing spread, leap, attack posture and object-toss
(29)
Black Skimmer – mid-air physical confrontation during aerial chase
(1)
Osprey – fast vertical dive – rarest and most impressive dive
(1)
Whooping Crane flying with legs folded
(3)
Whooping Crane hunting striped mullet
(4)
Whooping Crane - swimming and wading in deep water
(15)
Double-crested Cormorant taking eel - March 2011
(24)
Osprey - slow dive speed - medium dive and plunge angles
(1)
Great Egret – Fight #1 - March 20, 2011
(10)
Great Egret – Fight #2 - March 20, 2011
(17)
Great Egret – Fight #3 - March 20, 2011
(0)
Great Egret – Breeding Plumage – March 20, 2011
(5)
Little Gull (2) - Port Aransas, March 12, 2011
(27)
Bonaparte’s Gull - Port Aransas, March 12, 2011
(11)
Least Tern - Port Aransas, March 12, 2011
(2)
Whooping Crane - Scarbaby taking snake in light rain - Aransas NWR winter 2010-11
(31)
Whooping Crane - Feeding at dusk on dead fish remains
(21)
Whooping Crane - photos of Wood Buffalo-Aransas radioed Whoopers (with GPS transmitters)
(75)
Osprey - flapping flight speed with fish (still air) - 39.6 km/h (measured)
(1)
Whooping Crane - Scarbaby and his mate - Aransas NWR winter 2010-11
(45)
Yellow-faced Grassquit – Goose Island, Texas February 2011
(34)
Aplomado Falcon – February 2011
(4)
Osprey dives - estimated average speed
(0)
Osprey: High-speed medium-angle plunge
(1)
Osprey - Hunting in the rain
(30)
Crested Caracara harassing Osprey with fish - chase#4
(7)
Crested Caracara harassing Osprey with fish - chase#3
(4)
Osprey - medium-angle plunge
(18)
Tree Swallow foraging - Brazoria NWR January 15, 2011
(13)
Osprey - “Fish Worst Nightmare”
(4)
Osprey trying to build a nest - Upper Texas Coast
(2)
Osprey with 44cm Spotted Seatrout
(1)
Brown and American White Pelican fighting over fish
(24)
Bufflehead Texas Winter 2010-2011
(11)
Common Goldeneye Texas Winter 2010-2011
(10)
Hooded Merganser Texas Winter 2010-2011
(2)
Greater Scaup Texas Winter 2010-2011
(11)
Lesser Scaup Texas Winter 2010-2011
(6)
Red-breasted Merganser Texas Winter 2010-2011
(11)
Long-tailed Duck Texas January 2011
(3)
White-winged Scoter Texas December 2010
(2)
Osprey strikes large blue crab - crab fights back and gets free
(9)
How fast Snowy Egret can swallow a shrimp when harassed by gulls?
(18)
Great-blue Heron aerial foraging - striking striped mullet from flight - UTC November 2010
(17)
First record of Osprey taking blue crab
(10)
Osprey catching two fish in one dive — one in each talon
(23)
Dunlin 102310
(3)
Cattle Egret plumes – nomenclature
(11)
Neotropic Cormorant - growth of white filoplumes on head and neck
(0)
Neotropic Cormorant October 20, 2010
(3)
Neotropic Cormorant October 8, 2010
(9)
Neotropic Cormorant October 2, 2010
(2)
Neotropic Cormorant September 26, 2010
(1)
Neotropic Cormorant September 18, 2010
(3)
Neotropic & Double-crested Cormorant September-October 2010
(53)
Roseate Spoonbill parent punishing fledgling for excessive begging - UTC - Summer 2010
(10)
Cattle Egret - mantle plumes extending beyond end of tail
(1)
Cattle Egret - living among alligators - adult drinking
(28)
Cattle Egret - living among alligators - juvenile drinking & hunting
(12)
Cattle Egret - living among alligators - collecting nesting material in water
(3)
2 little quizzes - Cattle Egret behavior & plumage
(4)
Strength of Green Heron’s legs
(3)
Snowy Egret - extended fight
(25)
Cattle Egret - fights - summer 2010
(14)
Cattle Egret - breeding plumage - peak - summer 2010
(10)
Cattle Egret - breeding plumage - summer 2010
(2)
Cattle Egret - nest building material - summer 2010
(11)
Cattle Egret - on wing - summer 2010
(20)
Cattle Egret - after sundown - summer 2010
(11)
Leucistic Red-tailed Hawk - Katy - Texas - fall 2010
(23)
Leucistic Red-tailed Hawks - Katy - Texas -2009 and 2010
(0)
Leucistic Red-tailed Hawk - Katy - Texas - fall 2010
(23)
Leucistic Red-tailed Hawk - Katy - Texas - January 2010
(12)
Leucistic Red-tailed Hawk - Katy - Texas - December 2009
(28)
Leucistic Red-tailed Hawk - Katy - Texas - photos from every angle November 2009
(93)
Leucistic Red-tailed Hawk - Katy - Texas - January 2010
(12)
Yellow Oriole - melanistic - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Black Skimmer aerial chases - UTC summer 2010
(95)
Birds: Australia, Northern Territory, Top End 2010
(0)
Emu - Dromaius novaehollandiae - NT
(0)
Emu portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(4)
Orange-footed Scrubfowl - Megapodius reinwardt - NT
(0)
Orange-footed Scrubfowl - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(8)
Orange-footed Scrubfowl portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Indian Peafowl - Pavo cristatus - NT
(0)
Indian Peafowl - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Indian Peafowl portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(4)
Magpie Goose - Anseranas semipalmata - NT
(0)
Maggie Goose - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(9)
Maggie Goose portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(3)
Maggie Goose on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(7)
Plumed Whistling-Duck - Dendrocygna eytoni - NT
(0)
Plumed Whistling-Duck - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(18)
Plumed Whistling-Duck portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(8)
Plumed Whistling-Duck on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(9)
Wandering Whistling-Duck - Dendrocygna arcuata - NT
(0)
Wandering Whistling-Duck - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(7)
Wandering Whistling-Duck portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(0)
Black Swan - Cygnus atratus - NT
(0)
Black Swan portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(4)
Black Swan - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(3)
Radjah Shelduck - Tadorna radjah - NT
(0)
Radjah Shelduck - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(9)
Radjah Shelduck portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Radjah Shelduck on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(3)
Green Pygmy-goose - Nettapus pulchellus - NT
(0)
Green Pygmy Goose - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Green Pygmy Goose on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(0)
Green Pygmy Goose portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Australasian Grebe - Tachybaptus novaehollandiae - NT
(0)
Australasian Grebe - body shake - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(7)
Australasian Grebe Portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(5)
Australasian Grebe - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(31)
Flock Bronzewing - Phaps histrionica - NT
(0)
Flock Bronzewing portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Crested Pigeon - Ocyphaps lophotes - NT
(0)
Crested Pigeon - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(6)
Crested Pigeon portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Diamond Dove - Geopelia cuneata - NT
(0)
Peaceful Dove - Geopelia striata - NT
(0)
Peaceful Dove - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(7)
Bar-shouldered - Dove Geopelia humeralis - NT
(0)
Bar-shouldered Dove portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Bar-shouldered Dove - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(4)
Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove - Ptilinopus regina - NT
(0)
Rose-crowned Fruit-dove portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Pied Imperial - Pigeon Ducula bicolor- NT
(0)
Pied Imperial-Pigeon portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(3)
Australian Owlet-nightjar - Aegotheles cristatus - NT
(0)
Australian Owlet-nightjar - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Australasian Darter - Anhinga novaehollandiae - NT
(0)
Australasian Darter male - portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(4)
Australasian Darter male - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(5)
Australasian Darter male on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Australasian Darter female - portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Australasian Darter female on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(5)
Little Pied Cormorant - Microcarbo melanoleucos - NT
(0)
Little Pied Cormorant portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(12)
Little Pied Cormorant - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(6)
Little Pied Cormorant on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Little Pied Cormorant shaking wet plumage
(5)
Little Black Cormorant - Phalacrocorax sulcirostris - NT
(0)
Little Black Cormorant on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(3)
Little Black Cormorant - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Pied Cormorant - Phalacrocorax varius - NT
(0)
Pied Cormorant - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Pied Cormorant on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Australian Pelican - Pelecanus conspicillatus - NT
(0)
Australian Pelican - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(4)
Australian Pelican portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(6)
Black-necked Stork - Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus - NT
(0)
Black-necked Stork portraits female - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(16)
Black-necked Stork portraits male - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(4)
Black-necked Stork portraits pair - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(8)
Black-necked Stork portraits juvenile male - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Black-necked Stork - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(5)
Black-necked Stork on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(6)
Eastern Great Egret - Ardea modesta - NT
(0)
Eastern Great Egret Portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(5)
Eastern Great Egret on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(16)
Eastern Great Egret - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(16)
Intermediate Egret - Ardea intermedia - NT
(0)
Intermediate Egret - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(3)
Intermediate Egret Portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Intermediate Egret on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(14)
Great-billed Heron - Ardea sumatrana - NT
(0)
Great-billed Heron - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Great-billed Heron Portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Cattle Egret - Ardea ibis - NT
(0)
Cattle Egret - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(4)
Striated Heron - Butorides striata - NT
(0)
Striated Heron aggressive and defensive display postures - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(18)
Striated Heron on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(9)
Striated Heron juvenile on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(8)
Striated Heron juvenile - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(24)
Striated Heron - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(29)
Striated Heron juvenile Portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Striated Heron Portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Pied Heron Egretta - picata - NT
(0)
Pied Heron - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(32)
Pied Heron juvenile - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(11)
Pied Heron Portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(11)
Pied Heron juvenile Portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(3)
Pied Heron on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(5)
Pied Heron juvenile on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
White-faced Heron - Egretta novaehollandiae - NT
(0)
White-faced Heron - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(6)
White-faced Heron - food - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Little Egret - Egretta garzetta - NT
(0)
Little Egret - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(11)
Little Egret Portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(3)
Little Egret fighting - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(6)
Little Egret on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(14)
Eastern Reef Egret - Egretta sacra - NT
(0)
Eastern Reef Egret intermediate morph - white phase with dark feathers - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(15)
Eastern Reef Egret intermediate morph - white phase with dark feathers - on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(10)
Eastern Reef Egret white morph - white phase with one visible dark neck feather - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(21)
Eastern Reef Egret white morph on wing - white phase with one visible dark neck feather - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(6)
Eastern Reef Egret - food
(10)
Eastern Reef Egret grey morph Portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(10)
Eastern Reef Egret white morph Portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(3)
Eastern Reef Egret grey morph on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(25)
Eastern Reef Egret white morph on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(5)
Eastern Reef Egret grey morph - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(25)
Eastern Reef Egret white morph - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(29)
Nankeen Night-Heron - Nycticorax caledonicus - NT
(0)
Nankeen Night-Heron - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(13)
Nankeen Night-Heron juvenile - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(5)
Nankeen Night-Heron Portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(7)
Nankeen Night-Heron juvenile Portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Nankeen Night-Heron juvenile on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(4)
Glossy Ibis - Plegadis falcinellus - NT
(0)
Glossy Ibis on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Australian White Ibis - Threskiornis molucca - NT
(0)
Australian White Ibis - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(8)
Australian White Ibis on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(8)
Australian White Ibis portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(3)
Straw-necked Ibis - Threskiornis spinicollis - NT
(0)
Straw-necked Ibis - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(15)
Straw-necked Ibis on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(6)
Straw-necked Ibis portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(10)
Royal Spoonbill - Platalea regia - NT
(0)
Royal Spoonbill - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(8)
Royal Spoonbill portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Eastern Osprey - Pandion cristatus - NT
(0)
Eastern Osprey: Portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(34)
Eastern Osprey: on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(8)
Eastern Osprey: on nest - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(3)
Eastern Osprey: defecating - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Eastern Osprey: on perch - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(12)
Black-breasted Buzzard - Hamirostra melanosternon - NT
(0)
Black-breasted Buzzard swallowing chick - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(3)
Black-breasted Buzzard: Portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(10)
Pacific Baza - Aviceda subcristata - NT
(0)
Pacific Baza: Portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
White-bellied Sea-Eagle - Haliaeetus leucogaster - NT
(0)
White-bellied Sea-Eagle immature on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(5)
White-bellied Sea-Eagle immature - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(3)
White-bellied Sea-Eagle juvenile - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(0)
White-bellied Sea-Eagle Portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
White-bellied Sea-Eagle on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(21)
White-bellied Sea-Eagle - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(4)
Whistling Kite - Haliastur sphenurus - NT
(0)
Whistling Kite taking Long Tom - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(9)
Brahminy Kite - Haliastur indus - NT
(0)
Brahminy Kite hunting inside Mangroves - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(14)
Brahminy Kite - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(15)
Black Kite - Milvus migrans - NT
(0)
Black Kite on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(18)
Black Kite eating on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(7)
Red Goshawk - Erythrotriorchis radiatus - NT
(0)
Red Goshawk female: Portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(3)
Red Goshawk: female collecting nest material - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(33)
Red Goshawk male: Portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(0)
Red Goshawk: on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(6)
Red Goshawk: on nest - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(7)
Red Goshawk: female on perch - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(8)
Red Goshawk: male on perch - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(8)
Wedge-tailed - Eagle Aquila audax - NT
(0)
Wedge-tailed Eagle: Portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(4)
Nankeen Kestrel - Falco cenchroides - NT
(0)
Nankeen Kestrel: Portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(13)
Peregrine Falcon - Falco peregrinus - NT
(0)
Peregrine Falcon: Portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(6)
Brolga - Grus rubicunda - NT
(0)
Brolga portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(6)
Brolga - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(0)
White-browed Crake - Amaurornis cinerea - NT
(0)
White-browed Crake portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
White-browed Crake - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Australian Bustard - Ardeotis australis - NT
(0)
Australian Bustard - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Australian Bustard portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(9)
Bush Stone-curlew - Burhinus grallarius - NT
(0)
Bush Stone-curlew portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(6)
Bush Stone-curlew - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Beach Stone-curlew - Esacus magnirostris - NT
(0)
Beach Stone-curlew portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(6)
Black-winged Stilt - Himantopus himantopus - NT
(0)
Black-winged Stilt portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Black-winged Stilt - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(5)
Red-capped Plover - Charadrius ruficapillus - NT
(0)
Red-capped Plover - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(6)
Greater Sand Plover - Charadrius leschenaultii - NT
(0)
Greater Sand Plover Greater Sand Plover - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(14)
Black-fronted Dotterel - Elseyornis melanops - NT
(0)
Black-fronted Dotterel - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(8)
Masked Lapwing - Vanellus miles - NT
(0)
Masked Lapwing on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(5)
Masked Lapwing portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(5)
Masked Lapwing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(19)
Comb-crested Jacana - Irediparra gallinacea - NT
(0)
Comb-crested Jacana on nest incubating - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Comb-crested Jacana Portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(7)
Comb-crested Jacana - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(10)
Bar-tailed Godwit - Limosa lapponica NT
(0)
Bar-tailed Godwit - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Grey-tailed Tattler - Tringa brevipes - NT
(0)
Grey-tailed Tattler - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(3)
Ruddy Turnstone - Arenaria interpres - NT
(0)
Ruddy Turnstone - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Great Knot - Calidris tenuirostris - NT
(0)
Great Knot - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(20)
Red Knot - Calidris canutus - NT
(0)
Red Knot - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Sanderling - Calidris alba - NT
(0)
Sanderling - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Little Tern - Sternula albifrons - NT
(0)
Little Tern - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(14)
Gull-billed Tern - Gelochelidon nilotica - NT
(0)
Gull-billed Tern - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(4)
Caspian Tern - Hydroprogne caspia - NT
(0)
Caspian Tern - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(4)
Whiskered Tern - Chlidonias hybrida - NT
(0)
Whiskered Tern - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(5)
Lesser Crested Tern - Thalasseus bengalensis - NT
(0)
Lesser Crested Tern - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(6)
Crested Tern - Thalasseus bergii - NT
(0)
Crested Tern - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(6)
Silver Gull - Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae - NT
(0)
Silver Gull on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(11)
Silver Gull Portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Silver Gull - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(7)
Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo - Calyptorhynchus banksii - Nt
(0)
Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Galah - Eolophus roseicapillus - NT
(0)
Galah Portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(6)
Galah on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(3)
Galah - Top End - Northern Territory, Australia
(4)
Little Corella - Cacatua sanguinea - NT
(0)
Little Corella foraging - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(14)
Little Corella allopreening - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Little Corella Portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Little Corella on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(4)
Little Corella - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(5)
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo - Cacatua galerita - NT
(0)
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(0)
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(0)
Cockatiel - Nymphicus hollandicus - NT
(0)
Cockatiel - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Rainbow Lorikeet - Trichoglossus haematodus - NT
(0)
Rainbow Lorikeet - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(3)
Varied Lorikeet - Psitteuteles versicolor - NT
(0)
Varied Lorikeet - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Red-winged Parrot - Aprosmictus erythropterus - NT
(0)
Red-winged Parrot - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(7)
Northern Rosella - Platycercus venustus - NT
(0)
Northern Rosella - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(5)
Hooded Parrot - Psephotus dissimilis - NT
(0)
Hooded Parrot - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(13)
Pheasant Coucal - Centropus phasianinus - NT
(0)
Pheasant Coucal portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Pheasant Coucal - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(0)
Channel-billed Cuckoo - Scythrops novaehollandiae - NT
(0)
Channel-billed Cuckoo portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(4)
Rufous Owl - Ninox rufa - NT
(0)
Rufous Owl Portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Barking Owl - Ninox connivens - NT
(0)
Barking Owl Portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(5)
Barking Owl - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(7)
Azure Kingfisher - Ceyx azureus - NT
(0)
Azure Kingfisher - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(16)
Blue-winged Kookaburra - Dacelo leachii - NT
(0)
Blue-winged Kookaburra - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(4)
Forest Kingfisher - Todiramphus macleayii - NT
(0)
Forest Kingfisher portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Forest Kingfisher - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(3)
Sacred Kingfisher - Todiramphus sanctus - NT
(0)
Sacred Kingfisher - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(10)
Collared Kingfisher - Todiramphus chloris - NT
(0)
Collared Kingfisher - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Rainbow Bee-eater - Merops ornatus - NT
(0)
Rainbow Bee-eater portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(4)
Rainbow Bee-eater - food - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Rainbow Bee-eater - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(6)
Rainbow Pitta - Pitta iris - NT
(0)
Rainbow Pitta - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(6)
Great Bowerbird - Ptilonorhynchus nuchalis - NT
(0)
Great Bowerbird - bower - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(3)
Great Bowerbird portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Great Bowerbird - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(6)
Red-backed Fairy-wren - Malurus melanocephalus - NT
(0)
Red-backed Fairy-wren - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(10)
Large-billed Gerygone - Gerygone magnirostris - NT
(0)
Large-billed Gerygone - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(3)
Striated Pardalote - Pardalotus striatus - NT
(0)
Striated Pardalote - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
White-gaped Honeyeater - Lichenostomus unicolor - NT
(0)
White-gaped Honeyeater portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
White-gaped Honeyeater - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(3)
Yellow-throated - Miner Manorina flavigula - NT
(0)
Yellow-throated Miner portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Yellow-throated Miner - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(5)
Bar-breasted Honeyeater - Ramsayornis fasciatus - NT
(0)
Bar-breasted Honeyeater - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(5)
Rufous-banded Honeyeater - Conopophila albogularis - NT
(0)
Rufous-banded Honeyeater - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(17)
Rufous-throated Honeyeater - Conopophila rufogularis - NT
(0)
Rufous-throated Honeyeater portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Rufous-throated Honeyeater - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Red-headed Honeyeater - Myzomela erythrocephala - NT
(0)
Red-headed Honeyeater on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Red-headed Honeyeater - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Brown Honeyeater - Lichmera indistincta - NT
(0)
Brown Honeyeater portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Brown Honeyeater - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(25)
White-throated Honeyeater - Melithreptus albogularis - NT
(0)
White-throated Honeyeater
(7)
Blue-faced Honeyeater - Entomyzon cyanotis - NT
(0)
Blue-faced Honeyeater portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(7)
Blue-faced Honeyeater - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(12)
Blue-faced Honeyeater juvenile portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Silver-crowned Friarbird - Philemon argenticeps - NT
(0)
Silver-crowned Friarbird - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Little Friarbird - Philemon citreogularis - NT
(0)
Little Friarbird - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(10)
Little Friarbird portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(3)
Grey-crowned Babbler - Pomatostomus temporalis - NT
(0)
Grey-crowned Babbler - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(13)
Grey-crowned Babbler portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Grey-crowned Babbler food - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike - Coracina novaehollandiae - NT
(0)
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike - Coracina papuensis - NT
(0)
White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(4)
White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike food - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(7)
White-winged - Triller - Lalage sueurii - NT
(0)
White-winged Triller - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(8)
Varied Triller - Lalage leucomela - NT
(0)
Varied Triller - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Varied Triller food - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(10)
Rufous Whistler - Pachycephala rufiventris - NT
(0)
Rufous Whistler - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(6)
Australasian Figbird - Sphecotheres vieilloti - NT
(0)
Australasian Figbird - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Yellow Oriole - Oriolus flavocinctus - NT
(0)
Yellow Oriole - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Yellow Oriole - melanistic - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Olive-backed Oriole - Oriolus sagittatus - NT
(0)
Olive-backed Oriole - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Olive-backed Oriole portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(0)
Olive-backed Oriole food - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
White-breasted Woodswallow - Artamus leucorynchus - NT
(0)
White-breasted Woodswallow - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(4)
Black-faced Woodswallow - Artamus cinereus - NT
(0)
Black-faced Woodswallow - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(4)
Little Woodswallow - Artamus minor - NT
(0)
Little Woodswallow - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(3)
Pied Butcherbird - Cracticus nigrogularis - NT
(0)
Pied Butcherbird portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Pied Butcherbird - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(5)
Spangled Drongo - Dicrurus bracteatus - NT
(0)
Spangled Drongo - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(4)
Northern Fantail - Rhipidura rufiventris - NT
(0)
Northern Fantail - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(4)
Willie Wagtail - Rhipidura leucophrys - NT
(0)
Willie Wagtail food - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Willie Wagtail - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(9)
Willie Wagtail portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Torresian Crow - Corvus orru - NT
(0)
Torresian Crow portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Torresian Crow - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(10)
Leaden Flycatcher - Myiagra rubecula - NT
(0)
Leaden Flycatcher - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(6)
Shining Flycatcher - Myiagra alecto - NT
(0)
Shining Flycatcher - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Restless Flycatcher - Myiagra inquieta - NT
(0)
Restless Flycatcher - food - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Restless Flycatcher - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(3)
Magpie-lark - Grallina cyanoleuca - NT
(0)
Magpie-lark drinking-bathing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(4)
Magpie-lark portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Magpie-lark on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(4)
Magpie-lark - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(13)
Apostlebird - Struthidea cinerea - NT
(0)
Apostlebird portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(3)
Apostlebird - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(4)
Lemon-bellied Flycatcher - Microeca flavigaster - NT
(0)
Lemon-bellied Flycatcher - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(12)
Lemon-bellied Flycatcher portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(0)
Golden-headed - Cisticola Cisticola exilis - NT
(0)
Golden-headed Cisticola - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(3)
Yellow White-eye - Zosterops luteus - NT
(0)
Yellow White-eye - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Long-tailed Finch - Poephila acuticauda - NT
(0)
Long-tailed Finch - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(3)
Crimson Finch - Neochmia phaeton - NT
(0)
Crimson Finch - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Gouldian Finch - Erythrura gouldiae - NT
(0)
Gouldian Finch - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Chestnut-breasted Mannikin - Lonchura castaneothorax - NT
(0)
Chestnut-breasted Mannikin - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(8)
IDs Northern Territory, Australia: - need confirmations
(0)
IDs Northern Territory, Australia: - need confirmations
(0)
Wallaby - before dawn - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(8)
Golden Silk Orbweaver (Nephila clavipes) building web
(0)
Golden Silk Orbweaver (Nephila clavipes) food
(0)
Saltwater (Estuarine, 'Salty') Crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Upland Sandpiper UTC 2010
(3)
Little Blue Heron - juvenile and one year old - field marks
(7)
Snowy Egrets with discolored plumes
(6)
Black Skimmer - dealing with heat during Texas summer
(9)
Cattle Egrets – unwanted sexual encounters
(13)
Swallow-tailed Kite - Aerial Shake 080710
(11)
Swallow-tailed Kite eating on wing 080710
(7)
Swallow-tailed Kite feeding juveniles 080710
(21)
Swallow-tailed Kite juveniles begging for food 080710
(5)
Swallow-tailed Kite 080710
(11)
Black Skimmer - 3 aberrant females (“Brown” color mutation): history of this find, important close-up and comparison photos.
(3)
Black Skimmer - 'brown' Female#1 - Fulton-Rockport 080110
(17)
Black Skimmer - 'brown' Female#2 - Fulton-Rockport 080110
(6)
Black Skimmer - 'brown' Female#3 - Fulton-Rockport 073110
(2)
Tricolored Heron - juvenile hunting dragonflies
(4)
Bald Eagles fledgling 2010 - keeping balance on “three legs”
(13)
Bald Eagles fledgling 2010 on perch
(34)
Bald Eagles fledgling 2010 - play behavior - breaking off and tossing leaves
(10)
Bald Eagles fledgling 2010 on wing
(13)
Snowy Egret Foraging Technique: Bill-vibrating - A prey atracting behavior
(10)
Comparing close-up photos of "white-headed" Ardeidae found in Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Osprey - feeding chicks (2.5 weeks old)
(4)
Osprey fledgling - first night after fledging
(1)
Osprey - fledging day - Flight #11 of 11
(6)
Osprey - fledging day - Flight #2 of 11
(17)
Osprey - fledging day - 1st flight: landing - Flight #1 of 11
(8)
Osprey - fledging day - 1st flight: flying - Flight #1 of 11
(4)
Osprey - fledging day - 1st flight: take off - Flight #1 of 11
(2)
Osprey - fledging day - 1st flight: last moment before taking off - Flight #1 of 11
(11)
Osprey juvenile one day before fledging - hovering above nest
(2)
Osprey juvenile one day before fledging - wing flapping
(2)
Osprey juvenile one day before fledging - jumping
(1)
Osprey - juveniles on nest in rain
(8)
Australian Freshwater Crocodile - Crocodylus johnstoni - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(10)
Saltwater (Estuarine, 'Salty') Crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) jumping - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(2)
Partial lunar eclipse - Houston, Texas June 26, 2010
(1)
Red-bellied Woodpecker - Cypresswood June 26, 2010
(5)
Red-headed Woodpecker - Cypresswood June 26, 2010
(3)
Osprey juvenile - casting pellet
(6)
Osprey - in special light
(4)
Neotropic - Double-crested Cormorant - Interspecific Interactions: kleptoparasitism
(11)
Lesser Scaup feeding on mussels plus male and female portraits
(32)
Great Egret - Aerial Feeding - Winter 2009-10
(36)
Quintana - April 24-25, 2010
(39)
Yellow-headed Blackbird - Quintana April 24, 2010
(15)
Black-and-white Warbler movements 042510 - Quintana April 25, 2010
(7)
Laughing Gull courtship feeding – April 25, 2010
(3)
Northern Cardinal courtship feeding – April 25, 2010
(6)
Leucistic Neotropic Cormorant – UTC 2010
(2)
Bald Eagles - Baytown Nest April 21, 2010
(6)
Baytown Bald Eagles - Eaglets - Play - April 14, 2010
(5)
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(0)
Bald Eagles - Baytown Nest April 14, 2010
(9)
Bald Eagles - Baytown - Pair Bathing, April 13, 2010
(7)
Bald Eagles - Baytown Nest April 12, 2010
(3)
Bald Eagles - Baytown Nest April 9, 2010
(37)
Bald Eagles - Baytown Nest April 8, 2010
(2)
Bald Eagles - Baytown Nest April 7, 2010
(6)
Bald Eagles -Baytown Nest April 5, 2010
(16)
Bald Eagles -Baytown Nest April 3, 2010
(30)
Bald Eagle – Landing on perch – Baytown March 2010
(12)
Baytown Bald Eagles in the rain - April 2, 2010
(48)
Bald Eagle – Taking off from perch – Baytown March 2010
(2)
Bald Eagle – Pair calling on perch - March 2010
(2)
Bald Eagle – Head-Throwback Display when calling with raised wings– on nest - March 2010
(3)
Bald Eagle – Head-Throwback Display when calling on perch - March 2010
(2)
Bald Eagle – Cleaning bill - March 2010
(1)
Bald Eagle – Head Scratching - March 2010
(0)
Bald Eagle – Preening - March 2010
(3)
Bald Eagle – Defecating on perch - March 2010
(4)
Bald Eagle – Full body shake- March 2010
(1)
Bald Eagle – Feeding young - March 2010
(4)
Bald Eagle – On the wing - March 2010
(10)
Baytown Bald Eagle Nest – March 2010
(0)
Bald Eagle – Portraits - March 2010
(8)
Great Egret High Island March 28, 2010
(9)
Roseate Spoonbill - High Island March 28, 2010
(8)
Neotropic Cormorant - High Island March 28, 2010
(1)
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(2)
Mottled Duck (Anas fulvigula) – Upper Texas Coast
(7)
Possible American Black Duck (Anas rubripes) – Upper Texas Coast
(19)
Possible Mexican Duck (Anas diazi) – Upper Texas Coast
(35)
Snowy Egret - Art in Aerial Foraging
(3)
Snowy Egret - Aerial Feeding - Winter 2009-10
(69)
Snowy Egret - Foraging Flights - Winter 2009-10
(80)
Great Egret - fight#9
(6)
Great Egret - fight#8
(5)
Great Egret - fight#7
(8)
Great Egret - fight#6
(3)
Great Egret - fight#5
(17)
Great Egret - fight#4
(13)
Great Egret - fight#3
(6)
Great Egret - fight#2
(2)
Great Egret - fight#1
(3)
Great Egret - on the wing - aggressive pursuits
(13)
Great Egret - on the wing
(20)
Great Egret grabbed a fish but Snowy stole a fisheye
(2)
Snowy Egret foraging in flocks
(7)
Snowy Egret, Ring-billed Gull & Laughing Gull foraging
(10)
Snowy and Great Egret foraging in the fog
(1)
Snowy Egret & Ring-billed Gull - interspecific kleptoparasitism
(2)
Snowy Egret - fight#4
(3)
Snowy Egret - fight#3
(1)
Snowy Egret - fight#2
(8)
Snowy Egret - fight#1
(14)
Reddish Egret foraging
(26)
Great Egret striking prey - close ups
(20)
Snowy Egret striking prey - close ups
(5)
Red-tailed Hawk walking on the ground
(7)
Neotropic Cormorant defecating on the wing
(2)
Great Egret defecating on the wing
(4)
Snowy Egret defecating on the wing
(2)
Red-tailed Hawk striking, drowning and eating the Mallard – January 1, 2010
(151)
Red-tailed Hawk - nictitating membrane
(6)
Caspian Tern with fish harassed by Laughing Gull - BNWR January 24, 2010
(24)
Geese - San Bernard NWR - January 24, 2010
(5)
Rock Wren - January 21, 2010 - Pine Gully Park in Seabrook
(21)
In Box
(0)
great_egret_-_aerial_feeding_-_winter_2009-10_
(0)
From the Field 2009
(0)
Osprey – Intraspecific Interactions: Deadly Fights
(1)
Osprey – Intraspecific Interactions: Aerial Attacks
(4)
Great Blue Heron catches ticket for me to the Top End
(1)
Leucistic Red-tailed Hawk - Katy - Texas - photos from every angle November 2009
(93)
Leucistic Red-tailed Hawk - Katy - Texas - December 2009
(28)
White-tailed Hawk - Juvenile - UTC
(19)
White-tailed Hawk - Portraits
(19)
American White Pelican stretching pouch & gape - UTC November 2009
(27)
Limpkin - Food
(4)
Sanderling Fight UTC
(9)
American Kestrel - Portraits
(15)
Great-tailed Grackle harassing Belted Kingfisher
(11)
Bald Eagle - November 2009
(4)
Silver Call Duck
(23)
American Bittern hunting crayfish
(22)
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron - I can see you
(46)
American Alligator hunting crayfish
(12)
Least Grebe – Adult Portraits – BBSP Oct-Nov 2009
(29)
Least Grebe – Juvenile Portraits – BBSP Oct-Nov 2009
(59)
Least Grebe – Intraspecific Interactions: Fight between juveniles
(6)
Least Grebe – Interspecific Interactions with Pied-billed Grebe BBSP
(10)
Least Grebe – Feeding Juveniles - BBSP
(3)
Least Grebe – Food Items – BBSP Oct-Nov 2009
(24)
Least Grebe – Foraging Techniques on water surface
(14)
Least Grebe – Foraging Techniques - diving
(11)
Least Grebe – Foraging Techniques – hunting dragonflies and damselflies
(11)
Least Grebes – Fashion Craze and Latest Fashion Statements
(29)
Great Blue Heron “Upright and Spread Wing” display
(11)
Common Moorhens fighting 2 - UTC November 2009
(3)
Common Moorhens fighting
(29)
White Ibis mid-air fight with Laughing Gull for an eel
(3)
Laughing Gulls fighting for an eel
(11)
Roseate Spoonbill - UTC Summer 2009
(17)
Quintana, UTC - September 19, 2009
(40)
Quintana, UTC - September 16, 2009
(6)
Quintana, UTC - September 12, 2009
(18)
Least Grebe Family of 7 at Brazos Bend State Park - September 13, 2009
(6)
Laughing Gull, White Ibis & wealth distribution
(13)
Least Tern Bands UTC Summer 2009 - Request for help to identify bands
(1)
Lesser Black-backed Gull at Quintana, UTC September 5, 2009
(19)
White Ibis, Laughing Gull & Eels - UTC August 2009
(23)
Limpkin, White Ibis & Mussel
(9)
American Oystercatcher - UTC August 2009
(17)
American Oystercatcher fighting over dead crabs - UTC August 2009
(13)
American Oystercatcher chasing Laughing Gull over dead crab - UTC August 2009
(3)
American Oystercatcher and crab - UTC August 2009
(2)
Sanderling fight - UTC August 29, 2009
(15)
Quintana City Park - August 29, 2009
(9)
Common Tern - UTC August 29, 2009
(9)
Black Tern Juvenile - UTC August 29, 2009
(4)
White Ibis fighting - UTC - August 2009
(8)
American Oystercatcher - "Mud-Dance" - UTC August 2009
(4)
Ruddy Turnstone - 1 minute battle - selected images
(29)
Ruddy Turnstone - 1 minute battle - complete sequence
(88)
First record of ‘pikei’ female Least Tern copulating - UTC - June 13, 2009
(13)
Need a good haircut badly? – Call the Sanderling PhD. Plus HAS/HANPA meeting info.
(36)
Reddish Egret intermediate (pied) morph - Bolivar Flats, UTC, August 9, 2009
(2)
Snowy Egret: Aerial foraging techniques: dipping, hovering, hovering-stirring, foot-dragging
(33)
Snowy Egret: Aerial foraging
(11)
Least Tern: nesting sites: public beaches
(6)
Brant - Brazoria NWR, August 1, 2009
(21)
Least Tern: Defending Nest: Attacking intruders on the ground
(6)
Least Tern laying egg
(24)
Least Tern: Nest: maintaining scrape
(6)
Least Tern: Nest: looking for spot and making scrape
(22)
Least Tern: Defending Nest: Defecating on Intruders
(1)
Royal Tern taking ribbonfish
(48)
Laughing Gull - leucistic - with pink/red bill and legs
(6)
Smart Laughing Gull learned to ride pelicans
(9)
Nature’s Best Photography Magazine cover - summer 2009
(1)
Magnificent Frigatebird grabs Royal Tern by the tail and shakes it – no respect to Your Highness
(5)
"Pied" looking Magnificent Frigatebird in heavy body molt - Quintana - UTC, June 21, 2009
(10)
Black Skimmer aerial chases p2 - UTC Spring 2009
(15)
Black Skimmer skimming - UTC Spring 2009
(11)
Black Skimmer courtship and copulation - daytime - UTC Spring 2009
(10)
Black Skimmer copulation - nighttime - UTC Spring 2009
(5)
Sandwich Tern casting pellet
(2)
Terns, Gulls and Fishes UTC May/June 2009
(30)
Northern Gannet - Quintana Jetty, UTC June 6, 2009
(5)
Common Tern UTC May/June 2009
(17)
Black Tern UTC May 2009
(14)
Yellow-footed Gull taking ray fish from Common Loon
(24)
Yellow-footed Gull - March 2009
(31)
Heermann's Gull - March 2009
(24)
California Gull - March 2009
(2)
Blue-footed Booby & Brown Booby March 2009
(16)
Least Bittern defensive posture
(4)
Reddish Egret intermediate (pied) morph 2
(11)
Reddish Egret intermediate (pied) morph (dark phase with white feathers)
(17)
Lesser Black-backed Gull versus Herring Gull - fights, UTC Spring 2009
(25)
Herring Gull versus Herring Gull - fights, UTC Spring 2009
(6)
Lesser Black-backed Gull: bloody dining and bathing - UTC - Spring 2009
(21)
Lesser Black-backed Gull on the wing - UTC - Spring 2009
(17)
Lesser Black-backed Gull: Portraits - UTC - Spring 2009
(16)
Herring Gull - UTC - Spring 2009
(6)
Great Blue Heron - how much it too much?
(5)
Sanderling – a big spirit in a small body, UTC - May 2009
(27)
“Fishing as Art” – the great Great Blue Heron performance
(29)
Greater Flamingo - Freeport, UTC - May 16, 2009
(1)
Quintana: UTC: May 2-3, 2009: Black-throated Blue, Cape May, Blackpoll Warbler
(43)
Least Tern - “Trading sex for food”
(28)
Osprey: EPC - Trying to attempt copulation by a stranger male - female refusal
(8)
Osprey: Pair copulation attempt shortly after courtship feeding
(11)
What the male will do for the female and what the female can do to the male.
(15)
Blackpoll Warbler - Quintana UTC April 26, 2009
(21)
Western Diamondback Rattlesnake taking Red-winged Blackbird - Quintana , UTC - April 26, 2009
(22)
Least Tern courtship feeding - UTC April 2009
(10)
Black Skimmer aerial chases and yellow feather flush - UTC April 2009
(44)
Worm-eating Warbler, Western Tanager etc – Quintana City Park: UTC: April 19, 2009
(22)
“Worming Tournament” – the Easter feast on the shore
(43)
Pink feather flush in gulls and terns plumages UTC Spring 2009
(9)
Laughing Gull courtship feeding - UTC Spring 2009
(9)
"Food-Orgy" at the beach - UTC Spring 2009
(30)
Osprey - Hatchlings
(4)
Osprey - Nest: 1 Egg and 2 Chicks
(3)
Osprey - Nest: 3 Eggs
(4)
Common Loon hunting ray fish - March 2009
(2)
White-faced Ibis - Mid-air Fight
(13)
Elegant Tern - March 2009
(1)
Virginia Rail, King Rail and Sora at SBNWR - February - March 2009
(71)
1st winter Yellow-footed Gull - March 2009
(8)
Attwater’s Prairie Chicken male attacking cars and people on his lek
(43)
Texas prairie drought and fire devastating effect on wildlife.
(151)
Osprey - Behavior - Animations
(11)
Happy Valentine’s Day – The Great Blue Heron way
(9)
The White-tailed Hawk taking an Eastern Mole
(6)
Red-tailed Hawk - Upper Texas Coast - January 10, 2009
(11)
Raptors - Upper Texas Coast - January 2009
(23)
Tropical Parula - Brazos Bend State Park January 21, 2009
(7)
Rusty Blackbird - Brazos Bend State Park - January 18, 2009
(12)
Tropical Parula - Brazos Bend State Park January 18, 2009
(19)
Attwater's Prairie-Chicken: lek (booming ground) January 2009
(126)
Harris's Sparrow January 2009
(13)
Quiz 4 - answer: Attwater's Prairie-Chicken male's sounds
(12)
Texas Ammodramus sp sparrows - Headshots: Henslow’s, Le Conte’s, Grasshopper, Seaside and Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
(5)
Attwater Prairie Chicken NWR, January 04, 2009: Fog
(6)
Attwater Prairie Chicken NWR, January 04, 2009: Sparrows
(22)
Henslow's Sparrow - Attwater Prairie Chicken NWR, January 04, 2009
(29)
Quiz No 3 - Osprey
(40)
Greater Prairie-Chicken: Attwater's Prairie-Chicken - January 02, 2009
(64)
Loggerhead Shrike - The King of barbed wire
(8)
Loggerhead Shrike’s butchery - Attwater Prairie Chicken NWR, January 02, 2009
(18)
Grasshopper, White-crowned, Savannah and Vesper Sparrows - Attwater Prairie Chicken NWR, January 02, 2009
(36)
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From the Field 2008
(0)
Bald Eagle (southern) Plumages from every angle - Winter 2008-2009
(7)
Sandhill Crane feeding on white grubs
(28)
Seaside Sparrow’s mysterious life
(15)
Grasshopper Sparrow - Attwater Prairie Chicken NWR, December 13, 2008
(36)
Le Conte’s Sparrow - Attwater Prairie Chicken NWR, December 13, 2008
(13)
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow - UTC, Fall 2008
(24)
Seaside Sparrow - UTC, Fall 2008
(2)
Vesper and Savannah Sparrow - Attwater Prairie Chicken NWR, December 13, 2008
(27)
Song and White-crowned Sparrow - Attwater Prairie Chicken NWR, December 13, 2008
(12)
Other birds - Attwater Prairie Chicken NWR, December 13, 2008
(20)
Loggerhead Shrike’s butchery - Attwater Prairie Chicken NWR, December 13, 2008
(51)
Bald Eagle November 2008 - building nest
(24)
Bald Eagle (southern) Plumages from every angle
(79)
Merlin hunting
(8)
Reddish Egret - fight
(11)
Red-tailed Hawk taking Western Diamondback Rattlesnake - Quintana November 1, 2008
(11)
Kelp Gull (Larus dominicanus) or Chandeleur Gull? - Quintana Beach, UTC - November 8, 2008
(37)
Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus) at Quintana Beach, UTC - November 8, 2008
(17)
Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) - Quintana UTC
(8)
Pink-billed Frigatebird - Upper Texas Coast 2008
(0)
Pink-billed Frigatebird - Quintana - September 1, 2008
(14)
Pink-billed Frigatebird - Quintana - August 30, 2008
(5)
Injuries of Pink-billed Frigatebird
(3)
Pinky or not Pinky?
(5)
Magnificent Frigatebird – Defecating
(7)
Magnificent Frigatebird – aerial shake - vertical (Fluttering dive)
(2)
Magnificent Frigatebird – aerial shake - horizontal
(3)
Magnificent Frigatebird – Portraits on the wing
(46)
Magnificent Frigatebird – hunting
(15)
Magnificent Frigatebird – drinking on the wing
(0)
Magnificent Frigatebird – preening on the wing
(9)
Magnificent Frigatebird – aerial shake
(0)
Magnificent Frigatebird - intraspecific - mid-air disputes
(11)
Magnificent Frigatebird - interspecific – Kleptoparasitism
(17)
Magnificent Frigatebird - intraspecific – Kleptoparasitism
(5)
Magnificent Frigatebird -Quintana - August 16, 2008
(15)
Least Tern - feeding juveniles
(29)
Least Tern - juveniles - begging for food - July/August 2008
(57)
Least Tern - adventure with big fish
(19)
Least Tern - feeding pufferfish to juvenile
(11)
Least Tern - second wave of nesting - June/July 2008
(8)
Hunting Black Skimmer from every angle - Summer 2008 - Brazoria part 2
(32)
Black Skimmer casting a pellet on the wing
(3)
Hunting Black Skimmer from every angle - Summer 2008 - Brazoria
(83)
BIRD CALENDARS
(1)
Red Knot - July 2008 - Bryan Beach
(9)
Red Knot - May 10, 2008 - Bolivar Flats
(8)
Horned Lark - July, 2008
(3)
American Alligator - Mississippi Green Water Snake
(10)
Crested Caracara Kleptoparasitizes White-tailed Kite
(13)
Palm Warbler - Spring 2008
(8)
Eastern Towhee - Spring 2008
(15)
Fish Crow & White Ibis - April 2008
(30)
Fish Crow Allofeeding & Allopreening - April 2008
(24)
Fish Crow April 2008
(18)
Great Horned Owl: Food
(18)
Great Horned Owl April 2008 - Allopreening
(16)
Great Horned Owl April 2008
(45)
Gray Kingbird - April 2008
(11)
Greater Flamingo - Bolivar Flats - April 12, 2008
(76)
Le Conte's Sparrow & Swamp Sparrow 012708
(32)
Le Conte's Sparrow & Sedge Wren 020208
(26)
Osprey - Upper Texas Coast, February 2, 2008
(4)
Leucistic Great-tailed Grackle, Freeport, February 2, 2008
(5)
Le Conte's Sparrow, San Bernard NWR, January 20, 2008
(24)
Ring-billed Gull breaking off Gafftopsail Catfish (Bagre marinus) venomous spine, January 20, 2008
(23)
Hermann Park Ducks, Houston, Texas, January 13, 2008
(127)
Ibises, gulls and eels - June-July, 2008
(24)
From the Field 2007
(0)
"Crossbill" Seaside Sparrow; Surfside, UTC, September 29, 2007
(8)
Leucistic Seaside Sparrow - UTC - November 4, 2007
(63)
Live Oak County, Texas - November 19, 2007
(28)
Acorn Woodpecker - Davis Mountains - June 4, 2007
(50)
American White Pelican - UTC November 21, 2007
(25)
American White Pelican - UTC November 10, 2007
(16)
Brown Pelican - UTC November 21, 2007
(18)
Brown Pelican - UTC November 10, 2007
(18)
American Oystercatcher - UTC November 10, 2007
(44)
American Oystercatcher - UTC October 20, 2007
(19)
American Oystercatcher - UTC October 17, 2007
(24)
Masked Duck - Live Oak County, Texas - December 02, 2007
(0)
Masked Duck Segregated Folders: Behaviors, Molt, Feeding Timetable, Portraits, etc - December 1, 2007
(0)
Masked Duck: Molt: Wings - December 2, 2007
(0)
Masked Duck: Molt: Tail - December 2, 2007
(0)
Masked Duck: Portraits - December 2, 2007
(5)
Masked Ducks - All photos posted from image sequence taken during December 2, 2007
(83)
Masked Duck - Live Oak County, Texas - December 01, 2007
(0)
Masked Ducks - All photos posted from image sequence taken during December 1, 2007
(63)
Masked Duck - Live Oak County, Texas - November 19, 2007
(0)
Masked Ducks - All photos posted from image sequence taken during November 19, 2007
(190)
Masked Duck Segregated Folders: Behaviors, Molt, Feeding Time Table, Portraits etc
(0)
Masked Duck: Portraits
(42)
Masked Duck: Molt: Tail
(4)
Masked Duck: Molt: Wings
(13)
Masked Duck: Comfort Movements: Preening
(9)
Masked Duck: Comfort Movements: Body Shake, Head Shake
(3)
Masked Duck: Comfort Movements: Full Body Stretch
(2)
Masked Duck: Comfort Movements: Jaw-Stretch
(0)
Masked Duck: Comfort Movements: Wing-and-Leg Stretch
(3)
Masked Duck: Comfort Movements: Two-Wing Stretch
(1)
Masked Duck: Comfort Movements: Direct Head and Neck Scratching
(5)
Masked Duck: Comfort Movements: Wings Flapping
(17)
Masked Duck: Drinking
(0)
Masked Duck: Feeding on unknown plant (chewing stem under the water)
(12)
Masked Duck: Skimming for food
(7)
Masked Duck: Foraging Dives
(24)
Masked Duck: Escaping Dive
(1)
Masked Duck: Dives with visible legs position
(6)
Masked Duck: Sleeping - Resting
(3)
Masked Duck: Agonistic, Social, Intra and Interspecific Behaviors
(1)
Masked Duck: First Feeding
(0)
Masked Duck: Second Feeding
(0)
Masked Duck: Third Feeding
(0)
Masked Duck: Fourth Feeding
(0)
Masked Duck: Resting with wing/leg stretched
(2)
Masked Buck: Raising forehead feathers
(2)
Masked Duck Animated Images
(3)
Great Blue Heron and Largemouth Bass, UTC - November 21, 2007
(10)
Great Egret & Rio Grande Leopard Frog - Live Oak County, Texas - December 2, 2007
(73)
Wilson's Snipe - Live Oak County, Texas - December 1, 2007
(34)
Osprey - Upper Texas Coast, October- November 2007
(24)
UTC - December 25, 2007
(13)
Horned & Eared Grebe - Texas City Dike - November 16, 2007
(45)
Texas City Dike - November 16, 2007
(28)
Rural Cats - Texas City Dike - November 16, 2007
(11)
Horned Grebe - Texas City Dike - November 14, 2007
(8)
Texas City Dike - November 14, 2007
(19)
Bryan Beach Parasitic Jaeger
(8)
Upper Texas Coast – October 13-14, 2007
(2)
White-tailed Kite aerial displays - Upper Texas Coast – October 13-14, 2007
(4)
September 15-16, 2007 Upper Texas Coast
(22)
Seaside Sparrow – foraging and agonistic behaviors – UTC – August 25, 2007
(91)
Purple Gallinue family behaviors - Upper Texas Coast - August 11, 2007
(64)
Birds - Brazoria NWR complex - August 18, 2007
(1)
Close-up encounter with Clapper Rail - Brazoria NWR complex, Texas - August 11-12, 2007
(53)
Gull-billed Tern hunting dragonfly - Brazoria NWR complex, Texas - August 12, 2007
(8)
Brazoria NWR complex, Texas - August 11-12, 2007
(19)
Birds - Brazoria NWR complex, Texas - August 11-12, 2007
(26)
Cattle Egret’s prey - antic episode with a snake - Brazoria NWR complex - Texas August 4, 2007
(44)
Common Moorhen family behaviors - Brazoria NWR complex - August 4, 2007
(25)
Brazoria NWR complex - August 4, 2007
(39)
Lake Houston, Texas - July 14, 2007
(11)
Chimney Swift Nest - Lake Houston, Texas - July 14, 2007
(10)
Pied-billed Grebe nesting - April 26, 2007 Upper Texas Coast
(44)
Pied-billed Grebe nesting - April 25, 2007 Upper Texas Coast
(61)
Pied-billed Grebe nesting - April 24, 2007 Upper Texas Coast
(41)
Pied-billed Grebe nesting - April 23, 2007 Upper Texas Coast
(13)
Pied-billed Grebe nesting - April 19, 2007 Upper Texas Coast
(25)
Shorebirds: Prey items transport in beak by surface tension of water May 2007 UTC
(0)
Long-billed Dowitcher : Prey items transport in beak by surface tension of water May 2007 UTC
(27)
Hudsonian Godwit : Prey items transport in beak by surface tension of water May 2007 UTC
(10)
Wilson‘s Phalarope : Prey items transport in beak by surface tension of water May 2007 UTC
(51)
Red-necked Phalarope : Prey items transport in beak by surface tension of water May 2007 UTC
(22)
Stilt Sandpiper : Prey items transport in beak by surface tension of water May 2007 UTC
(7)
Dunlin: Prey items transport in beak by surface tension of water May 2007 UTC
(2)
White-rumped Sandpiper: Prey items transport in beak by surface tension of water May 2007 UTC
(3)
Semipalmated Sandpiper: Prey items transport in beak by surface tension of water May 2007 UTC
(3)
Other birds - - May 27, 2007 - Pelican Island, UTC, Texas
(32)
Red-necked Phalarope feeding techniques - May 27, 2007 - Pelican Island, UTC, Texas
(95)
One-legged Wilson’s Phalarope feeding techniques - May 5-12, 2007 - High Island, UTC, Texas
(28)
Wilson's Phalarope feeding techniques - May 5-12, 2007 - High Island, UTC, Texas
(178)
Black-capped Vireo & Varied Bunting fledglings: Junction, Texas June 8-10, 2007
(80)
West Texas, June 05, 2007
(14)
Texas Horned Lizard - West Texas, June 05, 2007
(9)
Cassin's Kingbird mobbing Common Raven - Fort Davis, Texas, June 2007
(21)
June 2007 West Texas Field shots: Swainson's & Red-tailed Hawk with prey
(14)
Burrowing Owl - Fort Stockton, June 5, 2007
(23)
Hudsonian Godwit from every angle , May 6-12, 2007 UTC
(45)
Brown-headed Nuthatch: North West Houston April 28-29, 2007. New Behaviors
(113)
High_Island_April_29_2007
(5)
Red-tailed Hawk hunting Squirrel, April 29, 2007
(18)
Upper Texas Coast (UTC) April 25, 2007
(4)
Barred Owl - Chapell Hill, Texas - April 21, 2007
(31)
Upper Texas Coast (UTC) April 19, 2007
(18)
Bald Eagle - Fledgling - First Flights - April 15, 2007
(36)
Bald Eagle - April 15, 2007
(5)
Central Brazos Valley: April 15, 2007
(24)
Quintana April 12, 2007
(13)
Quintana April 11, 2007
(7)
Quintana April 8, 2007
(14)
Quintana April 6, 2007
(62)
North West Houston April 5, 2007
(19)
Central Brazos Valley: March 31, 2007
(7)
Smith Oaks Rookery - High Island, March 25, 2007
(61)
Central Brazos Valley: March 24, 2007: Red-shouldered Hawk hunting Yellow-bellied Water Snake
(54)
Bald Eagle Nest - March 24, 2007
(6)
Bald Eagle - March 24, 2007
(15)
Hermann Park - March 22, 2007
(53)
Bald Eagle Nest - March 17, 2007
(7)
Bald Eagle - March 17, 2007
(12)
Central Brazos Valley: March 17, 2007
(11)
Bald Eagle Nest - March 10, 2007
(4)
Bald Eagle - March 10, 2007
(15)
Central Brazos Valley: March 10, 2007
(15)
Upper Texas Coast (UTC) March 11, 2007
(50)
Bald Eagle Nest - March 4, 2007
(1)
Bald Eagle - March 4, 2007
(33)
Upper Texas Coast (UTC)- February 25, 2007 - Harlan's and Krider's Red-tailed Hawk
(14)
Ducklings at Hermann Park - February 27, 2007
(21)
Hermann Park - February 18 & 27, 2007
(132)
Bald Eagle Nest - February 17, 2007
(2)
Bald Eagle Nest - February 10, 2007
(3)
Bald Eagle - February 10&17, 2007
(34)
Birds Need URGENT HELP at Hermann Park
(15)
Birds feasting on mayflies at Brazoria NWR - January 2007
(84)
Eared Grebe - The Wave Rider - Winter 2007-8
(34)
Caspian Tern, Upper Texas Coast, winter 2007-8
(9)
Forster's Tern, Upper Texas Coast, winter 2007-8
(9)
Brown Pelican, Upper Texas Coast, winter 2007-8
(37)
Other birds - May 5-12, 2007 - High Island, UTC, Texas
(111)
From the Field 2006
(0)
Crested Caracara, White-tailed and Red-tailed Hawk feeding on Coyote carcass.
(63)
Hidalgo County, Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas: December 26-27, 2006 - Crested Caracara; notes on behavior
(65)
Hidalgo County, Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas: December 26-27, 2006 - Raptors on the wing
(16)
UTC, Southern Brazoria County, Texas, Winter December 1 - January 14, 2006
(121)
Brown Jay and Green Jay - Allopreening Behavior
(8)
Mexico: San Luis Potosi; El Meco, December 29, 2006
(31)
Mexico: Tamaulipas; El Cielo, Rio Frio & Gomez Farias, December 28-30, 2006: Trip
(13)
Mexico: Tamaulipas; El Cielo, Rio Frio & Gomez Farias, December 28-30, 2006: Birds
(21)
Mexico: Tamaulipas; El Cielo, Rio Frio & Gomez Farias, December 28-30, 2006: Bat Falcon
(78)
Mexico: Tamaulipas; El Cielo, Rio Frio, December 28-30, 2006: Amazon, Green and Ringed Kingfisher
(15)
Mexico: Tamaulipas; El Cielo, Rio Frio, December 28, 2006: Sungrebe
(13)
Birds & Cold - Texas - Winter/Fall 2006
(22)
Estero Llano Grande State Park, December, 2006
(28)
temp
(18)
Upper Texas Coast (UTC) December 2006: Osprey's fishing technique
(78)
Upper Texas Coast (UTC) December 2006: White-tailed Kite
(19)
Mexico: Tamaulipas; Jaumave and vicinity, November 25, 2006
(56)
Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park: November 19-20, 2006
(73)
Estero Llano Grande State Park, November 21-24, 2006: part 5 - Raptors
(22)
Estero Llano Grande State Park, November 21-24, 2006: part 4 - Anhinga, Cormorants & Pelicans
(40)
Estero Llano Grande State Park, November 21-24, 2006: part 3 - Grebes and Rails
(17)
Estero Llano Grande State Park, November 21-24, 2006: part 2 - Flycatchers
(47)
Estero Llano Grande State Park, November 21-24, 2006: part 1 - Three Kingfishers
(37)
Santa Ana NWR, November 20, 2006
(27)
LRGV November 18-26, 2006 Alamo Inn B&B
(18)
Brazoria NWR - November 12, 2006
(42)
Quintana - November 12, 2006
(20)
Quintana - November 11, 2006
(17)
Central Brazos Valley: November 11, 2006
(2)
Quintana - November 4, 2006
(52)
Quintana - October 29, 2006
(61)
Quintana - October 28, 2006
(55)
Brazoria NWR - October 22, 2006
(10)
Quintana - October 22, 2006
(28)
Quintana - October 20, 2006
(4)
Quintana - October 14, 2006
(63)
Brazoria NWR - October 7, 2006
(23)
Quintana - October 7, 2006
(33)
Beach Party Quintana October 7, 2006
(11)
Central Brazos Valley: October 8, 2006
(16)
Brazoria NWR - September 30, 2006
(9)
Quintana - September 23, 2006
(53)
Brazoria NWR - September 23, 2006
(48)
Bee-eating feast at Quintana September 16, 2006
(73)
Brazoria NWR -September 16, 2006
(25)
Brazoria NWR -September 13, 2006
(18)
Brazoria NWR -September 9, 2006
(70)
Brazoria NWR -September 2-4, 2006
(125)
old_temp
(58)
Brazoria NWR - August 26, 2006
(98)
Other Wildlife in Estero Llano Grande State Park
(34)
Weslaco Northern Jacana - August 2006
(55)
Jacana Hunters
(21)
id
(5)
lbbgs_temp
(7)
PUBLICATIONS LIST
(1)
Bio and Credits
(8)
Covers, Awarded & Special Images
(28)
Trierenberg Super Circuit 2007 Catalog
(5)
Official Guide to the Rio Grande Valley - cover shot
(2)
Houston Atlas of Biodiversity - Houston Wilderness, 2007 - Book
(8)
Special Images (Attention: nudity :))
(1)
Whooping Crane Photography Tours: Winter 2011-12 Workshops
(1)
CAMERA EQUIPMENT I USE AND/OR RECOMMEND
(1)
Life on the Osprey time
(0)
OSPREY - READ THE STORY
(1)
OSPREY (PANDION HALIAETUS): NOTES ON UNKNOWN AND POORLY STUDIED BEHAVIORS - 2009 paper; additional photo documentation
(0)
Unknown behavior: Osprey Male Stick-Breaking-Off-And- Presenting Display
(16)
Unknown behavior: Osprey Intraspecific Kleptoparasitism of Nesting Materials
(7)
Unknown behavior: Swallowing Seagrass by Osprey
(20)
New hypothesis: Osprey Striking Fish at a Low Angle to Avoid Contact with Sharp Tips of Fish Stiff Dorsal Spines
(7)
Ospreys Releasing Too Large Fish from Their Talons into the Water
(9)
Osprey swallowing fish parts
(53)
Unknown behavior: Osprey Hunting a Larger Prey with Small or Partially Eaten Fish Hold in the Talons
(0)
Second record: Osprey Male Wings-Drooping-And-Shivering Display
(1)
Unknown behavior: Osprey - cleaning inside parts of the mandibles
(2)
Unknown behavior: Osprey scratching its head by rubbing it against a branch
(1)
First record of Osprey taking blue crab
(10)
Osprey strikes large blue crab - crab fights back and gets free
(9)
Osprey catching two fish in one dive — one in each talon
(23)
Osprey - Portraits
(33)
Osprey - Sideways Vision
(4)
Osprey - Unique adaptation - Feet
(5)
Osprey - Unique adaptation - Closable nostrils
(1)
Osprey - Eye colors: adult & young
(1)
Osprey - Courtship Display - Sky Dance a.k.a. Fish-Flight
(3)
Osprey - Copulation attempts
(30)
Osprey: Pair copulation attempt shortly after courtship feeding
(11)
Osprey: EPC - Trying to attempt copulation by a stranger male - female refusal
(8)
Osprey - copulation (cloacal kiss) - on perch
(2)
Osprey - Collecting nest materials: breaking off sticks
(5)
Osprey - Transporting nest material: sticks
(4)
Osprey - Adding material to the nest: sticks
(1)
Osprey - Transporting nest material: seagrass
(11)
Osprey - Adding material to the nest: seagrass
(9)
Osprey - Transporting nest material: grass stems
(3)
Osprey - Female begging call for food
(1)
Osprey - Courtship feeding
(2)
Osprey - Nest: 3 Eggs
(4)
Osprey - Nest: 1 Egg and 2 Chicks
(3)
Osprey - Hatchlings
(4)
Osprey - feeding chicks (1-7 day old)
(33)
Osprey - feeding chicks (2.5 weeks old)
(4)
Osprey - Bringing fish to the nest: female
(3)
Osprey - Feeding chicks - about 6 weeks old
(23)
Osprey - Chick: defecation over the edge of the nest
(2)
Osprey - juveniles on nest in rain
(8)
Osprey juvenile one day before fledging - wing flapping
(2)
Osprey juvenile one day before fledging - jumping
(1)
Osprey juvenile one day before fledging - hovering above nest
(2)
Osprey - fledging day - 1st flight: last moment before taking off - Flight #1 of 11
(11)
Osprey fledgling - first take off
(2)
Osprey fledgling - first flight
(4)
Osprey fledgling - first landing
(8)
Osprey fledgling - other first day flights
(0)
Osprey - fledging day - Flight #11 of 11
(6)
Osprey - fledging day - Flight #2 of 11
(17)
Osprey fledgling - first night after fledging
(1)
Osprey - Perching
(8)
Osprey - On the wing
(40)
Osprey - on the wing - in rain
(9)
Osprey - Hunting in the rain
(30)
Osprey - Hovering
(10)
Osprey - Mid-air Maneuvers
(16)
Osprey -Watching prey
(9)
Osprey - Exercising feet before attack
(1)
Osprey - Dive - Controlling speed
(4)
Osprey - Ready to strike
(8)
Osprey - Dive - Touch-time
(1)
Osprey dives - estimated average speed
(0)
Osprey - Dive - Going under the water
(2)
Osprey - Dive - Coming out of the water
(12)
Osprey - In water shake
(2)
Osprey - Getting airborne
(47)
Osprey - Aerial Shake
(9)
Osprey - Flights with fish
(13)
Osprey - Eating fish
(62)
Osprey tearing off a fish flesh by biting and twisting
(1)
Osprey removing fish leftovers from its beak using a head shake
(1)
Osprey - Defecation - on the perch
(4)
Osprey - Defecation - on the wing
(6)
Osprey - Casting a pellet
(1)
Osprey juvenile - casting pellet
(6)
Osprey - Checking and cleaning feet
(1)
Osprey - Hunting from the perch
(1)
Osprey - Hunting together
(1)
Osprey - Drying out on the ground
(2)
Osprey - On ground shake
(1)
Osprey - Wing flapping
(4)
Osprey - ‘bathing’ dive
(3)
Osprey - being harassed by Crested Caracara
(0)
Osprey - Dragging feet in the water
(7)
Osprey bathing
(33)
Osprey - Drying out on the perch
(7)
Osprey - Preening
(5)
Osprey - On perch shake
(2)
Osprey - Landing on the perch
(5)
Osprey - Head scratching
(2)
Osprey: Comfort movements - adult - full body stretch
(2)
Osprey - Leg and Wing Stretch
(3)
Osprey - Sleeping
(7)
Osprey - Landing with fish
(5)
Osprey – Intraspecific Interactions: Locking Talons and falling into Death Spiral #1
(5)
Osprey – Intraspecific Interactions: Locking Talons and falling into Death Spiral #2
(10)
Osprey – Intraspecific Interactions: defensive mid-air flick with outstretched talons
(10)
Osprey – Intraspecific Interactions: Aerial Attacks
(4)
Osprey – Intraspecific Interactions: Deadly Fights
(1)
Osprey - Natural Enemies - Raccoon
(1)
Osprey - Natural Enemies - Crows
(3)
Osprey - Crow - Interspecific Interactions: American Crow harassing Osprey
(7)
Osprey - Natural Enemies - Bald Eagle
(4)
Osprey - Bald Eagle - Interspecific Interactions: defending nest territory - Male Osprey attacking and chasing Bald Eagle pair
(10)
Osprey - Natural Enemies - Great Horned Owl
(4)
Osprey - Nests - Natural settings
(7)
Osprey - Nests in natural landscape
(2)
Osprey - Nests - Artificial settings
(3)
Quiz 1
(5)
Osprey - Behavior - Animations
(11)
Eastern Osprey Pandion cristatus
(0)
Eastern Osprey: Portraits - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(34)
Eastern Osprey: on wing - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(8)
Eastern Osprey: on nest - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(3)
Eastern Osprey: defecating - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(1)
Eastern Osprey: on perch - Top End, Northern Territory, Australia
(12)
Bird Behavior - VIDEOS
(16)
Birds: Australia, Northern Territory, Top End 2010
(0)
Animated Images
(64)
Avian Fights
(0)
Great Egret - fight#9
(6)
Great Egret - fight#8
(5)
Great Egret - fight#7
(8)
Great Egret - fight#6
(3)
Great Egret - fight#5
(17)
Great Egret - fight#4
(13)
Great Egret - fight#3
(6)
Great Egret - fight#2
(2)
Great Egret - fight#1
(3)
Snowy Egret foraging in flocks
(7)
Snowy Egret, Ring-billed Gull & Laughing Gull foraging
(10)
Snowy Egret & Ring-billed Gull - interspecific kleptoparasitism
(2)
Snowy Egret - fight#4
(3)
Snowy Egret - fight#3
(1)
Snowy Egret - fight#2
(8)
Snowy Egret - fight#1
(14)
Caspian Tern with fish harassed by Laughing Gull - BNWR January 24, 2010
(24)
Seaside Sparrow’s mysterious life
(15)
Reddish Egret - fight
(11)
Magnificent Frigatebird - intraspecific - mid-air disputes
(11)
Magnificent Frigatebird - interspecific – Kleptoparasitism
(17)
Magnificent Frigatebird - intraspecific – Kleptoparasitism
(5)
Crested Caracara Kleptoparasitizes White-tailed Kite
(13)
Fish Crow & White Ibis - April 2008
(30)
Ibises, gulls and eels - June-July, 2008
(24)
Osprey – Intraspecific Interactions: Aerial Attacks
(4)
Sanderling Fight UTC
(9)
Great-tailed Grackle harassing Belted Kingfisher
(11)
Least Grebe – Intraspecific Interactions: Fight between juveniles
(6)
Least Grebe – Interspecific Interactions with Pied-billed Grebe BBSP
(10)
Common Moorhens fighting 2 - UTC November 2009
(3)
Common Moorhens fighting
(29)
White Ibis mid-air fight with Laughing Gull for an eel
(3)
Laughing Gulls fighting for an eel
(11)
Laughing Gull, White Ibis & wealth distribution
(13)
White Ibis, Laughing Gull & Eels - UTC August 2009
(23)
Limpkin, White Ibis & Mussel
(9)
American Oystercatcher fighting over dead crabs - UTC August 2009
(13)
American Oystercatcher chasing Laughing Gull over dead crab - UTC August 2009
(3)
Sanderling fight - UTC August 29, 2009
(15)
White Ibis fighting - UTC - August 2009
(8)
Ruddy Turnstone - 1 minute battle - complete sequence
(88)
Need a good haircut badly? – Call the Sanderling PhD. Plus HAS/HANPA meeting info.
(36)
Least Tern: Defending Nest: Attacking intruders on the ground
(6)
Least Tern: Defending Nest: Defecating on Intruders
(1)
Magnificent Frigatebird grabs Royal Tern by the tail and shakes it – no respect to Your Highness
(5)
Least Bittern defensive posture
(4)
Lesser Black-backed Gull versus Herring Gull - fights, UTC Spring 2009
(25)
Herring Gull versus Herring Gull - fights, UTC Spring 2009
(6)
Sanderling – a big spirit in a small body, UTC - May 2009
(27)
White-faced Ibis - Mid-air Fight
(13)
Attwater’s Prairie Chicken male attacking cars and people on his lek
(43)
Red-tailed Hawk striking, drowning and eating the Mallard – January 1, 2010
(151)
Upper Texas Coast – October 13-14, 2007
(2)
White-tailed Kite aerial displays - Upper Texas Coast – October 13-14, 2007
(4)
Common Moorhen family behaviors - Brazoria NWR complex - August 4, 2007
(25)
Cassin's Kingbird mobbing Common Raven - Fort Davis, Texas, June 2007
(21)
High_Island_April_29_2007
(5)
Red-tailed Hawk hunting Squirrel, April 29, 2007
(18)
Central Brazos Valley: March 24, 2007: Red-shouldered Hawk hunting Yellow-bellied Water Snake
(54)
Upper Texas Coast (UTC) March 11, 2007
(50)
Kingbird - fight
(4)
WHO EATS WHO? Predators & Preys
(0)
Predators and their preys
(0)
Common Loon: Food
(2)
Least Grebe: Food
(17)
Pied-billed Grebe: Food
(23)
Anhinga: Food
(1)
Least Bittern: Food
(23)
American Bittern: Food
(14)
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron: Food
(9)
Black-crowned Night Heron: Food
(2)
Snowy Egret: Food
(1)
Great Egret: Food
(96)
Cattle Egret: Food
(42)
Reddish Egret: Food
(10)
Tricolored Heron: Food
(3)
Little Blue Heron: Food
(7)
Great Blue Heron: Food
(19)
Wood stork: Food
(7)
White Ibis: Food
(8)
Blue-winged Teal: Food
(22)
Northern Shoveler: Food
(6)
Osprey: Food
(47)
Red-shouldered_Hawk: Food
(18)
Swainson's Hawk: Food
(7)
Red-tailed Hawk: Food
(24)
White-tailed Hawk: Food
(6)
Bald Eagle: Food
(6)
White-tailed Kite: Food
(15)
Swallow-tailed Kite: Food
(38)
Bat Falcon: Food
(23)
Merlin: Food
(23)
American Kestrel: Food
(3)
Crested Caracara: Food
(30)
Clapper Rail: Food
(6)
Virginia Rail: Food
(11)
Purple Gallinue: Food
(22)
Sora: Food
(2)
American Coot: Food
(17)
American Oystercatcher: Food
(2)
Semipalmated Plover: Food
(1)
Spotted Sandpiper: Food
(10)
Long-billed Dowitcher: Food
(28)
Hudsonian Godwit: Food
(10)
Wilson‘s Phalarope: Food
(51)
Red-necked Phalarope: Food
(22)
Stilt Sandpiper: Food
(7)
Dunlin: Food
(2)
White-rumped Sandpiper: Food
(2)
Semipalmated Sandpiper: Food
(3)
Black-necked Stilt: Food
(3)
American Avocet: Food
(1)
Greater Yellowlegs: Food
(1)
Northern Jacana: Food
(5)
Black Skimmer: Food
(28)
Gull-billed Tern: Food
(9)
Least Tern: Food
(22)
Black Tern: Food
(1)
Laughing Gull: Food
(2)
Ringed Kingfisher: Food
(3)
Belted Kingfisher: Food
(13)
Green Kingfisher: Food
(4)
Olive-sided Flycatcher: Food
(17)
Vermilion Flycatcher: Food
(3)
Eastern Wood-Pewee: Food
(1)
Great Kiskadee: Food
(5)
Loggerhead Shrike: Food
(4)
White-eyed Vireo: Food
(1)
Barn Swallow: Food
(9)
Brown-headed Nuthatch: Food
(9)
Brown Creeper: Food
(1)
Eastern Bluebird: Food
(1)
Blue-winged Warbler: Food
(2)
Black-and-white Warbler: Food
(1)
American Redstart: Food
(2)
Yellow-rumped Warbler: Food
(6)
Northern Parula: Food
(4)
Summer Tanager: Food
(5)
Seaside Sparrow: Food
(13)
Great-tailed Grackle: Food
(25)
Sungrebe: Food
(3)
Odonata: Food
(7)
Wasps: Food
(6)
American Alligator: Food
(22)
Texas Horned Lizard: Food
(5)
Gray Kingbird: Food
(6)
Great Horned Owl: Food
(18)
Preys and their enemies
(0)
Odonata: Dragonflies and Damselflies
(0)
Least Grebe - Odonata
(16)
Least Bittern - Odonata
(11)
Loggerhead Shrike - Odonata
(1)
Merlin - Odonata
(21)
Osprey: Odonata
(4)
Barn Swallow - Odonata
(4)
Gull-billed Tern - Odonata
(9)
American Kestrel - Odonata
(1)
Great-tailed Grackle - Odonata
(3)
Green Heron - Odonata
(1)
Purple Gallinule - Odonata
(19)
Spotted Sandpiper - Odonata
(5)
Vermilion Flycatcher - Odonata
(3)
Sungrebe - Odonata
(2)
Bat Falcon - Odonata
(9)
White-eyed Vireo - Odonata
(1)
Eastern Wood-Pewee - Odonata
(1)
Odonata - Odonata
(7)
American Coot: Odonata
(4)
Gray Kingbird - Odonata
(6)
Rainbow Bee-eater - Odonata
(2)
Tricolored Heron - Odonata
(2)
Golden Silk Orbweaver (Nephila clavipes) - Odonata
(0)
Crayfish
(1)
Special Project: Least Bittern
(1)
Least Bittern: Food
(23)
Least Bittern: Portraits
(44)
Least Bittern: Feet
(3)
Special Project: Least Grebe
(1)
Least Grebe: Portraits
(38)
Least Grebe: Food
(17)
Least Grebe: Copulation
(6)
Least Grebe: Pellets casting
(2)
Least Grebe: Feathers eating
(2)
Least Grebe: Sunbathing
(4)
Least Grebe: On the Wing
(2)
Special Project: Pied-billed Grebe
(1)
Pied-billed Grebe: Food
(23)
Special Project: Least Tern
(1)
Least Tern: Nests and Eggs
(9)
Least Tern: Incubating eggs
(1)
Least Tern: Hatching time
(6)
Least Tern: Chick's First Day
(16)
Least Tern: Chick on the run
(8)
Least Tern: Chicks Portraits
(13)
Least Tern: Chicks and Texas heat
(6)
Least Tern: Brooding
(3)
Least Tern: Care and feeding
(9)
Least Tern: Chicks Hiding
(7)
Least Tern: Chicks - keep running
(1)
Least Tern: Fledglings
(4)
Least Tern: Protecting nest and colony
(6)
Least Tern: Portraits
(7)
Least Tern: On the wing
(18)
Least Tern: Courtship
(7)
Least Tern: Hunting
(8)
Frigatebirds life on the wing
(0)
Pink-billed Frigatebird - Upper Texas Coast 2008
(0)
Magnificent Frigatebird – Defecating
(7)
Magnificent Frigatebird – aerial shake - vertical (Fluttering dive)
(2)
Magnificent Frigatebird – aerial shake - horizontal
(3)
Magnificent Frigatebird – Portraits on the wing
(46)
Magnificent Frigatebird – hunting
(15)
Magnificent Frigatebird – drinking on the wing
(0)
Magnificent Frigatebird – preening on the wing
(9)
Magnificent Frigatebird - intraspecific - mid-air disputes
(11)
Magnificent Frigatebird - interspecific – Kleptoparasitism
(17)
Magnificent Frigatebird - intraspecific – Kleptoparasitism
(5)
Special Project: Common Nighthawk
(7)
On the Wing
(1)
Swallow-tailed Kite: On the Wing
(49)
Black Skimmer: On the Wing
(73)
American Bittern: On the wing
(1)
On the wing - not segregated
(141)
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher: On the Wing
(9)
Least Bittern: On the Wing
(16)
Least Tern: On the wing
(18)
Least Grebe: On the Wing
(2)
Wood Stork: On the Wing
(10)
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron: On the Wing
(9)
Green Heron: On the Wing
(2)
Gull-billed Tern: On the Wing
(1)
Other Favorite Birds
(1)
Swallow-tailed Kite
(21)
Swallow-tailed Kite: On the Wing
(49)
Swallow-tailed Kite: aerial shake
(3)
Swallow-tailed Kite: Sunbathing
(1)
Crested Caracara
(1)
Crested Caracara: Food
(30)
Crested Caracara: Portraits
(3)
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
(1)
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron: Food
(9)
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron: Portraits
(10)
American_Bittern
(1)
American Bittern: Portraits
(11)
American Bittern: On the wing
(1)
American Bittern: Food
(14)
Bird Portraits
(1)
Least Bittern: Portraits
(44)
Least Tern: Portraits
(7)
Crested Caracara: Portraits
(3)
American Bittern: Portraits
(11)
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron: Portraits
(10)
Northern Jacana: Portraits
(38)
Least Grebe: Portraits
(38)
Avian images in taxonomic order; portraits, in flight, behavior and biology
(0)
Order: GAVIIFORMES (Loons)
(0)
Family: GAVIIDAE
(0)
Red-throated Loon: Gavia stellata
(0)
Arctic Loon: Gavia arctica
(0)
Pacific Loon: Gavia pacifica
(0)
Common Loon: Gavia immer
(0)
Yellow-billed Loon: Gavia adamsii
(0)
Order: PODICIPEDIFORMES (Grebes)
(0)
Family: PODICIPEDIDAE
(0)
Least Grebe: Tachybaptus dominicus
(0)
Pied-billed Grebe: Podilymbus podiceps
(0)
Horned Grebe: Podiceps auritus
(0)
Eared Grebe: Podiceps nigricollis
(0)
Red-necked Grebe: Podiceps grisegena
(0)
Western Grebe: Aechmophorus occidentalis
(0)
Clark's Grebe: Aechmophorus clarkii
(0)
Order: PROCELLARIIFORMES (Tubenoses)
(0)
Family: DIOMEDEIDAE
(0)
Laysan Albatross: Phoebastria immutabilis
(0)
Black-footed Albatross: Phoebastria nigripes
(0)
Family: PROCELLARIIDAE
(0)
Northern Fulmar: Fulmarus glacialis
(0)
Dark-rumped Petrel: Pterodroma phaeopygia
(0)
Bonin Petrel: Pterodroma hypoleuca
(0)
Bulwer's Petrel: Bulweria bulwerii
(0)
Wedge-tailed Shearwater: Puffinus pacificus
(0)
Christmas Shearwater: Puffinus nativitatis
(0)
Manx Shearwater: Puffinus puffinus
(0)
Townsend's and Newell's Shearwater: puffinus auricularis
(0)
Black-vented Shearwater: Puffinus opisthomelas
(0)
Family: HYDROBATIDAE
(0)
Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel: Oceanodroma furcata
(0)
Leach's Storm-Petrel: Oceanodroma leucorhoa
(0)
Ashy Storm-Petrel: Oceanodroma homochroa
(0)
Band-rumped Storm-Petrel: Oceanodroma castro
(0)
Black Storm-Petrel: Oceanodroma melania
(0)
Tristram's Storm-Petrel: Oceanodroma tristrami
(0)
Order: PELECANIFORMES (Pelicans and Allies)
(0)
Family: PHAETHONTIDAE
(0)
White-tailed Tropicbird: Phaethon lepturus
(0)
Red-tailed Tropicbird: Phaethon rubricauda
(0)
Family: SULIDAE
(0)
Masked Booby: Sula dactylatra
(0)
Brown Booby: Sula leucogaster
(0)
Red-footed Booby: Sula sula
(0)
Northern Gannet: Morus bassanus
(0)
Family: PELECANIDAE
(0)
American White Pelican: Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
(0)
Brown Pelican: Pelecanus occidentalis
(0)
Family: PHALACROCORACIDAE
(0)
Brandt's Cormorant: Phalacrocorax penicillatus
(0)
Neotropic Cormorant: Phalacrocorax brasilianus
(0)
Double-crested Cormorant: Phalacrocorax auritus
(0)
Great Cormorant: Phalacrocorax carbo
(0)
Red-faced Cormorant: Phalacrocorax urile
(0)
Pelagic Cormorant: Phalacrocorax pelagicus
(0)
Family: ANHINGIDAE
(0)
Anhinga: Anhinga anhinga
(0)
Family: FREGATIDAE
(0)
Magnificent Frigatebird: Fregata magnificens
(0)
Great Frigatebird: Fregata minor
(0)
Order: CICONIIFORMES (Herons, Ibises, Storks and Allies)
(0)
Family ARDEIDAE
(0)
American Bittern: Botaurus lentiginosus
(0)
Least Bittern: Ixobrychus exilis
(0)
Great Blue Heron: Ardea herodias
(0)
Great Egret: Ardea alba
(0)
Snowy Egret: Egretta thula
(0)
Little Blue Heron: Egretta caerulea
(0)
Tricolored Heron: Egretta tricolor
(0)
Reddish Egret: Egretta rufescens
(0)
Cattle Egret: Bubulcus ibis
(0)
Green Heron: Butorides virescens
(0)
Black-crowned Night-Heron: Nycticorax nycticorax
(0)
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron: Nyctanassa violacea
(0)
Family: THRESKIORNITHIDAE
(0)
White Ibis: Eudocimus albus
(0)
Glossy Ibis: Plegadis falcinellus
(0)
White-faced Ibis: Plegadis chihi
(0)
Roseate Spoonbill: Platalea ajaja
(0)
Family: CICONIIDAE
(0)
Wood Stork: Mycteria americana
(0)
Family: CATHARTIDAE
(0)
Black Vulture: Coragyps atratus
(0)
Turkey Vulture: Cathartes aura
(0)
California Condor: Gymnogyps californianus
(0)
Order: ANSERIFORMES (Swans, Geese and Ducks)
(0)
Family: ANATIDAE
(0)
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck: Dendrocygna autumnalis
(0)
Fulvous Whistling-Duck: Dendrocygna bicolor
(0)
Greater White-fronted Goose: Anser albifrons
(0)
Emperor Goose: Chen canagica
(0)
Snow Goose: Chen caerulescens
(0)
Ross's Goose: Chen rossii
(0)
Brant: Branta bernicla
(0)
Canada Goose: Branta canadensis
(0)
Hawaiian Goose: Branta sandvicensis
(0)
Mute Swan: Cygnus olor
(0)
Trumpeter Swan: Cygnus buccinator
(0)
Tundra Swan: Cygnus columbianus
(0)
Wood Duck: Aix sponsa
(0)
Gadwall: Anas strepera
(0)
American Wigeon: Anas americana
(0)
american_black_duck_anas_rubripes
(0)
Mallard: Anas platyrhynchos
(0)
Mottled Duck: Anas fulvigula
(0)
Hawaiian Duck: Anas wyvilliana
(0)
Laysan Duck: Anas laysanensis
(0)
Blue-winged Teal: Anas discors
(0)
Cinnamon Teal: Anas cyanoptera
(0)
Northern Shoveler: Anas clypeata
(0)
Northern Pintail: Anas acuta
(0)
Green-winged Teal: Anas crecca
(0)
Canvasback: Aythya valisineria
(0)
Redhead: Aythya americana
(0)
Ring-necked Duck: Aythya collaris
(0)
Greater Scaup: Aythya marila
(0)
Lesser Scaup: Aythya affinis
(0)
Steller's Eider: Polysticta stelleri
(0)
Spectacled Eider: Somateria fischeri
(0)
King Eider: Somateria spectabilis
(0)
Common Eider: Somateria mollissima
(0)
Harlequin Duck: Histrionicus histrionicus
(0)
Labrador Duck: Camptorhynchus labradorius
(0)
Surf Scoter: Melanitta perspicillata
(0)
White-winged Scoter: Melanitta fusca
(0)
Black Scoter: Melanitta nigra
(0)
Long-tailed Duck: Clangula hyemalis
(0)
Bufflehead: Bucephala albeola
(0)
Common Goldeneye: Bucephala clangula
(0)
Barrow's Goldeneye: Bucephala islandica
(0)
Hooded Merganser: Lophodytes cucullatus
(0)
Common Merganser: Mergus merganser
(0)
Red-breasted Merganser: Mergus serrator
(0)
Masked Duck: Nomonyx dominicus
(0)
Ruddy Duck: Oxyura jamaicensis
(0)
Order: FALCONIFORMES (Diurnal Birds of Prey)
(0)
Family: ACCIPITRIDAE
(0)
Osprey: Pandion haliaetus
(0)
Swallow-tailed Kite: Elanoides forficatus
(0)
White-tailed Kite: Elanus leucurus
(0)
Snail Kite: Rostrhamus sociabilis
(0)
Mississippi Kite: Ictinia mississippiensis
(0)
Bald Eagle: Haliaeetus leucocephalus
(0)
Northern Harrier: Circus cyaneus
(0)
Sharp-shinned Hawk: Accipiter striatus
(0)
Cooper's Hawk: Accipiter cooperii
(0)
Northern Goshawk: Accipiter gentilis
(0)
Gray Hawk: Asturina nitida
(0)
Common Black-Hawk: Buteogallus anthracinus
(0)
Harris's Hawk: Parabuteo unicinctus
(0)
Red-shouldered Hawk: Buteo lineatus
(0)
Broad-winged Hawk: Buteo platypterus
(0)
Short-tailed Hawk: Buteo brachyurus
(0)
Swainson's Hawk: Buteo swainsoni
(0)
White-tailed Hawk: Buteo albicaudatus
(0)
Zone-tailed Hawk: Buteo albonotatus
(0)
Hawaiian Hawk: Buteo solitarius
(0)
Red-tailed Hawk: Buteo jamaicensis
(0)
Ferruginous Hawk: Buteo regalis
(0)
Rough-legged Hawk: Buteo lagopus
(0)
Golden Eagle: Aquila chrysaetos
(0)
Family: FALCONIDAE
(0)
Crested Caracara: Caracara cheriway
(0)
American Kestrel: Falco sparverius
(0)
Merlin: Falco columbarius
(0)
Aplomado Falcon: Falco femoralis
(0)
Gyrfalcon: Falco rusticolus
(0)
Peregrine Falcon: Falco peregrinus
(0)
Prairie Falcon: Falco mexicanus
(0)
Order: GALLIFORMES (Gallinaceous Birds)
(0)
Family: CRACIDAE
(0)
Plain Chachalaca: Ortalis vetula
(0)
Family: PHASIANIDAE
(0)
Chukar: Alectoris chukar
(0)
Erckel's Francolin: Francolinus erckelii
(0)
Black Francolin: Francolinus francolinus
(0)
Gray Francolin: Francolinus pondicerianus
(0)
Himalayan Snowcock: Tetraogallus himalayensis
(0)
Gray Partridge: Perdix perdix
(0)
Ring-necked Pheasant: Phasianus colchicus
(0)
Common Peafowl: Pavo cristatus
(0)
Ruffed Grouse: Bonasa umbellus
(0)
Greater Sage-Grouse: Centrocercus urophasianus
(0)
Spruce Grouse: Falcipennis canadensis
(0)
Willow Ptarmigan: Lagopus lagopus
(0)
Rock Ptarmigan: Lagopus muta
(0)
White-tailed Ptarmigan: Lagopus leucura
(0)
Blue Grouse: Dendragapus obscurus
(0)
Sharp-tailed Grouse: Tympanuchus phasianellus
(0)
Greater Prairie-Chicken: Tympanuchus cupido
(0)
Lesser Prairie-Chicken: Tympanuchus pallidicinctus
(0)
Wild Turkey: Meleagris gallopavo
(0)
Family: ODONTOPHORIDAE
(0)
Mountain Quail: Oreortyx pictus
(0)
Scaled Quail: Callipepla squamata
(0)
California Quail: Callipepla californica
(0)
Gambel's Quail: Callipepla gambelii
(0)
Northern Bobwhite: Colinus virginianus
(0)
Montezuma Quail: Cyrtonyx montezumae
(0)
Order: GRUIFORMES (Cranes, Rails and Allies)
(0)
Family: RALLIDAE
(0)
Yellow Rail: Coturnicops noveboracensis
(0)
Black Rail: Laterallus jamaicensis
(0)
Clapper Rail: Rallus longirostris
(0)
King Rail: Rallus elegans
(0)
Virginia Rail: Rallus limicola
(0)
Laysan Rail: Porzana palmeri
(0)
Hawaiiann Rail: Porzana sandwichensis
(0)
Sora: Porzana carolina
(0)
Purple Gallinule: Porphyrio martinica
(0)
Common Moorhen: Gallinula chloropus
(0)
American Coot: Fulica americana
(0)
Hawaiian Coot: Fulica alai
(0)
Family: ARAMIDAE
(0)
Limpkin: Aramus guarauna
(0)
Family: GRUIDAE
(0)
sandhill_crane_grus_canadensis
(0)
Whooping Crane: Grus americana
(0)
Order: CHARADRIIFORMES (Shorebirds, Gulls, Auks and Allies)
(0)
Family: CHARADRIIDAE
(0)
Black-bellied Plover: Pluvialis squatarola
(0)
American Golden-Plover: Pluvialis dominica
(0)
Pacific Golden-Plover: Pluvialis fulva
(0)
Snowy Plover: Charadrius alexandrinus
(0)
Wilson's Plover: Charadrius wilsonia
(0)
Semipalmated Plover: Charadrius semipalmatus
(0)
Piping Plover: Charadrius melodus
(0)
Killdeer: Charadrius vociferus
(0)
mountain_plover_charadrius_montanus
(0)
Family: HAEMATOPODIDAE
(0)
American Oystercatcher: Haematopus palliatus
(0)
Black Oystercatcher: Haematopus bachmani
(0)
Family: RECURVIROSTRIDAE
(0)
Black-necked Stilt: Himantopus mexicanus
(0)
American Avocet: Recurvirostra americana
(0)
Family: JACANIDAE
(0)
Northern Jacana: Jacana spinosa
(0)
Family: SCOLOPACIDAE
(0)
Greater Yellowlegs: Tringa melanoleuca
(0)
Lesser Yellowlegs: Tringa flavipes
(0)
Solitary Sandpiper: Tringa solitaria
(0)
Willet: Catoptrophorus semipalmatus
(0)
Wandering Tattler: Heteroscelus incanus
(0)
Spotted Sandpiper: Actitis macularius
(0)
Upland Sandpiper: Bartramia longicauda
(0)
Eskimo Curlew: Numenius borealis
(0)
Whimbrel: Numenius phaeopus
(0)
Bristle-thighed Curlew: Numenius tahitiensis
(0)
Long-billed Curlew: Numenius americanus
(0)
Hudsonian Godwit: Limosa haemastica
(0)
Bar-tailed Godwit: Limosa lapponica
(0)
Marbled Godwit: Limosa fedoa
(0)
Ruddy Turnstone: Arenaria interpres
(0)
Black Turnstone: Arenaria melanocephala
(0)
Surfbird: Aphriza virgata
(0)
Red Knot: Calidris canutus
(0)
Sanderling: Calidris alba
(0)
Semipalmated Sandpiper: Calidris pusilla
(0)
Western Sandpiper: Calidris mauri
(0)
Least Sandpiper: Calidris minutilla
(0)
White-rumped Sandpiper: Calidris fuscicollis
(0)
Baird's Sandpiper: Calidris bairdii
(0)
Pectoral Sandpiper: Calidris melanotos
(0)
Purple Sandpiper: Calidris maritima
(0)
Rock Sandpiper: Calidris ptilocnemis
(0)
Dunlin: Calidris alpina
(0)
Stilt Sandpiper: Calidris himantopus
(0)
Buff-breasted Sandpiper: Tryngites subruficollis
(0)
Short-billed Dowitcher: Limnodromus griseus
(0)
Long-billed Dowitcher: Limnodromus scolopaceus
(0)
Wilson's Snipe: Gallinago delicata
(0)
American Woodcock: Scolopax minor
(0)
Wilson's Phalarope: Phalaropus tricolor
(0)
Red-necked Phalarope: Phalaropus lobatus
(0)
red_phalarope_phalaropus_fulicarius
(0)
Family: LARIDAE
(0)
Pomarine Jaeger: Stercorarius pomarinus
(0)
Parasitic Jaeger: Stercorarius parasiticus
(0)
Long-tailed Jaeger: Stercorarius longicaudus
(0)
Laughing Gull: Larus atricilla
(0)
Franklin's Gull: Larus pipixcan
(0)
Little Gull: Larus minutus
(0)
Bonaparte's Gull: Larus philadelphia
(0)
Heermann's Gull: Larus heermanni
(0)
Mew Gull: Larus canus
(0)
Ring-billed Gull: Larus delawarensis
(0)
California Gull: Larus californicus
(0)
Herring Gull: Larus argentatus
(0)
Thayer's Gull: Larus thayeri
(0)
Iceland Gull: Larus glaucoides
(0)
Yellow-footed Gull: Larus livens
(0)
Western Gull: Larus occidentalis
(0)
Glaucous-winged Gull: Larus glaucescens
(0)
Glaucous Gull: Larus hyperboreus
(0)
great_black-backed_gull_larus_marinus
(0)
sabines_gull_xema_sabini
(0)
Black-legged Kittiwake: Rissa tridactyla
(0)
Red-legged Kittiwake: Rissa brevirostris
(0)
Ivory Gull: Pagophila eburnea
(0)
Gull-billed Tern: Sterna nilotica
(0)
Caspian Tern: Sterna caspia
(0)
Royal Tern: Sterna maxima
(0)
Elegant Tern: Sterna elegans
(0)
Sandwich Tern: Sterna sandvicensis
(0)
Roseate Tern: Sterna dougallii
(0)
Common Tern: Sterna hirundo
(0)
Arctic Tern: Sterna paradisaea
(0)
Forster's Tern: Sterna forsteri
(0)
Least Tern: Sterna antillarum
(0)
Aleutian Tern: Sterna aleutica
(0)
Gray-backed Tern: Sterna lunata
(0)
Bridled Tern: Sterna anaethetus
(0)
Sooty Tern: Sterna fuscata
(0)
Black Tern: Chlidonias niger
(0)
Brown Noddy: Anous stolidus
(0)
Black Noddy: Anous minutus
(0)
White Tern: Gygis alba
(0)
Black Skimmer: Rynchops niger
(0)
Family: ALCIDAE
(0)
Dovekie: Alle alle
(0)
common_murre_uria_aalge
(0)
Thick-billed Murre: Uria lomvia
(0)
Razorbill: Alca torda
(0)
Great Auk: Pinguinus impennis
(0)
Black Guillemot: Cepphus grylle
(0)
Pigeon Guillemot: Cepphus columba
(0)
Marbled Murrelet: Brachyramphus marmoratus
(0)
Kittlitz's Murrelet: Brachyramphus brevirostris
(0)
Xantus's Murrelet: Synthliboramphus hypoleucus
(0)
Ancient Murrelet: Synthliboramphus antiquus
(0)
Cassin's Auklet: Ptychoramphus aleuticus
(0)
Parakeet Auklet: Aethia psittacula
(0)
Least Auklet: Aethia pusilla
(0)
Whiskered Auklet: Aethia pygmaea
(0)
Crested Auklet: Aethia cristatella
(0)
Rhinoceros Auklet: Cerorhinca monocerata
(0)
Atlantic Puffin: Fratercula arctica
(0)
Horned Puffin: Fratercula corniculata
(0)
Tufted Puffin: Fratercula cirrhata
(0)
Order: COLUMBIFORMES (Pigeons and Doves)
(0)
Family: COLUMBIDAE
(0)
Rock Pigeon: Columba livia
(0)
White-crowned Pigeon: Patagioenas leucocephala
(0)
Red-billed Pigeon: Patagioenas flavirostris
(0)
Band-tailed Pigeon: Patagioenas fasciata
(0)
Eurasian Collared-Dove: Streptopelia decaocto
(0)
Spotted Dove: Streptopelia chinensis
(0)
White-winged Dove: Zenaida asiatica
(0)
Mourning Dove: Zenaida macroura
(0)
Passenger Pigeon: Ectopistes migratorius
(0)
Inca Dove: Columbina inca
(0)
Common Ground-Dove: Columbina passerina
(0)
White-tipped Dove: Leptotila verreauxi
(0)
Order: PSITTACIFORMES (Parrots and Allies)
(0)
Order: CUCULIFORMES (Cuckoos and Allies)
(0)
Family: CUCULIDAE
(0)
Black-billed Cuckoo: Coccyzus erythropthalmus
(0)
Yellow-billed Cuckoo: Coccyzus americanus
(0)
Mangrove Cuckoo: Coccyzus minor
(0)
Greater Roadrunner: Geococcyx californianus
(0)
Smooth-billed Ani: Crotophaga ani
(0)
Groove-billed Ani: Crotophaga sulcirostris
(0)
Order: STRIGIFORMES (Owls)
(0)
Order: CAPRIMULGIFORMES (Goatsuckers and Allies)
(0)
Family: CAPRIMULGIDAE
(0)
Lesser Nighthawk: Chordeiles acutipennis
(0)
Common Nighthawk: Chordeiles minor
(0)
Antillean Nighthawk: Chordeiles gundlachii
(0)
Common Pauraque: Nyctidromus albicollis
(0)
Common Poorwill: Phalaenoptilus nuttallii
(0)
Chuck-will's-widow: Caprimulgus carolinensis
(0)
Buff-collared Nightjar: Caprimulgus ridgwayi
(0)
Whip-poor-will: Caprimulgus vociferus
(0)
Order: APODIFORMES (Swifts and Hummingbirds)
(0)
Order: TROGONIFORMES (Trogons)
(0)
Family: TROGONIDAE
(0)
Elegant Trogon: Trogon elegans
(0)
Order: CORACIIFORMES (Kingfishers and Allies)
(0)
Family: ALCEDINIDAE
(0)
Belted Kingfisher: Ceryle alcyon
(0)
Green Kingfisher: Chloroceryle americana
(0)
Order: PICIFORMES (Woodpeckers and Allies)
(0)
Family: Ramphastidae
(0)
Toco Toucan Ramphastos toco
(0)
Order: PASSERIFORMES
(0)
Special Project: Pseudomyrmex gracilis - Mexican twig ant
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Masked Duck - Live Oak County, Texas - December 02, 2007
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Masked Duck - Live Oak County, Texas - December 01, 2007
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Masked Duck - Live Oak County, Texas - November 19, 2007
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Ringed Plover - Charadrius hiaticula - NT
(0)
Eastern Koel - Eudynamys orientalis - NT
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