Bird photographs   (all images © Mark Chappell) (Species are listed in approximate taxonomic order) The image files are fairly large, and will take some time to download if you are using a slow connection A large screen will give the best results (you may have to scroll a bit for pages containing multiple images) Click here for a shorter list of my favorite bird images.

Ratites      Darwin's rhea Penguins      Adélie penguin, reflection, sunset      Adélie colony after snowstorm;chicks      Young Adélie penguin      Gentoo penguin      Chinstrap penguin      Macaroni penguin      Rockhopper penguin      Magellanic penguins Loons, grebes      Pacific loon      Common loon      Red-throated loon      Pied-billed grebe      Eared grebe      Least grebe      Horned grebe      Western grebe      Clark's grebe      Red-necked grebe Herons, ibis, storks, spoonbill      Great blue heron      Little blue heron      Tricolored heron      Pied heron      Green heron      Black-crowned night heron, in flight      Yellow-crowned night heron      American bittern      Least bittern      Cattle egret      Common and snowy egrets      Common egrets; in flight      Snowy egret; in flight      Reddish egret      White-faced ibis      White ibis      Straw-necked ibis      Wood stork      White stork; flying      Roseate spoonbill      Sunbittern Procellariformes ('tubenoses')      Northern fulmar      Southern fulmar      Wilson's storm petrel      Snow petrel      Cape petrel      Wandering albatross      Southern giant petrel Pelicaniform birds      American white pelican      Brown pelican; swimming, flying,          fishing      Blue-eyed shags      Red-faced cormorant      Double-crested cormorant      Brandt's cormorant      Anhinga      Red-billed tropicbird Ducks and geese      Cape Barren goose      Ashy-headed geese      Upland geese      Canada goose      Snow geese, lots      'Blue' geese      Ross's geese      Brant      Emperor geese      Trumpeter swan      Mute swan      White-faced whistling duck      Buffleheads      Ring-necked duck      Common goldeneye      Barrow's goldeneye      Long-tailed duck      Ruddy duck      Surf scotor      Canvasback      Common merganser      Red-breasted merganser      Hooded merganser      Harlequin duck      Greater scaup      Lesser scaup      Gadwall      Redhead      Mallard      Mottled duck      Green-winged teal      Blue-winged teal      Cinnamon teal      Falcated teal      Bronze-winged duck      Northern pintail; in flight      Northern shoveler      American wigeon      Eurasian wigeon      Wood duck      Mandarin duck      Black-bellied whistling duck Flamingos      Lesser flamingos Rails, cranes, bustards      Limpkin      Clapper rail      Sora      Virginia rail      Common moorhen      Purple gallinule      American coot      Tasmanian native-hen      Common cranes      Whooping cranes      Sandhill cranes, more, more, even more      Kori bustard      Australian bustard      White-bellied bustard Gulls and terns      Gull flock      Arctic tern      Antarctic tern      Forster's tern      Sandwich tern      Royal and elegant terns      Elegant terns, courtship flight      Royal terns      Caspian tern      Least tern      Black skimmer      Bonaparte's gull      Mew gull      Black-legged kittiwake      Red-legged kittiwake      Dolphin gull      Pacific gull      Herring gull      California gull      Western gull      Yellow-footed gull      Glaucous-winged gull      Heerman's gull      Laughing gull      Ring-billed gull      Long-tailed jaeger      Parasitic jaeger      Pomarine jaeger      South Polar skua      Brown skua      Antarctic sheathbill Plovers      Snowy plover      Piping plover      Kildeer      Black-bellied plover, flying      American golden plover      Mountain plover      Semipalmated plover      Wilson's plover      Crowned plover      Blacksmith plover      Senegal plover      Banded lapwing      Southern lapwing

Sandpipers      Shorebird flocks; in flight      Spotted sandpiper      Rock sandpiper      Sanderlings, in flight      Dunlin      Red knot      Baird's sandpiper      Semipalmated sandpiper chicks      Least sandpiper      Western sandpiper, flock      White-rumped sandpiper      Stilt sandpiper      Greater yellowlegs      Lesser yellowlegs      Upland sandpiper      Willet in flight      Surfbird      Wandering tattler      Whimbrel      Long-billed curlew      Hudsonian godwit      Marbled godwit: preening,      Short-billed dowitchers; more      Long-billed dowitchers      Common snipe Other shorebirds...      American avocets; flying      Black-necked stilt      Black turnstone      Ruddy turnstone      Red phalarope      Red-necked phalarope      Black oystercatcher      American oystercatcher      Plains wanderer Alcids (auks)      Thick-billed murre      Common murre      Horned puffin      Tufted puffin      Parakeet auklet      Least auklet      Crested auklet Hawks and falcons      Turkey vulture      Black vulture      California condor      White-backed vulture      Egyptian vulture      Lappet-faced vulture      Ruppell's griffon      Secretary bird      Black-shouldered kite      White-tailed kite      Bald eagle, wintering; in flight      Golden eagle      Tiny hawk      Sharp-shinned hawk      Cooper's hawk; juveniles      Northern goshawk      Pale chanting goshawk      Northern harrier      Common buzzard      Augur buzzard      Red-shouldered hawk; in flight; Florida      Red-tailed hawk, more red-tails, flying      Harlan's hawk      Harris's hawk      Ferruginous hawk; juveniles, flying      White-tailed hawk      Wedge-tailed eagle      Swainson's hawk      Osprey      Crested caracara, in flight      Caracaras and swans      Yellow-headed caracara      American kestrel      Aplomado falcon      Merlin      Bat falcon      Prairie falcons      Peregrine falcon      Gyrfalcon Grouse, quail, pheasants, etc.      Argus pheasant (feather pattern)      Peacock      Ring-necked pheasant      Oscellated turkey (feather pattern)      Wild turkeys      Willow ptarmigan      Blue grouse      Spruce grouse; female      Sage grouse      Greater prairie chicken      Bobwhite quail      Scaled quail      California quail      Gambel's quail      Mountain quail      Chukar      Plain chachalaca      Gray-headed chachalaca      Coqui francolin      Grey francolin      Yellow-necked spurfowl      Vulturine guineafowl      Helmeted guineafowl Owls      Spectacled owl      Verreaux' eagle owl      Tawny owl      Northern hawk owl      Northern pigmy owl      Great horned owl      Western screech owl      African scops owl      Burrowing owl      Spotted owl      Snowy owls Pigeons and relatives      Black-faced sandgrouse      Spinifex pigeon      Band-tailed pigeon      Mourning dove      White-tipped dove      Common ground-dove      Ruddy ground-dove      Inca dove      Crested pigeon      Green pigeon      Pale-vented pigeon Toucans, hornbills      Yellow-billed hornbill      Ground hornbill      Emerald toucanet      Keel-billed toucan      Collared aracari Cuckoos      Greater roadrunner      Yellow-billed cuckoo      Squirrel cuckoo Nightjars      Large-tailed nightjar      Common poorwill      Common nighthawk      Lesser nighthawk Kingfishers, bee-eaters, rollers, hoopoe      Forest kingfisher      Azure kingfisher      Belted kingfisher      Ringed kingfisher      Amazon kingfisher      Green kingfisher      Blue-winged kookaburra      Little bee-eater      Cinnamon-chested bee-eater      Madagascar bee-eater      Lilac-breasted roller      South African hoopoe Motmots and trogons      Black-throated trogon      Violaceous trogon      Slaty-tailed trogon      Blue-crowned motmot      Broad-billed motmot

Woodpeckers      Golden-fronted woodpecker      Downy woodpecker      Hairy woodpecker      Red-bellied woodpecker      Gila woodpecker      Red-headed woodpecker      Red-cockaded woodpecker      Pileated woodpecker      Nuttall's woodpecker      Ladder-backed woodpecker      Lewis's woodpecker      Acorn woodpecker      White-headed woodpecker      Red-shafted (northern) flicker      Guilded flicker      Red-breasted sapsucker      Crimson-crested woodpecker      Lineated woodpecker      Red-capped woodpecker      Wryneck Parrots      Orange-chinned parakeet      Green parakeet      Rainbow lorikeet      Scaly-breasted lorikeet      Musk lorikeet      Swift parrot      Roosting galahs      Cloncurry ringneck      Mallee ringneck      Port Lincoln ringneck      Red-winged parrot      Superb parrot      King parrot      Gang-gang cockatoo Hummingbirds and swifts      White-naped jacobin      Garden emerald      Rufous-tailed hummingbird      Blue-chested hummingbird      Black-throated mango      Costa Rican hummingbirds      Rufous hummingbird      Broad-billed hummingbird      Violet-crowned hummingbird      Allen's hummingbird      Costa's hummingbird      Anna's hummingbird      Calliope hummingbird      Black-chinned hummingbird      Little swift Old-world flycatchers, etc      New Zealand fantail      Splendid wren      Black-faced monarch      Eastern yellow-robin      Pale yellow-robin      Grey-headed robin      Black redstart      Restless flycatcher      Spotted flycatcher      White-browed scrubwren      Spotted pardalote      Striated pardalote      Rufous treecreeper      White-breasted woodswallow      White-browed woodswallow      Black-faced woodswallow New-world flycatchers      Eastern phoebe      Saye's phoebe      Black phoebe      Great crested flycatcher      Ash-throated flycatcher      Brown-crested flycatcher      Western wood-pewee      Olive-sided flycatcher      Willow flycatcher      Alder flycatcher      Dusky flycatcher      Pacific-slope flycatcher      Scissor-tailed flycatcher      Great kiskadee      Boat-billed flycatcher      Lesser kiskadee      Rusty-margined flycatcher      Social flycatcher      Eastern kingbird      Western kingbird      Cassin's kingbird      Couch's kingbird      Tropical kingbird      Vermillion flycatcher      Yellow tyrannulet      Lesser elania      Streaked flycatcher      Common tody-flycatcher Honeyeaters      White-plumed honeyeater      Eastern spinebill      New Holland honeyeater      Singing honeyeater      Noisy miner Bowerbirds, etc.      Western bowerbird      Great bowerbird      Regent bowerbird      Satin bowerbird      Victoria's riflebird      Figbird      Crested bellbird      Pied butcherbird Parids (titmice, nuthatches, etc.), wrentit     Black-capped chickadee     Boreal chickadee     Mountain chickadee     Chestnut-backed chickadee     Tufted titmouse     Oak titmouse     Bridled titmouse     'Black-crested' titmouse     Verdin     Bushtit     Brown creeper     White-breasted nuthatch     Red-breasted nuthatch     Pigmy nuthatch     Nuthatch (European)     Wrentit Swallows and larks     Mangrove swallow     Rough-winged swallow     Barn swallow     Cliff swallow     Violet-green swallow     Tree swallow     Gray-breasted martin     Horned lark Sunbirds      Golden-winged sunbird      Malachite sunbird Honeycreepers     Green honeycreeper     Shining honeycreeper     Red-legged honeycreeper Corvids (crows, ravens, jays, etc.)     Chihuahuan raven     Western scrub jay     Jackdaw     European jay     Florida scrub jay     Steller's jay     Green jay     Gray jay     Mexican jay      Clark's nutcracker     Common crow     Northwestern crow     Common raven     Black-billed magpie     Yellow-billed magpie Gnatwrens, cotingas, woodcreepers, antbirds     Long-billed gnatwren     Fasciated antshrike     Slaty antshrike     Plain-brown woodcreeper     Black-capped tityra

Wrens, dipper     Cactus wren ;pair     Canyon wren     Rock wren     Carolina wren     House wren     Bewick's wren     Marsh wren     Winter wren     Sedge wren     American dipper Gnatcatchers, kinglets, old-world warblers, etc.     Blue-gray gnatcatcher     Black-tailed gnatcatcher     California gnatcatcher     Ruby-crowned kinglet     Arctic warbler     Chiffchaff     Aquatic warbler Thrushes, bluebirds, and chats     Western bluebird     Eastern bluebird     Townsend's solitaire     American robin     European blackbird     Varied thrush     Clay-colored robin     Fieldfare     Swainson's thrush     Gray-cheeked thrush     Hermit thrush     Olive thrush     Song thrush     Robin-chat     Winchat     Stonechat     Abyssinian black wheatear Shrikes, threshers, pipits, wagtails, phainopepla     Loggerhead shrike     Fiscal shrike     Red-backed shrike     White-crowned bush-shrike     California thrasher     Curve-billed thrasher     Le Conte's thrasher     Brown thrasher     Long-billed thrasher     Sage thrasher     Northern mockingbird     Gray catbird     American pipit     Red-throated pipit     Pied wagtail     Yellow wagtail     Phainopepla Waxwings     Cedar waxwing     Bohemian waxwing Vireos and wood warblers     Yellow-green vireo     Least Bell's vireo     Gray vireo     White-eyed vireo     Blue-headed vireo     Warbling vireo     Hutton's vireo     Black-and-white warbler     Common yellowthroat     Palm warbler     Northern waterthrush     Louisiana waterthrush     Orange-crowned warbler     Yellow-rumped warbler     Pine warbler     Prairie warbler     Black-throated gray warbler     Townsend's warbler; males     Yellow warbler     MacGillivray's warbler     Nashville warbler     Connecticut warbler     Wilson's warbler     Yellow-breasted chat     Rufous-capped warbler Finches and towhees     American goldfinch     Lesser goldfinch     Lesser goldfinch, tropical form     Lawrence's goldfinch     European goldfinch     Pine siskin     Gray-crowned rosy finch     Greenfinch     House finch     Purple finch     Scarlet rosefinch     Common redpoll     Canyon towhee     California towhee     Green-tailed towhee     Abert's towhee     Spotted towhee     Yellow-bellied seedeater Sparrows     Dark-eyed junco     Black-chinned sparrow     Black-throated sparrow     Bachman's sparrow     Seaside sparrow     Sage sparrow     Rufous-crowned sparrow     Song sparrow     Savannah sparrow     Lark sparrow     Chipping sparrow     Brewer's sparrow     American tree sparrow     Field sparrow     Fox sparrow     Harris' sparrow     Grasshopper sparrow     Swamp sparrow     Lincoln's sparrow     Clay-colored sparrow     White-crowned sparrow     Golden-crowned sparrow     Vesper sparrow     Olive sparrow     Smith's longspur     Lapland longspur     House sparrow Buntings, grosbeaks, tanagers     Lark bunting     Yellowhammer     Lazuli bunting     Painted bunting     Snow bunting     McKay's bunting     Northern Cardinal     Pyrrhuloxia     Black-headed grosbeak     Blue grosbeak     Pine grosbeak     White-winged crossbill     Summer tanager     Western tanager     Golden-hooded tanager     Gray-headed tanager     Blue-gray tanager     Palm tanager     Crimson-backed tanager     Thick-billed euphonia Starlings     European (common) starling Orioles, blackbirds, tanagers     Western meadowlark     Military starling     Brewer's blackbird     Red-winged blackbird     Tricolored blackbird     Yellow-headed blackbird     Bronzed cowbird     Brown-headed cowbird     Great-tailed grackle     Altamira oriole     Hooded oriole     Audubon's oriole     Bullock's oriole     Scott's oriole     Chestnut-headed oropendula