Bird photographs
all images © Mark Chappell

(Species are listed in approximate taxonomic order)

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  • Ratites
        Darwin's rhea
    Penguins
        Adélie penguin, reflection, sunset
            colony after snowstorm; chicks; juvenile
        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
        Australasian grebe
        Great grebe
        White-tufted grebe
    Herons, ibis, storks, spoonbill
        Great blue heron
        Little blue heron
        Tricolored heron
        Pacific heron
        White-faced heron
        Pied heron
        Green heron
        Black-crowned night heron, in flight
        Yellow-crowned night heron
        American bittern
        Least bittern
        Little 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
        Black-faced ibis
        Wood stork
        White stork; flying
        Roseate spoonbill
        Royal 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
        Australian pelican
        Blue-eyed shags
        Red-faced cormorant
        Double-crested cormorant
        Brandt's cormorant
        red-legged cormorant
        Anhinga
        Red-billed tropicbird
    Ducks and geese
        Cape Barren goose
        Ashy-headed geese
        Upland geese
        Canada goose
        Snow geese, flying, lots
        'Blue' geese
        Ross's geese
        Brant
        Emperor geese
        Trumpeter swan
        Coscoroba swan
        Black-necked 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
        Hardhead
        Gadwall
        Redhead
        Mallard
        Mexican duck
        Mottled duck
        Green-winged teal
        Blue-winged teal
        Australian grey teal
        Cinnamon teal
        Chestnut teal
        Pacific black duck
        Falcated teal
        Speckled teal
        Gargany
        Bronze-winged duck
        Northern pintail; in flight
        Northern shoveler
        Red shoveler
        American wigeon
        Eurasian wigeon
        Chiloe wigeon
        Crested duck
        Wood duck
        Mandarin duck
        Black-bellied whistling duck
        Musk duck
        Australian wood duck
        Flying steamer-duck
        Torrent duck
    Flamingos
        Lesser flamingos
        Chilean flamingo
    Rails, cranes, bustards
        Limpkin
        Clapper rail
        Sora
        Virginia rail
        Common moorhen
        Purple gallinule
        Purple swamphen
        American coot
        White-winged coot
        Red-gartered coot
        Tasmanian native-hen
         Common cranes
         Whooping cranes
        Sandhill cranes
        Kori bustard
        Australian bustard
        White-bellied bustard
    Gulls
        Gull flock
        Bonaparte's gull
        Brown-hooded gull
        Mew gull
        Black-legged kittiwake
        Red-legged kittiwake
        Dolphin gull
        Silver gull
        Kelp gull
        Pacific gull
        Herring gull
        California gull
        Western gull
        Yellow-footed gull
        Glaucous-winged gull
        Heerman's gull
        Laughing gull
        Ring-billed gull
    Jaegers, terns, etc
        Long-tailed jaeger
        Parasitic jaeger
        Pomarine jaeger
        South Polar skua
        Brown skua
        Arctic tern
        Antarctic tern
        Forster's tern
        Sandwich tern
        Royal and elegant terns
        Elegant terns, courtship flight
        Royal terns
        Crested terns
        Caspian tern
        Least tern
        White-winged black tern
        Whiskered tern
        Black skimmer
        Antarctic sheathbill
    Plovers
        Snowy plover
        Piping plover
        Kildeer
        Black-bellied plover, flying
        American golden plover
        Mountain plover
        Semipalmated plover
        Wilson's plover
        Black-fronted dotterel
        Crowned plover
        Blacksmith plover
        Senegal plover
        Masked lapwing
        Banded lapwing
        Southern lapwing
        Lapwing
    Sandpipers
        Shorebird flocks; in flight
         Ruff
        Spotted sandpiper
        Rock sandpiper
        Sanderlings, in flight
        Dunlin
        Red knot
        Baird's sandpiper
        Semipalmated sandpiper chicks
        Least sandpiper
        Western sandpiper, flock
        White-rumped sandpiper
        Wood sandpiper
        Stilt sandpiper
        Greater yellowlegs
        Lesser yellowlegs
        Upland sandpiper
        Willet in flight
        Surfbird
        Wandering tattler
        Whimbrel
        Long-billed curlew
         Hudsonian godwit
         Bar-tailed godwit
         Black-tailed godwit
        Marbled godwit: preening,
        Short-billed dowitchers; more
        Long-billed dowitchers
        Common snipe
        Snipe (European)
    Other shorebirds...
        American avocets; flying
        Black-necked stilt
        Black turnstone
        Ruddy turnstone
        Red phalarope
        Red-necked phalarope
        Black oystercatcher
        American oystercatcher
        Magellanic oystercatcher
        Plains wanderer
        Least seedsnipe
    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
        Andean condor
        White-backed vulture
        Egyptian vulture
        Lappet-faced vulture
        Ruppell's griffon
        Secretary bird
        Black-shouldered kite
        Black kite
        White-tailed kite
        Bald eagle, wintering; in flight
        White-tailed sea eagle
        Wedge-tailed eagle
        Golden eagle
        Lesser spotted eagle
        Tiny hawk
        Sharp-shinned hawk
        Cooper's hawk; juveniles
        Northern goshawk
        Pale chanting goshawk
        Northern harrier
        Montagu's harrier
        Marsh harrier
        Black-chested buzzard-eagle
        Common buzzard
        Augur buzzard
         Red-shouldered hawk; in flight; Florida
        Red-tailed hawk, more, flying
        Harlan's hawk
        Harris's hawk
         Ferruginous hawk; juveniles, flying
        White-tailed hawk
        Swainson's hawk
        Broad-winged hawk
        Short-tailed hawk
        Osprey
        Crested caracara, in flight
        Southern crested caracara
        Yellow-headed caracara
        Chimango caracara
        American kestrel
        Aplomado falcon
        Merlin
        Bat falcon
        Prairie falcons
        Peregrine falcon
        Gyrfalcon
    Grouse, quail, pheasants, etc.
        Argus pheasant (feathers)
        Peacock
        Ring-necked pheasant
        Oscellated turkey
        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
    Nightjars
        Large-tailed nightjar
        Band-winged nightjar
        Common poorwill
        Common nighthawk
        Lesser nighthawk
        Tawny frogmouth
    Owls
        Spectacled owl
        Verreaux' eagle owl
        Tawny owl
        Northern hawk owl
        Northern pigmy owl
        Austral pigmy owl
        Great horned owl
        Western screech owl
        African scops owl
        Burrowing owl
        Barred owl
        Spotted owl
        Snowy owls
    Pigeons and relatives
        Black-faced sandgrouse
        Spinifex pigeon
        Crested pigeon
        Band-tailed pigeon
        Mourning dove
        Eared dove
        White-winged dove
        White-tipped dove
        White-headed pigeon
        Common ground-dove
        Ruddy ground-dove
        Inca dove
        Wood pigeon
        Green pigeon
        Pale-vented pigeon
    Toucans, hornbills
        Yellow-billed hornbill
        Ground hornbill
        Emerald toucanet
        Keel-billed toucan
        Collared aracari
    Cuckoos
        Greater roadrunner
        Cuckoo
        Yellow-billed cuckoo
        Squirrel cuckoo
        Fan-tailed cuckoo
        Shining bronze-cuckoo
        Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo
    Kingfishers, bee-eaters, rollers, hoopoe
        Forest kingfisher
        Azure kingfisher
        Red-backed kingfisher
        Belted kingfisher
        Ringed kingfisher
        Amazon kingfisher
        Green kingfisher
        Blue-winged kookaburra
        Laughing 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
        Great spotted woodpecker
        Middle spotted woodpecker
        Lesser spotted woodpecker
        Gray-headed woodpecker
        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
        Three-toed woodpecker
        Lewis's woodpecker
        Acorn woodpecker
        White-headed woodpecker
        Red-shafted (northern) flicker
        Guilded flicker
        Red-breasted sapsucker
        Red-capped woodpecker
        Crimson-crested woodpecker
        Lineated woodpecker
        Magellanic woodpecker
        Black woodpecker
        Wryneck
    Parrots
        Orange-chinned parakeet
        Green parakeet
        Austral parakeet
        Rainbow lorikeet
        Scaly-breasted lorikeet
        Musk lorikeet
        Swift parrot
        Mulga parrot
        Cloncurry ringneck
        Mallee ringneck
        Port Lincoln ringneck
        Red-winged parrot
        Superb parrot
        King parrot
        Eastern rosella
        Galah; in flight
        Gang-gang cockatoo
        Sulphur-crested cockatoo
        Yellow-tailed black cockatoo
    Hummingbirds and swifts
        White-naped jacobin
        Garden emerald
        Green-backed firecrown
        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
        Common swift
    Old-world flycatchers, fantails, robins, bulbuls
        New Zealand fantail
        Grey fantail
        Willie wagtail
        Black-faced monarch
        Eastern yellow-robin
        Pale yellow-robin
        Grey-headed robin
        European robin
        Black redstart
        Common redstart
        Restless flycatcher
        Spotted flycatcher
        Collared flycatcher
        Pied flycatcher
        red-whiskered bulbul
    Woodswallows, fairy-wrens, emu-wrens
        White-breasted woodswallow
        White-browed woodswallow
        Black-faced woodswallow
        Splendid fairy-wren
        Varigated fairy-wren
        White-winged fairy-wren
        Superb fairy-wren
        southern emu-wren
    Honeyeaters, treecreepers
        White-plumed honeyeater
        Yellow-faced honeyeater
        Eastern spinebill
        New Holland honeyeater
        Singing honeyeater
        Spiny-cheeked honeyeater
        Noisy miner
        Yellow-throated miner
        Lewin's honeyeater
        Pied honeyeater
        Little wattlebird
        Rufous treecreeper
    Whiteeyes, whistlers
        Silvereye
        Golden whistler
    Whipbirds, thornbills, pardalotes, scrubwrens
        Eastern whipbird
        Brown thornbill
        White-browed scrubwren
        Spotted pardalote
        Striated pardalote
    New-world flycatchers
        Eastern phoebe
        Say's phoebe
        Black phoebe
        Great crested flycatcher
        Ash-throated flycatcher
        Brown-crested flycatcher
        Western wood-pewee
        Eastern 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
         White-crested elania
         Streaked flycatcher
        Common tody-flycatcher
        Fire-eyed diucon
    Parids (titmice, nuthatches, etc.), wrentit
        Marsh tit
        Blue tit
        Great tit
        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
        Long-tailed tit
        Nuthatch (European)
        Wrentit
    Bowerbirds, butcherbirds, cuckoo-shrikes, etc.
        Western bowerbird
        Great bowerbird
        Regent bowerbird
        Satin bowerbird
        Victoria's riflebird
        Green catbird
        Figbird
        Crested bellbird
        Australian magpie
        Pied butcherbird
        Grey butcherbird
        White-winged triller
        Black-faced cuckoo-shrike
        Cicadabird
    Swallows and larks
        Mangrove swallow
        Rough-winged swallow
        House martin
        Barn swallow
        Cliff swallow
        Violet-green swallow
        Tree swallow
        Gray-breasted martin
        Horned lark
        Skylark
    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
        Fish crow
        Northwestern crow
        Common raven
        Australian raven
        Black-billed magpie
        Yellow-billed magpie
    Gnatwrens, cotingas, woodcreepers, antbirds, funariids
        Austral negrito
        Thorn-tailed rayadito
        Dark-bellied cinclodes
        Bar-winged cinclodes
        black-throated huet-huet
        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
        Southern house wren
        Bewick's wren
        Marsh wren
        Winter wren
        Sedge wren
        American dipper
    Gnatcatchers, kinglets
        Blue-gray gnatcatcher
        Black-tailed gnatcatcher
        California gnatcatcher
        Ruby-crowned kinglet
    Old-world warblers
        Arctic warbler
        Icterine warbler
        Chiffchaff
        Aquatic warbler
        Marsh warbler
        Wood warbler
        Blackcap
        Whitethroat
        Great reed warbler
        Clamorous (Australian) reed warbler
        Sedge warbler
        Willow 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
        Austral thrush
        Thrush-nightingale
        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
         Correndera pipit
        Pied wagtail
        Yellow wagtail
        Phainopepla
    Waxwings
        Cedar waxwing
        Bohemian waxwing
        Waxwing (European)
    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
        Prothonotory warbler
        Northern parula
        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
        European siskin
        Gray-crowned rosy finch
        Greenfinch
        Linnet
        Chaffinch
        House finch
        Purple finch
        Scarlet rosefinch
        Common redpoll
        Patagonian sierra-finch
        Gray-hooded sierra-finch
        Gouldian finch
        Canyon towhee
        California towhee
        Green-tailed towhee
        Abert's towhee
        Spotted towhee
        Yellow-bellied seedeater
        Red-browed firetail
    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
        Henslow's sparrow
        Olive sparrow
        Rufous-collared sparrow
        Smith's longspur
        Lapland longspur
        House sparrow
        Tree sparrow
    Buntings, grosbeaks, tanagers
        Lark bunting
        Yellowhammer
        Lazuli bunting
        Indigo bunting
        Reed bunting
        Painted bunting
        Snow bunting
        McKay's bunting
        Dickcissel
        Northern Cardinal
        Pyrrhuloxia
        Black-headed grosbeak
        Blue grosbeak
        Pine grosbeak
        Hawfinch
        Crossbill (European)
        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
        Long-tailed meadowlark
        Western meadowlark
        Eastern meadowlark
        Military starling
        Brewer's blackbird
        Red-winged blackbird
        Tricolored blackbird
        Yellow-headed blackbird
        Bronzed cowbird
        Brown-headed cowbird
        Great-tailed grackle
        Boat-tailed grackle
        Altamira oriole
        Hooded oriole
        Audubon's oriole
        Bullock's oriole
        Scott's oriole
        Chestnut-headed oropendula