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Waterfowl of various kinds   (all images © Mark Chappell) Species are listed in approximate taxonomic order -- as we used to understand it.   A new view is quite different.

Penguins     Adélie penguin, reflection          sunset; after snowstorm           chicks; juvenile     Chinstrap penguin     Gentoo penguin     Magellanic penguins     Macaroni penguin     Rockhopper penguin Loons, grebes     Australasian grebe     Clark's grebe     Eared grebe     Great grebe     Horned grebe     Least grebe     Pied-billed grebe     Red-necked grebe     Western grebe     White-tufted grebe     Common loon     Pacific loon     Red-throated loon Herons, ibis, storks, spoonbills     Black-crowned night heron         in flight     American bittern     Cattle egret     Cocoi heron     Common egrets; in flight     Common and snowy egrets     Fasciated tiger-heron     Great-billed heron     Great blue heron     Green heron     Least bittern     Little bittern     Little blue heron     Mangrove heron     Pacific heron     Pied heron     Reddish egret     Rufescent tiger-heron     Snowy egret; in flight     Tricolored heron     White-faced heron     Yellow-crowned night heron     Zigzag heron     Sunbittern   Ibis, storks, spoonbill, etc.     Black-faced ibis     Straw-necked ibis     White-faced ibis     White ibis     Wood stork     White stork; flying     Roseate spoonbill     Royal spoonbill

Procellariformes ('tubenoses')     Cape petrel     Northern fulmar     Snow petrel     Southern fulmar     Southern giant petrel     Wandering albatross     Wilson's storm petrel Pelicaniform birds     American white pelican     Australian pelican     Brown pelican; swimming, flying          fishing     Blue-eyed shags     Anhinga     Brandt's cormorant     Double-crested cormorant     Red-faced cormorant     red-legged cormorant     Red-billed tropicbird Swans and geese     Black-necked swan     Coscoroba swan     Mute swan     Trumpeter swan     Tundra swan     Andean geese     Ashy-headed geese     Brant     Canada goose     Cape Barren goose     Emperor geese     Greater white-fronted geese     Orinoco goose     Snow geese, flying, lots     'Blue' geese; in flight     Ross's geese; in flight     Upland geese   Ducks         whistling ducks     Black-bellied whistling duck     White-faced whistling duck         bay, sea, and diving ducks     Andean duck     Barrow's goldeneye     Common goldeneye     Bufflehead     Canvasback     Greater scaup     Hardhead     Harlequin duck     Lesser scaup     Ring-necked duck     Long-tailed duck     Ruddy duck     Surf scoter     Black scotor     White-winged scotor         eiders     King eider     Spectacled eider     Steller's eider

mergansers     Common merganser     Red-breasted merganser     Hooded merganser         'dabbling' ducks     American wigeon     American wood duck     Andean teal     Australian grey teal     Blue-winged teal     Bronze-winged duck     Chestnut teal     Chiloe wigeon     Cinnamon teal     Eurasian wigeon     Falcated duck     Gadwall     Garganey     Green-winged teal     Mallard     Mandarin duck     Mexican duck     Mottled duck     Northern pintail; in flight     Northern shoveler     Pacific black duck     Redhead     Red shoveler     Speckled teal          other ducks     Australian wood duck     Crested duck     Flying steamer-duck     Muscovy duck     Musk duck     Torrent duck Flamingos     Chilean flamingo     Lesser flamingos Rails and cranes     American coot     Andean coot     Black-tailed native hen     Buff-banded rail     Clapper rail     Common moorhen     Plumbeous rail     Purple gallinule     Purple swamphen     Red-gartered coot     Sora     Tasmanian native-hen     Virginia rail     White-winged coot     Common cranes     Sandhill cranes     Leucistic sandhill crane     Whooping cranes