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NATURE PHOTOS

John's Life List for Bird Photos

johnsmckean@att.net

Ongoing Local Photography
 Our Backyard  Local Hotspots 

Trips
Costa Rica Birds 6/08  Costa Rica Hummingbirds 6/08  Costa Rica Wildlife 6/08  Costa Rica Underwater 6/08

Peregrine Falcons 5/08  Magee Marsh 5/08  Colorado 4/08 

 March Migration 3/08  Killdeer - Ohio 2/08 Sweden Birds 2/08  Bonaire Birds 2/08  Bonaire Underwater 2/08

Fiji-Birds 11/07  Fiji Underwater 11/07  Australia Sydney 11/07  Australia-Hawkesbury 11/07

  Point Reyes, Ca. 8/07  North Dakota 7/07  Los Cabos, Mex. 6/07  Dominica 2/07

 Homosassa Springs, FL 11/06  Australia 5/06  Land Between the Lakes, KY 4/06

Grand Teton, Wyoming 2/06  Grand Turk 11/05  Grand Turk 2/05  Africa 1/88

Life List Bird Photos

 

Long-legged Waders (herons, egrets, storks, spoon bills, flamingos, bitterns, limpkins, ibises, cranes)

 

Gull-like Birds (gulls, shearwaters, terns, skimmers, gannets, boobies, storm-petrels, frigatebirds skuas, jaegers, tropicbirds)

 

Upright-perching Waterbirds (auks, murres, puffins, cormorants, anhingas)

 

Duck-like Birds (surface feeding, diving, stiff-tailed, mergansers, coots, whistling, geese, swans, pelicans, grebes, loons)

Sandpiper-like Birds (sandpipers, plovers, turnstones, phalaropes, oystercatchers, avocets, stilts)

 

Chicken-like marsh Birds (gallinules, rails, jaçanas)

 

Upland ground Birds (snipes, woodcocks, quails, partridges, pheasants, grouse, turkeys, roadrunners, chachalacas,  nightjars)

 

Owls (true owls, barn owls)

Eastern Screech Owl - gray phase

11/05 US Ohio Marshfield

Eastern Screech Owl - reddish-brown phase

12/05 US Ohio Marshfield

Barred Owl

5/07 US Ohio Marshfield

Long-eared Owl

2/08 US Ohio Killdeer

Short-eared Owl

2/08 US Ohio Killdeer

 

 

Hawk-like Birds (hawks, kites, eagles, ospreys, harriers, caracaras, falcons, vultures)

Bald Eagle

4/06 US Kentucky

White-bellied Sea-Eagle, juvenile

6/06 Australia Whitsunday Islands

Tawny Eagle

1/88 Africa Masi Mara/Serengeti

Fish Eagle

1/88 Africa Masi Mara/Serengeti

Long-crested Eagle

1/88 Africa Masi Mara/Serengeti

Peregrine Falcon

8/07 US California Point Reyes

Cooper's Hawk

8/05 US Ohio Marshfield

Red-shouldered Hawk

7/07 US Ohio Marshfield

Rough-legged Hawk

2/08 US Ohio Killdeer

Sharp-shinned Hawk

2/08 US Ohio Marshfield

Red-tailed Hawk

4/06 Kentucky, Land Between the Lakes

Broad-winged Hawk

2/07 Dominica

Pacific Baza (Crested Hawk)

11/07 Australia Hawkesbury

Pale Chanting Goshawk

1/88 Africa Masi Mara/Serengeti

Hawk ?

3/87 Cancun, Mx

Galápagos Hawk

12/83 Galápagos Islands

Brahminy Kite

6/06 Australia Whitsunday Islands

Black-shouldered Kite

11/07 Australia Hawkesbury

Merlin

6/07 Mexico, Los Cabos, Baja

Osprey

5/06 Australia Whitsunday Islands

Osprey

4/06 US Kentucky

Osprey

2/08 Bonaire

Crested Caracara

6/07 Mexico, Los Cabos, Baja

Caracara

2/08 Bonaire

Turkey Vulture

7/05 US Ohio Marshfield

Ruppell's Vulture

1/88 Africa Masi Mara/Serengeti

White-backed Vulture

1/88 Africa Masi Mara/Serengeti

Lappet-faced Vulture

1/88 Africa Masi Mara/Serengeti

Black Vulture

3/87 Cancun, Mx

 

 

 Pigeon-like Birds (pigeons, doves)

Scaly-naped Pigeon

2/08 Bonaire

Rock Dove (or Domesticated Pigeon)

2/08 Bonaire

Bare-eyed Pigeon

2/08 Bonaire

Common Ground Dove

2/08 Bonaire

Mourning Dove

3/8/08 US Ohio Marshfield

Common Bronzewing

11/07 Australia Hawkesbury

Crested Pigeon

11/07 Australia Centennial Parklands, Sydney

 

 

Swallow-like Birds ( swallows, swifts)

 

 

Tree-clinging Birds (woodpeckers, nuthatches, creepers)

Pileated Woodpecker

1/08 US Ohio Marshfield

Downy Woodpecker

4/05 US Ohio Marshfield

Redheaded Woodpecker

2/08 US Ohio Killdeer

Hairy Woodpecker

1/07 US Ohio Marshfield

Northern Flicker

2/05 US Ohio Marshfield

Red-bellied Woodpecker

4/08 US Ohio Marshfield

Great Spotted Woodpecker

2/08 Sweden

Gila Woodpecker

6/07 Los Cabos, Baja, Mexico

White-breasted Nuthatch

2/08 US Ohio Marshfield

Pygmy Nuthatch

4/08 US Colorado, Genesee Mountain

Nuthatch (Sitta europaea)

2/08 Sweden

Brown Creeper

2/08 US Ohio Marshfield

 

Perching Birds (wood warblers, vireos, titmice, cardinals, grosbeaks, buntings, finches, sparrows, orioles, blackbirds, tanagers, flycatchers, meadowlarks, thrushes, mockingbirds, thrashers, strikers, jays, magpies, becards, kingfishers, gnatcatchers, kinglets, hummingbirds, parrots, wrens, waxwings, bullbuls, cuckoos, weaver finches, pipits, larks, starlings, crows)