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Photographs of Island Birds

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Sort by: Category | Species Birds: LOONS -- Red-throated Loon -- Pacific Loon -- Common Loon GREBES -- Pied-billed Grebe -- Horned Grebe -- Red-necked Grebe -- Eared Grebe ALBATROSSES AND SHEARWATERS -- Black-browed Albatross -- Northern Fulmar -- Greater Shearwater -- Sooty Shearwater -- Manx Shearwater -- Audubon's Shearwater -- Little Shearwater STORM-PETRELS -- Wilson's Storm-Petrel -- Leach's Storm-Petrel GANNETS -- Northern Gannet PELICANS AND CORMORANTS -- American White Pelican -- Double-crested Cormorant -- Great Cormorant BITTERNS AND HERONS -- American Bittern -- Least Bittern -- Great Blue Heron -- Great Egret -- Snowy Egret -- Little Blue Heron -- Cattle Egret -- Green Heron -- Black-crowned Night-Heron -- Yellow-crowned Night-Heron IBISES -- White Ibis -- Glossy Ibis VULTURES -- Black Vulture -- Turkey Vulture SWANS, GEESE AND DUCKS -- Fulvous Whistling-Duck -- Pink-footed Goose -- Greater White-fronted Goose -- Snow Goose -- Canada Goose -- Brant -- Barnacle Goose -- Tundra Swan -- Wood Duck -- Gadwall -- Eurasian Wigeon -- American Wigeon -- American Black Duck -- Mallard -- Blue-winged Teal -- Northern Shoveler -- Northern Pintail -- Garganey -- Green-winged Teal -- Canvasback -- Redhead -- Ring-necked Duck -- Tufted Duck -- Greater Scaup -- Lesser Scaup -- King Eider -- Common Eider -- Harlequin Duck -- Surf Scoter -- White-winged Scoter -- Black Scoter -- Long-tailed Duck -- Bufflehead -- Common Goldeneye -- Barrow's Goldeneye -- Hooded Merganser -- Common Merganser -- Red-breasted Merganser -- Ruddy Duck OSPREY -- Osprey EAGLES, HAWKS AND HARRIERS -- Bald Eagle -- Northern Harrier -- Sharp-shinned Hawk -- Cooper's Hawk -- Northern Goshawk -- Red-shouldered Hawk -- Broad-winged Hawk -- Swainson's Hawk -- Red-tailed Hawk -- Rough-legged Hawk -- Golden Eagle FALCONS -- American Kestrel -- Merlin -- Gyrfalcon -- Peregrine Falcon PARTRIDGE AND PHEASANTS -- Gray Partridge -- Ring-necked Pheasant GROUSE -- Ruffed Grouse -- Sharp-tailed Grouse RAILS, MOORHENS AND COOTS -- King Rail -- Virginia Rail -- Sora -- Common Moorhen -- American Coot CRANES -- Sandhill Crane LAPWINGS AND PLOVERS -- Northern Lapwing -- Black-bellied Plover -- American Golden-plover -- Wilson's Plover -- Common Ringed Plover -- Semipalmated Plover -- Piping Plover -- Killdeer OYSTERCATCHERS -- American Oystercatcher STILTS AND AVOCETS -- Black-necked Stilt -- American Avocet SANDPIPERS, SNIPE AND WOODCOCK -- Greater Yellowlegs -- Lesser Yellowlegs -- Solitary Sandpiper -- Willet -- Spotted Sandpiper -- Upland Sandpiper -- Little Curlew -- Eskimo Curlew -- Whimbrel -- Long-billed Curlew -- Long-billed Dowitcher -- Hudsonian Godwit -- Marbled Godwit -- Ruddy Turnstone -- Red Knot -- Sanderling -- Semipalmated Sandpiper -- Western Sandpiper -- Least Sandpiper -- White-rumped Sandpiper -- Baird's Sandpiper -- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper -- Pectoral Sandpiper -- Purple Sandpiper -- Dunlin -- Curlew Sandpiper -- Stilt Sandpiper -- Buff-breasted Sandpiper -- Ruff -- Short-billed Dowitcher -- Common Snipe -- American Woodcock PHALAROPES -- Red Phalarope -- Wilson's Phalarope -- Red-necked Phalarope SKUAS AND JAEGERS -- Great Skuas -- Pomarine Jaeger -- Parasitic Jaeger -- Long-tailed Jaeger GULLS AND TERNS -- Laughing Gull -- Little Gull -- Black-headed Gull -- Bonaparte's Gull -- Mew Gull -- Ring-billed Gull -- Herring Gull -- Thayer's Gull -- Iceland Gull -- Lesser Black-backed Gull -- Glaucous Gull -- Great Black-backed Gull -- Black-legged Kittiwake -- Sabine's Gull -- Ivory Gull -- Caspian Tern -- Royal Tern -- Roseate Tern -- Common Tern -- Arctic Tern -- Forster's Tern -- Least Tern -- Black Tern SKIMMERS -- Black Skimmer AUKS, MURRES AND PUFFINS -- Dovekie -- Common Murre -- Thick-billed Murre -- Razorbill -- Black Guillemot -- Atlantic Puffin DOVES -- Rock Dove -- Mourning Dove -- Ringed Turtle-Dove -- White winged-Dove CUCKOOS -- Black-billed Cuckoo -- Yellow-billed Cuckoo OWLS -- Barn Owl -- Eastern Screech-Owl -- Great Horned Owl -- Snowy Owl -- Northern Hawk Owl -- Barred Owl -- Great Gray Owl -- Long-eared Owl -- Short-eared Owl -- Boreal Owl -- Northern Saw-whet Owl GOATSUCKERS -- Common Nighthawk -- Whip-poor-will SWIFTS -- Chimney Swift HUMMINGBIRDS -- Ruby-throated Hummingbird KINGFISHERS -- Belted Kingfisher WOODPECKERS -- Red-headed Woodpecker -- Red-bellied Woodpecker -- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker -- Downy Woodpecker -- Hairy Woodpecker -- Three-toed Woodpecker -- Black-backed Woodpecker -- Northern Flicker -- Pileated Woodpecker FLYCATCHERS -- Olive-sided Flycatcher -- Eastern Wood-Peewee -- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher -- Alder Flycatcher -- Willow Flycatcher -- Least Flycatcher -- Eastern Phoebe -- Great Crested Flycatcher -- Western Kingbird -- Eastern Kingbird SHRIKES -- Northern Shrike -- Loggerhead Shrike VIREOS -- Blue-headed Vireo -- Yellow-throated Vireo -- Warbling Vireo -- Philadelphia Vireo -- Red-eyed Vireo JAYS AND CROWS -- Gray Jay -- Blue Jay -- Eurasian Jackdaw -- American Crow -- Pied Crow -- Common Raven LARKS -- Horned Lark SWALLOWS -- Purple Martin -- Tree Swallow -- Northern Rough-winged Swallow -- Bank Swallow -- Barn Swallow -- Cliff Swallow CHICKADEES -- Boreal Chickadee -- Black-capped Chickadee NUTHATCHES -- Red-Breasted Nuthatch -- White-breasted Nuthatch CREEPERS -- Brown Creeper WRENS -- House Wren -- Winter Wren -- Sedge Wren -- Marsh Wren KINGLETS AND GNATCATCHERS -- Golden-crowned Kinglet -- Ruby-crowned Kinglet -- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher THRUSHES AND BLUEBIRDS -- Eastern Bluebird -- Townsend's Solitaire -- Veery -- Gray-cheeked Thrush -- Bicknell's Thrush -- Swainson's Thrush -- Hermit Thrush -- Wood Thrush -- American Robin MOCKINGBIRDS AND THRASHERS -- Gray Catbird -- Northern Mockingbird -- Brown Thrasher STARLINGS -- European Starling PIPITS -- American Pipit WAXWINGS -- Bohemian Waxwing -- Cedar Waxwing WOOD WARBLERS -- Blue-winged Warbler -- Tennessee Warbler -- Orange-crowned Warbler -- Nashville Warbler -- Northern Parula -- Yellow Warbler -- Chestnut-sided Warbler -- Magnolia Warbler -- Cape May Warbler -- Black-throated Blue Warbler -- Yellow-rumped Warbler -- Black-throated Gray Warbler -- Black-throated Green Warbler -- Blackburnian Warbler -- Yellow-throated Warbler -- Pine Warbler -- Prairie Warbler -- Palm Warbler -- Bay-breasted Warbler -- Blackpoll Warbler -- Black-and-white Warbler -- American Redstart -- Worm-eating Warbler -- Ovenbird -- Swainson's Warbler -- Northern Waterthrush -- Mourning Warbler -- Common Yellowthroat -- Wilson's Warbler -- Canada Warbler -- Yellow-breasted Chat TANAGERS -- Summer Tanager -- Scarlet Tanager NEW WORLD SPARROWS -- Spotted Towhee -- American Tree Sparrow -- Eastern Towhee -- Chipping Sparrow -- Clay-colored Sparrow -- Field Sparrow -- Vesper Sparrow -- Lark Sparrow -- Savannah Sparrow -- Grasshopper Sparrow -- Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow -- Fox Sparrow -- Song Sparrow -- Lincoln's Sparrow -- Swamp Sparrow -- White-throated Sparrow -- White-crowned Sparrow -- Dark-eyed Junco -- Lapland Longspur -- Snow Bunting CARDINALS, GROSBEAKS AND BUNTINGS -- Northern Cardinal -- Rose-breasted Grosbeak -- Blue Grosbeak -- Black-headed Grosbeak -- Indigo Bunting -- Dickcissel -- Painted Bunting BLACKBIRDS, MEADOWLARKS AND ORIOLES -- Bobolink -- Red-winged Blackbird -- Eastern Meadowlark -- Yellow-headed Blackbird -- Rusty Blackbird -- Common Grackle -- Brewer's Blackbird -- Brown-headed Cowbird -- Orchard Oriole -- Baltimore Oriole -- Bullock's Oriole FINCHES -- Pine Grosbeak -- Purple Finch -- House Finch -- Red Crossbill -- White-winged Crossbill -- Common Redpoll -- Hoary Redpoll -- Pine Siskin -- American Goldfinch -- European Goldfinch -- Evening Grosbeak OLD WORLD SPARROWS -- House Sparrow

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