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best of birds
**updated Jan. 2024**
My favorite images of birds, organized into the following groups:
fowl, waterbirds, shorebirds, gulls, tubenoses, boobies & darters, waders, raptors, small birds, and songbirds.
Click links above to skip to a specific gallery, or scroll down to enjoy them all.
Click any image to enlarge.
fowl (orders Anseriformes & Galliformes)











awkward waterbirds (orders Podicipediformes, Gaviiformes, & Gruiformes)














shorebirds (order Charadriiformes pt. 1)
























gulls (order Charadriiformes pt. 2)





















pelagic tubenoses (order Procellariformes)