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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)

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck

Canada Goose

Tundra Swan

Lesser Scaup

Canvasback

Bufflehead

Long-tailed Duck

California Quail

awkward waterbirds (orders Podicipediformes, Gaviiformes, & Gruiformes)

Horned Grebe

Clapper Rail

Common Gallinule

American Coot

Purple Gallinule

Purple Gallinule

Purple Gallinule

Gray-headed Swamphen

Limpkin

Sandhill Crane

Sandhill Crane

Sandhill Crane

shorebirds (order Charadriiformes pt. 1)

American Avocet

American Oystercatcher

Black-bellied Plover

Semipalmated Plover

Piping Plover

Wilson's Plover

Long-billed Curlew

Long-billed Curlew

Marbled Godwit

Marbled Godwit

Dunlin

Least Sandpiper

Sanderling

Greater Yellowlegs

Short-billed Dowitcher

Wilson's Snipe

gulls (order Charadriiformes pt. 2)

Razorbill

Marbled Murrelet

Bonaparte's Gull