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small birds
**updated Feb. 2023**
This page features a variety of not-closely-related families of small birds, including:
pigeons & doves, nightjars, hummingbirds, parakeets, kingfishers, and woodpeckers.
(Songbirds get their own separate page.)
Click links above to skip to a specific gallery, or scroll down to enjoy them all.
Click any image to enlarge.
pigeons & doves (family Columbidae)
nightjars (family Caprimulgidae)
hummingbirds (family Trochilidae)
parakeets (family Psittacidae)
kingfishers (family Alcedinidae)