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small birds
**updated Jan. 2024**
This page features a variety of not-closely-related families of small birds, including:
pigeons & doves, cuckoos, nightjars, swifts, 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)
swifts (family Apodidae)
cuckoos (family Cuculidae)
hummingbirds (family Trochilidae)
parakeets (family Psittacidae)