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10,000 Clicks: Photo-galleries and ID features

There are approximately 10,000 bird species on this beautiful planet. Here at 10,000 Birds we expect to not only see but eventually photograph or write about every single one! (I know, we have ambitions bigger than Saturn, but it does no harm to dream…)

Anyway, your hosts are developing a serious interest in photography. We’ve consequently begun to amass a rather large collection of photos, and rather than squirrel them away on our hard-drives we’ve decided that you may like to see them instead.

All the Galleries linked to on this page are of a single species (mostly birds, but we also point our lenses at insects, mammals, and plants) and contain between four and ten different images and (often) a short bio - just click on the photo of the species you’d like to see more of and you’ll be whizzed to the gallery in moments.

Please note all photos are copyright Mike Bergin, Charlie Moores, or Corey Finger (unless otherwise specified). Photographs are compressed to make download times quicker. We are usually happy to provide copies of higher resolution images to conservation bodies/organisations: please email us.

We’ll be adding galleries to 10,000 Clicks on a regular basis, so please don’t think that if you had a look last month there’ll be nothing new - because as I’m sure you know by now 10,000 Birds doesn’t stand still like that!

 

 

BIRDS

NON-PASSERINES

CRACIDAE - Chachalacas, Curassows, Guans

PROCELLARIIDAE - Shearwaters and Petrels

ANATIDAE - Ducks, Geese and Swans

CICONIDAE - Storks

THRESKIORNITHIDAE - Ibises, Spoonbills

ARDEIDAE - Herons, Egrets

PELICANIDAE - Pelicans

SPHENISCIDAE - Penguins

ANHINGIDAE - Anhingas

CATHARTIDAE - New World Vultures

FALCONIDAE - Falcons and Caracaras

ACCIPITRIDAE - Kites, Hawks, Eagles

OTIDAE - Bustards

RALLIDAE - Rails, Crakes, Coots

GRUIDAE - Cranes

NUMIDIDAE - Guineafowl

PHASIANIDAE - Pheasants and Partridges

SCOLOPAClDAE - Sandpipers and Allies

LARIIDAE - Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers

COLUMBIDAE - Pigeons and Doves

PSITTICIDAE - Parrots

MUSOPHAGIDAE - Turacos

CUCULIDAE - Cuckoos

STRIGIDAE - Typical Owls

PODARGIDAE - Frogmouths

APODIDAE - Swifts

TROCHOLIDAE - Hummingbirds

TROGONIDAE - Trogons

MEROPIDAE - Bee-eaters

UPUPIDAE - Hoopoes

RAMPHISTIDAE - Toucans, Barbets

PICIDAE - Woodpeckers and Allies

 

 

PASSERINES

PITTIDAE - Pittas

THAMNOPHILIDAE - Antshrikes

FURNARIIDAE - Antbirds

REMIZIDAE - Penduline Tits

HIRUNDINIDAE - Swallows

ALAUDIDAE - Larks

TURDIDAE - Thrushes and Allies

MUSCICAPIDAE - Chats, Old World flycatchers

ACANTHIZIDAE - Australasian Warblers

MELIPHAGIDAE - Honeyeaters

CAMPEPHAGIDAE - Cuckoo-shrikes

PLATYSTEIRIDAE - Wattle-eyes, Batises

LANIIDAE - Shrikes

VIREONIDAE - Vireos

BOMBYCILLIDAE - Waxwings and Allies

PARIDAE - Chickadees and Tits

PETROICIDAE - Australasian Robins

MONARCHIDAE - Monarchs

CORVIDAE - Crows, Jays and Magpies

STURNIDAE - Starlings

NECTARINIIDAE - Sunbirds

PYCNONOTIIDAE - Bulbuls

SYLVIIDAE - Old World Warblers

TIMALLIIDAE - Babblers

PASSERIDAE - Old World Sparrows, Snowfinches

PLOCEIDAE - Weavers

MOTACILLIIDAE - Pipits and Wagtails

ZOSTEROPIDAE - White-eyes

PROMEROPIDAE - Sugarbirds

TROGLODYTIDAE - Wrens

REGULIDAE - Goldcrests, Kinglets

SITTIDAE - Nuthatches

FRINGILLIDAE - Finches

PARULIDAE - New World Warblers

THRAUPIDAE - Tanagers

ICTERIDAE - Oropendolas, Orioles & Blackbirds

EMBERIZIDAE - Buntings, Sparrows, Seedeaters and Allies

CARDINALIDAE - Grosbeaks, Saltators & Allies

 

 

Identification photo-galleries: a series of well-illustrated posts looking at ID questions.

Miscellaneous Galleries that don’t quite fit in anywhere else:

  • Birds of Malta - Warning: Malta’s hunters got to these birds before the photographers did.

 

 

MAMMALS

 

 

REPTILES/AMPHIBIANS

 

 

PLANTS

 

 

16 Responses to 󈫺,000 Clicks: Photo-galleries and ID features”

  1. Pramod Viswanath Apr 30th, 2008 at 1:07 am

    Came across this site just a few days back. Its been a great documentation of awesome birds! Keep going. I would love to come back to this site again and again.

  2. Charlie May 1st, 2008 at 4:26 am

    Hi Viswanath (and my apologies if I am using your name incorrectly),

    Thanks so much for your positive comment - much appreciated. We will most definitely be keeping going, and we’d welcome back you back to 10,000 Birds as often as you care to stop by!

    Charlie

  3. Rick Wright Jun 1st, 2008 at 5:31 pm

    Well done indeed!
    Rick

  4. Charlie Jun 3rd, 2008 at 5:55 am

    Rick - thankyou!

  5. Mary Jun 23rd, 2008 at 12:48 pm

    Charlie,
    As a young girl, grandfather and I would feed and water the birds. it was my job to wash the birdbath and put out two cups of seed when I visited.

    As an adult, off and on I would feed and water the birds. It wasn’t until just recently I decided that I needed to learn the names of the birds in my own back yard here in Pennsylvania. I know some common ones like the cardinal, blue jay, robin and gold finches. But there is a small black and white and a brown one that I have no clue as to what they are. I have been looking for a website that will show photos so I can identify them. Your site has been helpful. So many sites I have been to requre me to type in a name to find the photo! Isn’t that the point? I need the photo to type in the name!

    So thanks I appreciate the user friendliness layout of your site.
    Mary

  6. Charlie Jun 24th, 2008 at 3:04 am

    Hi Mary.
    Thanks for your comments - much appreciated. I just thought I’d add that if you’re struggling with an identification we do have another feature on 10,000 Birds where we try to answer questions of all sorts - we don’t guarantee to be 100% correct but we do try! Have a look at http://10000birds.com/the-10000-birds-clinic - perhaps we could provide the answers you’re looking for there?
    Charlie

  7. Baba Doodlius Aug 1st, 2008 at 11:48 am

    Birds are cool! I’m a big fan of birds.

  8. Tracy Joe Ferris Feb 8th, 2009 at 1:23 am

    My adoptive father got me interested in this when I was younger. I just hope that I can get back into it and find others that enjoy this hobby.

  9. Charlie Feb 8th, 2009 at 11:22 am

    Hi Tracy
    One of the best things to have come out of 10,000 Birds is a real sense of community and the feeling that there are always other birders/bloggers around who are willing to help and encourage other visitors and readers. Now that you’ve found us I really hope we can help you re-find your interest. Just let us know how we can help…
    Charlie

  10. Nora Hansen Mar 26th, 2009 at 6:10 pm

    I enjoy this sight very much. It brightens my day! I have five birdfeeders outside my living room window in Minnesota. I feed blacksunflower seeds, thistle and suet. I see finches(red and gold), juncos, cardinals, bluejays, woodpeckers and sparrows. Birdwatching is my life. I just subscribed to your magazine.

  11. Kapitan Mineta Apr 14th, 2009 at 5:04 pm

    You were almost ewerywhere, but not in Poland. Discrimination ;|
    Kurwa Wasza zajebana mac, protestuje!

  12. Charlie Apr 14th, 2009 at 5:42 pm

    Kapitan: just waiting for an invitation :)

  13. Cheryl Apr 16th, 2009 at 1:35 pm

    have any pics. of vireo

  14. Murugavel T May 2nd, 2009 at 6:08 am

    Hi
    Great site for birding… particulary the markings of the diagnostic features of the birds, will surely help young birders a gerat deal.
    Hope to see more birds photos with theoir features….
    All the best !

  15. Tony Reed May 5th, 2009 at 9:26 pm

    I have numerous photos of birds if anyone is interested: Northern Cardinal, American Goldfinch, Carolina Chickadee, Blue Jay, House Finch, White-crowned Sparrow, Redheaded Woodpecker, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Roadrunner, White-winged Dove and many more. I’ll gladly share!

  16. charlie May 7th, 2009 at 5:30 am

    Hi Tony

    Sorry to take a while to get back to you, but hosting other people’s photos is not something we’d really discussed before. It would be lovely to do it, and thanks so much for the offer, but none of us are sure that we have the capacity right now to do it well. Mike’s going to get back to you about writing a guest post - he may have already done so - and I hope that will be of interest.

    All the best

    Charlie

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