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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

PROCELLARIIDAE - Shearwaters and Petrels

ANATIDAE - Ducks, Geese and Swans

THRESKIORNITHIDAE - Ibises, Spoonbills

ARDEIDAE - Herons, Egrets

PELICANIDAE - Pelicans

SPHENISCIDAE - Penguins

CATHARTIDAE - New World Vultures

FALCONIDAE - Falcons and Caracaras

ACCIPITRIDAE - Kites, Hawks, Eagles

RALLIDAE - Rails, Crakes, Coots

GRUIDAE - Cranes

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

APODIDAE - Swifts

TROCHOLIDAE - Hummingbirds

TROGONIDAE - Trogons

MEROPIDAE - Bee-eaters

UPUPIDAE - Hoopoes

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

PETROICIDAE - Australasian Robins

PARIDAE - Chickadees and Tits

MONARCHIDAE - Monarchs

CORVIDAE - Crows, Jays and Magpies

STURNIDAE - Starlings

NECTARINIIDAE - Sunbirds

PYCNONOTIIDAE - Bulbuls

SYLVIIDAE - Old World Warblers

TIMALLIIDAE - Babblers

PASSERIDAE - Old World Sparrows

MOTACILLIIDAE - Pipits and Wagtails

FRINGILLIDAE - Siskins, Crossbills and Allies

PROMEROPIDAE - Sugarbirds

TROGLODYTIDAE - Wrens

SITTIDAE - Nuthatches

ZOSTEROPIDAE - White-eyes

PARULIDAE - New World Warblers

THRAUPIDAE - Tanagers

ICTERIDAE - Oropendolas, Orioles & Blackbirds

EMBERIZIDAE - Buntings, Sparrows, Seedeaters and 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

 

 

PLANTS

 

 

6 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

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