Birds
There are approximately 10,000 bird species on this beautiful planet. Here at the 10,000 Birds blog, we expect to not only see but eventually photograph or write about every single one! Catch up on the latest bird posts or check the taxonomic list below based on Clements, 5th edition.
NON-PASSERINES
RHEIDAE - Rheas
PROCELLARIIDAE - Shearwaters and Petrels
ARDEIDAE - Herons, Egrets and Bitterns
ANATIDAE - Ducks, Geese and Swans
- Photo-gallery: Cackling Goose
- Photo-gallery: Pale-bellied Brant
- Tundra Swan
- Photo-gallery: Whooper Swans
- Northern Shoveler
- White-cheeked Pintails
- Eurasian and Green-winged Teals
- Mallard Complex
- Hybrid Mallards
- Manky Mallards
- Greater Scaup vs. Lesser Scaup
- What is a Scoter?
- Bufflehead
- What is a Merganser?
SPHENISCIDAE - Penguins
THRESKIORNITHIDAE - Ibises, Spoonbills
ARDEIDAE - Herons and Bitterns
PELICANIDAE - Pelicans
SULIDAE - Gannets and Boobies
CATHARTIDAE - New World Vultures
PANDIONIDAE - Osprey
FALCONIDAE - Falcons and Caracaras
ACCIPITRIDAE - Kites, Hawks, Eagles
- Photo-gallery: Secretarybirds
- Photo-gallery: Red Kites
- Photo-gallery: Black Kites
- Photo-gallery: Jackal Buzzards
- Photo-gallery: Red-tailed Hawks
- Photo-gallery: Ferruginous Hawks
RALLIDAE - Rails, Crakes, and Coots
- Photo-gallery: Dusky Moorhens
- Photo-gallery: Purple Swamphens
- Photo-gallery: Buff-banded Rails
- ‘Light-footed’ Clapper Rail
- What is a Coot?
GRUIDAE - Cranes
MELEAGRIDAE - Turkeys
TETRAONIDAE - Grouse
PHASIANIDAE - Pheasants and Partridges
CHARADRIIDAE - Plovers and Lapwings
JACANIDAE - Jacanas
SCOLOPAClDAE - Sandpipers and Allies
- American Woodcock
- Photo-gallery: African Snipes
- ID Feature: Willets in flight
- Photo-gallery: Pectoral Sandpiper
- Photo-gallery: Least Sandpipers
- Calidris sandpipers (peeps)
- Sanderling
- Photo-gallery: Juvenile Sanderlings
- Photo-gallery: Grey Phalarope
LARIIDAE - Gulls and Terns
- Photo-gallery: Non-adult Black-tailed Gull
- Photo-gallery: Adult Black-tailed Gulls
- Photo-gallery: Non-br Black-headed Gulls
- Photo-gallery: Franklin’s Gull
- Photo-gallery: Grey-headed Gulls
- Photo-gallery: Silver Gulls
- Photo-gallery: Vega Gulls
- Photo-gallery: Sooty Gulls
- Photo-gallery: Adult winter Black-legged Kittiwakes
COLUMBIDAE - Pigeons and Doves
- Photo-gallery: Pink-necked Green Pigeons
- Photo-gallery: Mauritius Pink Pigeons
- Rock Pigeon
- Fancy pigeons
- Eurasian Collared-Dove
- Photo-gallery: Dusky Turtle Dove
PSITTICIDAE - Parrots
MUSOPHAGIDAE - Turacos
STRIGIDAE - Typical Owls
APODIDAE - Swifts
UPUPIDAE - Hoopoes
MEROPIDAE - Bee-eaters
PICIDAE - Woodpeckers and Allies
TROCHILIDAE - Hummingbirds
PASSERINES
PITTIDAE - Pittas
TYRANNIDAE - Tyrant flycatchers
THAMNOPHILIDAE - Antshrikes
FURNARIIDAE - Antbirds
REMIZIDAE - Penduline Tits
HIRUNDINIDAE - Swallows
ALAUDIDAE - Larks
- Horned Larks and Clines
- Photo-gallery: Spike-heeled Larks
- Photo-gallery: Grey-backed Sparrow-lark
- Photo-gallery: Red-capped Larks
- Photo-gallery: Rufous-naped Lark
- Photo-gallery: Agulhas Clapper Lark
- Photo-gallery: Agulhas Long-billed Larks
MIMIDAE - Mockingbirds and Thrashers
TURDIDAE - Thrushes and Allies
- Eastern Bluebird
- Bicknell’s and Gray-cheeked Thrushes
- Photo-gallery: Dark-throated Thrush
- Photo-gallery: Groundscraper Thrush
- Photo-gallery: African Thrushes
MUSCICAPIDAE - Chats, Old World flycatchers
- Photo-gallery: Northern Wheatears
- Photo-gallery: African Stonechat.
- Photo-gallery: Blue Rock Thrushes
- Photo-gallery: White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher
- Photo-gallery: White-starred Robin
- Photo-gallery: Cape Robin
ACANTHIZIDAE - Australasian Warblers
MELIPHAGIDAE - Honeyeaters
CAMPEPHAGIDAE - Cuckoo-shrikes
LANIIDAE - Shrikes
VIREONIDAE - Vireos
BOMBYCILLIDAE - Waxwings and Allies
- What is a Waxwing?
- Remembering Bohemian Waxwings
- Cedar Waxwings in Central Park
- ID Feature: Cedar vs Bohemian Waxwing
PETROICIDAE - Australasian Robins
PARIDAE - Chickadees and Tits
MONARCHIDAE - Monarchs
CORVIDAE - Crows, Jays and Magpies
- Disturbing crow eating habit
- Corvid intelligence
- Black-billed Magpie
- House Crow - avian invader
- Photo-gallery: Hooded Crows
- Photo-gallery: Pied Crows
STURNIDAE - Starlings
NECTARINIIDAE - Sunbirds
SYLVIIDAE - Old World Warblers
- Photo-gallery: Levaillant’s Cisticola
- Photo-gallery: Grey-backed Cisticola
- Photo-gallery: Tawny-flanked Prinia.
- Photo-gallery: African Reed Warblers.
- Photo-gallery: Burnt-neck Eremomela
TIMALLIIDAE - Babblers
PASSERIDAE - Old World Sparrows
MOTACILLIIDAE - Pipits and Wagtails
- ID Feature: Buff-bellied Pipit
- Photo-gallery: Grassland Pipit
- Photo-gallery: Plain-backed Pipit.
- Photo-gallery: Bushveld Pipit
- Photo-gallery: Orange-throated Longclaw
- Photo-gallery: White Wagtail
- Photo-gallery: Pied Wagtail
FRINGILLIDAE - Siskins, Crossbills and Allies
PROMEROPIDAE - Sugarbirds
ZOSTEROPIDAE - White-eyes
DREPANIDIDAE - Hawaiian Honeycreepers
PARULIDAE - New World Warblers
- Warblers Of Eastern North America
- Kirtland’s Warbler
- Townsend’s Warbler behaving normally
- Photo-gallery: Red Warbler
- Photo-gallery: Crescent-chested Warbler
- Photo-gallery: Golden-browed Warbler
- Northern and Louisiana Waterthrushes
- ID Feature: Louisiana vs Northern Waterthrush
THRAUPIDAE - Tanagers
EMBERIZIDAE - Buntings, Sparrows, Seedeaters and Allies
- Photo-gallery: Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu
- Photo-gallery: Canyon Towhee
- Yariguies Brush Finch
- Photo-gallery: Cape Bunting
- Photo-gallery: Black-faced Buntings
- White-throated Sparrow
- ID Feature: Song Sparrows
CARDINALIDAE - Saltators, Cardinals and Allies
ICTERIDAE - Troupials and Allies
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