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! (We’ll get there eventually…)

Anyway, we have a serious interest in photography to go with our interest in birds and bird identification. We’ve consequently amassed a rather large collection of photos, and rather than hide them away on our hard-drives we’ve decided that you may like to see them instead.

Almost all of the galleries linked to on this page are of a single species (mostly birds, but we also point our lenses at insects, mammals, herps, and plants) and contain between three and fifteen different images and (often) a short bio – just click on the species you’d like to see pictures of and you’ll be whizzed to the gallery in moments.

Please note all photos are copyright Mike Bergin or Corey Finger (unless otherwise specified in the posts). Photographs are compressed to make pages load more quickly.

We add 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. Also note that we explore a wider variety of birds in greater depth throughout the site, so check out the blog and our Birds page.

 

BIRDS

NON-PASSERINES

CASUARIIDAE – Cassowaries and emu

CRACIDAE – Chachalacas, Curassows, Guans

PHASIANIDAE – Pheasant, Fowl, and Allies

ODONTOPHORIDAE – New World Quail

DIOMEDEIDAE – Albatrosses

PROCELLARIIDAE – Petrels, Shearwaters

HYDROBATIDAE – Storm Petrels

PODICEPIDEDAE – Grebes

CICONIIDAE – STORKS

ANATIDAE – Ducks, Geese and Swan

GAVIIDAE – Loons

SPHENISCIDAE – Penguins

PELECANIFORMESS – Ibises, Spoonbills

ARDEIDAE – Herons, Egrets

PELICANIDAE – Pelicans

FREGATIDAE – Frigatebirds

SULIDAE – Gannets, Boobies

Phalacrocoracidae – Cormorants

ANHINGIDAE – Anhingas, Darters

CATHARTIDAE – New World Vultures

SAGITTARIIDAE – Secretarybird

PANDIONIDAE – Ospreys

ACCIPITRIDAE – Kites, Hawks, Eagles

FALCONIDAE – Caracaras, Falcons

OTIDIDAE – Bustards

RALLIDAE – Rails, Crakes, Coots

GRUIDAE – Cranes

ARAMIDAE – Limpkin

BURNHINIDAE – Stone-curlews, Thick-knees

HAEMATOPODIDAE – Oystercatchers

RECURVIROSTRIDAE – Stilts, Avocets

CHARADRIIDAE – Plovers

JACANIDAE – Jacanas

SCOLOPAClDAE – Sandpipers and Allies

GLAREOLIDAE – Coursers, Pratincoles

LARIIDAE – Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers

STERNCORARIIDAE – Skuas

ALCIDAE – Auks

COLUMBIDAE – Pigeons and Doves

STRIGOPIDAE – New Zealand Parrots

CACATUADIE – Cockatoos

PSITTICIDAE – Parrots

CUCULIDAE – Cuckoos

STRIGIDAE – Owls

STAETORNITHIDAE – Oilbird

NYCTIBIIDAE – Potoos

CAPRIMULGIDAE – Nightjars

AEGOTHELIDAE – Owlet-nightjars

HEMIPROCNIDAE – Treeswifts

APODIDAE – Swifts

TROCHOLIDAE – Hummingbirds

ALCEDINIDAE – Kingfishers

MEROPIDAE – Bee-eaters

BUCEROTIDAE  – Hornbills

RAMPHISTIDAE – Toucans, Barbets

PICIDAE – Woodpeckers


PASSERINES

EURYLAIMIDAE – Broadbills

FURNARIIDAE – Ovenbirds

GRALLARIIDAE – Antpittas

RHINOCRYPTIDAE – Tapaculos

TYRANNIDAE – Tyrant Flycatchers

COTINGIDAE – Cotingas

PTILONORHINCHIDAE – Bowerbirds

MALURIDAE – Australasian Wrens

MELIPHAGIDAE – Honeyeaters

POMATOSTOMIDAE – Australasian Babblers

ACANTHIZIDAE – Australasian Warblers

NOTIOMYSTIDAE – Stichbird

MALACONOTIDAE – Bushshrikes

ARTAMIDAE – Woodswallows, butcherbirds, Peltops

LANIIDAE – Shrikes

VIREONIDAE – Vireos

RHIPIDURIDAE – Fantails, Pygmy Drongo

CORVIDAE – Crows, Jays and Magpies

CORCORIDAE – Australian Mudnesters

PARADISAEIDAE – Birds-of-paradise

BOMBYCILLIDAE – Waxwings and Allies

PETROICIDAE – Australasian Robins

PARIDAE – Tits, Chickadees

ALAUDIDAE – Larks

HIRUNDIDIDAE – Swallows, Martins

PICATHARTIDAE – Rockfowl

AEGITHALIDAE – Bushtits

ACROCEPHALIDAE – Reed Warblers and Allies

CISTICOLIDAE – Cisticolas and Allies

LEIOTHRICHIDAE – Laughingthrushes

SYLVIIDAE – Sylviid Babblers, Parrotbills

REGULIDAE – Kinglets

TROGLODYTIDAE – Wrens

POLIOPTILIDAE – Gnatcatchers

SITTIDAE – Nuthatches

CERTHIIDAE – Treecreepers

MIMIDAE – Catbirds, Mockingbirds, Thrashers

STURNIDAE – Starlings

TURDIDAE – Thrushes

MUSCICAPIDAE – Chats, Old World Flycatchers

CINCLIDAE – Dippers

NECTERINIIDAE – Sunbirds

PLOCEIDAE – Weavers, Widowbirds

ESTRILIDIDAE – Waxbills, Munias and Allies

FRINGILLIDAE – Finches

PARULIDAE – New World Warblers

PASSERIDAE – Old World Sparrows, Snowfinches

MOTACILLIDAE – Wagtails, Pipits

ICTERIDAE – Oropendolas, Orioles & Blackbirds

EMBERIZIDAE – Buntings, New World Sparrows

CALCARIIDAE – Longspurs, snow buntings

CARDINALIDAE – Grosbeaks, Saltators & Allies

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

 

 

MAMMALS

 

 

REPTILES/AMPHIBIANS

 

 

INSECTS

 

 MARINE

 

PLANTS

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