Below are selected pictures of birds from around the world. More photographs of birds are available in the country-specific sections found on the left.
Except where noted, all images are the property of Rhett A. Butler, copyright 1994-2004. Contact me with questions regarding use, reproduction, or purchase of any of the pictures.
Pied hornbill in canopy |
Pied hornbill at the top of a canopy tree |
Pied hornbill in flight |
Male Great Argus Pheasant (Argusianus argus) |
Male Argus Pheasant (Argusianus argus) |
Oriental pied hornbill (Anthracoceros albirostris) in flight |
Stork-billed Kingfisher (Pelargopsis capensis) along the Tembeling River |
Eagle nest |
Australia |
Fairy Wren, Australia |
Rainbow Lorikeet, Australia |
Blue-crowned Motmot |
condors, Grand Canyon |
Heron, Honduras |
Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera) |
Yellow-crowned parrot (Amazona ochrocephala) |
Macaws feeding on clay lick |
Feathers of scarlet macaw (Ara macao) |
Flock of Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna) flying toward clay lick |
Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna) flying toward clay lick |
Owl, Cambodia |
Pied Kingfisher eating a minnow |
Male orange weaver (Ploceus aurentius) on a papyrus stalk |
Hamerkop (Scopus umbretta) wading in duckweed |
Male weaverbird working on building a nest in the early evening |
Blue bird with a moderately long tail (African blue-flycatcher (Elminia longicauda)?) |
Blue-headed coucal, Centropus monachus |
Variable sunbird (Cinnyris venusta) or Collared sunbird (Hedydipna collaris) |
Woodland kingfisher (Halcyon senegalensis) perched on a branch
Woodland kingfisher |
Woodland kingfisher with Rwenzori mountains behind |
Crowned hornbill (Tockus alboterminatus) |
Rueppell's Glossy-Starling (Lamprotornis purpuropterus) |
Flock of Grey crowned crane (Balearica regulorum) on the African savanna |
Flock of African skimmers (Rhynchops flavirostris) on the Kazinga Channel |
Sacred ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus) |
Goliath heron, Ardea goliath, in Uganda |
Egyptian Geese, Alopochen aegyptiacus, with pied kingfishers in the background |
African skimmers on a beach along the Kazinga Channel |
Pair of African fish eagles, Haliaeetus vocifer |
Group of great cormorants (Phalacrocorax carbo) on a beach of the Kazinga Channel |
Buffalo, pelicans, cormorants on a sandbar in the Kazinga Channel |
Great White Pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus) |
Great White Pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus), Pink-backed Pelican (Pelecanus rufescens), and Great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) |
African fish eagle perched in a thorny bush |
Egyptian Geese, Alopochen aegyptiacus, walking in the shallows of the Kazinga Channel |
African fish eagle, Haliaeetus vocifer, in flight |
Grey-headed kingfisher, Halcyon leucocephala, on a Euphorbia plant |
Immature Black-headed heron
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