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Pictures of waterbirds [last update 2011-12-25]


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Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga)
Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga)

(Brazil)

Jabiru stork (Jabiru mycteria) in flight
Jabiru stork (Jabiru mycteria) in flight

(Brazil)


Great White Pelicans (Pelecanus onocrotalus)

(Uganda)


Great cormorants; Pink-backed pelicans; Great white pelicans on a Lake Edward/Kazinga Channel beach

(Uganda)


Pair of Grey crowned cranes "kissing"

(Uganda)


Egyptian Goose; Alopochen aegyptiacus

(Uganda)

Cocoi Heron (Ardea cocoi)
Cocoi Heron (Ardea cocoi)

(Brazil)

Cocoi Heron (Ardea cocoi) in flight
Cocoi Heron (Ardea cocoi) in flight

(Brazil)


Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex)

(Uganda)


Hundreds of cormorants and pelicans gathered on a sanbar

(Uganda)


Group of Little Grebe; Tachybaptus ruficollis

(Kenya)


Great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) drying its wings in the sun

(Uganda)


Great blue heron (Ardea herodias) in flight

(Alaska)

Limpkin (Aramus guarauna)
Limpkin (Aramus guarauna)

(Brazil)


Blue crane (Anthropoides paradiseus)
(pan02-1912)

Neotropical cormorants, large and small-billed terns
Neotropical cormorants, large and small-billed terns

(Brazil)


Ibis

Jabiru stork (Jabiru mycteria) in flight
Jabiru stork (Jabiru mycteria) in flight

(Brazil)

Jabiru stork (Jabiru mycteria) in flight
Jabiru stork (Jabiru mycteria) in flight

(Brazil)


Milky Stork (Mycteria cinerea)



Pair of African crowned cranes (Balearica regulorum)

(Uganda)


Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex) with its mouth slightly agape

(Uganda)


Black-headed Heron (Ardea melanocephala) atop a Euphorbia plant

(Uganda)


African skimmers (Rhynchops flavirostris) on a beach along the Kazinga Channel

(Uganda)


Yellow-billed Stork; Mycteria ibis

(Uganda)


Common Murre (Uria aalge)

(Alaska)


Great blue heron (Ardea herodias)

(Alaska)


Gray heron; cattle egret; sacred ibis; yellow billed stork

(Tanzania)

Anhinga
Anhinga

(Brazil)


Egyptian Geese; Alopochen aegyptiacus; walking in the shallows of the Kazinga Channel

(Uganda)


Goliath heron; Ardea goliath; in Uganda

(Uganda)


Mandarin Duck (Aix galericulata)



Yellow-billed Stork (Mycteria ibis) atop a tree

(Kenya)

Snakebird (Anhinga anhinga)
Snakebird (Anhinga anhinga)

(Brazil)


Flock of Grey crowned crane (Balearica regulorum) on the African savanna

(Uganda)

Waldrapp (Geronticus eremita)
Waldrapp (Geronticus eremita)



Ibis

Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)

(Brazil)


Wattled Jacana (Jacana jacana) in the Amazon


Immature Black-headed heron

(Uganda)


Crane near Pond

(Nepal)

Nonbreeding adult Chinese Pond Heron (Ardeola bacchu)
Nonbreeding adult Chinese Pond Heron (Ardeola bacchu)

(Laos)

Great Blue Heron Fishing in Virgin River
Great Blue Heron Fishing in Virgin River

(Utah; United States)


Flock of African skimmers (Rhynchops flavirostris) on the Kazinga Channel

(Uganda)

Jabiru stork (Jabiru mycteria) in flight
Jabiru stork (Jabiru mycteria) in flight

(Brazil)


White ibis; Eudocimus albus

(Costa Rica)


Marbled Murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) in Glacier Bay

(Alaska)


Pelagic Cormorant in flight

(Alaska)

Chilean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus chilensis)
Chilean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus chilensis)


Hermit Ibis (Geronticus eremita)
Hermit Ibis (Geronticus eremita)



Marbled Murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) in Glacier Bay

(Alaska)

Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)
Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)

(Brazil)


Jabiru Stork

(Brazil)


Abdim's Stork (Ciconia abdimii)

(Tanzania)


Lesser Adjutant (Leptoptilos javanicus)



Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus)



Buffalo; pelicans; cormorants on a sandbar in the Kazinga Channel

(Uganda)

Northern Bald Ibis (Geronticus eremita)
Northern Bald Ibis (Geronticus eremita)



Great blue heron

(Alaska)


Pelagic Cormorant in flight

(Alaska)


Small gray grebe or duck

(Costa Rica)


Pelagic Cormorant

(Alaska)


Sacred ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus)

(Uganda)

Waterbirds in flight
Waterbirds in flight

(Brazil)


Egyptian Geese; Alopochen aegyptiacus; with pied kingfishers in the background

(Uganda)

Jabiru stork (Jabiru mycteria) in flight
Jabiru stork (Jabiru mycteria) in flight

(Brazil)

Giant Tree Frog (Litoria infrafrenata)
Giant Tree Frog (Litoria infrafrenata)



Comorant drying its wings


Great White Pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus); Pink-backed Pelican (Pelecanus rufescens); and Great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)

(Uganda)


Great White Pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus)

(Uganda)

Cocoi Heron (Ardea cocoi)
Cocoi Heron (Ardea cocoi)

(Brazil)

Anhinga
Anhinga

(Brazil)


Group of great cormorants (Phalacrocorax carbo) on a beach of the Kazinga Channel

(Uganda)

Limpkin (Aramus guarauna)
Limpkin (Aramus guarauna)

(Brazil)

Limpkin (Aramus guarauna)
Limpkin (Aramus guarauna)

(Brazil)


Ardea herodias heron

(Alaska)


Yellow-billed Stork (Mycteria ibis) atop a tree

(Kenya)

Cocoi Heron (Ardea cocoi)
Cocoi Heron (Ardea cocoi)

(Brazil)


Small gray grebe or duck

(Costa Rica)

Capped Heron (Pilherodius pileatus)
Capped Heron (Pilherodius pileatus)

(Brazil)

Black-crowned Night Herons (Nycticorax nycticorax)
Black-crowned Night Herons (Nycticorax nycticorax)

(Brazil)

Black-crowned Night Herons (Nycticorax nycticorax)
Black-crowned Night Herons (Nycticorax nycticorax)

(Brazil)


Great blue heron

(Alaska)

White-faced Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna viduata)
White-faced Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna viduata)


Marabou Stork (Leptoptilos crumeniferus)
Marabou Stork (Leptoptilos crumeniferus)


Cormorants in a river
Cormorants in a river

(Brazil)


African skimmers on a beach along the Kazinga Channel

(Uganda)

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