- Keel Billed Toucan
Costa Rica: Road from San Jose to Puntarenas
- White Winged Dove
Costa Rica: Road from San Jose to Puntarenas
- Black Vulture
Costa Rica: Driving along Pacific Coast
- Great Tailed Grackle
Costa Rica: Driving along Pacific Coast
- Yellow Naped Parrot
Costa Rica: Driving along Pacific Coast
in flight only
- Double Toothed Kite
Costa Rica: Carrera National Park
following a group of monkeys to eat the bugs they shook out
- Chestnut Sided Warbler
Costa Rica: Carrera National Park
- Buff Throated Saltator
Costa Rica: Carrera National Park
- Turkey Vulture
Costa Rica: Carrera National Park
- Black Billed Wren
Costa Rica: Carrera National Park
call only
- Boat Billed Heron
Costa Rica: Carrera National Park: Lagoon
funny loud call; funny face
- Great Blue Heron
Costa Rica: Carrera National Park: Lagoon
- Rough Winged Swallow
Costa Rica: Carrera National Park: Lagoon
- Great Egret
Costa Rica: Carrera National Park: Lagoon
- Snowy Egret
Costa Rica: Carrera National Park: Lagoon
- Northern Jacana
Costa Rica: Carrera National Park: Lagoon
- Tropical Kingbird
Costa Rica: Carrera National Park: Lagoon
- Lesser Nighthawk
Costa Rica: Carrera National Park
asleep during the day
- Wood Stork
Costa Rica: Carrera National Park
- Chestnut Billed Toucan
Costa Rica: Driving along Pacific Coast
- Ruddy Quail Dove
Costa Rica: Carrera National Park
- Scarlet Macaw
Costa Rica: Carrera National Park
in flight only
- Purple Crowned Fairy Hummingbird
Costa Rica: Canopy Tour near Carrera NP
- White Ibis
Costa Rica: Driving along Pacific Coast
- Snowy Egret
Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
- Parakeet
Costa Rica: Driving along Pacific Coast
in flight
- Yellow Crowned Night Heron
Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
adult and juvinile
- Cattle Egret
Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
- Anhinga
Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
- Neotropical Cormorant
Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
- Great Blue Heron
Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
- Little Blue Heron
Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
- Tri-Colored Heron
Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
- Bare Throated Tiger Heron
Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
- Green Backed Heron
Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
spectacular
- Northern Jackana
Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
spectacular
- Black Necked Stilt
Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
- Spotted Sandpiper
Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
- Mangrove Black Hawk
Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
- Osprey
Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
- Scarlet Macaw
Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
in flight only
- Yellow Naped Parrot
Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
in flight only
- Mangrove Swallow
Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
- Ringed Kingfisher
Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
- Amazon Kingfisher
Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
- Red Winged Blackbird
Costa Rica: Rio Tarcoles
- Brown Jay
Costa Rica: Monteverde Cloud Forrest
- Red Start
Costa Rica: Monteverde Cloud Forrest
- Common Bush Tanager
Costa Rica: Monteverde Cloud Forrest
- Prong Billed Barbet
Costa Rica: Monteverde Cloud Forrest
- Spotted Barbtail
Costa Rica: Monteverde Cloud Forrest
covered the whole tree from bottom to top hopping upwardÉ very cool
- Three Striped Warbler
Costa Rica: Monteverde Cloud Forrest
- Ochraceous Wren
Costa Rica: Monteverde Cloud Forrest
- Buff Throated Foliage Cleaner
Costa Rica: Monteverde Cloud Forrest
- Blue Crested Mott Mott
Costa Rica: Monteverde Cloud Forrest
beautifulÉ strange tail
- Violet Sabrewing Hummingbird
Costa Rica: Hummingbird Garden at Monteverde
- Purple Throated Mountain Gem Hummingbird
Costa Rica: Hummingbird Garden at Monteverde
male and female
- Long Billed Starthroat Hummingbird
Costa Rica: Hummingbird Garden at Monteverde
- Green Crowned Brilliant Hummingbird
Costa Rica: Hummingbird Garden at Monteverde
male and female
- Anna's Hummingbird
Arboreatum Winter Garden
male w/very dark head and red irridescent front of head
- Townsend's Warbler
Arboreatum Winter Garden
- Black Scoter
Arboreatum Near Water
3 (2 males and a female) swimming in water near reeds
- Bald Eagle
Padilla Bay
2 clusters of adults with juviniles; pair of adults flying low over water in the morning
- Dunlin
Padilla Bay
single by water's edge among small rocks
- Sanderling
Padilla Bay
several large flocks
- Great Blue Heron
Padilla Bay
flew from bay over path into farm field and had low flight for a good long way before landing
- Brandt's Cormorant
Padilla Bay
Several in flight and taking off from water.
- Common Goldeneye
Padilla Bay
1st winter male
- Bufflehead
Padilla Bay
"Tiny little duck
- Song Sparrow
Padilla Bay
deep red coloring
- Magnificent Frigatebird
Costa Rica: Coast at Resort
- Oregon Dark Eyed Junco
Home
Several at bird feeder in front yard
- American Coot
Montlake Fill
hundreds on lake washington and in ponds
- Red Winged Blackbird
Montlake Fill
"20 or so around the field calling to eachother
- American Widgeon
Montlake Fill
- Wood Duck
Montlake Fill
1 breeding pair in marsh off of lake washington
- Canada Goose
Montlake Fill
Several flocks of 5-10 each; nice views of flock in flight
- Bufflehead
Montlake Fill
"Mixed in with ducks and geese
- Hooded Merganser
Montlake Fill
2 sightings: 1 of a male with a few females (male flew away early); another of a solitary female
- Great Blue Heron
Montlake Fill
1 on log off on shore of lake washington
- Black Capped Chickadees
Home
4 around bird feeder with Juncos
- Red Shouldered Hawk
Fir Island
rareÉ perched on top of barn
- Snowy Owl
Fir Island
6 all perched on logs across the river
- Northern Harrier
Fir Island
hunting over prarie
- Northern Harrier
Padilla Bay
- Red tailed Hawk
Mom & Dad's
tree near mom & dad's house
- Northern Pygmy-Owl
Skagit River
saw during bald eagle festival
- Red tailed Hawk
Skagit River
drying his tail in a distant tree through the spotting scope. saw during bald eagle festival
- Beweick's Wren
Home
saw in brush near feeder
- red necked grebe
Puget Sound
on whale watching trip around the islands -- beautiful
- Pelagic Cormorant
Puget Sound
on whale watching trip
- Flamingo
- Northern Pintail
Padilla Bay
in groups with lots of american widgeon in the farm fields
- American Widgeon
Padilla Bay
- Nothern Shoveler
Montlake Fill
mucking through the mud
- Green Winged Teal
Montlake Fill
large flocks of these and widgeons
- Black Scoter
Mom & Dad's
in distance on sound seen through spotting scope
- Common Murre
Puget Sound
on whale watch
- Pigeon Guillemot
Puget Sound
on whale watch
- Rhinoceros Auklet
Puget Sound
on whale watch
- Northern Flicker
Washington Park
distinctive call and black chest patch; on top of tree
- Hutton's Vireo
Fir Island
- Hutton's Vireo
Skagit River
- Steller's Jay
Arboreatum
through binoculars at the edge of the arboreatum near house
- Barn Swallow
Zoo
In the wild at the zoo
- Common Grackle
Austin
musical songsÉ all through the trees in austin
- House Finch
Home
in a pair
- Cinnamon Teal
Montlake Fill
2 different males. No females. Beautiful
- Gadwall
Montlake Fill
6 or so couples on the ponds.
- Osprey
Montlake Fill
both an osprey and a bald eagle were circling overhead. A crow came and actually chased the osprey away from what I'm sure was his nest. Amazing.
- Red Winged Blackbird
Montlake Fill
"first time I saw a female red winged blackbird. They were frequently close to the male red-winged blackbirds. Lots of activity between the males
- Bald Eagle
Montlake Fill
circling overhead
- Great Blue Heron
Montlake Fill
several different herons -- most were flying or feeding on lake washington. One was sitting on a branch above one of the ponds. A blackbird harrassed it repeatedly and finally it flew to the other side of the pond
- Pie Billed Grebe
Arboreatum
we were canoeing and saw several different individuals swimming on the water. Beautiful birds. I got one to coo to me. It's a very distinctive call.
- Tree Swallow
Montlake Fill
tons of tree swallows (and a few barn swallows) were doing gymnastics in the air. I believe it was to keep others away from their nests.
- Tri-Colored Heron
Arboreatum
on a log above the water from a canoe
- Lesser Scaup
Yellowstone
- Teal
Yellowstone
- Pink Sided Dark Eyed Junco
Yellowstone
around picnic grounds
- Barrow's Goldeneye
Yellowstone
- Clark's Nuthatch
Shields Valley
- Black Billed Magpie
Shields Valley
- Bald Eagle
Yellowstone
adult and juvinile soaring
- White Pelican
Yellowstone
a pair kept flying up the yellowstone river and floating down
- Harlequin Ducks
Yellowstone
3 sitting on a clump of rocks in the yellowstone river fishing
- Violet Green Swallow
Yellowstone
flying around the lodge at Yellowstone Lake
- Raven
Yellowstone
in flight
- Western Meadowlark
Shields Valley
singing on fencepost
- Osprey
Rafting Trip in Gardiner
2 in tree above yellowstone river during rafting trip
- Kestrel
Shields Valley
several different sitings around rental house
- Osprey
Shields Valley
3 kiting around a cliff on the edge of a big storm
- Morning Dove
Shields Valley
- Say's Pheobe
Shields Valley
- Red Tailed hawk
Shields Valley
in forested area around shields river. Gave many loud cries.
- Robin
Shields Valley
- Canada Goose
Shields Valley
- Eastern Kingbird
Shields Valley
- Killdeer
Shields Valley
beautiful!
- Blue Grouse
Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness
with baby chicks crossing the road
- Golden Eagle
Shields Valley
mom eagle was on the ground drying her wings on one side of the road. Dad spotted 2 babies in a huge nest high up in a tree near the river on the other side of the road
- Red Winged Blackbird
Shields Valley
- Chirping Sparrow
Shields Valley
down by the creek on the property of the rental house
- Northern Cardinal
"Youngstown
NY"
- Willow Flycatcher
Nisqually Wildlife Preserve
In willow grove on the water.
- Marsh Wren
Nisqually Wildlife Preserve
- Turkey Vulture
Nisqually Wildlife Preserve
- Whimbrel
Ocean Shores
15 or so fishing in the surf. Beautiful curved beak. Larger than the other sandpipers
- Sanderling
Ocean Shores
"100s on the shore
- Short-billed Dowitcher
Ocean Shores
Manically probing in the sand. Much more active searchers than the other 2 sandpipers.
- Caspian Tern
Ocean Shores
Beautiful orange beak and sleek black head.
- Swainson's Thrush
Bowerman Basin
- Cedar Waxwing
Bowerman Basin
peeping out of tree. Really interesting looking bird.
- Common Yellowthroat
Bowerman Basin
A few different sitings. Looks like female yellowthroats.
- Violet Green Swallow
Bowerman Basin
100s
- Turkey Vulture
Bowerman Basin
- Killdeer
Fir Island
2 different birds. One had a weird behavior where he dug his chest into the mudflat and put his butt into the air.
- Northern Harrier
Fir Island
2 birds sitting on same clump of land and hunting low in the farm fields.
- Great Blue Heron
Fir Island
3 different herons sitting on stumps in the marsh sunning themselves
- Cedar Waxwing
Fir Island
5 or 6 perching in tree and then flying around
- Swainson's Thrush
Fir Island
- Robin
Fir Island
- Barn Swallow
Fir Island
- Tree Swallow
Fir Island
- Ringed Kingfisher
Fir Island
around channel that follows the path
- American Goldfinch
Fir Island
- Red Winged Blackbird
Fir Island
- California Quail
Cranberry Lake
On a branch 15 feet high on a walk up anacopper road. It cood then finally jumped into the brush under the tree.
- Pigeon Guillemot
Puget Sound
Off of the ferry
- Ringed Kingfisher
Puget Sound
2 birds chasing eachother as they skim along the islandÉ off of the ferry
- Great Kiskadee
Reserva Costana Sur
- Gray Breasted Martin
Buenos Aires
outside the school in san telmo
- Rufous Hornero
Reserva Costana Sur
- Monk Parakeet
Reserva Costana Sur
in pairs collecting twigs for giant nests in the park
- Chalk Browed Mockingbird
Reserva Costana Sur
"pretty quiet call
- Rufous Capped Antshrike
Reserva Costana Sur
"in tree
- White Rumped Swallow
Reserva Costana Sur
"20-30 flying around bridge
- Guira Cukoo
Reserva Costana Sur
funky looking! Pair
- Shiney Cowbird
Reserva Costana Sur
"several mixed with pigeons
- Picazuro Pigeon
Reserva Costana Sur
beautiful teal scales on back of neck
- Short Eared Dove
Reserva Costana Sur
"many
- South American Stilt
Reserva Costana Sur
Very pretty and graceful
- Black and Rufous Warbling Finch
Reserva Costana Sur
in shrub
- Hepatic Tanager
Reserva Costana Sur
sitting on a stalk of pampas grass. Male
- Yellow Browed Tyrant
Reserva Costana Sur
bright yellow
- Brown Hooded Gull
Reserva Costana Sur
in flight. Pretty
- Rosy Billed Pochard
Reserva Costana Sur
hot pink bill with knob
- Fulvous Whistling Duck
Reserva Costana Sur
"not totally sure of id. Alex has good photo. Bluish bill
- White Winged Coot
Reserva Costana Sur
very orange
- Great Egret
Reserva Costana Sur
"black feet
- Wattled Jackana
Reserva Costana Sur
Beautiful yellow wings spread out
- Neotropical Cormorant
Reserva Costana Sur
- Yellow Winged Blackbird
Reserva Costana Sur
- South American Stilt
Reserva Costana Sur
- Great Egret
Reserva Costana Sur
- Coscoroba Swan
Reserva Costana Sur
- Yellow Billed Pintail
Reserva Costana Sur
pretty pair with cinnamon heads
- Speckled Teal
Reserva Costana Sur
5 or so; beautiful beak coloring
- Cinnamon Teal
Reserva Costana Sur
fabulous color
- Greater Yellowlegs
Reserva Costana Sur
seemed bigger than 23cm
- Brown Hooded Gull
Reserva Costana Sur
"large flock on the water
- Monk Parakeet
Reserva Costana Sur
5 or so in flight
- Rufous Hornero
Reserva Costana Sur
- Great Kiskadee
Reserva Costana Sur
hunting for food in water by swooping down
- Silver Teal
Reserva Costana Sur
neat blue and yellow beak
- White Faced Ibis
Reserva Costana Sur
couldn't see white face but definitely an irredescent scarlet black
- Pico de Plata
Reserva Costana Sur
So cute. Amazing. Tiny Yellow Eye ring; quick agile movements
- White Branded Mockingbird
Reserva Costana Sur
striking white marking in flight
- Hooded Siskin
Reserva Costana Sur
"Male; bright yellow parts
- Red Eyed Vireo
Reserva Costana Sur
Really pronounced white eyebrow; shiny olive back; view was fast so I'm not positive on the ID.
- Saffron Yellow Finch
Reserva Costana Sur
"rosy forehead
- Small Billed Eleana
Reserva Costana Sur
sp
- Masked Gnatcatcher
Reserva Costana Sur
pretty black mask w/blue head
- Black and Rufous Warbling Finch
Reserva Costana Sur
2 fighting mid air
- Giant Wood Rail
Reserva Costana Sur
pretty cinnamon
- Double Collared Seed Eater
Reserva Costana Sur
on ground pecking
- Rufous Collared Sparrow
Reserva Costana Sur
"very pretty for a sparrow
- Chimango Caracara
Reserva Costana Sur
very think elegant head for a raptor; white wing pattern. I'm not certain in this id.
- Vermillion Flycatcher
Reserva Costana Sur
Hot red!
- Screaming cowbird
Reserva Costana Sur
"it was screaming