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John's Nature Photos

Ongoing Local Photography    Our Backyard Local Hotspots Life List Bird Photos  [email protected]
Chronological Trips 
Bonaire 2/10 Long Caye, Belize 1/10  Florida Keys 11/09  Cozumel/Yucatan 7-8/09 
Nesting RS Hawk 5-6/09   Italy 5/09  Utah 4/09  Panama-Birds  3/09  Panama-Hummingbirds 3/09  Panama-Wildlife 2/09
Raptor Migration 1/09  Cozumel, Mex. Birds 11/08  Cozumel, Mex. Underwater  France 10-08  Nevada 10/08
 
Costa Rica Birds 6/08  Costa Rica Hummingbirds 6/08  Costa Rica Wildlife 6/08  Costa Rica Underwater 6/08
Peregrine Falcons 5/08  Magee Marsh 5/08  Colorado 4/08 March Migration 3/08  Killdeer - Ohio 2/08
 Sweden Birds 2/08  Bonaire Birds 2/08  Bonaire Underwater 2/08  Fiji-Birds 11/07  Fiji Underwater 11/07
 Australia Sydney 11/07  Australia-Hawkesbury 11/07 Point Reyes, Ca. 8/07  North Dakota 7/07  Los Cabos, Mex. 6/07
 Dominica 2/07  Homosassa Springs, FL 11/06  Whitsunday, Australia 6/06  Australia 5/06  Land Between the Lakes, KY 4/06
 Grand Teton, Wyoming 2/06  Grand Turk 11/05  Grand Turk 2/05  Africa 1/88  Galapagos 11/83
 Each image is legally protected by U.S. & International copyright laws and may NOT be used for reproduction in any manner without the explicit authorization of John McKean
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Life List Bird Photos

Long-legged Waders (herons, egrets, storks, spoon bills, flamingos, bitterns, limpkins, ibises, cranes)

 

Gull-like Birds (gulls, shearwaters, terns, skimmers, gannets, boobies, storm-petrels, frigatebirds skuas, jaegers, tropicbirds)

 

Upright-perching Waterbirds (auks, murres, puffins, cormorants, anhingas)

 

Duck-like Birds (surface feeding, diving, stiff-tailed, mergansers, coots, whistling, geese, swans, pelicans, grebes, loons)

Sandpiper-like Birds (sandpipers, plovers, turnstones, phalaropes, oystercatchers, avocets, stilts)

 

Chicken-like marsh Birds (gallinules, rails, jaçanas)

 

Upland ground Birds (snipes, woodcocks, quails, partridges, pheasants, grouse, turkeys, roadrunners, chachalacas,  nightjars)

 

Owls (true owls, barn owls)

Eastern Screech Owl - gray phase

11/05 US Ohio Marshfield

Eastern Screech Owl - reddish-brown phase

12/05 US Ohio Marshfield

Barred Owl

5/07 US Ohio Marshfield

Burrowing Owl

10/08 Nevada, US, North Las Vegas

Long-eared Owl

1/09 US Ohio Killdeer

Short-eared Owl

1/09 US Ohio - Big Island Wildlife Area

Great Horned Owl

5/09 US Ohio - Winton Woods Park

 

 

Hawk-like Birds (hawks, kites, eagles, ospreys, harriers, caracaras, falcons, vultures)

Harpy Eagle

3/09 Panama

Bald Eagle

11/08 US Ohio Spring Valley

White-bellied Sea-Eagle, juvenile

6/06 Australia Whitsunday Islands

Tawny Eagle

1/88 Africa Masi Mara/Serengeti

Fish Eagle

1/88 Africa Masi Mara/Serengeti

Long-crested Eagle

1/88 Africa Masi Mara/Serengeti

Peregrine Falcon

8/07 US California Point Reyes

Bat Falcon

3/09 Panama

Red-shouldered Hawk

7/07 US Ohio Marshfield

Rough-legged Hawk

2/08 US Ohio Killdeer

Cooper's Hawk

1/09 US Bellbrook, Ohio

Sharp-shinned Hawk

2/08 US Ohio Marshfield

Osprey

11/08 Cozumel, Mexico

Gray-Bellied Hawk

6/08 Costa Rica, La Salva

Pacific Baza (Crested Hawk)

11/07 Australia Hawkesbury

Pale Chanting Goshawk

1/88 Africa Masi Mara/Serengeti

Broad-winged Hawk

3/09 Panama

Barred Hawk

3/09 Panama

Black Hawk-Eagle

3/09 Panama

Roadside Hawk

3/09 Panama

Gray Hawk

3/09 Panama

Hawk ?

3/87 Cancun, Mx

Galápagos Hawk

12/83 Galápagos Islands

Zone-tailed Hawk

3/09 Panama

Red-tailed Hawk

4/09 US Utah

Crane Hawk

3/09 Panama

Brahminy Kite

6/06 Australia Whitsunday Islands

White-tailed Kite (aka Black-shouldered Kite)

3/09 Panama

American Swallow-tailed Kite

3/09 Panama

Black-shouldered Kite

11/07 Australia Hawkesbury

Merlin

6/07 Mexico, Los Cabos, Baja

Crested Caracara

6/07 Mexico, Los Cabos, Baja

Caracara

2/08 Bonaire

Red-throated Caracara

3/09 Panama

Black Vulture

3/09 Panama

Turkey Vulture

7/05 US Ohio Marshfield

Ruppell's Vulture

1/88 Africa Masi Mara/Serengeti

White-backed Vulture

1/88 Africa Masi Mara/Serengeti

King Vulture

3/09 Panama

Yellow-headed Vulture

3/09 Panama

Lappet-faced Vulture

1/88 Africa Masi Mara/Serengeti

Buzzard

10/08 France, Saint-Quentin Park

Northern Harrier

12/08 US Ohio - Big Island Wildlife Area

Loggerhead Shrike

4/09 US Utah

American Kestrel

4/09 US Utah

 

 

 Pigeon-like Birds (pigeons, doves)

Scaly-naped Pigeon

2/08 Bonaire

Rock Dove (or Domesticated Pigeon)

2/08 Bonaire

Bare-eyed Pigeon

2/08 Bonaire

Common Ground Dove

2/08 Bonaire

Mourning Dove

3/8/08 US Ohio Marshfield

Common Bronzewing

11/07 Australia Hawkesbury

Crested Pigeon

11/07 Australia Centennial Parklands, Sydney

Wood Pigeon

10/08 France, Saint-Quentin Park

Eurasian Collared-Dove

11/08 Cozumel, Mexico

Rudy Gound Dove

11/08 Cozumel, Mexico

White-winged Dove

6/09 Costa Rica

 

 

Swallow-like Birds ( swallows, swifts)

 

 

Tree-clinging Birds (woodpeckers, nuthatches, creepers)

Pileated Woodpecker

12/08 US Bellbrook, Ohio

Downy Woodpecker

4/05 US Ohio Marshfield

Redheaded Woodpecker

2/08 US Ohio Killdeer

Northern Flicker

2/05 US Ohio Marshfield

Red-bellied Woodpecker

4/08 US Ohio Marshfield

Great Spotted Woodpecker

2/08 Sweden

Gila Woodpecker

6/07 Los Cabos, Baja, Mexico

White-breasted Nuthatch

2/08 US Ohio Marshfield

Pygmy Nuthatch

4/08 US Colorado, Genesee Mountain

Nuthatch (Sitta europaea)

2/08 Sweden

Brown Creeper

2/08 US Ohio Marshfield

Green Woodpecker

10/08 France, Saint-Quentin Park

Short-toed Treecreeper

10/08 France, Saint-Quentin Park

Red-naped Sapsucker

10/08 US, Nevada, Corn Creek

Hairy Woodpecker

1/09 US Ohio Marshfield

Streak-headed Woodcreeper

6/08 Costa Rica

Long-tailed Woodcreeper

6/08 Costa Rica

Cocoa Woodcreeper

6/08 Costa Rica

Black-cheeked Woodpecker

6/08 Costa Rica

Hoffman's Woodpecker

6/08 Cost Rica

Golden Naped Woodpecker

6/08 Costa Rica

Acorn Woodpecker

6/08 Costa Rica

Chestnut-colored Woodpecker

6/08 Cost Rica

 

Perching Birds (wood warblers, vireos, titmice, cardinals, grosbeaks, buntings, finches, sparrows, orioles, blackbirds, tanagers, flycatchers, meadowlarks, thrushes, mockingbirds, thrashers, strikers, jays, magpies, becards, kingfishers, gnatcatchers, kinglets, hummingbirds, parrots, wrens, waxwings, bullbuls, cuckoos, weaver finches, pipits, larks, starlings, crows)