A World of Birds - The Passerines
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Barred Antshrike
in Mexico
Eye-ringed Flatbill in Guatemala
Canada Jay
in Canada
Eurasian Jackdaw
in England
Great Tit
in France
Shining Honeycreeper
in Costa Rica
NON-PASSERINE VS PASSERINE SPECIES
NON-PASSERINES: All birds that are not classed as passerines (taxonomic order Passeriformes) are lumped together in the same group called non-passerines. Unlike the passerines, there are no distinguishing features of the non-passerine group. PART 1 of this site features species account links to all of the 466 non-passerines species I have photographs of from Great Tinamou to Crimson-fronted Parakeet in taxonomic order as found in eBird.
PASSERINES: All birds, like the House Sparrow, that have three toes forward, one backward, e.g. when sitting on a perch, belong to the Passeriformes order (Passerines). As a rule of thumb, songbirds are passerines, others are not. PART 2 features species account links to all of the 450 passerines species I have photographs of from Barred Antshrike to to Cinnamon-bellied Saltator also in taxonomic order as found in eBird.
My first memories of bird watching as a child were of me more as a spectator than participant as I tagged along with my best friend and birder, Richard Taylor. One of my other childhood friends, Scott Litke, was an avid photographer with his own home darkroom. Eventually, I merged these two interests while in college and have been a bird photographer fanatic now for over 40 years. My bird photography has taken me to 8 countries where I have observed 1,066 Native or Naturalized species and photographed 907 of them (85%).
This website documents my life's work and features every species that I have photographed over the past 40+years and on 9 countries, from Canada to Costa Rica and from Scotland to France. It is my goal to help nature enthusiatists become familiar with the birds that can be enjoyed on this interstellar ark called Earth.
Most Recently Completed Species Accounts
Random Trivia
Oldest surviving image: Great Gray Owl photo taken on May 1, 1995 at Crane Flat Meadow, Yosemite. Digitally scanned from slide on 3/5/2017.
Most recent "Lifer" image (#907) : California Gnatcatcher @ Newport Back Bay, Orange County, California, US
As of 11/15/2024 my life list including Naturalized Exotics (such as Rose-ringed Parakeet) stands at 1,064. I gained 3 new species with the latest AOS list that split out House Wren (Northern/Southern), Brown Booby (Brown/Cocos) and Herring Gull (American/European).
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