A Black-crowned Night Heron; you can see its white plumes sticking out the sides of its head; South Pond, Lincoln Park, Chicago; 3/30/2011...

What better day than to turn our thoughts to all of the fowl that have given up their lives for our pleasure at the Thanksgiving Table - gee...

While staying in Kauai, I saw a Mute Swan for the first time in the wild. It made its home on a nearby pond (Below). A Mute Swan at a po...

We visited the Haleakala National Park on the Island of Maui and hiked down the celebrated "Sliding Sands Trail." When we started ...

While we were taking a boat trip around the beautiful NaPali Coast of the island of Kauai, we passed some cliffs with a colony of Brown Nodd...

It seemed like that at every waterfall we visited (which were many) while in the Hawaiian Islands, there were these gorgious white birds wit...

Red-billed Leiothrix The Red-billed Leiothrix is a beautifully marked bird with bright coloring. The adults have bright red bills and a d...

A small flock of Common Waxbills at Hanauma Bay, Oahu, Hawaii; 6/25/08. The Common Waxbill is another bird that we observed only on the i...

This Red-vented Bulbul was very aggressive toward other birds as they competed for birdseed on the grounds of the Bed & Breakfast we s...

White-rumped Shama; Oahu, Hawaii; 6/27/08. The White-rumped Shama (Above) is a beautiful songbird with a long tail that is common in the ...

The Common Mynah was imported from Asia, and is quite widespread in Pacific Islands and Australia. In the U.S. there are pockets in Southern...

Cattle Egret in the fields on Oahu, Hawaii When I was in Hawaii in the summer of 2008, I saw flocks of Cattle Egret (Above, 6-25-08, Oahu)...

In honor of our country's Independence day celebration, I tried to find a red, white and blue bird. The closest could find in my files o...

Again, keeping the theme of Wading birds at the Horicon Marsh Wildlife Refuge (5/29/10), below is a photo of a Black-Crowned Night Heron sit...