The Howland Picture Pages: Birds

Last update: $Date: 2004/11/04 22:02:26 $ (UTC)

Here we have links to a few bird pictures we have taken. (Okay, it's almost always Royce being the shutterbug.) Generally we try to post good quality shots, but sometimes the best shots are really fairly bad due to poor photography conditions or whatever. If the bird in question is interesting enough, we'll post lower quality photos anyway.

Species pages available for viewing, sorted alphabetically by common name:

Alder Flycatcher American Goldfinch American Tree Sparrow Bald Eagle Barn Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Black-crowned Night-Heron Boreal Owl Brewer's Blackbird Brown Creeper Brown Pelican Bufflehead Canada Goose Cape May Warbler Chipping Sparrow Cinnamon Teal Common Grackle Couch's Kingbird Dark-eyed Junco Downy Woodpecker Fulvous Whistling-Duck Gray Jay

Great Blue Heron Green Heron Hooded Warbler Horned Lark House Finch House Sparrow House Wren Killdeer Mallard Mountain Bluebird Mountain Chickadee Neotropic Cormorant Northern Flicker Northern Harrier Northern Mockingbird Northern Shoveler Northern Waterthrush Olive-sided Flycatcher Orange-crowned Warbler Palm Warbler Pied-billed Grebe Pileated Woodpecker

Prairie Falcon Red-tailed Hawk Red-winged Blackbird Ring-billed Gull Ruby-crowned Kinglet Ruby-throated Hummingbird Ruffed Grouse Rufous Hummingbird Rusty Blackbird Sandhill Crane Savannah Sparrow Say's Phoebe Snow Goose Spotted Sandpiper Steller's Jay Tennessee Warbler Tricolored Heron Western Kingbird Western Meadowlark White-crowned Sparrow Willet Wilson's Phalarope Winter Wren Yellow-headed Blackbird

Icon legend:

• Pages that have photos that we particularly like
• Pages with something a bit (or a lot) uncommon

Here are a few links to birding and conservation related web resources:

• Calgary area:
  • cfns.fanweb.ca, the home of the Calgary Field Naturalists' Society
  • weaselhead.org, the site for the Weaselhead Glenmore Park Preservation Society of Calgary, Alberta
• Alberta:
  • Albertabird, a Yahoo discussion group for people interested in the birds of Alberta, Canada
  • The home of the Beaverhill Lake Nature Centre near Tofield, Alberta; Beaverhill Lake is a significant conservation area and top birding spot in the province
• Canada:
  • Bird Studies Canada, the web site for the national not-for-profit conservation organization
  • Important Bird Areas of Canada, a site for the Canadian program of an international conservation initiative coordinated by BirdLife International
• North America / International:
  • BirdSource, an online citizen science resource provided by the National Audubon Society and Cornell Lab of Ornithology
  • Cornell Lab of Ornithology, a preeminent online source including the CLO Online Bird Guide
  • Ducks Unlimited, the web site for the "world leader in wetlands conservation"
  • The Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter, hosted by the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center of the United States Geological Survey

Copyright Notice

Unless stated otherwise, all photos and other content on these pages is copyright © 2002 - 2004 by Royce Howland.

Please don't steal anything for your own purposes, in particular if you have a plan for making fabulous stacks of cash in so doing. If you would like to use a photo or other content you find here, or just want to contact us about something, please send email to royce@3ge.com.