The Business Birder®
Birds
of the Coastal
GEESE, SWANS, & DUCKS
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Brant
Ross's Goose (Uncommon Winter)
Snow Goose (White and Dark Morphs)
Mute Swan
Tundra Swan
Tundra Swan (Cygnet)
Tundra Swan (Flight Images)
Tundra Swan (Pea Island NWR)
American Black Duck
American Wigeon
Black Scoter
Blue-winged Teal
Blue-winged Teal (2011)
Bufflehead
Canvasback
Canvasback (Female)
Common Eider (First Winter Male) (Rare Winter)
Common Eider (2009) (Rare Winter)
Common Eider (2010) (Rare Winter)
Common Goldeneye (Rare Winter)
Gadwall (Male & Female)
Greater Scaup
Green-winged Teal
Green-winged Teal (Pea Island NWR)
Harlequin Duck (1st Winter Male &
Adult Pair) (Rare Winter)
Hooded Merganser
Lesser Scaup
Lesser Scaup (Male)
Lesser Scaup (Field Marks)
Long-tailed Duck
Mallard
Mottled Duck (Sunset Beach Twin Lakes)
Mottled Duck (Ft Fisher 2010)
Northern Pintail
Northern Pintail (Flight Images)
Northern Shoveler
Red-breasted Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser (2011)
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Ring-necked Duck (2011)
Ruddy Duck
Surf Scoter
Wood Duck
Wood Duck Molting Juveniles
TURKEY & QUAIL
Northern Bobwhite
Wild Turkey
LOONS, GREBES, & GANNET
Common Loon
Red-throated Loon
Red-throated Loon (2011)
Horned Grebe
Horned Grebe (Fall Migration 2011)
Pied-billed Grebe
Pied-billed Grebe (Winter 2010)
Pied-billed Grebe (Fall Migration 2011)
Northern Gannet
PELICANS, CORMORANTS & ANHINGA
Anhinga (Breeding)
American White Pelican
American White Pelican (Pea Island NWR)
Brown Pelican
Brown Pelican Non-breeding Study
Brown Pelican (Before the Storm)
Brown Pelican (Flight Image)
Double-crested Cormorant
WADERS
American Bittern
American Bittern (Non-breeding)
American Bittern (Foraging)
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Cattle Egret
Glossy Ibis
Glossy Ibis (Adult)
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Great Egret (In Flight)
Great Egret (Foraging)
Green Heron
Green Heron (2009 with Juvenile)
Least Bittern
Little Blue Heron (Breeding)
Little Blue Heron (Non-breeding)
Reddish Egret (Rare Late Summer/Early
Fall)
Roseate Spoonbill (Sunset Beach; Rare
Late Summer/Early Fall)
Snowy Egret
Tricolored Heron
White Ibis
White Ibis (Flock in Flight)
Wood Stork
Wood Stork Nestling
Wood Stork Roost
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (Juvenile)
VULTURES
Black Vulture
Black & Turkey Vulture
Comparison
Turkey Vulture
RAPTORS
American Kestrel
Bald Eagle
Bald Eagle (2011)
Cooper's Hawk
Cooper's Hawk (Adult)
Merlin
Northern Harrier
Northern Harrier (Male)
Northern Harrier (Female)
Osprey
Peregrine Falcon (Migration & Overwinter)
Peregrine Falcon (Reintroduction Program Bird) (December 2010)
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk (Rehabilitation & Mobbing)
Red-tailed Hawk (Harrassed by Northern Mockingbird)
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Sharp-shinned Hawk (Backyard January 2010)
Swallow-tailed Kite (Rare Spring & Summer)
Swallow-tailed Kite (Cape Fear River June 2011)
RAILS, GALLINULES, & CRANES
American Coot
American Coot (Red Frontal Nose Shield)
American Coot (Running Start)
Clapper Rail
Clapper Rail (2010)
Common Gallinule (Plumages)
Purple Gallinule (Very Rare Breeder SE NC & SC Coasts)
Sandhill Crane (Rare Migration)
Sora
SHOREBIRDS
American Avocet
American Golden Plover (Rare Fall Migrant)
American Golden Plover (Juvenile)
American Oystercatcher
American Oystercatcher (2008)
American Oystercatcher (Nesting)
American Woodcock
Black-bellied Plover
Black-bellied Plover (Field Marks)
Buff-breasted Sandpiper (2007)
Buff-breasted Sandpiper (2009)
Buff-breasted Sandpiper (2010)
Dunlin
Greater Yellowlegs
Greater Yellowlegs (2008)
Hudsonian Godwit (Uncommon Fall Migrant)
Hudsonian Godwit (three with a Marbled Godwit)
Killdeer
Killdeer (Juvenile 2010)
Least Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Marbled Godwit
Marbled & Hudsonian Godwit
Comparison
Pectoral Sandpiper
Piping Plover
Purple Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
Ruddy Turnstone (Plumages)
Red Knot
Red Knot (Basic Plumage)
Red-necked Phalarope (Juvenile)
Sanderling
Semipalmated Plover
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper (Masonboro Inlet 2011)
Short-billed Dowitcher
Short-billed Dowitcher (Non-breeding with Dunlin)
Short-billed Dowitcher (Non-breeding with Western Willet & Dunlin)
Snowy Plover (Extreme Vagrant)
Spotted Sandpiper (Plumages)
Spotted Sandpiper (Early Fall Migration)
Stilt Sandpiper (with Lesser Yellowlegs)
Upland Sandpiper (Uncommon Fall Migrant)
Whimbrel
Willet (Breeding Eastern)
Willet (Overwintering Western) (Compare to Marbled Godwit & Short-billed Dowitcher)
Willet (Overwintering Western) (Flight Image)
Wilson's Plover
Wilson's Snipe
Wilson's Snipe (2010)
GULLS, TERNS, SKIMMER, & SKUAS
Black-headed Gull (Rare Winter)
Bonaparte's Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Herring Gull
Herring Gull (Head Shot Breeding)
Herring Gull (Flight Image)
Laughing Gull
Laughing Gull Flight
Laughing Gull Plumages
Laughing Gull Mating
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Ring-billed Gull (Flight)
Ring-billed Gull (Juvenile)
Black Tern (Uncommon Fall Migration)
Caspian Tern (Non-breeding with Royal Tern Comparison)
Common Tern
Common Tern (with Sandwich & Royal Terns)
Forster's Tern
Gull-billed Tern
Least Tern (Incubation & Feeding Chick)
Least Tern (Chicks with Egg Teeth)
Least Tern (Feeding Chick)
Least Tern (Mating & Breeding)
Least Tern (Mason Inlet Breeding)
Least Tern (Adult & 1st Year)
Royal Tern
Sandwich Tern
Sandwich Tern (Kleptoparasitism by Gull)
Black Skimmer (Various)
Black Skimmer (Flock)
Black Skimmer (Nesting)
Black Skimmer (Fledgling Hunkered Down)
Black Skimmer (Adults Skimming)
Black Skimmer (Fledgling Begging)
Black Skimmer (Flock 2012)
Black Skimmer (Adult in Flight)
PIGEONS & DOVES
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
White-winged Dove (Rare Vagrant Fall/Winter)
Mourning Dove
Common Ground-Dove
CUCKOOS
Black-billed Cuckoo (Rare Migration)
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
OWLS
Barred Owl
Eastern Screech-Owl (Rufous morph)
Eastern Screech-Owl (2011)
Great Horned Owl
Great Horned Owl (Nestling March 2007)
Great Horned Owl (Nestlings April
2009)
NIGHTHAWKS & NIGHTJARS
Common Night Hawk
SWIFTS
HUMMINGBIRDS
Broad-billed Hummingbird (Extreme Vagrant
Fall/Winter)
Broad-billed Hummingbird Capture
(Extreme Vagrant Fall/Winter)
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Ruby-throated Hummingbird Nestlings
Ruby-throated Hummingbird Sub-adult
Male (Breeder/Rare Fall & Winter)
Rufous Hummingbird (Rare Overwinter)
KINGFISHER & WOODPECKERS
Belted Kingfisher
Belted Kingfisher (2011)
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Northern Flicker (2011)
Pileated Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker (Dogwood Tree)
Pileated Woodpecker (Foraging Upside
down)
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-cockaded Woodpecker
Red-headed Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Male)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Female)
FLYCATCHERS
Acadian Flycatcher
Ash-throated Flycatcher (Extreme Vagrant Late Fall)
Eastern Kingbird
Gray Kingbird (Extreme Vagrant)
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Phoebe (2010)
Eastern Phoebe (Rescue on Bald Head Fall Migration)
Eastern Phoebe (Flight)
Great Crested Flycatcher
Say's Phoebe (Extreme Vagrant Late
Fall/Winter)
Western Kingbird (Extreme Vagrant Late
Fall)
Western Kingbird (in Flight) (Extreme
Vagrant Late Fall)
SHRIKES
Loggerhead Shrike
VIREOS
Blue-headed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo (Fall Migration 2011)
White-eyed Vireo
JAYS, CROWS, & RAVENS
American Crow
American Crow (Mobbings)
American Crow (Visitor at Backyard Feeder)
Blue Jay
Fish Crow
LARKS
Horned Lark
SWALLOWS
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Tree Swallow (Spring 2011)
CHICKADEES, TITMICE, NUTHATCHES, & CREEPERS
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Brown-headed Nuthatch
Brown-headed Nuthatch (2010)
Red-breasted Nuthatch (Uncommon Migration & Winter)
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Red-breasted Nuthatch (Foraging)
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Brown Creeper (Fall Migration 2011)
WRENS, KINGLETS, & GNATCATCHERS
Carolina Wren
Carolina Wren (2010)
House Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Golden-crowned Kinglet (Fall Migration 2011)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
THRUSHES
American Robin
Eastern Bluebird
Eastern Bluebird (2010)
Eastern Bluebird (Backyard 2010)
Eastern Bluebird Nestling & Parents (1st Batch, Backyard 2011)
Eastern Bluebird Nestling & Parents (2nd Batch, Backyard 2011)
Hermit Thrush
Hermit Thrush (2011)
MIMIDS
Brown Thrasher
Gray Catbird
Gray Catbird (Perched)
Gray Catbird (Foraging)
Northern Mockingbird
Northern Mockingbird (2011)
Northern Mockingbird (Defending Winter Territory)
Northern Mockingbird (To Feed a Mockingbird)
STARLINGS
European Starling
PIPITS & WAXWINGS
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Cedar Waxwing (February 2010)
Cedar Waxwing (also February 2010)
WARBLERS
American Redstart (Male)
American Redstart (Sub-adult Male)
American Redstart (Female)
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler (Non-breeding Plumage)
Black-throated Blue Warbler (Fall Migrant)
Cape May Warbler (Fall Migrant)
Cape May Warbler (Breeding Male)
Common Yellowthroat
Magnolia Warbler
Northern Parula
Northern Parula (Fall Migration 2010)
Northern Parula (Fall Migration 2011)
Orange-crowned Warbler (Adult, Winter)
Orange-crowned Warbler (Juvenile, Fall Migration)
Ovenbird
Palm Warbler
Palm Warbler (Plumages)
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler (Foraging)
Prothonotary Warbler (Nest Predation by
Cowbird)
Swainson's Warbler
Yellow Warbler (Fall Migrant)
Yellow Warbler (Fall Migration 2011)
Yellow-breasted Chat
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler (With Pine Warbler)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Eating Wax Myrtle Berries)
Yellow-throated Warbler
TANAGERS
Scarlet Tanager (Non-breeding Male, Fall Migration)
Summer Tanager
Summer Tanager (Female enjoys Dragonfly, Fall Migration)
TOWHEES, SPARROWS, & JUNCOS
Eastern Towhee
Bachman's Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow (2008)
Clay-colored Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow (2011)
Field Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Henslow's Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Nelson's & Saltmarsh
Sharp-tailed Sparrow Comparison
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow Enjoys Cricket
Savannah Sparrow (Winter 2011)
Seaside Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Song Sparrow (2010)
Song Sparrow (2011)
Swamp Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow (2008)
Vesper Sparrow (2011)
White-throated Sparrow (Tan Male)
White-throated Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow (Plumages)
White-crowned Sparrow (Uncommon Fall Migration & Winter)
Dark-eyed Junco
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)
Dark-eyed Junco (Carolina Junco Sub-species - Junco hyemalis carolinensis)
CARDINALS & BUNTINGS
Northern Cardinal
Northern Cardinal (2010)
Dickcissel
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Painted Bunting (Breeder/Rare Fall
& Winter)
Painted Bunting Banding June 2010
BLACKBIRDS & ORIOLES
Baltimore Oriole (1st Fall Male; Ft Fisher in Migration)
Baltimore Oriole (1st Fall Male; Backyard)
Baltimore Oriole (Juvenile Male; Backyard in January Snow)
Baltimore Oriole (Backyard & Ft Fisher in Migration)
Boat-tailed Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle (Juvenile)
Bobolink
Brown-headed Cowbird (Juvenile & Nest Predation)
Common Grackle
Eastern Meadowlark
Orchard Oriole
Red-winged Blackbird
Red-winged Blackbird (Leucistic)
Red-winged Blackbird (Bathing)
Rusty Blackbird
FINCHES & HOUSE SPARROW
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CONTENT ON THIS SITE ARE COPYRIGHTED
American Goldfinch
American Goldfinch (Snow Day 2010)
Purple Finch
Purple Finch (Female)
Purple Finch (Winter 2011)
House Finch
House Finch (Winter 2011)
Pine Siskin (Rare Late Fall/Winter)
House Sparrow
Canon EOS 20D, 40D, and 60D cameras with a 500 mm f4 IS USM lens were used for many telephoto images. A 1.4X extender and/or extension tubes were added as needed.
Many images were also taken with Canon 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 IS USM and Canon 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro lenses.
For landscapes, birders, and some birds, I use a Sony Cyber-shot DSC 828 DSLR camera with a fixed 28-200mm Zeiss zoom lens.
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