North American Birds

These birds live in the Columbus Zoo's North American aviary. I visited April 20.

I blew the focus, but how could I not publish Jolene? She's a snow goose.

killdeer

Eastern bluebird

Cedar waxwing. Mmmm.

White-faced ibis, complete with a white face (breeding plumage). These guys (there are two) are pretty photogenic, and I've gotten good shots of them over the last few years.

Wood thrush

Black-capped chickadee. Or a Carolina chickadee.

Long Legs

For tagging pictures, I classify birds sometimes by science and sometimes by something I make up. Cardinals and other songbirds are passerines, which is common shorthand for the order Passeriformes. Pigeons and doves are in the order Columbiformes. I call birds "waders" if they wade in water or look like or are related to birds that wade, even if they stick to land. The great majority of birds in this category that I have photographed have long legs. There are many small shorebirds, but I don't have pictures of them, so I haven't separated them from long-legged birds.

I didn't plan my tags much beyond bird / insect / mammal / reptile. As I have accumulated thousands of photos I've added categories and subcategories so that I can find, for example, long-legged birds.

saddle-billed stork (Cincinnati Zoo)

white-faced ibis (Columbus Zoo)

white-faced ibis (Columbus zoo)

Caribbean flamingo (Columbus Zoo)

hamerkop (Columbus Zoo)

sunbittern (Cincinnati Zoo)

killdeer (Columbus Zoo)

sacred ibis (Columbus Zoo)