Bird Coloring Page

The below links will open a bird coloring page for various waterfowl, seabirds and wading bird species

Waterfowl, Seabirds and Wading Birds

Order: Sphenisciformes - Penguins

Penguin with chick

Common features:

• Web-footed marine swimmers

• Wing modified into a thin, powerful paddle

• Large keel

• Scale-like feathers

Order: Pelecaniformes - Tropic Birds, Pelicans, Boobies, Gannets, Cormorants, Anhingas, Frigatebirds

Blue-footed Booby, Brown Pelican

Common features:

• Four toes united in one web

• Long beak

• Nostrils rudimentary or absent

• Possess a throat pouch (except tropic birds)

• Fish-eating birds that often nest in large colonies

Order: Anseriformes - Ducks, Geese, Swans

Canada Goose, Nene (Hawaiian Goose)

Common Features:

• Broadened bills containing many tacktel nerve endings and filtering ridges or "teeth" at margains

• Short legs with webged feet

• Body well supplied with down and oily feathers

• Unspotted eggs

• Precocial young (hatches out covered with down, legs well-developed, eyes open and alert, and is soon able to feed itself)

Order: Ciconiformes - Herons, Egrets, Storks (deep-water waders)

Flamingo, Heron, Stork

Common Features:

• Long-necked and long-legged waders

• Toes not webbed (except flamingos)

• Often nest in colonies along shores or in marshes

Order: Charadriiformes - Shorebirds, Gulls, Terns, Auks, Puffins, etc.

Arctic Tern, Puffin

Common Features:

• Toes usually webbed

• Compact plumage

• Strong fliers

• Often colonial

• Precocial young in most species

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Bird Coloring Pages - Main page with free bird coloring book

Bird Coloring Pictures - Gallinaceous Birds (Pheasants, Grouse, Peacock)

Free Bird Coloring Pages - Birds of Prey (Falcons, Hawks, Owls)

Printable Bird Coloring Pages - Songbirds

Tweety Bird Coloring Pages - Everyone's favorite yellow canary

Bird Coloring Books - Professional, Artist-Illustrated

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