We hope you enjoy these songbird pictures. Songbirds are a diverse group of birds known as Passerines (Order Passeriformes).
This page currently includes pictures of thirteen bird Families (listed below) and five bird Orders (Passeriformes, Apodiformes, Cuculiformes,
Coraciiformes and Gruiformes).
Please enjoy the following bird pictures we have taken over the years. We will be adding new ones often. Please note the Terms of Use.
PASSERINES
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Common Bushtit Adult Female by eye color
(Psaltriparus minimus) Order: PasseriformesBushtit Family: Aegithalidae
Red Breasted Nuthatch
(Sitta canadensis) Order: PasseriformesNuthatch Family: Sittidae
Red Breasted Nuthatch (Different bird with different view showing upturned bill)
American Goldfinch (male) (Carduelis tristis)
Order: PasseriformesFinch Family: Fringillidae
Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum) Order: PasseriformesWaxwing Family: Bombycillidae
Common Yellowthroat
(male)
(Geothlypis trichas)
Order: PasseriformesWood Warbler Family: Paurilidae
Superb Sunbird
(Nectarina superba) Order: Passeriformes Sunbird Family: Necarinidae
Photo taken in Sierra Leone (West Africa) in 1980.
Crimson Seed-cracker
(male)
(Pyrenestes sanquineus) Order: PasseriformesEstrilidine Weaver Family: Estrilidae
Photo taken in Sierra Leone (West Africa) in 1980.
NON-PASSERINES
Broad-tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus)
(Nest with 2 chicks almost ready to fledge) Order: ApodiformesHummingbird Family: Trochilidae
Malochite Kingfisher
(Alcedo cristata) Order: CoraciiformesKingfisher Family: Alcedinidae
Photo taken in Sierra Leone (West Africa) in 1980.
Yellow Billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus) Order: CuculiformesCuckoo/Roadrunner/ Ani Family: Cuculidae
White-spotted Fluff Tail (Female)
To our knowledge, these are the only photos of a male and female White-spotted Fluff tail
Photos taken in Sierra Leone (West Africa) in 1980.
List of Bird Families included in Songbird pictures: