Butler's Birds

This is my first good (yes I'll say it!) batch of Warbler photos, and I am very glad this fine looking Black-Throated Gray Warbler agree...

You'll find Stilts just about anywhere you'll find Avocets. Like the Avocet, they are immediately recognizable with their uniquely b...

These graceful wading birds populate the U.S. west of the line of semi-aridity (about half-way through Texas). They have long, slender, blui...

This predictably named sandpiper has all the normal trimmings of the innocuous shorebird group. A dull white to its underside with darker br...

The anatomical difference between herons, egrets, and bitterns is pretty negligible. Egrets tend to be whiter and have more plumage on their...

The Warbling Vireo is a small, moderately colorful bird with a whitish breast and a noticeable, streaked eye-ring. Denominations of Western ...

These birds are really putting all of their eggs in the "The meek shall inherit the earth" basket. They're so much smaller tha...

The Spotted is the most common inland Sandpiper although their behavior doesn't otherwise set them apart from other Sandpipers. Aside fr...

The Abert's Towhee isn't much to look at. Its high-pitch, single note call isn't much to hear. If asked, it would probably admi...

The Green-Tailed is the smallest and slenderest of the Towhees, but it is also the most colorful. With an olive to yellow coloration on thei...