Water and Shore Birds  -  Traditional        

Common Loon            Cormorant             Common Snipe            Coot             Dipper          

Ducks ( GoldeneyeMallardMerganserPintailTeal )            Geese ( Canada goose, snow goose )          

Great Blue Heron           Gulls           Grebe             Killdeer            Kingfisher           Pelican         Rail    

Sandhill & Whooping  Crane          Sandpiper           Sora           Swan            Terns 

 

Common Loon (taxidermy)

 

 

Common loon at Clayoquot Sound, B.C.

 

 

Common Loon - Prelude Lake, North West Territories

 

Common Loon - Prelude Lake, North West Territories

 

 

 

Double-crested Cormorant

 

 

American Coot  

 

Coot swimming 

 

 

Dipper

  

 

Dipper (taxidermy)

Dipper (taxidermy)

 

Baby Mallards and Mother

 

 

Baby Mallards

 

Mallard Drake

 

 

Mallards 

 

 

Common Goldeneye

     

 

 

 

Common Merganser (female) 

 

     

 

 

American Widgeon female and ducklings           

        

 

 

 

Northern Pintail (taxidermy)

 

 

Blue-winged Teal (taxidermy)

 

Green-winged Teal (taxidermy)

 

Cinnamon Teal (taxidermy)

 

 

Killdeer

         

 

 

     

 

 

Kingfisher (taxidermy)

 

White Pelican (immature)

          

 

 

 

In Bow River, Calgary, Alberta

 

 

 

 

 

Mature Pelican (taxidermy)

 

Mature pelican in the wild - Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan

 

Graceful Pelicans in the early morning - Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba

 

Virginia Rail (taxidermy)

 

 

Sandhill Crane  - North West Territories  July 2009                                                             

 

 

             

 

 

Whooping Crane

  

               

 

 

 

Spotted Sandpiper                                                            

        

 

Least Sandpiper

 

Long-Billed Dowitcher

 

 

Hudsonian Godwit (taxidermy)

 

 

Marbled Godwit (taxidermy)

 

This bird appears to be a Marbled Godwit - seen in Saskatchewan

 

 

Lesser Yellowlegs (taxidermy)

 

Greater Yellowlegs (taxidermy)

 

 

Sanderling  (taxidermy) 

 

 

 

Solitary Sandpiper

 

Stilt Sandpiper (taxidermy)

 

 

Upland Sandpiper (taxidermy)

 

 

 

White-Rumped Sandpiper (taxidermy)  

 

 

 

Willet - part of the sandpiper family

 

 

Sora (taxidermy)

  

 

 

 

 

Trumpeter Swan Family

 

  

Immature Trumpeter Swan

 

Trumpeter swans - two adults and two immature

 

 

Trumpeter Swan with baby swans (cygnets)  - taxidermy    

 

Trumpeter Swan cygnet (taxidermy)

 

 

 

 

Mute Swans

 

 

Canada Geese

     

 

 

Canada Goose                                                   

      

  

Canada Goose Goslings

 

 

 

 

 

Gosling Babysitting - the lead Canada Goose babysitter leads the way, while the other gosling sitters head up the rear to make sure everyone stays together. 

 

More Gosling Babysitting

 

Canada geese have a habit of landing in trees and on buildings. 

 

 

 

Snow Goose (taxidermy)

 

Snow Goose

 

Horned Grebe - summer adult  (taxidermy)                       

        

 

 

 

Pied-billed Grebe - summer adult   (taxidermy)

 

 

 

Eared Grebe in summer plumage (taxidermy)                               

     

 

Eared Grebe in winter plumage 

 

 

Red-necked Grebe in summer plumage (taxidermy)

 

Western Grebe (taxidermy) 

 

 

 

Great Blue Heron  

 

Bonaparte's Gull 

 

California Gull (taxidermy)

 

 

Franklin's Gulls

 

Franklin's Gulls 

 

Franklin's Gull on the wing

 

 

Glaucous-winged Gull  ??    Pacific Rim National Park.  

 

 

 

 

Herring Gull (taxidermy)

   

 

Juvenal Herring Gull                                                                               

     

 

Mew Gull (taxidermy)

 

Ring-billed Gull          

Juvenal                                           

          

 

Flock of hungry ring-billed gulls  

 

 

 

Common Snipe (taxidermy)

   

 

 

 

Terns

Black Tern (taxidermy)

 

 

Common Tern (taxidermy)

 

 

Forster's Tern  (taxidermy)

     

 

Caspian Tern 

 

 

 

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