Waterbird Photo Albums
The first of two waterbird album collections that group together birds from the oldest in time-ordered evolutionary history, see Taxonomy note below. Each primary gallery displays adult portraits of individual species and juvenile/immature birds when I’ve been able to photograph them. Additional galleries supplement the portrait galleries to features behaviours such as foraging, hunting, feeding and action including flight.
Waterbird Photo Album Taxonomy
The first in a series of three waterbird photo albums. The simplified family tree shows the arrangement of high-level bird clades and orders relevant to the Waterbirds Albums. Hierarchy is a time-ordered evolutionary history, oldest first, based on the Taxonomy in Flux Checklist. The album includes five from the Ramsar Convention list that includes families from fifteen Aves orders. Charadriiformes contains several families that I split between the waterbird and seabird albums.
Waterfowl album contains order Anseriformes (Ducks, Geese and Swans), the oldest waterbirds in evolutionary history and sister to Galliformes (Landfowl) featured in Landbirds Photo Album.
Grebes and Flamingos comprise two sister orders: Podicipediformes and Phoenicopteriformes, respectively both part of Mirandornithes clade.
Rails, Coots and Cranes belong to Gruiformes order.
Waders/Shorebirds and Gulls display some families placed in Charadriiformes. Charadriiformes include Auks featured in the Penguin & Auks in Seabirds Photo Album.