Skip to main content

Nearctic Species Gallery

Relating to or denoting a zoogeographical region comprising North America as far south as northern Mexico, together with Greenland.

Snow Owl

Northern Saw-whet Owl

the first Black-tailed Godwit at Patoka NWR

Male Vermilion Flycatcher

Green-tailed Towhee

Immature Wood Duck, <em>Aix sponsa</em>, August 19, 1945, at Upper Thompson Lake, Lincoln County, Montata. Photograph by John L. Blackford

Black-billed Cuckoo

Red-necked Phalarope

Mississippi Kite

Blacktailed Godwit

Lazuli Bunting

Snowy Owl at Indianapolis International Airport

Juvenile Long-eared Owl

Molting hatch-year male Rufons Hummingbird

Alternate plumged continental Mega-rarity Spotted Redshark

Clark Nutcracker (<em>Nucifraga columbiana</em>) incubating at a nest in a mountain mahogany bush on Reserve Peak.

The Great Crowned Pigeon (<em>Goura cristata</em>) of New Guinea, adult and nestling. in the collections of the Zoological Society of San Diego

Snowy Plover (<em>Charadrius nivosus</em>) and eggs at Huntington Beach, Orange County, California, June 27, 1953. Photograph by Ray Quigley, Jr.

Least Bittern (<em>Ixobrychus exilis</em>) in defensive posture at nest.

Black-necked Stilt (<em>Himatopus mexicanus</em>) on its nest.

[Seabirds off the coast of Southern California]

Cover photograph of “Ipswich” Savannah Sparrow (<em>Passerculus sandwichensis princeps</em>) on beach grass

Adult (foreground) and first-winter Common Murres (<em>Urio aolge)</em>

Dipper, by Don Bleitz, Bleitz Wildlife Foundation, Hollywood, California

California Gulls (Lorus colifornicus) on breeding grounds at Mono Lake, California, by Joseph R. Jehl, Jr.

front, Sanderlings (Calidris alba); rear, Western Sandpipers (Calidris mawi); both taken on wintering grounds in central coastal California by Kenneth W. Gardiner.

Whiskered Auklets on Buldir Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska

Adult at nest in a very deep recess beneath a sandstone cliff

Field Sparrow, College Park, MD, January 1980. Photo by Luther Goldman.

Florida Field Naturalist

Juvenal Horned Lark, <em>Eremophila Alpestris Merrilli</em>

Male Canvas-Back, <em>Aythya Valisineria</em>

Arizona Woodpecker, <em>Dendrocopos Arizonae</em>

Rose-Breasted Grosbeak. Upper figure, immature male. Lower figure, adult male in Fall. 1/2 natural size.

Myrtle Warbler (first plummage). Yellow-Breasted Chat (first plummage). 2/3 Natural Size.

Young Red-Tailed Hawks Fully Fledged, May 24th. Photographed by Herman T. Bohlman

Common Redpoll

The life cycle of a Western Tanager (<em>Piranga ludoviciana</em>) shown through capture and banding.

Black-backed Woodpecker (<em>Picoides arcticus</em>), Grasshopper Sparrow (<em>Ammodramus savannarum</em>), and Northern Bobwhite (<em>Colinus virginianus</em>)

Cover watercolor painting of a Varied Thrush (Ixoreus nuevius) in a naturally fragmented western landscape and a Kentucky Warbler (Oporornis formosus) in an anthropogenically fragmented eastern landscape, by Wendell Minor

Cover drawing of female Mountain White-crowned Sparrow (<em>Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha</em>) attending her nest.

Cover drawing of Murres at sea by John Schmitt

Cover drawing of Northern Goshawk and snowshoe hare by John Schmitt

Cover drawing of a female Brown-headed Cowbird and Bell's Vireo by Jason Meigs

Cover drawing of Northern Spotted Owl by Viktor Bahktin

Black-billed Magpie by Eleanor Mchtire, Department of Biomedical Communications, West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine.

Cover photo of a Southwestern Willow Flycatcher (<em>Empidonax traillii extimus</em>) by Bob Steele

Front cover photograph of Red Knots by Irene Hernandez

Brown-headed Cowbird (<em>Molothrus ater</em>) and Western Tanager (<em>Piranga ludociviana</em>) by Colin Woolley

Cover painting (<em>Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow</em>) and black-and-white drawings by Julie Zickefoose

The genus Passerina. The branching pattern reflects hypothesized relationships based on results of this study

Cover drawing by Joyce V. VanDeWater

White-phase Gyrfalcon, <em>Falco rusticolus</em>

White-phase Gyrfalcon by Louis Agassiz Fuertes