Feature Article -- Bird Chick Photos

Recently Hatched Birds

Photos from the Photo Gallery
(Click the photos for more and larger pictures).

Spring is the time of the year when new chicks make their debut. Many contributing photographers to the Utah Birds Photo Gallery have captured photos of these cute and bewildered little creatures soon after their arrival into their new world. There are featherless chicks like the the weak-necked pink-skinned Prairie Falcon hatchlings in the photo to the right taken by Kent Keller .........

...and have young birds striking out on their own, like the California Quail in the photo on the left taken by Erick Huish. And photos of birds, literally trying to figure out which way is up, like the Burrowing Owl on the right captured by Mia McPherson.

The young Western Grebe on the left might be pleased to find himself on a free cruise with a free buffet, while this little Northern Pygmy-Owl on the right, photographed by Andrea Faust, may be saying, "This isn't at all what I expected."

The American Coot on the left pictured by Jack Binch found himself in a clown outfit while the Pied-billed Grebe chicks were decked out with war paint, though they're destined to by quit peaceful as adult .

Are the Barn Swallows on the left, photographeed by Loraleigh Anderson, destined to be singers or bug swallowers? Or the noble-looking eaglets on the right destined to be fierce hunters?

If you'd like to peruse some comical, sometimes strange but always very cute photos of young birds. click on the links below to see what we presently have in our Photo Gallery. [105 species]

Recent additions:
      White-winged Dove, Eurasian Collared-Dove, American Kestrel, Ring-necked Pheasant, Wood Duck,
       Arctic Tern, Downy Woodpecker, Sagebrush Sparrow, Yellow-breasted Chat, Japanese White-eye,
       Black-billed Magpie, House Sparrow, Juniper Titmouse

WATERFOWL & GAME BIRDS
Canada Goose	White-faced Ibis	Mallard	Common Goldeneye
Ruddy Duck	Wood Duck	Gambel's Quail	Chukar
Gray Partridge	Ring-necked Pheasant	California Quail (2)	Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe	Dusky Grouse	Clark's Grebe	American White Pelican
Red-necked Grebe	Western Grebe (2)

VULTURES, HAWKS & EAGLES
Turkey Vulture	Osprey	Golden Eagle (2)	Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel	Prairie Falcon

MARSH HENS, CRANES & SHOREBIRDS
Virginia Rail (2)	Sora (2)	American Coot (2)	Sandhill Crane (2)
Piping Plover	American Oystercatcher	Killdeer	Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet	Spotted Sandpiper	Long-billed Curlew	Black Skimmer
Arctic Tern

DOVES, PIGEONS & OWLS
Band-tailed Pigeon	Eurasian Collared-Dove	White-winged Dove	Mourning Dove
Barn Owl	Western Screech-Owl	Great Horned Owl (2)	Northern Pygmy-Owl
Burrowing Owl (2)	Spotted Owl	Long-eared Owl	Short-eared Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl

GOATSUCKERS, HUMMINGBIRDS, WOODPECKERS
Common Nighthawk (2)	Common Poorwill	Broad-tailed Hummingbird	Downy Woodpecker

FLYCATCHERS, VIREOS, CORVIDS (Crows, etc.)
Western Kingbird (2)	Eastern Kingbird	Loggerhead Shrike	Gray Vireo
Gray Jay	Steller's Jay	Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay	Clark's Nutcracker
Black-billed Magpie (2)	American Crow (2)

SWALLOWS, CHICKADEES, WRENS, THRUSHES, THRUSHES, etc.
Cliff Swallows	Barn Swallows (2)	Violet-green Swallows	Juniper Titmouse
Black-capped Chickadee	White-breasted Nuthatch	Rock Wren	Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Mountain Bluebird (2)	American Robin (2, 3)	Northern Mockingbird	Sage Thrasher
European Starling

WARBLERS, SPARROWS, TANAGERS & GROSBEAKS
MacGillivraysWarbler	Yellow-rumped Warbler	Green-tailed Towhee	Spotted Towhee
Chipping Sparrow	Lark Sparrow	Sagebrush Sparrow	House Sparrow
Western Tanager	Black-headed Grosbeak	Lazuli Bunting	Japanese White-eye
Yellow-breasted Chat,

BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES, FINCHES, etc.
Bobolink	Red-winged Blackbird	Yellow-headed Blackbird	Great-tailed Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird	Bullock's Oriole	Baltimore Oriole	Cassin's Finch
House Finch	Red Crossbill	Common Redpoll	Lesser Goldfinch
American Goldfinch	Evening Grosbeak	House Sparrow