May 28, 2008: After a 10 day trip to Arizona I've added the following new bird pages: Yellow-eyed Junco, Western Tanager, Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher, Red-faced Warbler, Painted Redstart, Olive Warbler, Mexican Chickadee, Hutton's Vireo, Hooded Oriole, Band-tailed Pigeon, Grace's Warbler, Dusky-capped Flycatcher, and Arizona Woodpecker. I also added new images to several bird pages I already had including: Whiskered Screech-Owl, Swainson's Hawk, Summer Tanager, Red-tailed Hawk, Plumbeous Vireo, Hairy Woodpecker, Gila Woodpecker, Elf Owl, Common Nighthawk, Bushtit, Cliff Swallow, Buff-breasted Flycatcher, Cactus Wren, Burrowing Owl, Black-throated Gray Warbler, Black-headed Grosbeak, and Bewick's Wren. New pages were added for several odonates including Spine-tipped Dancer, and Black-and-white Damsel.
April 7, 2008: Added additional images of Greater Prairie-Chicken, Lesser Prairie-Chicken, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, White-breasted Nuthatch, American Bison, and White-eyed Vireo to pages that already existed.
March 28, 2008: Added new images of Red-cockaded Woodpecker and Bachman's Sparrow as well as a new page on Hooded Warbler to the North American bird section. Under the section on North American dragonflies and damselflies, added new pages on Turquoise Bluet, Springtime Darner, Harlequin Darner, Banner Clubtail, Cocoa Clubtail, Slender Baskettail, Common Baskettail, Robust Baskettail, Selys' Sundragon, and new images to already existing pages for Sparkling Jewelwing, Blue-tipped Dancer, Ashy Clubtail, Oklahoma Clubtail, Stream Cruiser, Mantled Baskettail, Blue Corporal, and Painted Skimmer. Added butterfly pages on Zebra Swallowtail and Carolina Satyr as well as new images of Little Wood Satyr. A few weeks ago added new images of Whooping Cranes.
January 9, 2008: Added a few new shots of Great Blue Heron, Eastern Screech-Owl, Snowy Plover, Sanderling, Bufflehead, Pied-billed Grebe, Lesser Scaup, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Audubon's Oriole, Olive Sparrow, Green-tailed Towhee, Green Jay, Black-throated Sparrow, Gadwall, Double-crested Cormorant, and Little Blue Heron to the North American Birds section. Added several new shots of butterflies and dragonflies as well.
November 9, 2007: Created a section for the Lepidoptera (Butterflies and moths). I will be adding more species soon.
July 1, 2007. I have been negligent in updating this section for quite some time. A great deal of new material has been added since March. I will list the main additions here. In the North American bird section, there are new web pages for: Lesser Prairie-Chicken, Altamira Oriole, Bullock's Oriole, Blackpoll Warbler, Black-and-white Warbler, Black-throated Green Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler, Nashville Warbler, Canada Warbler, Hook-billed Kite, Yellow Warbler, Yellow "Mangrove" Warbler, Yellow-throated Warbler, Willow Flycatcher, Yellow-throated Vireo, Downy Woodpecker, Rock Wren Canyon Wren, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Clay-colored Sparrow, Chestnut-collared Longspur, Black-throated Gray Warbler, Chimney Swift, Lazuli Bunting, Bobolink, McCown's Longspur, Long-billed Curlew, Black-headed Grosbeak, American Avocet, and Warbling Vireo. New Images have been added to North American birds on web pages that previously existed for: Couch's Kingbird, Golden-cheeked Warbler, Black-capped Vireo, Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl, Common Black-Hawk, Carolina Chickadee, Canyon Towhee, Acadian Flycatcher, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Great Kiskadee, Greater Roadrunner, Greater Yellowlegs, Eastern Phoebe, Eastern Meadowlark, Ladder-backed Woodpecker, Lark Sparrow, Ringed Kingfisher, Long-billed Thrasher, Harris's Hawk, Least Grebe, Scaled Quail, Mourning Dove, Northern Mockingbird, Olive Sparrow, Pyrrhuloxia, White-eyed Vireo, Rufous-crowned Sparrow, White-tipped Dove, Tufted Titmouse, Wild Turkey, White-winged Dove, Baird's Sparrow, Grasshopper Sparrow, Brewer's Sparrow, Burrowing Owl, Bank Swallow, Cassin's Finch, Clark's Grebe, Western Grebe, Common Yellowthroat, Eared Grebe, Forster's Tern, Franklin's Gull, Horned Lark, Ferruginous Hawk, Canada Goose, Marbled Godwit, American Coot, Lark Bunting, Marsh Wren, Mountain Bluebird, Least Flycatcher, Short-eared Owl, Northern Shoveler, Osprey, Pine Siskin, Plumbeous Vireo, Red-naped Sapsucker, Savannah Sparrow, Sora, Song Sparrow, White-faced Ibis, Zone-tailed Hawk, Upland Sandpiper, and Vesper Sparrow. In addition to the previous birds, have a look at the mammal index for a new page on the very rare Swift Fox, as well as new pages for Badger and Long-tailed Weasel. New images for Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel will be added soon.
March 4, 2007. Added new pages on Snail Kite, Northern Parula, Barred Owl and Red-winged Blackbird to the North American bird section. Added one or more new images to the following North American species which were already had pages: Limpkin, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Savannah Sparrow, Anhinga, Bald Eagle, Red-shouldered Hawk, Palm Warbler, Osprey, Loggerhead Shrike, Great Egret, Great Blue Heron, Double-crested Cormorant, Boat-tailed Grackle, Black Vulture, and Black Skimmer.
February 18, 2007: A very large assortment of images have been added in the past month. Many of these are of scanned slides from a number of years ago, but many are new digital images as well. New species under the North American bird section include: Tree Swallow, White-breasted Nuthatch, Rock Wren, Oak Titmouse, Black-whiskered Vireo, Cave Swallow, Common Poorwill, Red-naped Sapsucker, Northern Rough-winged Swallow, House Wren, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Bank Swallow, Tropical Kingbird, Short-eared Owl, Red-eyed Vireo, Northern Flicker, Mangrove Cuckoo, Long-eared Owl, Eastern Wood-Pewee, Common Nighthawk, Acorn Woodpecker, Least Flycatcher, Swamp Sparrow, Dunlin, Merlin, Common Moorhen, Belted Kingfisher and others. Many new images have been added to pages already posted such as Whiskered Screech-Owl, Western Screech-Owl, Eastern Screech-Owl, Bewick's Wren, and others. Other images have been added in the Mexico section, the Costa Rica and Panama section, etc.
January 7, 2007: Added several images to the Mammal section including Marsh Rabbit, South African Hedgehog, Northern Raccoon, Vervet Monkey, and Warthog. Added a several birds to the African bird section including Woodland Kingfisher, White-breasted Cormorant, White-backed Duck, and Steppe Buzzard. Added some South American birds including Purple-bibbed Whitetip, Speckled Hummingbird, and White-bellied Woodstar.
August 10, 2006: Added several new bird species to the North American bird section, including Anhinga, Eastern and Western Meadowlark, Yellow-headed Blackbird, Boat-tailed Grackle, Brown-headed Cowbird, Bronzed Cowbird, Baltimore Oriole, Greater Roadrunner, Redhead, Mallard, Rufous-backed Robin, Blue Grosbeak, Killdeer, White-eyed Vireo, Ladder-backed Woodpecker, Rose-throated Becard, Common Ground-Dove, Inca Dove, and White-tipped Dove. Also added more images to the pages on Ash-throated Flycatcher, Curve-billed Thrasher, Crested Caracara, Collared Peccary, Brown-crested Flycatcher, Black-crested Titmouse, Black-bellied Whistling-Duck, Black-throated Sparrow, Cassin's Sparrow, Cattle Egret, Eastern Screech-Owl, Golden-fronted Woodpecker, Great Kiskadee, Green Jay, Harris's Hawk, House Sparrow, Lincoln's Sparrow, Mourning Dove, Northern Bobwhite, Northern Cardinal, Olive Sparrow, Painted Bunting, Pyrrhuloxia, Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, Swainson's Hawk, Varied Bunting, and Western Diamondbacked Rattlesnake.
February 28, 2006: Created a new index page for dragonflies and damselflies of Africa and posted 38 species of these insects. Click on the link above for dragonflies and damselflies and it will take you to a page to select either North American or African fauna. Also added images to the North American bird section including Great Kiskadee, more Golden-fronted Woodpecker and Pyrrhuloxia. Click on the Bird link above then go to North American Birds.
February 26, 2006: Added dozens of new images of birds to the Africa index. I will add more here as well as African odonates soon.
December 24, 2005: Added several new bird species to the North American bird section, including Audubon's Oriole, Northern Harrier, Clark's Grebe, Carolina Chickadee, Canyon Towhee, and Bewick's Wren.
October 24, 2005: The changes since October 9 are too numerous to mention. Scores of new species have been added in virtually every category and I have made new scans of some older images which are a significant improvement over what was originally posted. Please explore.
October 9, 2005: Under the Birds link (see yellow strip above), added a section on North American Birds and deleted the section on Texas birds. All the birds which had been under the Texas section were moved to the North American Section and many more are being added. Added several new shots of reptiles and amphibians, etc.
October 3, 2005: Added a Lizard section under the Reptiles and Amphibians page and posted several lizard species. Posted a few new owls including Northern Hawk-Owl, Barn Owl and a new Burrowing Owl photo. Added Yellow-billed Hornbill to the Africa section under the Birds link. Also posted several more images of Southern Carmine Bee-Eater in the Africa section.
September 30, 2005: Replaced several of the 1998 Africa birds with better and larger scans than were used initially. Added photos of Pel's Fishing-Owl, African Wood-Owl to the Owls and the Africa birds section and Crested Owl and Fulvous Owl to the owl section.
August 6, 2005: Over the past several days I have been upgrading many older pages with newer and/or larger images. Many new pages have been added.
July 30, 2005: Added many images of dragonflies from Ontario and elsewhere to the dragonflies and damselflies section.
June 24, 2005: Added a number of new images under the Mexico section, Antarctica, Texas, etc.
June 22, 2005: many new photos of dragonflies and damsleflies have been added. Also added a number of new bird photos to the Texas section of Black-capped and Gray Vireos, Varied Bunting, and others.
September 26, 2004: Added photos of Arroyo Bluet to the dragonflies and damselflies section and added photos of Rock Rattlesnake to the Texas Snakes section.
September 22, 2004: Added many more photos to the dragonflies and damselflies section including Lyre-tipped Spreadwing, Slender Spreadwing, Fiery-eyed Dancer, Golden-winged Dancer, Sooty Dancer, Hagen's Bluet, River Bluet, Stream Bluet, Mexican Forktail, Desert Forktail, Plains Forktail, Black-fronted Forktail, Lilypad Forktail, Painted Damsel, Rainbow Bluet, Sedge Sprite, Riverine Clubtail, Mayan Setwing, Narrow-winged Skimmer, and Dot-tailed Whiteface.
August 22, 2004: Added a page about Robber Flies
May 20, 2004: Added a photo of Sulphur-tipped Clubtail to the dragonfly section.
April 14, 2004: Added photos of Stream Cruiser to the dragonfly section.
April 6, 2004: Added photos of Ashy Clubtail, Plains Clubtail and Oklahoma Clubtail to the dragonfly section.
February 28, 2004: Added photos of Booted Racket-tail, Sparkling Violet-ear, Violet-crowned Hummingbird and Broad-billed Hummingbird to the hummingbird section. Also added photos of Red-footed, Blue-footed and Nazca Boobies, Vegetarian Finch, Great Frigatebird, Hood Mockingbird, Galapagos Mockingbird, Charles Mockingbird, and several other species to the Galapagos section.
February 27, 2004: Added a photo of a Western Screech-Owl to that page and created a new page for Whiskered Screech-Owl. Both can be reached from the owl section.
October 20, 2003: Added several new dragonfly photos, all from south Texas, such as Caribbean Yellowface, Hyacinth Glider, Narrow-striped Forceptail, Orange-bellied Skimmer, Pin-tailed Pondhawk, Rainpool Spreadwing, Spot-tailed Dasher, Straw-colored Sylph, and Blue-faced Darner. Go to the dragonfly index to see these photos.
August 2, 2003: Added several more dragonfly shots such as Bronzed River Cruiser and Blue-faced Ringtail.
July 19, 2003: Added an index page on the Galapagos Islands. So far I have only put up a page on the Mangrove Finch, but more species will be added soon.
June 11, 2003: Added photos of Common Yellowthroat, Prothonotary Warbler and Prairie Warbler to the Texas section. Also added a photo of a Red-cockaded Woodpecker chick peering from a nest cavity to this same section. Added more dragonflies including Cobra Clubtail, Common Sanddragon, Great Blue Skimmer, Painted Skimmer, Slaty Skimmer, Spangled Skimmer and Swamp Darner.
May 16, 2003: Added a page on Red-cockaded Woodpecker and added a photo to the existing Bachman's Sparrow page.
May 14, 2003: Added more damselflies and dragonflies to the dragonfly page. Among the species supplemented or added new are Golden-winged Skimmer, Blue Dasher, Common Whitetail, Banded Pennant, Calico Pennant, Little Blue Dragonlet, Flame Skimmer, Eastern Pondhawk, Blue-ringed Dancer, Citrine Forktail, Rambur's Forktail, Great Spreadwing, Ebony Jewelwing, and American Rubyspot.
January 4, 2003: Added a photo of an interesting form of the Tufted Titmouse in the Texas section.
December 5, 2002: Added a new section at the bottom of the home page about scenic photographs. So far only one Texas photo is posted, but I will put up more soon. Also added an image of a Flame Skimmer to the dragonfly section.
November 22, 2002: Added a photo of Carolina Wren to the Texas section.
November 9, 2002: Added two Snowy Owl photos, one Polar Bear photo, two Willow Ptarmigan photos and an Arctic Fox photo to the Churchill, Manitoba section.
July 26, 2002: Added more photos of various dragonflies to the dragonfly section.
July 25, 2002: Added photos of Purple-throated Carib, Green-throated Carib and Bananaquit which can be reached from the West Indies index page. The two hummingbirds can also be seen through the Hummingbird page.
July 24, 2002: Added pages on Coyote, White-tailed Prairie Dog, Black-tailed Prairie Dog, Arctic Hare, Snowshoe Hare, and Red Squirrel which can be reached from a new mammal index page. Added a photo of Painted Bunting to the Texas section.
June 28, 2002: Added a page about dragonflies & damselflies
April 28, 2002: Added photos of Cassin's Sparrow to the sparrow page.
March 12, 2002: Added photos of Harris's Hawk, Varied Bunting, and Red Crossbill to the Texas section.
March 11, 2002: Added photos of Grasshopper & Vesper Sparrows to the sparrow page.
March 10, 2002: Added a page about Emperor Penguins to the Antarctica section.
August 3, 2001: Added a new Red-billed Tropicbird photo to that section.
July 14, 2001: Added two new photos to the Baird's Sparrow page and added a page on Sage Sparrow.
March 18, 2001: Added four photos of American Bittern to the Texas section.
February 26, 2001: Added photos of a Cinnamon Teal X Blue-winged Teal hybrid to the waterfowl page as well as other shots of Cinnamon Teal, Blue-winged Teal, and Green-winged Teal to this same section.
February 23, 2001: Added a page on Whooping Crane to the Texas section.
February 17, 2001: Added photos of Ross's and Snow Goose on a new waterfowl page, added a single recent photo of Greater Yellowlegs and a shot of Wilson's Plover to the Shorebirds page, as well as photos of Ruby-throated and Broad-tailed Hummingbirds to the Hummingbird page; added photos of Brown-crested Flycatcher, Roseate Spoonbill, Tufted Titmouse, Crested Caracara, Great-tailed Grackle, Least Grebe, Pauraque, and Virginia Rail to the Texas page, added a photo of Eastern Screech-Owl to the owl page, and finally added a White-whiskered Puffbird to the Mexico & Belize page. Added a few wildlife photos other than birds on the main title page including Texas Snakes and added a link to the Polar Bear photos.
February 15, 2001: Added several photos from the Antarctic region. Go to the Antarctic index page and click on Paulet Island, Antarctic Sunset, Gold Harbor, Gray-headed Albatross, and Rockhopper Penguin.
July 27, 2000: Added photos of Juan Fernandez Petrel to the South America section.
July 12, 2000: Added photos of Juan Fernandez Firecrown and Green-backed Firecrown to the hummingbird section.
July 4, 2000: Added a photo of Botteri's Sparrow.
May 20, 2000: Added a photo of a Buff-bellied Hummingbird.
January 19, 2000: Posted some information on a common Texas ID problem, Mottled vrs. Am. Black Duck.
November 22, 1999: Added another "mystery Gull" to the gull section.
November 18, 1999: Added several photos of the 30th Texas record of Little Gull. The bird is in juvenile plumage, something rarely seen in the southern half of the U.S.
October 21, 1999: Added comments concerning possible identifications to "mystery gulls" in the gull section.
October 1, 1999: Added photos of Le Conte's, Henslow's, Nelson's Sharp-tailed, Lincoln's, and Black-throated Sparrows to the sparrow section.
September 28, 1999: Added a sparrow section and posted photos of Baird's, Brewer's, and Bachman's Sparrows. More will be added soon.
September 27, 1999: Added a photo of a Sanderling to the shorebirds section.
September 20, 1999: Added several "mystery gulls" to the gull section as well as the ID Problems section.
September 19, 1999: Added a copy of a 1992 article I co-authored called How to Document Rare Birds to the rarities section.
September 13, 1999: Added several photos of the first Texas record of Yellow-footed Gull to the gull section. Added photos of Green Violet-ear, Greenish Puffleg, Violet-crowned Woodnymph, Green-crowned Brilliant, and White-throated Mountain-Gem to the Hummingbird section and photos of Gray Vireo to the Texas section. The Green Violet-ear can also be seen from the Texas section, and the Violet-crowned Woodnymph, Green-crowned Brilliant, and White-throated Mountain-Gem can also be seen from the Costa Rica section.
June 21, 1999: Added photos of the first Texas record of Buff-breasted Flycatcher to the Rarities section. These photos can also be reached from the Texas section.
June 13, 1999: Added two photos of Northern Pygmy-Owl to the owls section.
April 12:, 1999 Posted three photos of Hermit Warbler that wintered in south Texas in winter 1998-1999 in the Texas Section (photos by Jim Culbertson and David Nelson).
April 5, 1999: Added various personal photos which can be viewed from the bottom of the "about me" page.
March 23, 1999: Added section on Costa Rica and posted photos of Snowcap, Thrush-like Schiffornis, Streak-chested Antpitta, Black-capped Flycatcher, and Collard Redstart. More photos will be added here soon. Added a section on hummingbirds and posted new photo of Cuban Emerald. Linked some previously posted hummer photos to this section. More hummer photos will be posted as time permits.
March 22, 1999: Added photos of Spotted Nightingale-Thrush in the Mexico section. Posted various comments on the ID of a mystery pipit in the Identifications problems section.
March 16, 1999: Added photos of a mystery finch in Brazos Co., Texas to the Identification Problems section.
March 14, 1999: Added two photos of 2nd Texas record of Snail Kite. Linked these photos to both the rarities and raptors sections.
March 12, 1999: Added two Vermilion Flycatcher photos to the Texas section.
March 11, 1999: Added photo of Semipalmated Sandpiper to the Shorebirds section, and a photo of a Texas record of Yellow-billed Loon to the Texas section.
March 10, 1999: Added new raptor section and photos of dark-morph Hook-billed Kite. Added mystery photos of a bird at Falcon S.P. in the Identification problems section. Added a shorebird section and new photos of Greater Yellowlegs. Linked other shorebird photos to the shorebird index page.
March 2, 1999: Added photos of Western Screech-Owl and Great Gray Owl to the owls section.
February 23, 1999: Added photos of Brown Skua, another Antarctic Tern, another Gentoo Penguin, another King Penguin, and another Southern Giant-Petrel to the Antarctica and Southern Oceans section. Added photos of a Gray-breasted Seedsnipe (chick) to the South America section.
February 21, 1999: Added photos of Striated Caracara to Antarctica & Southern Oceans section and photo of Elf Owl to the owls section.
February 19, 1999: Added photos of the first Texas record for Black-tailed Gull under the gull section.
More web space purchased from another server. Most new photos will be added to this new web space (since maximum allowable space has nearly been reached on the initial site), but will be linked to the current site. For example, see Striated Caracara, Elf Owl, Gray-breasted Seedsnipe, and Brown Skua (above).
February 5, 1999: Added comments on the ID of the Ficedula flycatcher to the bottom of that page (this page can be found in the Africa section).
December 17, 1998: Added photos of Northern & Southern Giant-Petrels to the Antarctica & Southern Oceans section, and photos of Aplomado Falcon and White-headed Marsh-Tyrant to the South America section.
December 15, 1998: Added photos of Double-toothed Kite and Roadside Hawk to the Mexico section, and photos of Black-collared Hawk to the South America section.
December 14, 1998: Added an Identification Problems section. Added photo of Spectacled Owl to the owls section.
December 12, 1998: Added photos of Slate-throated Redstart to the Assorted U.S. Rarities section.
December 11, 1998: Added two King Penguin photos and a photo of South Georgia Pipit to the Antarctica and Southern Oceans section. Also added a section on Texas with photos of Golden-cheeked Warbler, Black-capped Vireo and Masked Duck. Added a section on gulls and posted photos of Kelp Gull, Thayer's Gull and Lesser Black-backed Gull from northern Mexico. These gull photos are by Carol Edwards and are posted for distributional information.
December 3, 1998: Added a section of "Assorted owl photos". So far have just added shots of Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl, Burrowing Owl, and Flammulated Owl.
December 2, 1998: Added photo of Terek Sandpiper on Assorted U.S. Rarities section and added photos of Magellanic Oystercatcher and Two-banded Plover on Antarctica and Southern Oceans section.
December 1, 1998: Added photos of African Scops-Owl, Bare-cheeked Babbler, Pied Kingfisher, and Black-fronted Bulbul to the Southern Africa page. Also added one Polar Bear photo, Snowy Owl and Willow Ptarmigan photos to the Churchill section. Added an article about the 1998 VENT Antarctica trip on the Antarctica and Southern Oceans section.
November 30, 1998: Added photos of the first U.S. records of Tufted Flycatcher, Masked Tityra, and White-throated Robin to the "Assorted U.S. Rarities" section.
November 29, 1998: Added Assorted U.S. Rarities section and photos of California's first Long-toed Stint. Also added photos of King, Gentoo, and Chinstrap Penguins in the section on Antarctica.
November 28, 1998: Added Polar Bear and Ross's Gull photos and section on Churchill, Manitoba.
November 27, 1998: Added photo of Water Dikkop on the Southern Africa section.
