Bird Pictures

Close-up portrait of a bald eagle.

A strutting wild turkey gobbler displays for the attention of a female.

A Tom turkey strutting with his tail feathers displayed.

Three sandhill cranes in flight at sunset.

Coastal Alaska sunset and cormorants roosting on rocks near Kachemak Bay.

An adult bald eagle in flight. Note: An identification band is on its left leg.

Two northern pintail ducks floating on a Texas bay.

Low clouds colored by the setting sun on a scene of the Kenai River and Cook Inlet, Alaska.

A group of Florida birds feeding in a shallow marsh pond. The group includes roseate spoonbills, snowy egrets, little blue herons, black-necked stilts, glossy ibis and grackles.

An adult osprey with a spadefish in its talons lands on a tree limb next to its juvenile offspring.

An angry eagle defending its meal (a fish).

Wild turkeys look in various directions as a whitetail deer doe watches from the background.

A great blue heron with a freshly-caught Florida swamp rat in its beak.

A tricolored heron perched on a backwater snag.

Three bald eagles perched on driftwood limbs with mountains in the background.

A bald eagle in banking flight (making a hard right turn).

A great egret flying.

A little blue heron perched on a snag in Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, Florida.

An eagle in flight as it prepares to grab a fish from the water. NOTE: This photo was cropped. See details in comments below.

A great blue heron eating a rat. Although the rat is fighting the bird by biting its bill, it was repeatedly dunked into submission then swallowed.

A great blue heron in Everglades National Park.

A great blue heron standing in the grass at the edge of a mangrove swamp.

A great blue heron swallowing a fish.

Two bald eagles perched on an iceberg.