Mark L Hoffman's Photo Galleries at pbase.com

RARE BIRDS OF MARYLAND

Since the early 1970s, I have been an avid Maryland birder, both seeking (and chasing) species rare to the State. Beginning in 1991, I started photographing rarities in earnest. These pictures are not generally meant to be artistic or aesthetically pleasing ... their purpose is to document the species involved, and for those who missed these gems, perhaps convey some of the excitement of the moment! They range from species with limited distribution or numbers in the State, or those that are hard to find, to the truely exceptional. Good birding, MLH.

User guide: Each photo represents a "gallery" that may contain multiple photos of the species, or contain photos of multiple occurences, with a subgallery for each. Recent (2009) rarities are presented at the beginning with "**" around their name; the rest are shown in taxonomic order. Additional photos and text are in progress.

Harris's Sparrow	White-winged Crossbill	Dovekie	Northern Fulmar
Glaucous Gull	Iceland Gull	Lesser Black-backed Gull	Eared Grebe
Barrow's Goldeneye	Tufted Duck	Eurasian Wigeon	Greater White-fronted Goose
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck	Ross's Goose	King Eider	Common Eider
Harlequin Duck	Pacific Loon	Red-necked Grebe	Western Grebe
Cory's Shearwater	Greater Shearwater	Sooty Shearwater	Audubon's Shearwater
White-faced Storm-Petrel	Band-rumped Storm-Petrel	American White Pelican	Anhinga
Yellow-crowned Night Heron	White Ibis	White-faced Ibis	Wood Stork
Swallow-tailed Kite	Mississippi Kite	Northern Goshawk	Golden Eagle
Sandhill Crane	Northern Lapwing	Southern Lapwing	American Golden-Plover
Wilson's Plover	Black-necked Stilt	Marbled Godwit	Curlew Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper	Buff-breasted Sandpiper	Long-billed Dowitcher	Red-necked Phalarope
Red Phalarope	Great Skua	Pomarine Jaeger	Long-tailed Jaeger
Black-headed Gull	Black-tailed Gull	Sabine's Gull	Black-legged Kittiwake
Gull-billed Tern	Sandwich Tern	Roseate Tern	Bridled Tern
Thick-billed Murre	Razorbill	Atlantic Puffin	Eurasian Collared-Dove
Inca Dove	Long-eared Owl	Barn Owl	Snowy Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl	Calliope Hummingbird	Rufous Hummingbird	Allen's Hummingbird
Alder Flycatcher	Hammond's Flycatcher	Ash-throated Flycatcher	Western Kingbird
Gray Kingbird	Tropical Kingbird	Loggerhead Shrike	Northern Shrike
Blue-headed Vireo (late)	Philadelphia Vireo	Cliff Swallow (Worcester)	Cave Swallow
Rock Wren	Sedge Wren	Varied Thrush	Bohemian Waxwing
Orange-crowned Warbler	Yellow-rumped (Audubon's) Warbler	Townsend's Warbler	Vesper Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow	Lark Sparrow	Lark Bunting	Savannah (Ipswich) Sparrow
Henslow's Sparrow	Le Conte's Sparrow	Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow	Lincoln's Sparrow
Smith's Longspur	Snow Bunting	Painted Bunting	Dickcissel
Brewer's Blackbird	Evening Grosbeak	Other Birds	The Birders

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