Archive for the 'Birds' category

Pygargue à tête blanche - Copyright (C) Yves Roumazeilles

The Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is a bird of prey found in North America that is most recognizable as the national bird and symbol of the United States of America.

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A friend of mine recently bought a copy of a Japanese wood engraving. While reading this article from BibliOdyssey, about the wood engravings of Kitagawa Utamaro, I thought I should share some of the pictures of this artist.

Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806)

Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806)

…but I couldn’t fly.

Jose Luis Ortiz has changed it all. He installed a small video camera on one of his royal eagles.

And now, you and me can fly, really fly. Breath-taking! Boarding a plane became so down-to-Earth. I now want to have wings, I want to fly like an eagle…

Ten days ago, I went walking in the bois de Vincennes, near Paris, my photo camera in hand in the footsteps of Fabrice Hénon who accepted to share some of his informations. I’m back with pictures of Eurasian Jay and common kestrel.

Common kestrel

Eurasian Jay

All the photos are on www.YLovePhoto.com :

• Eurasian Jay
• Common kestrel

Thanks to BibliOdyssey again, we can see magnificent reproductions of XIXth Century engravings of parrots, maccaws and other Psittacidae birds.

Macrocercus ararauna - Blue and yellow maccaw

But there are also interesting modern parrots. Go and watch the videos and photos from the Perroquet project from fashion photographer Sølve Sundsbø. Did I say impressive?

Before some big cats, here are some vultures again:

Vulture, in flight (Copyright 2008 - Yves Roumazeilles)

Lappet-faced vulture (Copyright 2008 - Yves Roumazeilles)

You should think that most cattle birds never heard about this injunction. They use African Buffalos as landing strips and these big cows as as source of food while they remove the parasites from their skin.

African Buffalos (nearly) without birds

African Buffalo - Copyright 2008 Y.Roumazeilles

African Buffalo - Copyright 2008 Y.Roumazeilles

Buffalos and birds

Here, we see a fast airplane in final approach, or is it in attack phase?

African Buffal and birds: Tora! Tora! Tora! - Copyright 2008 Y.Roumazeilles

Finally, here the one I prefer (”the airport is not happy“) :

African Buffalo and birds - Copyright 2008 Y.Roumazeilles

African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer, Buffle d’Afrique, Búfalo negro). Kenya, Masai Mara, September 2008.

Splendid representant of the guineafowl bird family, Numididae, a brightly colored bird with a bare head, can be found all around the Masai Mara National Park. Unfortunately, it is always running out of the path of the photographer.

Helmeted Guineafowl (Copyright 2008 Yves Roumazeilles)

Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris, Pintade de Numidie). Kenya, September 2008.

After about 10 days out of France, I am back from the Masai Mara National Reserve (in Kenya). I brought back about 30 GB of wildlife photos (around 1700-1800 images) to be sorted out in the coming days. You can expect series of published images here on a regular basis.

I assume that the lens choice was not the right one. Unfortunately, I could not find the author of this image.

I was unable to identify the author of this very nice picture.

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Pink flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber, Flamant rose). Brazil, 2007.

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Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja, Spatule rosée). Brazil, 2007.

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Collared Plover (Charadrius collaris, Pluvier d’Azara). Brazil, 2007.

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Long-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus, Bécassin à long bec). Brazil, 2007.