Category: Birds

  • Muscovy duck

    Muscovy duck

    Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it The muscovy duck is found in many places in Brazil. This one is trying to dry its wings.

  • Crimson-crested Woodpecker

    Crimson-crested Woodpecker

    Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it A nice Crimson-crested Woodpecker (Campephilus melanoleucos) clutching its tree trunk. The early hour led to the very visible use of the flash to light this scene.

  • Hero in the Sun – behaviour

    Hero in the Sun – behaviour

    A few weeks ago, in October 2007, I was in Brazil shooting wild life images. A lot of these photos are showing birds and their beaviour. Interestingly, when back in France, I found a photo and an article in ScienceBlogs Select where GrrlScientist was surprised by a behaviour from a Great Blue Hero I had…

  • Fork-tailed Flycatcher

    Fork-tailed Flycatcher

    Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them Superb small bird whose attitude is a gift for the bird photographer. Fork-tailed Flycatcher (Tyrannus savana, Tyran des savanes). Brazil 2007.

  • Martin Forget, natural photos

    Martin Forget, natural photos

    Martin Forget has a photographic eye I envy. His animal and natural wildlife photos are simply delicious, vivid, surprising like this one: You will certainnly want to stop by his web site. But if you only have a minute, I invite you to a shortcut to his images on photo.net and you will see that…

  • Bird photos from Juza

    Bird photos from Juza

    Hey! I like good wild life photos. Juza has more than a trick in his bag to bring great images of some of the nicest European birds. So, do like me and go visit www.juzaphoto.com. Copyright Juza

  • 2007 images of the Denis-Huot

    2007 images of the Denis-Huot

    Back from safari, I went and checked the web site of Michel & Christine Denis-Huot. Some new images from 2007. Most have been there already for some time. But this is regularly updated. Copyright 2007 M&C Denis-Huot

  • Life is hard for insects too

    Life is hard for insects too

    Life is a competition: Eat or be eaten. This happens to insects on the neck of a giraffe, too. Insect, bird and giraffe(Click on the thumbnails to see the larger image)

  • Birds of South Africa

    Birds of South Africa

    God created Africa with a billion birds. So, a photo safari specializing into leopards will naturally stop to shoot images of a vulture, an eagle, or -more discreet- a roller: Pied Kingfisher Woodpecker in black & white African Hoopoe Lilac-breasted roller Lilac-breasted roller Some glossy starling I could not identify precisely(Rueppell’s Glossy-Starling?) Lappet-faced vulture Brown…