Mauritius 2013 - Butterflies
The only downside to my Mauritius holiday was a late decision to save weight by leaving my old 400D camera behind - and I left the macro lens on it!! Doh!! So all of these were taken with my 100 - 400 lens which was easier to get shots with, but of course not the same quality shots. However I still managed a few OK ones.
With greateful thanks to Nick Morgan who blogged his 2011 visit to Mauritius here and this gave me all the ID's in one place! And even checked out the main one for me with his local reference book! An invaluable help!
Cheers Nick! nickmorgan-butterflypictures.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/...
I think I have this one ID'd correctly now, but there are other possibilities, so please correct me if I'm wrong. I think it's the Mauritian Friar (Amauris phoedon). I saw what I think was a number of these on the road down past Chamarel, in the lower reaches of the Black river Gorge, and this one, in front of the Bras D'eau visitor centre. It is listed as vulnerable by IUCN and only found on Mauritius and Reunion.
There are more shots of the other species that I found in the comments below (scroll back through comments) and in the set here - www.flickr.com/photos/85387952@N00/sets/72157635338092479/
All my other sets of species can be found in an organised form here - www.flickr.com/photos/85387952@N00/collections/
Mauritius 2013 - Butterflies
The only downside to my Mauritius holiday was a late decision to save weight by leaving my old 400D camera behind - and I left the macro lens on it!! Doh!! So all of these were taken with my 100 - 400 lens which was easier to get shots with, but of course not the same quality shots. However I still managed a few OK ones.
With greateful thanks to Nick Morgan who blogged his 2011 visit to Mauritius here and this gave me all the ID's in one place! And even checked out the main one for me with his local reference book! An invaluable help!
Cheers Nick! nickmorgan-butterflypictures.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/...
I think I have this one ID'd correctly now, but there are other possibilities, so please correct me if I'm wrong. I think it's the Mauritian Friar (Amauris phoedon). I saw what I think was a number of these on the road down past Chamarel, in the lower reaches of the Black river Gorge, and this one, in front of the Bras D'eau visitor centre. It is listed as vulnerable by IUCN and only found on Mauritius and Reunion.
There are more shots of the other species that I found in the comments below (scroll back through comments) and in the set here - www.flickr.com/photos/85387952@N00/sets/72157635338092479/
All my other sets of species can be found in an organised form here - www.flickr.com/photos/85387952@N00/collections/