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Small gray gull with red legs. Adult has red bill (younger birds have a darker bill), white head and body, pale gray "silver" wings, which have prominent black and white tips. Abundant across much of New Zealand and coastal Australia, including inland areas around waterways and rivers. (eBird)

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"Wow! You finally made it to Australia. Welcome, mate!"

 

The first bird I photographed in Australia. They were everywhere around the quay, looking for food, calling loudly and generally being gulls.

 

Circular Quay, Sydney, Australia. September 2022.

Adult Whooper and Cygnets on the wing along the river Coquet.

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elle a adopté comme perchoir un petit arbre devant la maison

 

L'espèce est dimorphique.

 

La femelle adulte est globalement plus uniforme. Elle est dépourvue de la couleur grise caractéristique du mâle. Seule la queue des femelles âgées peut grisonner. Les parties supérieures sont chamois-roux, du bec à la queue, et plus abondamment tachetées. Les rémiges sont moins sombres. La barre sombre sous l'œil est moins marquée mais les couvertures auriculaires plus pâles la mettent quand même bien en évidence. La queue est nettement barrée de brun sur toute sa longueur, avec une barre terminale plus importante.

 

Le mâle pèse environ 200g et est plus petit que la femelle, qui pèse environ 240g.

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Sitting Pretty on our patio. I think she's taking a break from her 4 active little ones.

The flycatchers perch on the fences looking for bugs; they fly off and come back further down the fence.

 

Fort Lowell Park

Tucson, Arizona

Spoonbills are a genus, Platalea, of large, long-legged wading birds. The spoonbills have a global distribution, being found on every continent except Antarctica. The genus name Platalea derives from Latin and means broad, referring to the distinctive shape of the bill. Six species are recognised, which although usually placed in a single genus have sometimes been split into three genera. All spoonbills have large, flat, spatulate bills and feed by wading through shallow water, sweeping the partly opened bill from side to side. The moment any small aquatic creature touches the inside of the bill—an insect, crustacean, or tiny fish—it is snapped shut. Spoonbills generally prefer fresh water to salt but are found in both environments. They need to feed many hours each day. The spoonbills are most distinct from the ibises in the shape of their bill, which is long and flat and wider at the end. The nostrils are located near the base of the bill so that the bird can breathe while the bill is submerged in water. The eyes are positioned to provide spoonbills with binocular vision, although when foraging tactile senses are important too. Like the ibises the spoonbills have bare patches of skin around the bills and eyes. The six species of spoonbill are distributed over much of the world.

Ibises are a group of long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, that inhabit wetlands, forests and plains. Ibises usually feed as a group, probing mud for food items, usually crustaceans. It is widespread across much of Australia. It has a predominantly white plumage with a bare, black head, long down curved bill and black legs. They are monogamous and highly territorial while nesting and feeding. Most nest in trees, often with spoonbills or herons. Due to its increasing presence in the urban environment and its habit of rummaging in garbage, the species has acquired a variety of colloquial names such as tip turkey; and bin chicken, and in recent years has become an icon of popular culture, being regarded with passion, wit, and, in equal measure, affection and disgust. 48963

Distinctive stocky waterbird. Adult is dark gray overall with a white bill and forehead shield. Immature has a pale breast and a duller bill that becomes brighter white with age. When walking on shore, note big feet with lobed toes. Inhabits both freshwater and brackish marshes, lakeshores, and riverways; occasionally on saltwater. Breeding pairs aggressively territorial but nonbreeding flocks can number in hundreds. Unmistakable throughout much of range, but compare with very similar Red-knobbed Coot in areas of overlap. Calls are diverse, and include various high-pitched squeaks, squawks, and shorter, more clipped notes. (eBird)

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I was not expecting to find out that the Eurasian Coot is a year-round resident of Australia. In fact, it has a huge range across Europe, Asia and Australasia. We saw them several times, but this was the only time one was close enough photograph.

 

Royal National Park, New South Wales, Australia. October 2022.

Eagle-Eye Tours - Eastern Australia.

Le mâle adulte a le dos gris-brun sombre, avec des liserés roux. Le croupion et la queue sont noirs. La queue présente une seule barre blanche médiane et l’extrémité est blanche. Les ailes sont de couleur fauve, avec les rémiges largement terminées de noir, surtout sur les primaires et les secondaires.

Les parties inférieures sont de couleur fauve, finement barrées de noirâtre depuis le haut de la poitrine jusqu’au bas de l’abdomen. Les couvertures sous-caudales sont fauve clair. La queue est de la même couleur dessus et dessous. L’envers des ailes est de couleur fauve. Les rémiges sont fauves, finement barrées de noirâtre, et largement bordées de noir.

Sur la tête, le front, la calotte et la nuque sont de couleur fauve. L’arrière du cou est strié. Le menton et la gorge sont fauve clair. Les joues sont gris chamoisé. La cire et les lores sont jaunes. L’extrémité du bec est noire. Les yeux sont jaune-roux. Les longues pattes et les serres sont jaune orangé.

Les deux sexes sont semblables, avec la femelle plus grande que le mâle.

 

Habitats

La buse roussâtre néotropicale fréquente les milieux ouverts : les savanes boisées, les lisières des forêts ou des marécages, les mangroves, les pâturages…

 

Nourriture

La buse roussâtre se nourrit d’une grande variété de proies : reptiles, oiseaux, petits mammifères, poissons, amphibiens, et même de grands insectes.

 

Reproduction

Le nid, construit dans un arbre isolé, reçoit un et plus rarement deux œufs, en général durant la saison des pluies. Après avoir quitté le nid, le jeune reste dépendant de ses parents de 4 à 7 mois.

  

Cette espèce suit souvent les feux de savanes et en profite pour chasser les animaux qui fuient les flammes.

This must be one of the most difficult birds to photograph. The contrast between the head and back, and the white/salmon underparts make this especially difficult in bright sunlight. To get the bottle green of the head to show requires a bit of fancy post-processing. Sometimes it's better to photograph them when it's cloudy

Always nice to see the "Gray Ghost"

 

Beaver County, Alberta.

The Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus), also known as the northern sparrowhawk or simply the sparrowhawk, is a small bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. Adult male Eurasian sparrowhawks have bluish grey upperparts and orange-barred underparts; females and juveniles are brown above with brown barring below. The female is up to 25% larger than the male – one of the greatest size differences between the sexes in any bird species. Though it is a predator which specialises in catching woodland birds, the Eurasian sparrowhawk can be found in any habitat and often hunts garden birds in towns and cities. Males tend to take smaller birds, including tits, finches, and sparrows; females catch primarily thrushes and starlings, but are capable of killing birds weighing 500 g (18 oz) or more.

Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja)

Adult

Family: Spoonbills

Stick Marsh

Indian River County, FL

2016/03/23

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I love this image for the backstory. This one landed on this wee branch as the wind blew and took what seemed like minutes to steady himself. I guess I'm a bit silly for finding so much joy in that LOL

 

HELP: I'm trying to embed an image into a comment box without the image being public. Is that possible?

 

Bud, hopefully you can see the EXIF data ;D

The common bottlenose dolphin or Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) is a wide-ranging marine mammal of the family Delphinidae. The common bottlenose dolphin is a very familiar dolphin due to the wide exposure it gets in captivity in marine parks and dolphinariums, and in movies and television programs. It is the largest species of the beaked dolphins. It inhabits temperate and tropical oceans throughout the world, and is absent only from polar waters. While formerly known simply as the bottlenose dolphin, this term is now applied to the genus Tursiops as a whole. As considerable genetic variation has been described within this species, even between neighboring populations, many experts think additional species may be recognized.

 

Common bottlenose dolphins are grey, and between 2 and 4 m (6.6 and 13.1 ft) long, and weigh between 150 and 650 kg (330 and 1,430 lb). Males are generally larger and heavier than females. In most parts of the world, adult length is between 2.5 and 3.5 m (8.2 and 11.5 ft); weight ranges between 200 and 500 kg (440 and 1,100 lb). Dolphins have a short and well-defined snout that looks like an old-fashioned gin bottle, which is the source for their common name.

 

This image was taken just off the coast of Northumberland, near Amble on a boat trip to Coquet Island

Central Kalahari Game Reserve

Okavango Delta

Botswana

 

The African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana), also known as the African savanna elephant, is the largest living terrestrial animal with bulls reaching a shoulder height of up to 4 m (13 ft). Both sexes have tusks, which erupt when they are 1–3 years old and grow throughout life.

 

It is distributed across 37 African countries and inhabits forests, grasslands and woodlands, wetlands and agricultural land. It is a social mammal, traveling in herds composed of cows and their offspring. Adult bulls usually live alone or in small bachelor groups. It is a herbivore, feeding on grasses, creepers, herbs, leaves and bark.

 

Since 2004, it has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. It is threatened foremost by habitat destruction, and in parts of its range also by poaching for meat and ivory.

 

They can weigh 7 t (7.7 short tons). The heaviest male on record weighed 10.4 t (11.5 short tons) and was shot in 1974 in Angola. Females are much smaller at about 2.2–2.6 m (7.2–8.5 ft) tall at the shoulder and up to 4 t (4.4 short tons) in weight. – Wikipedia

 

France; Île d'Oléron, Pointe de Chassiron 11/9/19

An couple immature eagles (all brown about 2 years and the one with white head and some white in chest about 4 years), keep a look out for fish as they migrate North for the summer.

Last of the Eagle images for year!

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Common in varied wooded and forested habitats, parks, gardens, farmland with hedges and scattered trees. Forms flocks in winter; often visits garden feeders. Handsome, brightly colored male is distinctive, with bluish cowl, pink face and breast, black-and-white wing pattern (colors muted in winter). Female much drabber but shares male pattern; especially note the complex wing pattern. Both sexes have white outer tail feathers, often striking in flight such as when flushed. (eBird)

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We encountered chaffinchs (another introduced species) over much of the country, but did not stop to photograph them too often since our focus was on native birds. This female, though, was in a parking area so I took advantage of the opportunity.

 

Victoria Domain Road, Marlborough, NZ. March 2024.

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RKO_6355. Recently photographed in The Netherlands. Look at those killer claws!

 

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