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A group of plains zebras engages in a dynamic confrontation at a watering hole in Etosha National Park, Namibia. Dust rises as tensions flare—capturing the raw intensity and natural hierarchy of Africa’s wildlife.
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Silver-eared Laughingthrush
The silver-eared laughingthrush (Trochalopteron melanostigma) is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae. It is found in southern Yunnan, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the chestnut-crowned laughingthrush, G. erythrocephalus.
Two water snakes (natrix tessellata - נחש מים) peaking out of a wooden deck they call home.
By day, the place is packed with joggers and riders and as the night falls, nature takes over.
There were plenty of frogs around, which are the main source of food for the harmless water snakes.
It seems like they adapted a very interesting strategy of hunting out of these holes.
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Crested Lark (Galerida cristata) is species of lark by the crest of feathers that rise up in territorial or courtship displays and when singing. It is a non-migratory bird.It is roughly the same size as a Eurasian skylark, but shorter overall and bulkier around the head and body, and very similar in appearance,with a height of 17 cm and a wingspan of 29 to 38 cm , weighing between 37 and 55 g .It is a small, brown bird which has a short tail with light brown outer feathers. Male and females have no real differences, but young crested larks have more spots on their back than their older counterparts. Its plumage is downy but sparse and appears whitish.
We accidentally interrupted the lunch of a Glaucidium brasilianum. This one left the place abandoning its prey, so we decided to move a few meters away and leave a smartphone filming
and waiting for it to come back, camera trap style covered in branches.
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Con amigos y colegas, interrumpimos sin querer el almuerzo de un caburé chico (Glaucidium brasilianum). Éste se fue del lugar abandonando su presa, se trataba de un lagarto overo juvenil, por eso decidimos alejarnos unos metros (no sin antes dejar mi teléfono filmando) esperando que volviera, al mejor estilo cámara trampa cubierto de ramas.
Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse (Pterocles Exustus) is brownish sandgrouses with an elongated and pointed tail when in flight. When grounded, they appear as very short-legged birds, with a small head. They will stretch out their long necks when wary. It is sexually dimorphic in colouration.
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Rather large, spectacular hummingbird of humid tropical lowlands that favors forest edges, adjacent clearings with scattered trees and flowering bushes, and gardens. Feeds at all levels, often in the canopy, hovering with its tail cocked and occasionally opening it to show extensive white. Male has deep blue hood, green upperparts with white collar (often hard to see), white underparts, and mostly white tail. Some females look similar to males while others look very different, with dark spotting below and a mostly green tail with white tips.
In the vast grasslands of Namibia, a majestic ostrich forages peacefully, blending into the golden hues of its natural habitat. These flightless birds, the fastest runners in the animal kingdom, are perfectly adapted to the arid climate, using their speed and resilience to survive in one of the most challenging environments on Earth. This close-up shot captures the raw beauty and essence of Namibia’s wildlife.
Swan Lake
Like much of Japan, Hokkaido is seismically active. Consequently, hot springs and volcanic vents can be found all across the island. Lake Kussharo, an inland lake in the western region of Hokkaido, is a caldera lake, a remnant of a long-ago erupted volcano. It is the largest of three caldera lakes that make up Akan National Park. And as with most geographic names in Hokkaido, the lake derives its name from the Ainu and the Ainu word “Kuccharo,” means “The place where a lake becomes a river.”
Its violent, seismic past is evident even today, with natural hot springs bubbling up along its shoreline, heating both the water and gravelly shores. It is here where the Whooper Swans gather to find refuge from Hokkaido’s brutally cold winters.
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Hiking up to a frozen waterfall in the vast Canadian winter landscape.
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Kitakitsune
The ezo red fox (Vulpes vulpes schrencki) is a subspecies of red fox widely distributed in Hokkaido, Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands and the surrounding islands of Japan.
The Ezo red fox's formal name, Kitakitsune (北狐), was given to the subspecies by Kyukichi Kishida when he studied them in Sakhalin in 1924. In the Ainu languages it is known as cironnup, sumari, kimotpe or hurep.
The ezo red fox is somewhat larger than the Japanese red fox found in Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu, and the outer part of the ear and the limbs are black. There are many similarities with continental red foxes. Ezo red foxes range widely from grassland to alpine belts in Hokkaido. They mainly eat rats, mountain hares, birds and insects. They also eat fruit and nuts in autumn. In tourist spots and in some urban areas there are individuals who feed on the street. They have also been observed feeding on the placenta of cattle in pastures or at disposal facilities.
They dig holes or tunnels to make their lairs. The females give birth to kits in the early spring, which are grown and independent by late autumn. Males act independently and do not contribute to the raising of offspring.
Photographed on frozen waters off the Notsuke Peninsula.
Marsh Tit
The marsh tit (Poecile palustris) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae and genus Poecile, closely related to the willow, Père David's and Songar tits. It is small (around 12 cm long and weighing 12 g) with a black crown and nape, pale cheeks, brown back and greyish-brown wings and tail. Between 8 and 11 subspecies are recognised. This bird's close resemblance to the willow tit can cause identification problems, especially in the United Kingdom where the local subspecies of the two are very similar (there, they were not recognised as separate species until 1897).
Globally, the marsh tit is classified as Least Concern, although there is evidence of a decline in numbers (in the UK, numbers have dropped by more than 50% since the 1970s, for example). It can be found throughout temperate Europe and northern Asia and, despite its name, it occurs in a range of habitats including dry woodland. The marsh tit is omnivorous; its food includes caterpillars, spiders and seeds. It nests in tree holes, choosing existing hollows to enlarge, rather than excavating its own. A clutch of 5–9 eggs is laid.
Nominate race palustris: Black cap and nape with a blue sheen visible at close quarters. The black 'bib' below the bill is rather small; the cheeks are white, turning dusky brown on the ear coverts. The upperparts, tail and wings are greyish-brown, with slightly paler fringes to the tertials. The underparts are off-white with a buff or brown tinge strongest on the flanks and undertail coverts. The bill is black and the legs dark grey. Juveniles are very similar to adults, but with a duller black cap and bib, more greyish upperparts and paler underparts; they moult into adult plumage by September.
Up-close with a Saw-scaled viper (echis coloratus - אפעה)
This is by far the most common snake around the different desert habitats here in Israel.
Last year I managed to see 25+ different individuals, and each individual was so different from the other.
The individuals around Eilat, the southern tip of Israel, are having brilliant reddish colouration like the beautiful viper I photographed last weekend.
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Blue-winged Warbler from our Lake Hope Ohio trip last week. One space left for next year: www.studebakerstudio.com/lake-hope-ohio-songbirds-2026
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A beautiful day in the Canadian Rockies
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Eurasian wryneck (Jynx torquilla) have bills shorter and less dagger-like than those of other woodpeckers. Their upperparts are barred and mottled in shades of pale brown with rufous and blackish bars and wider black streaks. Their underparts are cream speckled and spotted with brown. Their chief prey is ants and other insects, which they find in decaying wood or on the ground. The beak is brown, long and slender with a broad base and sharp tip. The irises are hazel and the slender legs and feet are pale brown.
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The forecast promised an epic sky, and the plan for the evening was to capture enough impressive material to take home.
To do so, we searched for a high vantage point along the Passo Giau to get a clear view of the surrounding mountains.
In the end, our strategy worked out perfectly: we were incredibly lucky and had our hands full.
Here is one of the many wonderful moments I captured during the golden hour with the telephoto lens.
✨Thank you for taking a look. Have a great day and always good light! ✨
Die Vorhersage versprach einen epischen Himmel, und der Plan für den Abend war es, genug beeindruckendes Material mit nach Hause zu nehmen.
Dafür suchten wir uns entlang des Passo Giau eine möglichst hohe Position, um einen guten Blick auf die umliegenden Berge zu haben.
Am Ende ging unsere Strategie auf: Wir hatten unglaubliches Glück und alle Hände voll zu tun.
Hier ist einer der vielen wundervollen Momente, den ich während der goldenen Stunde mit dem Teleobjektiv festhalten konnte.
The dancing tanchōzuru:
With wings slightly raised and heads held high, a pair of red-crowned cranes begin to march, their broad, three-toed feet puncturing the snow as they trumpet loudly and steam rises from their beaks. The male calls first, followed closely by the female—several notes in quick succession, strengthening their bond. But this vocal parade is just the prelude.
Now the pair begin to dance, bowing heads, flapping wings, leaping up and down and spinning around, sometimes picking up sticks and leaves and tossing them in the air. Their momentum triggers other couples to do the same, then the juveniles join in, until the whole flock is in motion—mesmerising flashes of red, black and white, flickering across the snowfields. It’s a sight worth going a long way to see.
Last month the Natural History Museum @natural_history_museum launched a photography competition and asked photographers to share your photos capturing #NatureInLockdown. They were looking for images that showed lockdown's impact on nature in the UK, and human relationships with animals and plants during the pandemic. The winners were announced #NatureInLockdownComp during #NHMLates online.
I'm excited to say my image of the Scaffolding Snail was one of the 3 main winners! The winning images and 12 finalists will go on display in the Museum's Images of Nature gallery this autumn. Looking forward to heading down soon and seeing the image in print at the prestigious Natural History Museum.
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Beautiful Foggy morning in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Malabar trogon (Harpactes fasciatus) males has a slaty black head and breast with a white border to the black bib separating it from the crimson on the underside. The back is olive-brown to chestnut. The wing coverts are black with fine white vermiculations. They have 12 tail feathers that are graduated. The central tail-feathers are chestnut with a black tip, with the second and third pairs from the middle having more black than chestnut. The outer three pairs have long white tips. The female lacks the contrasting black and crimson and has only a slightly darker head and breast that shades into the olive brown on the back while the crimson of the underside of the male is replaced by ochre. In both sexes, the beak is bluish as is the skin around the eye. The iris is dark brown and the feet are pale bluish.
Red avadavat (Amandava amandava) has rounded black tail and the bill that is seasonally red. The rump is red and the breeding male is red on most of the upper parts except for a black eye-stripe, lower belly and wings. There are white spots on the red body and wing feathers. The non-breeding male is duller but has the red-rump while the female is duller with less of the white spotting on the feathers. The species name of amandava and the common name of avadavat are derived from the city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat, India, from where these birds were exported into the pet trade in former times.
Rusty-cheeked Scimitar Babbler
The rusty-cheeked scimitar babbler (Pomatorhinus erythrogenys) is a species of bird in the Timaliidae family native to South-East Asia.
The species is olive-brown above with rusty coluring on the sides of the face, head, thighs, and flanks. The belly is mostly white. Sexes are alike. The beak is long and decurved in a scimitar shape.
The rusty-cheeked scimitar babbler is found from the Himalayas to Myanmar. It inhabits habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests at elevations up to 2600 m.
The bird feeds mostly on the forest floor and in low canopy, forming small groups. Food items include insects, grubs and seeds. Calls consist of a mellow, fluty whistle, a two-noted "CUE..PE...CUE..pe" call followed by single note replay by mate, guttural alarm calls and a liquid contact note. The species is generally quite noisy.
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The Ural owl (Strix uralensis) is a fairly large nocturnal owl. It is a member of the true owl family, Strigidae. Both its common name and scientific name refer to the Ural Mountains of Russia where the type specimen was collected. However, this species has an extremely broad distribution that extends as far west as much of Scandinavia, montane eastern Europe, and, sporadically, central Europe across the Palearctic broadly through Russia to as far east as Sakhalin and throughout Japan. The Ural owl may include up to 15 subspecies, but most likely the number may be slightly fewer if accounting for clinal variations.
This forest owl is typical associated with the vast taiga forest in Eurosiberia, although it ranges to other forest types, including mixed forests and temperate deciduous forest. Ural owls tend to vigorously protect a set territory on which they have historically nested on a variety of natural nest sites, including tree cavities and stumps and nests originally built by other birds but now, in many parts of the range are adapted to nest boxes made by biologists and conservationists.
S. u. hondoensis (Clark 1907)- This race may include S. u. japonica. If it includes japonica, this race is found throughout Hokkaido down through northern and central Honshu. Quite to the contrary of Bergmann's rule, northern owls in Hokkaido are the smallest ones, and indeed the smallest known in the entire Ural owl species, while southerly owls are slightly larger. Otherwise birds from the different islands are similar in appearance.
The Ural owl (Strix uralensis) is a fairly large nocturnal owl. It is a member of the true owl family, Strigidae. Both its common name and scientific name refer to the Ural Mountains of Russia where the type specimen was collected. However, this species has an extremely broad distribution that extends as far west as much of Scandinavia, montane eastern Europe, and, sporadically, central Europe across the Palearctic broadly through Russia to as far east as Sakhalin and throughout Japan. The Ural owl may include up to 15 subspecies, but most likely the number may be slightly fewer if accounting for clinal variations.
This forest owl is typical associated with the vast taiga forest in Eurosiberia, although it ranges to other forest types, including mixed forests and temperate deciduous forest. Ural owls tend to vigorously protect a set territory on which they have historically nested on a variety of natural nest sites, including tree cavities and stumps and nests originally built by other birds but now, in many parts of the range are adapted to nest boxes made by biologists and conservationists.
S. u. hondoensis (Clark 1907)- This race may include S. u. japonica. If it includes japonica, this race is found throughout Hokkaido down through northern and central Honshu. Quite to the contrary of Bergmann's rule, northern owls in Hokkaido are the smallest ones, and indeed the smallest known in the entire Ural owl species, while southerly owls are slightly larger. Otherwise birds from the different islands are similar in appearance.