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Découvrez l'emblématique Bouquetin des Alpes, majestueux habitant des montagnes européennes. Cet individu semble surveiller son domaine depuis son perchoir rocheux, un comportement typique qui lui confère une vision périphérique idéale pour détecter les prédateurs. Avez-vous déjà eu la chance d'apercevoir cet animal dans son habitat naturel ?
Meet the iconic Alpine Ibex, a majestic resident of European mountain ranges. Here we see one keeping watch over its territory from a rocky outlook, a typical behavior that offers ideal peripheral vision for spotting predators. Have you ever had the opportunity to witness this animal in the wild?
Discussion starters: How does encountering wildlife in their natural habitat impact your views on conservation? Engage below!
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Binomial name
Glareola lactea
This bird has short legs, long pointed wings and a short tail. Its short bill is an adaptation to aerial feeding. On the ground, it looks mainly pale grey (hence lactea, milky). The crown of the head is brown.
The wings are grey above with black primaries and black and white bars at the rear edge of the inner flight feathers. The underwings are mainly black. The tail is white with a black terminal triangle. The belly is white.
A side-striped jackal meets the lens with unwavering eyes. A fresh scar across its face tells a story of survival in the Mara — resilience, defiance, and the raw beauty of life in the wild.
Saviez-vous que les marmottes ne sont pas uniquement renommées pour leur habileté à hiberner, mais aussi pour leur communication complexe entre elles ? Ici, ces marmottes alpines semblent échanger plus qu'un simple geste, dans un moment rare et tendre capturé à l'état sauvage. Quelles routines sériez-vous prêts à adopter pour prendre soin de ce qu'on aime en nature ?
Did you know that marmots are not only well-known for their hibernation skills but for their intricate communication with each other as well? Here, these Alpine marmots seem to share more than just a casual gesture, captured in a rare and tender wild moment. What routines would you be willing to adopt to care for nature's loved ones?
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Do social interactions similar to human affection increase survival chances in wild species like marmots?
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The stonechat is named for its call, which sounds just like two small stones being hit together!
💎 Their habit of perching in a prominent position makes them easy to spot.
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A Prothonotary Warbler was singing form a raspberry perch when it spotted an insect and nabbed it in the air. Pre-capture let me get the sequence during our Lake Hope Ohio trip last week. Two spaces remain for next year: www.studebakerstudio.com/lake-hope-ohio-songbirds-2026
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Yellow-browed bulbul (Acritillas indica) is about 20 cm long, lacks a crest and has the upperparts olive green with a prominent yellow brow and goggle with the underparts being all yellow. The sexes do not differ in plumage. The bill is black and the iris is reddish brown. The population in the northern Western Ghats is paler yellow than the populations further south. They are easily located by their loud calls but tend to skulk within foliage below the forest canopy. They feed mainly on berries and insects. The breeding season is during the dry spell before the monsoons, mainly January to May.
Red Spurfowl (Galloperdix spadicea) is overall reddish-brown and has somewhat long tail. The upper parts are brown with dark barring while the face and neck are more grey in the male. The underside is rufous with dark markings and both sexes have a red facial skin patch and red legs with one or two spurs. It has all-chestnut plumage, including the head feathers. Both sexes have long feathers on the crown that can be erected into a crest. It has a distinctive call and is often hard to see except for a few seconds when it flushes from the undergrowth. It appears reddish and like a long-tailed partridge. The bare skin around the eye is reddish. The legs of both males and females have one or two spurs, which give them their name.
Cinereous Vulture (Aegypius monachus) is distinctly dark, with the whole body being brown excepting the pale head in adults, which is covered in fine blackish down. The skin of the head and neck is bluish-gray and a paler whitish color above the eye. The adult has brown eyes, a purplish cere, a blue-gray bill and pale blue-gray legs. It measures 98–120 cm in total length with a 2.5–3.1 m wingspan. Males can weigh from 6.3 to 11.5 kg, whereas females can weigh from 7.5 to 14 kg. It is thus one of the world's heaviest flying birds.
Indian Golden Oriole (Oriolus kundoo). Males are bright yellow overall save for the black wings and inner tail feathers. Note the yellow patch on the wings, the yellow outer tail feathers, the black stripe through the eye that gives it a masked appearance, and the fleshy pink bill. The female is dull greenish-yellow overall with dirty brown-green wings and a completely yellowish tail. Both males and females have red iris. Most often found feeding in tree canopies either singly or in pairs. They generally give a harsh “krrrrrrrrrrrr” call while feeding. In flight, note its characteristic dipping flight style.
Spectacled Barwing
The spectacled barwing (Actinodura ramsayi) is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae.
It is found in China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Greater racket-tailed drongo (Dicrurus paradiseus) is a medium-sized Asian bird which is distinctive in having elongated outer tail feathers with webbing restricted to the tips. They are conspicuous in the forest habitats often perching in the open and by attracting attention with a wide range of loud calls that include perfect imitations of many other birds. One hypothesis suggested is that these vocal imitations may help in the formation of mixed-species foraging flocks, a feature seen in forest bird communities where many insect feeders forage together. These drongos will sometimes steal insect prey caught or disturbed by other foragers in the flock and another ideas is that vocal mimicry helps them in diverting the attention of smaller birds to aid their piracy. They are diurnal but are active well before dawn and late at dusk.
Plum-headed Parakeet (Psittacula cyanocephala) is a mainly green parrot, 33 cm long with a tail up to 22 cm. The male has a red head which shades to purple-blue on the back of the crown, nape and cheeks while the female has blueish-gray head. There is a narrow black neck collar with verdigris below on the nape and a black chin stripe that extends from the lower mandible. There is a red shoulder patch and the rump and tail are bluish-green, the latter tipped white. The upper mandible is orangish-yellow, and the lower mandible is dark. The female has a dull bluish grey head and lacks the black and verdigris collar which is replaced by yellow. The upper-mandible is corn-yellow and there is no black chin stripe or red shoulder patch. Immature birds have a green head and both mandibles are yellowish. The dark head is acquired after a year.
A young lion cub gazes curiously into the world around it in the Maasai Mara. Wide-eyed and innocent, yet destined to grow into the strength of a predator.
Purple sunbird (Cinnyris asiaticus) has a relatively short bill, a dark and short square ended tail with distinctive sexual dimorphism. Less than 10 cm long they have a down-curved bill with brush-tipped tubular tongues that aid in nectar feeding. The male is glossy metallic bluish to purplish black on the upper parts with the wings appearing dark brown. The breeding male also has underparts of the same purplish black, but non-breeding males may show a central streak of black on yellow underparts. In the breeding plumage, the male can be confused with the syntopic Loten's sunbird which has a long bill and a distinctive broad maroon band on the breast. Breeding males will sometimes show their yellow pectoral tufts in displays. There is a patch of bright blue on the shoulder of breeding males.The maroon shine on the feathers of the collar around the neck is visible mainly during the breeding seasons.
Red-rumped Swallow (Cecropis daurica) are darker below and have pale or reddish rumps, face and neck collar. They lack a breast band, but have black undertails. They are fast fliers and they swoop on insects while airborne. They have broad but pointed wings. They build quarter-sphere nests with a tunnel entrance lined with mud collected in their beaks, and lay 3 to 6 eggs. They normally nest under cliff overhangs in their mountain homes, but will readily adapt to buildings such as mosques and bridges.
Little grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis) also known as dabchick is a small water bird with a pointed bill. The adult is unmistakable in summer, predominantly dark above with its rich, rufous colour neck, cheeks and flanks, and bright yellow gape. The rufous is replaced by a dirty brownish grey in non-breeding and juvenile birds.Juvenile birds have a yellow bill with a small black tip, and black and white streaks on the cheeks and sides of the neck as seen below. This yellow bill darkens as the juveniles age, eventually turning black in adulthood.In winter, its size, buff plumage, with a darker back and cap, and “powder puff” rear end enable easy identification of this species. The little grebe's breeding call, given singly or in duet, is a trilled repeated weet-weet-weet or wee-wee-wee which sounds like a horse whinnying.
Honestly I am still so pleased to have got this fabulous shot yesterday morning. It wasn’t that easy, I was lucky enough to catch him when eventually he was taking a break.
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Größte und häufigste Meise in Mitteleuropa. Männchen mit einem breiten und dunklen Bruststreifen sind gegenüber Tieren mit einem schmalen und hellen Streifen im Vorteil. Diese dominanten Tiere haben die besseren Reviere, den größeren Bruterfolg und verjagen auch an der Winterfutterstelle die untergeordneten Tiere.
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Rufous Treepie (Dendrocitta vagabunda) is cinnamon with a black head and the long graduated tail is bluish grey and is tipped in black. The wing has a white patch. The only confusable species is the grey treepie which however lacks the bright rufous mantle. The bill is stout with a hooked tip. The underparts and lower back are a warm tawny-brown to orange-brown in colour with white wing coverts and black primaries. The bill, legs and feet are black.
Early morning 4:45am walk along the river and managed to get this lovely shot of a goldfinch definitely worth the effort.
Jungle Bush Quail (Perdicula asiatica) males has a white moustache, heavily barred white underparts, and variegated wings. The female has a uniform, rich chestnut breast and belly. However, both the male and the female have red and white streaks on the head. It is roughly 16–18 cm in length and weighs 57–81 grams. The diet of the jungle bush quail consists mainly of seeds. particularly of grasses, although it also takes insects. Breeding takes place after the rains and lasts until the onset of colder weather, with the precise period varying across the range; five or six eggs are produced and incubation takes between 16 and 18 days.
The Spur-winged Lapwing or Spur-winged Plover (Vanellus spinosus) is a lapwing species, one of a group of largish waders in the family Charadriidae. Native to North Africa, the Middle East & Mediterranean regions; it has never been sighted in the sub-continent. It breeds around the eastern Mediterranean, and in a wide band from sub-Saharan west Africa to Arabia. The Greek and Turkish breeders are migratory, but other populations are resident. The species is declining in its northern range, but is abundant in much of tropical Africa, being seen at almost any wetland habitat in its range. The Spur-winged Lapwing is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds applies.
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Snail Kite from our Florida trip last month. One space left for next year www.studebakerstudio.com/central-florida-2025
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Coppersmith barbet (Psilopogon haemacephalus) has crimson forehead and throat which is best known for its metronomic call that has been likened to a coppersmith striking metal with a hammer. It is a resident found in the Indian subcontinent. Like other barbets, they chisel out a hole inside a tree to build their nest. They are mainly fruit eating but will take sometimes insects, especially winged termites.The red forehead, yellow eye-ring and throat patch with streaked underside and green upperparts, it is fairly distinctive. Juveniles are duller and lack the red patches. The sexes are alike.
In the heart of Namibia’s golden savannah, an ostrich curiously gazes into the camera, its feathery elegance blending seamlessly with the dry grassland. These flightless birds, iconic to Africa, thrive in the harsh desert climate, embodying resilience and natural beauty. Capturing a close-up moment like this highlights the fascinating details of their unique expressions and textured plumage.
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Ashy-crowned sparrow-lark (Eremopterix griseus) is sparrow sized with a finch-like bill and short legs, these birds are usually seen sitting on the ground, and although they will sometimes perch on wires they do not perch in trees or bushes. The male is sandy brown overall with a black belly, chin, lower lores and eye stripe. The top of the head is ashy (although the base of these crown feathers are dark) unlike the dark brown to black in the black-crowned sparrow-lark which partly overlaps with the range of this species in the arid zone of India and Pakistan. The female is pale brown and very similar to a female house sparrow, although the legs are much shorter and appearing stockier and shorter-necked. They forage on the ground for seeds and insects. When disturbed they will sometimes crouch and take to flight. They will take fallen grain in fields. They roost at night on the ground, making small depressions in the soil.
Brahminy Kite (Haliastur indus) is distinctive and contrastingly coloured, with chestnut plumage except for the white head and breast and black wing tips.They are found mainly on the coast and in inland wetlands, where they feed on dead fish and other prey. Adults have a reddish-brown body plumage contrasting with their white head and breast which make them easy to distinguish from other birds of prey. The juveniles are browner, but can be distinguished from both the resident and migratory races of black kites in Asia by the paler appearance, shorter wings, and rounded tail. It is about the same size as the black kite (Milvus migrans) and has a typical kite flight, with wings angled, but its tail is rounded unlike the Milvus species, red kite, and black kite, which have forked tails. The call is a mewing keeyew.
Siberian Stonechat (Saxicola maurus) is typically darker above and paler below, with a white rump and whiter underparts with less orange on the breast. The male in breeding plumage has black upperparts and head, a conspicuous white collar, scapular patch and rump, and a restricted area of orange on the throat. Female has pale brown upperparts and head, white neck patches (not a full collar), and a pale, unstreaked pinkish-yellow rump. Males in winter plumage are intermediate between summer males and females, with a supercilium resembling the whinchat from this species and the female it can be distinguished by the full white collar.