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Name: Blue-crowned hanging-parrot
Scientific: Loriculus galgulus
Malay: Bayan Kecil / Bayan Serindit
Family: Psittacidae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2016): Least Concern
Gear: SONY a9II + SEL200600G + SEL14TC.
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Shorebirds of Ireland, Freshwater Birds of Ireland and The Birds of Ireland: A Field Guide with Jim Wilson.
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The Small Copper is fairly common in Ireland. It is a fast flyer that will occasionally visit gardens but is usually found in fields, hedgerows and woodland edges. It has shiny copper wings with black dashes. Some specimens have small blue dots on the wings close to the body. (irishbutterflies.com)
1st generation flies from April to June, 2nd generation from July to September, and an occasional 3rd generation in October in good years. The caterpillar feeds on Common Sorrel (Rumex acetosa) and Sheep Sorrel (R. acetosella). The adult butterfly is a generalist, with nectar sources including: Buttercups (Ranunculus spp.), Daisy (Bellis perennis), Dandelion (Taraxacum agg.), Fleabane (Pulicaria dysenterica), Hawkweeds (Hieracium/Hypochoeris), Heather (Calluna vulgaris / Erica spp.), Ragwort (Senecio jacobaea), Red Clover (Trifolium pratense), Thistles (Cirsium spp. and Carduus spp.) and Yarrow (Achillea millefolium). (NDBC Ireland).
I saw several Small Copper butterflies at Kilmichael Point, Wexford earlier this summer. One of my favourite butterflies.
Name: Lesser coucal (male)
Scientific: Centropus bengalensis
Malay: Bubut Kecil / But-but Kecil
Family: Cuculidae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2016): Least Concern
Gear: SONY a9II + SEL200600G + SEL14TC.
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Name: Asian glossy starling (male)
Scientific: Aplonis panayensis
Malay: Perling Mata Merah
Family: Sturnidae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2016): Least Concern
Gear: SONY a9II + SEL200600G.
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Name: Greater painted snipe (female)
Scientific: Rostratula benghalensis
Malay: Meragi
Family: Rostratulidae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2016): Least Concern
Gear: SONY a9II + SEL200600G + SEL14TC.
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Name: Olive-backed sunbird (female)
Scientific: Cinnyris jugularis
Malay: Kelicap Bukit
Family: Nectariniidae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2016): Least Concern
Gear: SONY a9II + SEL200600G + SEL14TC.
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Name: Rufous-collared kingfisher (male)
Scientific: Actenoides concretus
Malay: Pekaka Rimba Besar / Pekaka Tengkuk Perang
Family: Alcedinidae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2016): Near Threatened
Gear: SONY a9II + SEL200600G.
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Shorebirds of Ireland, Freshwater Birds of Ireland and The Birds of Ireland: A Field Guide with Jim Wilson.
www.markcarmodyphotography.com
The Curlew Sandpiper is an autumn passage migrant, rarely seen in Ireland outside August to October. A little larger than the similar Dunlin, and most easily distinguished by its longer legs, longer decurved bill and much cleaner underparts. Almost all Curlew Sandpipers occurring here are juveniles, which show a clean white belly, warm peachy tones on the breast and pale-fringed wing feathers giving a scaly effect to the upperwing. Occurs in very small groups or singly, in coastal marshes and estuaries, usually with Dunlin.
The species breeds on the tundra of Arctic Siberia. It is strongly migratory, wintering mainly in Africa, but also in south and southeast Asia and in Australia and New Zealand. It is a vagrant to North America.
This species occasionally hybridizes with the sharp-tailed sandpiper and the pectoral sandpiper, producing the presumed "species" called "Cooper's sandpiper" ("Calidris" × cooperi) and "Cox's sandpiper" ("Calidris" × paramelanotos), respectively.
Counts of the curlew sandpiper in South Africa, specifically at Langebaan Lagoon where they are most numerous, indicate a 40% decline in numbers between 1975 and 2009. A similar trend has been noted in Australia and may be linked to effects of global warming at the breeding grounds. It has an extremely large range but although the population is large it is very hard to determine and appears to be decreasing. (wikipedia)
There were a few mixed in with flock of Ringed Plover and Dunlin at Merrion Gates, Dublin Bay during the autumn. A very subtle but beautiful bird. This is a juvenile bird, born this year.
Name: Scarlet-backed flowerpecker (male)
Scientific: Dicaeum cruentatum
Malay: Sepah Puteri Merah
Family: Dicaeidae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2016): Least Concern
Gear: SONY a9II + SEL200600G.
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Name: Black-shouldered kite
Scientific: Elanus axillaris
Malay: Lang Bahu Hitam
Family: Accipitridae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2012): Least Concern
Gear: SONY a9II + SEL200600G + SEL14TC.
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A close-up of a tropical hermit crab wandering over sunlit beach sand during golden hour. Captured in Playa del Carmen, Mexico.
Shorebirds of Ireland, Freshwater Birds of Ireland and The Birds of Ireland: A Field Guide with Jim Wilson.
www.markcarmodyphotography.com
The European goldfinch or goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis), is a small passerine bird in the finch family that is native to Europe, North Africa and western Asia. It has been introduced to other areas including Australia, New Zealand and Uruguay.
The goldfinch has a red face and a black-and-white head. The back and flanks are buff or chestnut brown. The black wings have a broad yellow bar. The tail is black and the rump is white. The female is very similar to the male but has a slightly smaller red area on the face.
The goldfinch is often depicted in Italian renaissance paintings of the Madonna and Child. Goldfinches are commonly kept and bred in captivity around the world because of their distinctive appearance and pleasant song. In Britain during the 19th century many thousands of goldfinches were trapped each year to be sold as cage-birds. One of the earliest campaigns of the Society for the Protection of Birds was directed against this trade.
In the poem The Great Hunger by Patrick Kavanagh, the goldfinch is one of the rare glimpses of beauty in the life of an elderly Irish farmer:
"The goldfinches on the railway paling were worth looking at
A man might imagine then
Himself in Brazil and these birds the birds of paradise" (wikipedia)
An adult Goldfinch on some razor wire at Poolbeg, Dublin Port, Ireland.
Name: Asian Fairy-bluebird (male)
Scientific: Irena puella
Malay: Murai Gajah / Dendang Gajah
Family: Irenidae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2016): Near Threatened
Gear: SONY a9II + SEL200600G + SEL14TC.
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Name: Blue whistling-thrush
Scientific: Myophonus caeruleus
Malay: Murai Batu Siul / Murai Bersiul Besar
Family: Muscicapidae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2018): Least concern
Gear: SONY a9II + SEL200600G + SEL14TC.
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Shorebirds of Ireland, Freshwater Birds of Ireland and The Birds of Ireland: A Field Guide with Jim Wilson.
www.markcarmodyphotography.com
The Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) is a small wading bird, one of two species of turnstone in the genus Arenaria. It is now classified in the sandpiper family Scolopacidae but was formerly sometimes placed in the plover family Charadriidae. It is a highly migratory bird, breeding in northern parts of Eurasia and North America and flying south to winter on coastlines almost worldwide. It is the only species of turnstone in much of its range and is often known simply as Turnstone.
At all seasons, the plumage is dominated by a harlequin-like pattern of black and white. Breeding birds have reddish-brown upper parts with black markings. The head is mainly white with black streaks on the crown and a black pattern on the face. The breast is mainly black apart from a white patch on the sides. The rest of the underparts are white. In flight it reveals a white wingbar, white patch near the base of the wing and white lower back, rump and tail with dark bands on the uppertail-coverts and near the tip of the tail. The female is slightly duller than the male and has a browner head with more streaking.
Non-breeding adults are duller than breeding birds and have dark grey-brown upperparts with black mottling and a dark head with little white. Juvenile birds have a pale brown head and pale fringes to the upperpart feathers creating a scaly impression. (wikipedia)
This was taken off the shoreline of Skerries, Co. Dublin in the teeth of Storm Agnes during the autumn of 2023.
Name: Pin-striped tit-babbler
Scientific: Mixornis gularis
Malay: Kekicau Berjalur / Rimba Berjalur
Family: Timaliidae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2016): Least Concern
Gear: SONY a9II + SEL200600G.
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Name: Dark-sided flycatcher
Scientific: Muscicapa sibirica
Malay: Sambar Sibiria / Sambar Sisi-gelap
Family: Muscicapidae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2016): Least Concern
Gear: SONY a9II + SEL600F40GM + SEL14TC.
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Name: Red-throated barbet
Scientific: Psilopogon rafflesii
Malay: Takur Gunung / Takur Mahkota Merah / Takur Ubun Merah
Family: Megalaimidae
IUCN Red List (v.3.1, 2017): Near Threatened
Gear: SONY a9II + SEL200600G + SEL14TC.
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This is the most breathtaking sunset I have ever witnessed. This was taken on the 35th floor of the Four Seasons Otemachi in Tokyo, Japan.
Not the best subject but a quick test with my new 1.4x tc paired with the Sony 200-600 lens and the Sony A9ii body. f9 ISO 1000 and 1/1600 sec shutter speed. Amazingly the eye detection worked even though on the A9ii it is animal eye rather than bird eye specific.
Shorebirds of Ireland, Freshwater Birds of Ireland and The Birds of Ireland: A Field Guide with Jim Wilson.
www.markcarmodyphotography.com
The Mediterranean gull (Larus melanocephalus) is a small gull. This gull breeds almost entirely in the Western Palearctic, mainly in the south east, especially around the Black Sea, and in central Turkey. There are colonies elsewhere in southern Europe, and this species has undergone a dramatic range expansion in recent decades.
The Mediterranean Gull is slightly larger and bulkier than the Black-headed Gull with a heavier bill and longer, darker legs. The breeding plumage adult is a distinctive white gull, with a very pale grey mantle and wings with white primary feathers without black tips. The black hood extends down the nape and shows distinct white eye crescents. The blunt tipped, parallel sided, dark red bill has a black subterminal band. The non breeding adult is similar but the hood is reduced to an extensive dusky "bandit" mask through the eye. This bird takes two years to reach maturity. First year birds have a black terminal tail band and more black areas in the upperwings, but have pale underwings. (wikipedia)
A recent colonist, the Mediterranean Gull arrived in Ireland in 1995 and first bred in the Republic in 1996 in Co. Wexford. Prefers low lying islands near the coast on which to breed. Only two or three pairs breed but this is likely to increase with more and more birds seen in suitable habitat in the breeding season. Regularly breeds, at Ladies Island Lake in Co. Wexford, along with other nesting seabirds, including Black-headed Gulls, with which it is often associated. In winter, Ireland attracts birds from northwest France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland and the Baltic States, occurring from September to April.
Dublin Bay is a good place to see them in winter.
Name: Yellow-crowned barbet
Scientific: Psilopogon henricii
Malay: Takor Mahkota Kuning / Takur Kepala Kuning / Takur Ubun Kuning
Family: Megalaimidae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2017): Near Threatened
Gear: SONY a9II + SEL200600G + SEL14TC.
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