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Spot-breasted Parrotbill
The spot-breasted parrotbill (Paradoxornis guttaticollis) is a species of bird in the Sylviidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Blue-winged Minla
The blue-winged minla (Actinodura cyanouroptera), also known as the blue-winged siva, is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae.
It has in the past been placed in the genus Minla and also in the monotypic Siva.
It is found in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, ranging across Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Tibet, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Published on the National Geographic blog... blog.nationalgeographic.org/2019/02/01/top-25-wild-bird-p...
Taken in very windy and really cold weather conditions in February. Near the visitors center. Infrared
This wasn't what I was hoping for when I headed out to the mountains to photograph the hunter's moon. You can't even see the freakin moon! Stupid weather. The clouds do really bring out the colour in the water though, which is 100% natural.
While I was hanging out a photo workshop showed up and the place was buzzing with about 25 people walking through each other's shots. No hunter's moon for anyone.
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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.
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.
Large Scimitar Babbler
The large scimitar babbler (Pomatorhinus hypoleucos) is a species of bird in the family Timaliidae. It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
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.
Red-faced Liocichla
The red-faced liocichla (Liocichla phoenicea) is a species of bird in the Leiothrichidae family. The scarlet-faced liocichla was formerly considered a subspecies.
L. phoenicea is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Northeast India, Nepal and western Yunnan. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Red-faced Liocichla
The red-faced liocichla (Liocichla phoenicea) is a species of bird in the Leiothrichidae family. The scarlet-faced liocichla was formerly considered a subspecies.
L. phoenicea is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Northeast India, Nepal and western Yunnan. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Blue-banded Kingfisher
The blue-banded kingfisher (Alcedo euryzona), is a species of kingfisher in the subfamily Alcedininae. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical mangrove forest, and rivers.
The first formal description of the blue-banded kingfisher was by the Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck in 1830. In his initial publication the binomial name was incorrectly printed as Alcedo cryzona but this was later corrected to Alcedo euryzona. The specific epithet euryzona is from the classical Greek eurus meaning "broad" and zōnē meaning "band" or "belt".
Two subspecies are recognised:
A. e. peninsulae Laubmann, 1941 – south Myanmar, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, southwestern Thailand and Borneo
A. e. euryzona Temminck, 1830 – Java
In a world list of non-passerine species published in 2014, del Hoyo and colleagues promoted A. e. peninsulae to species status with the vernacular name "Malay blue-banded kingfisher".
Status: Critically Endangered
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.
Mandarin duck / Ente ( Aix galericulata) female bird , at the littoral zone from a small water channel 18122021
Streak-eared Bulbul
The streak-eared bulbul (Pycnonotus conradi) is a member of the bulbul family of passerine birds. It is found from Thailand and northern and central Malay Peninsula to southern Indochina. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
The streak-eared bulbul was originally described in the genus Criniger. Until 2016, the streak-eared bulbul was considered to be conspecific with the Ayeyarwady bulbul while still using the name 'streak-eared bulbul' (as Pycnonotus blanfordi).
Billy Corgan – Smashing Pumpkins!
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Siberian Rubythroat
The Siberian rubythroat (Calliope calliope) is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family, Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher of the family Muscicapidae. The Siberian rubythroat and similar small European species are often called chats.
It is a migratory insectivorous species breeding in mixed coniferous forests with undergrowth in Siberia. It nests near the ground. It winters in Thailand, India, Indonesia and Bangladesh. It is an extremely rare vagrant to Western Europe, having occurred on a very few occasions as far west as Britain. It is also an extremely rare vagrant to the Aleutian Islands, most notably on Attu Island.
This species is slightly larger than the European robin. It is plain brown above except for the distinctive black tail with red side patches. It has a strong white supercilium. The male has a red throat edged with a narrow black and then a broad white border. It has a strong white supercilium. Females lack the brightly coloured throat and borders. The male has a song similar to a harder version of the garden warbler.
The Siberian rubythroat was previously placed in the genus Luscinia. A large molecular phylogenetic study published in 2010 found that Luscinia was not monophyletic. The genus was therefore split and several species including the Siberian rubythroat as the type species were moved to the reinstated genus Calliope. Calliope, from classical Greek meaning beautiful-voiced, was one of the muses in Greek mythology and presided over eloquence and heroic poetry.
White-browed Laughingthrush
The white-browed laughingthrush (Pterorhinus sannio) is a bird species in the family Leiothrichidae. It is found in China, Hong Kong, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
This species was formerly placed in the genus Garrulax but following the publication of a comprehensive molecular phylogenetic study in 2018, it was moved to the resurrected genus Pterorhinus.
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.
Red-faced Liocichla
The red-faced liocichla (Liocichla phoenicea) is a species of bird in the Leiothrichidae family. The scarlet-faced liocichla was formerly considered a subspecies.
L. phoenicea is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Northeast India, Nepal and western Yunnan. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Banded Broadbill
The banded broadbill (Eurylaimus javanicus) is a species of bird in the Eurylaimidae family. It is found in Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is a large broadbill (21.5–23 cm), with purple, yellow and black plumage. It eats predominantly insects, including grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, various beetles, caterpillars and larvae.
Status: Near Threatened
Green-tailed Sunbird (Female)
The green-tailed sunbird (Aethopyga nipalensis) or Nepal yellow-backed sunbird is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae.
It is found in the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent, stretching eastwards into parts of Southeast Asia.
Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. In southeast Szechwan and Yunnan, it lives in open mountain woods with moss-covered trees, from 1825 to 3350 meters elevation.
Large Scimitar Babbler
The large scimitar babbler (Pomatorhinus hypoleucos) is a species of bird in the family Timaliidae. It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
Large Scimitar Babbler
The large scimitar babbler (Pomatorhinus hypoleucos) is a species of bird in the family Timaliidae. It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
Puff-throated Babbler
The puff-throated babbler or spotted babbler (Pellorneum ruficeps) is a species of passerine bird found in Asia. They are found in scrub and moist forest mainly in hilly regions. They forage in small groups on the forest floor, turning around leaf litter to find their prey and usually staying low in the undergrowth where they can be hard to spot. They however have loud and distinct calls, including a morning song, contact and alarm calls. It is the type species of the genus Pellorneum which may however currently include multiple lineages.
Puff-throated babblers are brown above, and white below with heavily brown streaks towards the breast and belly. They have a chestnut crown, long buff supercilium and dusky cheeks. The throat is white, and is sometimes puffed out giving it the English name. Puff-throated babblers have strong legs, and spend a lot of time on the forest floor. They can often be seen creeping through undergrowth in search of their insect food, looking at first glance like a song thrush. Some subspecies have streaks on the mantle while others, especially in Peninsular India, are unstreaked.
The widespread distribution with population variations has led to nearly thirty subspecies being described. The nominate population is found in peninsular India (excluding the Western Ghats). The population in the northern Eastern Ghats is paler and has been called as pallidum while a well marked dark form occurs in the southern Western Ghats which has been named granti (includes olivaceum). The western Himalayas population is punctatum (includes jonesi) and in the east is mandellii which has streaking on the back and nape apart from having call differences. In the east of India, south of the Brahmaputra River occurs chamelum while ripley is found in a small region in eastern Assam (Margherita). Further east in Manipur is vocale and pectorale in Arunachal Pradesh and northern Burma with stageri further south, followed by hilarum, victoriae and minus. Further east are found shanense, subochraceum, insularum, indistinctum, chtonium, elbeli, acrum, oreum, dusiti, vividum, ubonense, euroum, deignani, dilloni and smithi. Several others have been described and many populations are difficult to assign to subspecies.This is the type species for the genus Pellorneum and its generic placement is assured although other species currently included in the genus may be reassigned.
This bird is a common resident breeder in the Himalayas and the forests of Asia. Like most babblers, it is not migratory, and has short rounded wings and a weak flight. Its habitat is scrub and bamboo thickets and forages by turning over leaves to find insects.
White-capped Redstart
The white-capped redstart or white-capped water redstart (Phoenicurus leucocephalus) is a passerine bird of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.
Both genders are black with red underparts and white crown atop their heads. Males have larger white pattern on top of the head and brown red spots under the wings. It is found in the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia, as well as some adjoining areas. The species ranges across Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Tibet and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is temperate forests.
This species was formerly placed in the monotypic genus Chaimarrornis but was moved to Phoenicurus based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2010.
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.
Large Scimitar Babbler
The large scimitar babbler (Pomatorhinus hypoleucos) is a species of bird in the family Timaliidae. It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
Large Scimitar Babbler
The large scimitar babbler (Pomatorhinus hypoleucos) is a species of bird in the family Timaliidae. It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
White-gorgeted Flycatcher
The white-gorgeted flycatcher (Anthipes monileger) is a species of passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family.
It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It was formerly placed in the genus Ficedula.
Blue-eared Kingfisher
The blue-eared kingfisher (Alcedo meninting) is found in Asia, ranging across the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. It is found mainly in dense shaded forests where it hunts in small streams. It is darker crowned, with darker rufous underparts and lacking the rufous ear stripe of the common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) which is found in more open habitats. A number of subspecies have been described that differ in measurement and colour shade. Adult males have an all dark bill while females have a reddish lower mandible.
Several plumage variations in the population that occur across its wide distribution range have been recognized as subspecies:
A. m. coltarti Baker ECS, 1919 – Nepal, northeast India, northern Thailand and Indochina
A. m. phillipsi Baker ECS, 1927 – southwest India and Sri Lanka
A. m. scintillans Baker ECS, 1919 – southern Myanmar and Thailand
A. m. rufigastra Walden, 1873 – Andaman Islands
A. m. meninting Horsfield, 1821 – southern Malay Peninsula, Borneo, southern Philippines, Islands off the west coast of Sumatra, Java, Lombok, Sulawesi, Banggai and Sula Islands.
Some other subspecies such as verreauxii, callima, subviridis and proxima are not considered to be sufficiently distinct.
This 16 centimetres (6.3 in) long kingfisher is almost identical to the common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) but is distinguished by the blue ear coverts, darker and more intense cobalt-blue upperparts with richer rufous under parts. The juvenile blue-eared kingfisher has rufous ear-coverts as in the common kingfisher but it usually shows some mottling on the throat and upper breast which disappears when the bird reaches adulthood. Young birds have a reddish bill with whitish tips.
The range of this species stretches from India in the west, eastwards across Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh, and further into Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Malaysia. The usual habitat is pools or streams in dense evergreen forest and sometimes mangroves, situated under 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) of altitude.
The blue-eared kingfisher is largely resident within its range. They usually perch on branches overhanging densely shaded streams before diving below to capture prey that includes crustaceans, dragonfly larvae and fish. Other insects including grasshoppers and mantids have been recorded.
The breeding season in India is mainly May to June in northern India and January in southwestern India. The nest is a metre long tunnel in the bank of a forest stream where about five to seven white near spherical eggs are laid.
Large Scimitar Babbler
The large scimitar babbler (Pomatorhinus hypoleucos) is a species of bird in the family Timaliidae. It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
Large Scimitar Babbler
The large scimitar babbler (Pomatorhinus hypoleucos) is a species of bird in the family Timaliidae. It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
Top 25 Wild Bird Photographs of the Week: Forest. Large Scimitar Babbler & Lesser Necklaced Laughingthrush, Ban Nong Nam, Kaeng Krachan National Park, Thailand - November 22, 2019: blog.nationalgeographic.org/2019/11/22/top-25-wild-bird-p...
Sooty-headed Bulbul
The Sooty-headed Bulbul (Pycnonotus aurigaster) is a species of songbird in the Bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. It is found in south-eastern Asia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
The Sooty-headed Bulbul was originally described in the genus Turdus. Alternate names for the sooty-headed bulbul include the golden-vented bulbul and several names used for other species (black-capped, red-vented, white-eared and yellow-vented bulbul).
White-bellied Redstart
The white-bellied redstart (Luscinia phaenicuroides) is a species of bird of the family Muscicapidae. It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, and Vietnam, where its natural habitat is temperate forests.
The white-bellied redstart was previously the only species in the genus Hodgsonius. A large molecular phylogenetic study published in 2010 found that the white-bellied redstart formed part of a clade that included the common nightingale. The species was therefore moved to Luscinia.
A few years ago I took the shot at our Queen Elizabeth Park.
Don't you think the cherry blossoms fell down due to wind breezes. It was actually the wedding photographers (and the assistant) who did the shot and they shake off the blossoms to create this! :o)
Happy Thursday!
The following is the original story.
I know. This is such a big cliché.
Please excuse me. Spring is the season for love and I am silly photo buff who shoots in “bad light” and shoots cliché.
I would like to send my blessings to the couple who were having their wedding shoot in Queen Elizabeth Park Sunday morning. Their two photographers were on the right hand side outside the frame. Of course they have better angle than me.
It was also their photographers shaking off the petals from the branches in order to create the effect.
This is my candid shot for cherry blossoms this year. :o)
Have a great Monday and great week ahead!
White-bellied Redstart
The white-bellied redstart (Luscinia phaenicuroides) is a species of bird of the family Muscicapidae. It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, and Vietnam, where its natural habitat is temperate forests.
The white-bellied redstart was previously the only species in the genus Hodgsonius. A large molecular phylogenetic study published in 2010 found that the white-bellied redstart formed part of a clade that included the common nightingale. The species was therefore moved to Luscinia.
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.
Large Scimitar Babbler
The large scimitar babbler (Pomatorhinus hypoleucos) is a species of bird in the family Timaliidae. It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
Large Scimitar Babbler
The large scimitar babbler (Pomatorhinus hypoleucos) is a species of bird in the family Timaliidae. It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
Red-faced Liocichla
The red-faced liocichla (Liocichla phoenicea) is a species of bird in the Leiothrichidae family. The scarlet-faced liocichla was formerly considered a subspecies.
L. phoenicea is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Northeast India, Nepal and western Yunnan. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
The zoo is shut at walton but i was asked to do some pics of them to send to the local press --theres 4 babies this year with 2 mum goats one of them in pic
Last night I had an idea for an image I thought I might be able to capture so I headed over to the West end of Grimsby, specifically to the Welcome Centre at Casablanca Blvd and the South Service Road. I quickly realized the concept was not going to work so I proceeded to look around for what else I might capture. As it turns out, the Welcome Centre is also a GO Bus stop and a woman was sitting in the shelter awaiting her bus. The lighting was horrible: green metal arc inside the shelter and orange sodium vapour throughout the parking lot, although, in the end, I think it made the image. With a bit of moving around I found this composition which seemed to have a bit of an Edward Hopper look. - JW
Date Taken: 2022-09-31
(c) Copyright 2022 JW Vraets
Tech Details:
Taken using a hand-held Nikon D800 fitted with an AF-S Nikkor 24-120mm VR 1:4.0 lense set to 66mm, ISO100, Auto WB, Matrix metering, Aperture Priority Mode, f/8.0, 3 sec with an EV-0.33 exposure bias. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: set final image size to be 9000px wide, crop to a 16:9 format and apply perspective correction as well as level the image, enable Tone Mapping as well as Dynamic Range Compression (both a default levels), use the Graduated Neutral Density/GND tool to slightly darken the roof areas of the structure, increase Contrast and Chromaticity in L-A-B mode, use the Shadows/Highlights tool to significantly recover highlights (especially in the overhead lighting), further recover highlight detail by using Tone Curve 2 in Parametric mode to darken the Highlights, set base colour balance by sampling the white face of the paper held by the person in the shelter, boost Vibrance a bit, sharpen (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: use the Levels tool in Auto mode to set a good base overall tonality, slightly increase overall contrast, sharpen, save, scale image to 7000 px wide, sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 3600 px wide for posting online.
Went to Dublin hoping for good weather and it was typical Irish overcast/rain. I did wander the famous Trinity College campus and found nice views.
The iconic Campanile was built in 1853.
This is my nephew's eye ;). I've been jealous of his long lashes since he was born :P.
Sorry about the lack of uploads over the last few days - I just haven't gotten around to taking any pictures, and I'm kinda sick of my usual style, so..
Well, this is certainly not anything like my usual style ;).
Crop suggestions anyone??
Got to Explore as #260 on Sunday, November 4, 2007
Streak-eared Bulbul
The streak-eared bulbul (Pycnonotus conradi) is a member of the bulbul family of passerine birds. It is found from Thailand and northern and central Malay Peninsula to southern Indochina. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
The streak-eared bulbul was originally described in the genus Criniger. Until 2016, the streak-eared bulbul was considered to be conspecific with the Ayeyarwady bulbul while still using the name 'streak-eared bulbul' (as Pycnonotus blanfordi).