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Taken last winter in Florida.
Took a bit of break from photography the last couple of weeks to watch the Australian Open.
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A rare vagrant in Iceland. This is probably the same bird I photographed last month but it has now moved to a new location. Better light this time around.
for a Happy Sunday!
Moss rose / Portulakröschen (Portulaca grandiflora)
in our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend
Plegadis falcinellus, Mignattaio Roma Italia
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When I was in Mexico, I saw a large group of glossy ibises wading through the water. I may have a nice flight shot of a group of them, but the rest had a rather mediocre quality, and it remembered me that I had seen a glossy ibis earlier in the Netherlands last year!
I saw this wonderful bird in the Marker Wadden, a recently developed nature area in the Markerlake, which is nowadays a bird- and birdwatchersparadise.
I promise no more Ibis shots for awhile but, I wanted to put this one next to the White-faced I posted yesterday so easy to see the difference.
I did even have to go to Florida to find this lifer. He seems to have gotten himself lost with a bunch of White-faced Ibis and made his way to Colorado! As I was photographing a flock of at least 100 White-faced Ibis this beauty came into my lens. Imagine my surprise.
Glossy Ibis have dark eyes and bluish color around their face where White face have red eyes and pink around their faces.
subadult birds in the rice fields of the Tagus Estuary, near Lisbon, Portugal
In a full day we saw a few thousand of these in that area and a similar number of Flamingoes.
After the harvesting of the rice the food in the water had become accessible for the water birds and for a number of waders/shorebirds
Plegadis falcinellus
zwarte ibis
Ibis falcinelle
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This Glossy Ibis, in winter (non-breeding) plumage was seen on the Black Point Wildlife Drive at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. His head and neck will become a rich rusty color in breeding plumage. When the light hits at the correct oblique angle, their feathers become very iridescent.
Although I have seen Glossy Ibis throughout Florida over the last few years, it was usually from a fast-moving car. This was the first occasion to see them in considerable numbers, fairly closeup.
This Glossy Ibis was successfully foraging in the muddy water for some food.
This photograph was taken in Camargue NP, France.
-Plegadis falcinellus
On the matter of iridescence, who wears it better? Seen flying over the Rookery, Ocean City, New Jersey.