Birds Of The Indian Subcontinent
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also taken today
also called Common Stonechat or European Stonechat
saxicola rubicola
roodborsttapuit
tarier pâtre
Schwarzkehlchen
Tarabilla europea
Saltimpalo
cartaxo
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Athene noctua
Little Owl
steenuil
Chevêche d'Athéna ou Chouette chevêche
Steinkauz
Mochuelo Europeo
Civetta
Mocho-galego
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Revisited image, reprocessed. Captured with a 50mm lens so I was pretty close to her. The very focused Puma is Viktoria - Photographed in 2018 at Big Cat Sanctuary
This fairly shy species lives in and near hedges.
It has a pleasant song
prunella modularis
heggenmus
accenteur mouchet
Heckenbraunelle
Acentor Común
Passera scopaiola
ferreirinha
Nikon Z9
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dendrocopos major
grote bonte specht
pic épeiche
Buntspecht
Pico Picapinos
Picchio rosso maggiore
Pica-pau-malhado-grande
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one of my favorite African birds but not an easy one to photograph as contrary to other starlings it prefers to forage in the canopy of trees.
The female has entirely different plumage and looks more like a thrush
Lake Manyara NP, Tanzania
previously known as the Plum-coloured Starling or the Amethyst Starling
Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
Amethistspreeuw
Étourneau améthyste
Amethystglanzstar
Estornino amatista
Storno ametista
estorinho-de-dorso-violeta
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female Puma in Torres del Paine, Patagonia, Chile
puma concolor
poema
Puma
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Para ellos, hacer equilibrios no tiene secretos. Adoptan cualquier postura, por inverosimil que sea, para poder acceder a las semillas y los pequeños insectos que pueda encontrar en los puros de las eneas.
Para los fotógrafos es un desafío poder captarlos en estas posturas por el dinamismo que otorgan a la foto.
North Chinese Leopards are stealthy but extremely fast as you can see here. Blink and you miss her. This is the lovely, but speedy Atara. Today is her 15th birthday!
in a forest a week ago
also called Pied Flycatcher
Ficedula hypoleuca
bonte vliegenvanger
Gobemouche noir
Trauerschnäpper
Papamoscas Cerrojillo
Balia nera
papa-moscas
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Pied Flycatcher (M) - Ficedula hypoleuca
The European pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family. One of the four species of Western Palearctic black-and-white flycatchers, it hybridizes to a limited extent with the collared flycatcher. It breeds in most of Europe and western Asia.
It is migratory, wintering mainly in tropical Africa.
It usually builds its nests in holes on oak trees. This species practices polygyny, usually bigamy, with the male travelling large distances to acquire a second mate. The male will mate with the secondary female and then return to the primary female in order to help with aspects of child rearing, such as feeding.
The European pied flycatcher is mainly insectivorous, although its diet also includes other arthropods. This species commonly feeds on spiders, ants, bees and similar prey.
The European pied flycatcher predominately practices a mixed mating system of monogamy and polygyny. Their mating system has also been described as successive polygyny. Within the latter system, the males leave their home territory once their primary mates lays their first eggs. Males then create a second territory, presumably in order to attract a secondary female to breed. Even when they succeed at acquiring a second mate, the males typically return to the first female to exclusively provide for her and her offspring.
Males will sometimes care for both mates if the nests of the primary and secondary female are close together. The male may also care for both mates once the offspring of the primary female have fledged. The male bird usually does not exceed two mates, practicing bigamy. Only two cases of trigyny had been observed.
Population:
UK breeding:
17,000-20,000 pairs
Sand Forest is an increasingly rare habitat found in Kwazulu Natal (South Africa) and southern Mozambique. Many interesting mammals and birds inhabit these beautiful forests.`
This male Narina Trogon was - as usual - sitting with its back to us and then it moved to this spot for just a brief moment.
apaloderma narina
narinatrogon
trogon narina
Narinatrogon
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Taken locally on our walks!
Chiffchaff - Phylloscopus collybita
The common chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita), or simply the chiffchaff, is a common and widespread leaf warbler which breeds in open woodlands throughout northern and temperate Europe and Asia.
It is a migratory passerine which winters in southern and western Europe, southern Asia and north Africa. Greenish-brown above and off-white below, it is named onomatopoeically for its simple chiff-chaff song. It has a number of subspecies, some of which are now treated as full species.
This warbler gets its name from its simple distinctive song, a repetitive cheerful chiff-chaff. This song is one of the first avian signs that spring has returned. Its call is a hweet, less disyllabic than the hooeet of the willow warbler or hu-it of the western Bonelli's warbler.
The common chiffchaff breeds across Europe and Asia east to eastern Siberia and north to about 70°N, with isolated populations in northwest Africa, northern and western Turkey and northwestern Iran. It is migratory, but it is one of the first passerine birds to return to its breeding areas in the spring and among the last to leave in late autumn. When breeding, it is a bird of open woodlands with some taller trees and ground cover for nesting purposes. These trees are typically at least 5 metres (16 ft) high, with undergrowth that is an open, poor to medium mix of grasses, bracken, nettles or similar plants. Its breeding habitat is quite specific, and even near relatives do not share it; for example, the willow warbler (P. trochilus) prefers younger trees, while the wood warbler (P. sibilatrix) prefers less undergrowth. In winter, the common chiffchaff uses a wider range of habitats including scrub, and is not so dependent on trees. It is often found near water, unlike the willow warbler which tolerates drier habitats. There is an increasing tendency to winter in western Europe well north of the traditional areas, especially in coastal southern England and the mild urban microclimate of London. These overwintering common chiffchaffs include some visitors of the eastern subspecies abietinus and tristis, so they are certainly not all birds which have bred locally, although some undoubtedly are.
Population:
UK breeding:
1,200,000 territories
UK wintering:
500-1,000 birds
Great Crested Grebe - Podiceps Cristatus
BIRD GUIDES NOTEABALE PHOTO May 26-4 June 2019
The great crested grebe has an elaborate mating display. Like all grebes, it nests on the water's edge, since its legs are set relatively far back and it is thus unable to walk very well. Usually two eggs are laid, and the fluffy, striped young grebes are often carried on the adult's back. In a clutch of two or more hatchlings, male and female grebes will each identify their 'favourites', which they alone will care for and teach
Unusually, young grebes are capable of swimming and diving almost at hatching. The adults teach these skills to their young by carrying them on their back and diving, leaving the chicks to float on the surface; they then re-emerge a few feet away so that the chicks may swim back onto them.
The great crested grebe feeds mainly on fish, but also small crustaceans, insects small frogs and newts.
This species was hunted almost to extinction in the United Kingdom in the 19th century for its head plumes, which were used to decorate hats and ladies' undergarments. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds was set up to help protect this species, which is again a common sight.
The great crested grebe and its behaviour was the subject of one of the landmark publications in avian ethology: Julian Huxley's 1914 paper on The Courtship‐habits of the Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus).
Population:
UK breeding:
4,600 pairs
UK wintering:
19,000 individuals
Great Crested Grebe - Podiceps Cristatus
The great crested grebe has an elaborate mating display. Like all grebes, it nests on the water's edge, since its legs are set relatively far back and it is thus unable to walk very well. Usually two eggs are laid, and the fluffy, striped young grebes are often carried on the adult's back. In a clutch of two or more hatchlings, male and female grebes will each identify their 'favourites', which they alone will care for and teach
Unusually, young grebes are capable of swimming and diving almost at hatching. The adults teach these skills to their young by carrying them on their back and diving, leaving the chicks to float on the surface; they then re-emerge a few feet away so that the chicks may swim back onto them.
The great crested grebe feeds mainly on fish, but also small crustaceans, insects small frogs and newts.
This species was hunted almost to extinction in the United Kingdom in the 19th century for its head plumes, which were used to decorate hats and ladies' undergarments. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds was set up to help protect this species, which is again a common sight.
The great crested grebe and its behaviour was the subject of one of the landmark publications in avian ethology: Julian Huxley's 1914 paper on The Courtship‐habits of the Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus).
Population:
UK breeding:
4,600 pairs
UK wintering:
19,000 individuals
female Tiger in Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh, India. We were the first vehicle that found her on the road marking her territory. Afterwards she went to a pond.
After heavy and late monsoon rains the grass was very tall in many grassland areas in Madhya Pradesh so we could not see her while she was drinking.
There will be more images of this encounter
Bengal Tiger
Panthera tigris tigris
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Now the commonest and most widespread UK bird of prey. The buzzard is quite large with broad, rounded wings, and a short neck and tail. When gliding and soaring it will often hold its wings in a shallow 'V' and the tail is fanned. Buzzards are variable in colour from all dark brown to much paler variations, all have dark wingtips and a finely barred tail. Their plaintive mewing call could be mistaken for a cat.
What they eat: Buzzards tend to eat small mammals, birds and carrion. Even earthworms and large insects when other prey is in short supply.
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American Red Squirrel.
Between 10 5/8 and 15 1/4 inches long. The smallest tree squirrel in its range. Rust-red to grayish red above, brightest on sides; white or grayish-white below. In winter black lines separate reddish back from whitish belly. Tail is similar to back color, but is outlined with broad black band edged with white. In summer its coat is duller. In winter has prominent ear tufts.
They are often abundant in any king of forest: natural coniferous forests, pine plantations, mixed or hardwood forests; often around buildings.
They range throughout much of Alaska and Canada; in the U.S. south through the Rocky Mountain states, in the east south to Iowa, north Illinois, north Indiana, north Ohio, north Virginia and through the Alleghenies.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.
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Peace Valley Park, Doylestown, USA
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It's shots like this that makes it worth the while to lay on the beach even though it's getting harder to get up. A Sanderling with a Sand Flea at Stone Harbor point NJ.
male Deccan Gazelle in Panna Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh, India.
The Deccan Gazelle is a subspecies of the Chinkara or Indian Gazelle.
This small antelope is able to live with minimal water and lives in dry regions of India, Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan.
The males have prominent S-shaped horns and some females have short horns.
gazella bennettii ( subspecies bennettii )
Indische gazelle
Nikon Z9
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Eastern Chipmunk.
Between 8 1/2 to 11 3/4 inches in length. Reddish brown above with a white belly. 1 white stripe bordered by 2 black stripes on sides ending at the rump. 2 white stripes on back much thinner than side stripes. Dark center stripe down the back. Pale facial stripes above and below the eyes. Tail brown on tip and edged with black. Prominent ears.
The Eastern Chipmunk's habitat includes open deciduous woodlands, forest edges, brushy areas, bushes and stone walls in cemeteries and around houses.
They range from southeastern Canada and the north-eastern U.S. east from North Dakota and eastern Oklahoma and south to Missisippi, northwest Carolina and Virginia.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.
also called Greenfinch
chloris chloris
groenvink of groenling
verdier ou verdier d'Europe
Grünfink oder Grünling
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