Category: Digital photography

  • Red-crested Cardinal

    Red-crested Cardinal

    Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Red-crested Cardinal (Paroaria coronata, Paroare huppé). Brazil, 2007.

  • Brazil, Amazonia, a floating life-style

    Brazil, Amazonia, a floating life-style

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  • Parrots and parakeets, Brazil

    Parrots and parakeets, Brazil

    Blue-fronted Parrot (Amazona aestiva, Amazone à front bleu)  Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus, perruche moine or conure souris or conure veuve) Nanday Parakeet (Nandayus nenday, Conure nanday) Yellow-chevroned Parakeet (Brotogeris chiriri, Toui à ailes jaunes) Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them Parrots and parakeets are found everywhere in South American forests. For me, it…

  • Rufous hornero

    Rufous hornero

    Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Rufous hornero (Furnarius rufus, Fournier roux). Brazil, 2007.

  • Amazonia, landscape in 2007

    Amazonia, landscape in 2007

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  • Brazilian bird

    Brazilian bird

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  • Manaus, Brazil

    Manaus, Brazil

        Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them This caiman is the most common crocodilian in the Pantanal (Brazil). It eats exclusively fish. It is easy to approach it just by walking to it (it lets rodents, birds and men approach very near).

  • Brazilian parrots and parakeets

    Brazilian parrots and parakeets

    Yellow-crowned Parrot (Amazona ochrocephala, Amazone à front jaune)  Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus, Perruche moine) Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them Assuredly, parrots and parakeets from Brazil are difficult to identify scientifically. Each species and sub-species is only differing from the next by a few details in feathers. Anyway, colors are pretty impressive.

  • Toco toucan, in flight

    Toco toucan, in flight

    Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it This bird is supposed to be very easy to spot, but it’s only one of the three toucans I saw in nearly three weeks. Toco toucan (Ramphastos toco, Toucan toco). Brazil, 2007. To give you an idea of the difficulty of shooting some of these bird pictures,…