Category: Photo safari

  • Kenya safari video

    Source: http://www.coreybehnke.com/.

  • Elephants protection in Africa

    Elephants protection in Africa

    Elephants are -generally speaking- a species endangered in Africa. They have been vigorously hunted for the ivory of their tusks (sometimes for the mere pleasure of hunting big game) and poaching is still intense of many African countries (from de 1.5 million animals in 1970, we are now down to around 500,000 pachyderms). The largest…

  • Sunbittern

    Sunbittern

    Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Sunbittern (Eurypyga helias, Caurale soleil). Brazil, 2007.

  • Neotropic Cormorant

    Neotropic Cormorant

    The Cormorant is clearly a bird easy to find anywhere you can find some water. In Pantanal, the Neotropic Cormorant lives along rivers and is easily seen spreading its wings in the sun while not diving for fishes. Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Neotropic Cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus, Cormoran vigua). Brazil, 2007.

  • Saffron Finch

    Saffron Finch

    Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Saffron Finch (Sicalis flaveola, Sicale bouton-d’or). Brazil, 2007.

  • Please, remove the little frog

    Please, remove the little frog

    In a Pantanal fazenda, inside the room, we could find those information signs. In addition to the most usual “Do not disturb” and “make the room”, we could notice the most unusual “Please remove little frog from bathroom”. As a matter of fact, the little guy was waiting in the shower. Brazil, 2007.

  • Vulture

    Vulture

    Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Vulture (in flight). Brazil, 2007.

  • Yellow-rumped Cacique

    Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Yellow-rumped Cacique (Cacicus cela, Cassique à cul-jaune). Brazil, 2007.

  • Backlit tree

    Backlit tree

    Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Backlit tree. Brazil, 2007.