Category: Photo safari
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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.
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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,…
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Masai Mara Safari Camp
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American Black Vulture
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it American Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus, Urubu noir). Brazil, 2007.
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Cinnamon-throated Woodcreeper
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Cinnamon-throated Woodcreeper (Dendrexetastes rufigula, Grimpar à collier). Brazil, 2007.
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Green Caiman, Jacare
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). Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it And this one…
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Lithium batteries in planes – Sequel
It’s even more complex than I thought initially. It’s not that you cannot put Lithium batteries in your hand luggage if you fly by plane starting 1st of January, 2008. It’s quite the opposite: They don’t want your spare batteries in checked luggage. “Spare batteries” means batteries that are not attached to a device (camera,…
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Flight of great egrets
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Great egret (Ardea alba, Grande aigrette). Brazil, 2007.
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White-headed Marsh-Tyrant (Brazil)
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it White-headed Marsh-Tyrant (Arundinicola leucocephala, Moucherolle à tête blanche). Shot in Brazil, 2007.