Category: Birds
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Vultures
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Don’t confuse buffalos with landing strips!
You should think that most cattle birds never heard about this injunction. They use African Buffalos as landing strips and these big cows as as source of food while they remove the parasites from their skin. African Buffalos (nearly) without birds Buffalos and birds Here, we see a fast airplane in final approach, or is…
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Helmeted Guineafowl
Splendid representant of the guineafowl bird family, Numididae, a brightly colored bird with a bare head, can be found all around the Masai Mara National Park. Unfortunately, it is always running out of the path of the photographer. Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris, Pintade de Numidie). Kenya, September 2008.
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Back from Masai Mara
After about 10 days out of France, I am back from the Masai Mara National Reserve (in Kenya). I brought back about 30 GB of wildlife photos (around 1700-1800 images) to be sorted out in the coming days. You can expect series of published images here on a regular basis.
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Macrophoto and bird
I assume that the lens choice was not the right one. Unfortunately, I could not find the author of this image.
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An owl and its prey
I was unable to identify the author of this very nice picture.
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Pink flamingo
Click on the thumbnails image to enlarge them Pink flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber, Flamant rose). Brazil, 2007.
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Roseate Spoonbill
Click on the thumbnails image to enlarge them Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja, Spatule rosée). Brazil, 2007.
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Collared Plover
Click on the thumbnails image to enlarge them Collared Plover (Charadrius collaris, Pluvier d’Azara). Brazil, 2007.