Category: Birds

  • Flight of great egrets

    Flight of great egrets

    Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Great egret (Ardea alba, Grande aigrette). Brazil, 2007.

  • White-headed Marsh-Tyrant (Brazil)

    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.

  • Black-collared Hawk

    Black-collared Hawk

    Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them Black-collared Hawk (Busarellus nigricollis, Buse à tête blanche).

  • Limpkin in Pantanal, Brazil

    Limpkin in Pantanal, Brazil

    Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Limpkin (Aramus guarauna, Courlan brun). Shot in Brazil, October 2007.

  • Plumbeous Ibis

    Plumbeous Ibis

    Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Plumbeous Ibis (Theristicus caerulescens, Ibis plombé). Shot in Brazil, 2007.

  • Cocoi heron

    Cocoi heron

      Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them In my eyes, this is one of the nicest great herons, despite being very common in Brazil. Cocoi heron (Ardea cocoi, héron cocoï).

  • Whistling Heron

    Whistling Heron

    Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Whistling Heron (Syrigma sibilatrix, Héron flûte-du-soleil). Shot in Brazil, 2007.

  • Herons in the Pantanal

    Herons in the Pantanal

    Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Rufescent Tiger-heron, (Tigrisoma lineatum, Héron tigre). Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Green-backed heron, (Butorides striatus, Héron strié).

  • Hyacinth Macaw

    Hyacinth Macaw

    Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them One of the most spectacular birds in Amazonia: Marvellous deep cobalt blue feathers on a one-meter long body, 1.5m wide wings. Hyacinth Macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus, Ara hyacinthe). Brazil, 2007.