Welcome to the “Best Photo of the Week” competition showcasing and celebrating the biodiversity of Planet Earth. This week’s featured image: Booted Racket-tail hummingbird (Ocreatus underwoodii) flying while feeding at a flower in Ecuador, South America by Glenn Bartley Voting is easy and lots of fun. First click an image and browse through the slideshow. Then […]
Category: Wildlife
Birding and Photography Ethics
I’ve been an avid photographer for just about all this millennium, but I only became significantly interested in birding and wildlife photography after I received my 400mm lens and moved to Florida. I spent my early months here driving around wildlife loops and photographing whatever birds I saw. Eventually, I wanted to photograph more diversity […]
European green woodpecker
European green woodpecker – Last pictures of the series I took during the short snow episode that brought me great luck with the Goshawk female hunting a pheasant. These are not pictures you can hope taking easily; since I won’t have another chance at witnessing such a scarce scene, I enjoyed the moment fully… Enough […]
Great Blue Heron with Crayfish
This morning I saw a Great Blue Heron by the shore of the pond at Audubon Park. I thought it was in pretty good light for a photo, so I decided to take a photo. As I knelt down the heron struck the water and came up with a crayfish. He didn’t take long to […]
A Fun Day for Sparrows and Buntings
Yesterday I went to my favorite little sparrow spot in Seminole County. It has been fantastic to us this winter, since we’ve been able to see Grasshopper Sparrow, Vesper Sparrow, Song Sparrow, White-crowned Sparrow, Lincoln’s Sparrow, and even a Lark Sparrow, not to mention our more commons species: Savannah, Swamp and Chipping Sparrows. However, since […]
Mosqueta cabeza canela (Ochre-faced Tody-Flycatcher) Poecilotriccus plumbeiceps
El 8 de Diciembre pasado fuimos por última vez en el año al Parque provincial Crovetto a pasar el día con el grupo, la elevada temperatura que tuvimos que soportar durante toda la jornada no nos permitió registrar muchas especies de aves e inclusive tuvimos que regresar antes de tiempo a Posadas porque una típica […]
Chacurú cara negra (White-eared Puffbird) Nystalus chacuru
Durante los últimos cinco años que salimos entre amigos a recorrer caminos vecinales de la provincia para ver pájaros hemos sido testigos directos de la acelerada explotación de los recursos naturales, observamos desde la primera fila como el desmonte avanza cada vez mas constituyéndose en una clara amenaza para el futuro de esta actividad. La […]
A Birthday Gift to Stop the Illegal Slaughter of Migrating Birds
The countdown has started – in only 18 days the Dutch Knights, represented by Martijn Verdoes, Marc Guyt & Gert Ottens, will take part in the biggest birding event of the year – the Champions of the Flyway 2015. This is a fundraising event to stop the illegal trapping and slaughter of millions of migrating […]