Bird photography is one of the most popular genres of nature photography. This should come as no surprise since birding is one of the world's most popular pastimes. Birds have nature of flying and spent lifetime of moments enjoying them for what they are; harbingers of song and flight, beauty and grace.
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Bird Photography is a difficult job , requiring specialized skills and equipment. It does not means simply pick up a camera used capturing photos. Best photographer captures compelling avian images.
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Taiwan Rosefinch (Carpodacus formosanus): The Taiwan rosefinch (Carpodacus formosanus) is a species of finch in the family Fringillidae. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the vinaceous rosefinch. It is endemic to Taiwan. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical dry forests.
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Greater Bluebonnet (Northiella haematogaster): The Eastern Bluebonnet (also known as Greater Bluebonnet) – Northiella haematogaster (Gould, 1838) – is a small parrot from Australia. It was previously classified as Psephotus haematogaster but in 1994 it was moved to the Northiella genus. A breeding pair will form a very strong bond for life. They are common among breeders in Europe but less common in USA. They are usually seen in pairs or small groups of up to 20 birds.
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Speckled Tanager (Ixothraupis guttata): The speckled tanager (Ixothraupis guttata) is a medium-sized passerine bird.
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Grey-breasted Mountain-toucan (Andigena hypoglauca): The grey-breasted mountain toucan (Andigena hypoglauca) is a species of bird in the family Ramphastidae found in humid highland forest, often at the tops of the trees, in the Andes of southern Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. It remains locally fairly common, but has declined due to habitat loss. A wide variety of fruits and berries are eaten and this species is often more willing than most largish toucans to leave the canopy to eat raspberries near the base of the trees. They tend to remain quiet while flying and are known to mix often with other birds while foraging, including larger species of tanagers, thrushes and icterids, both behavior unusual in toucans.
Pink-throated Twinspot: The Pink throated Twinspot is also an endemic resident to the Southern Africa region, occurring only from Southern Mozambique through Eastern Eswatini, down to the Northern Kwazulu-Natal coastline. The Pink throated Twinspot is easily identified by its pink face, throat, breast and rump. It has a brown crown and back. Other than the Green Twinspot it favours dry tropical and sub-tropical thickets, dense woodland and forest edges.
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Red-legged Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes cyaneus): his species is found from southern Mexico to central Brazil and Bolivia.
Leucistic Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulous): This is a Bohemian waxwing with a mutation known as leucism, which causes partial loss of pigment (unlike albinism which is total loss). Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) is a vagrant bird in India. Size: 18 cm. Although the Bohemian Waxwing occurs in the northern part of Czechoslovakia (Bohemia), it is actually so named for its wandering nature.
Sultan Tit (Melanochlora sultanea): The sultan tit (Melanochlora sultanea) is an Asian forest bird with a yellow crest, dark bill, black upperparts plumage and yellow underparts. The sexes are similar. The female has greenish-black upperparts and a yellowish throat.
American Kestrel (Falco sparverius): The American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) is the smallest and most common falcon in North America.
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Varied Bunting (Passerina versicolor): A varied bunting (Passerina genus) is a small songbird that belongs to the Passeriformes order of the cardinal bird family. They usually prefer thorny and dense habitats. These birds are not shy in nature and can be seen in their range abundantly. These beautiful birds do not like populated areas.
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Cattle Egrets (Bubulcus ibis): The Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis) is a cosmopolitan species of heron (family Ardeidae) found in the tropics, subtropics and warm temperate zones. It is the only member of the monotypic genus Bubulcus, although some authorities regard its two subspecies as full species, the Western Cattle Egret and the Eastern Cattle Egret. Despite the similarities in plumage to the egrets of the genus Egretta, it is more closely related to the herons of Ardea. Originally native to parts of Asia, Africa and Europe, it has undergone a rapid expansion in its distribution and successfully colonised much of the rest of the world.
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Blue Whistling Thrush (Myophonus caeruleus): The Blue Whistling Thrush (Myophonus caeruleus) is a whistling thrush present in the mountains of Central Asia, China and Southeast Asia. It is known for its loud human-like whistling song at dawn and dusk. The widely distributed populations show variations in size and plumage with several of them considered as subspecies. Like others in the genus, they feed on the ground, often along streams and in damp places foraging for snails, crabs, fruits and insects.
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Green-tailed Sunbird (Aethopyga nipalensis): The green-tailed sunbird or Nepal yellow-backed sunbird is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae. This species has a very large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence 30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size has not been quantified, but it is not believed to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure).
Laughing Dove (Spilopelia senegalensis): The laughing dove (Spilopelia senegalensis) is a small pigeon that is a resident breeder in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Western Australia where it has established itself in the wild around Perth and Fremantle. This small long-tailed dove is found in dry scrub and semi-desert habitats where pairs can often be seen feeding on the ground. A rufous and black chequered necklace gives it a distinctive pattern and is also easily distinguished from other doves by its call.
Chinspot Batis (Batis molitor): The chinspot batis (Batis molitor) is a small songbird of the genus Batis in the family Platysteiridae which is a common and widespread species in the woodlands of southern Africa from the Eastern Cape north to 3°N in southern Kenya and Gabon. It forms a superspecies with other rather similar members of the genus Batis.
Ruby-topaz Hummingbird (Chrysolampis mosquitus) : The ruby-topaz hummingbird (Chrysolampis mosquitus), commonly referred to simply as the ruby topaz, is a species of hummingbird in the subfamily Polytminae, the mangoes. It is found in Aruba, Bolivia, Bonaire, Brazil, Colombia, Curaçao, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. The ruby-topaz hummingbird is 8 to 9.5 cm (3.1 to 3.7 in) long and weighs 2.5 to 5 g (0.09 to 0.18 oz). Its almost straight, black bill is relatively short compared to those of most other hummingbirds. The male has dark brown upperparts with an olive gloss.
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Brazilian Tanager (Ramphocelus bresilius): The Brazilian tanager (Ramphocelus bresilius) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is endemic to eastern Brazil and far northeastern Argentina, occurring in the coastal region from Paraíba and southwards to Santa Catarina and Misiones. The Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus described the Brazilian tanager in 1766 in the twelfth edition of his Systema Naturae. He coined the binomial name Tanagra bresilia.[2] It is now placed in the genus Ramphocelus which was introduced by the French zoologist Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest in 1805.
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Tui (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae): The tūī is a boisterous medium-sized bird native to New Zealand. It is blue, green, and bronze colored with a distinctive white throat tuft.