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Posts: 6457 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03 July 2008 at 21:44
Originally posted by TBMike TBMike wrote:

Beautiful Dotterel shots chthoniid. Looks like they are members of the Sandpiper family.


Family Charadriidae- Plovers (and lapwings) fwiw- birdlife link

Thanks to everyone on the feedback. The challenge is getting close enough on an open beach to take their photos. I'd like to get back to Urupukapuka Island and put in a lot more time crawling closer to them...

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Posts: 533 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03 July 2008 at 22:43
Thanks for link Chthoniid! Another species on the brink.. Makes your shots all the more impressive.

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Posts: 254 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03 July 2008 at 22:58
Great photograph in this new bird shots...12 congratulations to all.
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Excellent captures Momech of a truly exotic bird, have never seen one before and reminds me of a dinosaur.
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Posts: 6457 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 04 July 2008 at 01:45
#2 is a great action shot Momech. Where was the photo taken?

Thanks TBMike. One of the big problems facing most endangered species is they aren't large charismatic species. Most endangered species are pretty non-nondescript, often small- and rarely get much attention.
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Posts: 2934 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 04 July 2008 at 02:23
Thanks Ausgezeichnet and chthoniid. You guys have so many good shots; I'm just trying to hang in there.
Frigatebirds aren't rare around here, but they're not something you see everyday, either. I live on the Gulf Coast of Texas, and they fly in from the Florida Keys or the Caribbean occasionally. Quite a few get blown here when there's a tropical storm moving in from the Atlantic, but this one appears to be a youngster that's doing a little exploring. I found him/her at the LeonaBelle Turnbull Birding Center in Port Aransas, a nice little birding center about 25 miles from my home. A lot of the water bird shots I've posted were taken there.
Interesting factoid about frigatebirds; they don't produce oils to keep their feathers waterproofed, so they can't land in the water, or even get too wet when feeding like this youngster's doing. If they wind up in the water, they can't take off, and usually become "ex-frigatebirds".


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Posts: 525 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 04 July 2008 at 03:07
Nice birds here!! chthoniid I agree with you about endangered species, if it was a flamingo everybody would care cos is a beutiful bird that everybody knows!! Sad but true...

Just a couple of Nigthjars. This ones can only be found here in south Portugal in the summer, in winter they migrate to N africa. They trust so much their camouflage that I managed to get this close with a 300mm

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Posts: 16 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 05 July 2008 at 04:39
A Bluebird from earlier today



Thanks for looking

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Posts: 6457 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 05 July 2008 at 04:42
A gannet sequence from Muriwai- NZ

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#2 Tail now spreading to hover


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@Chthoniid >>> Beautiful bird, beautifully captured.
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Posts: 6916 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 05 July 2008 at 05:11
Originally posted by wross wross wrote:

@Chthoniid >>> Beautiful bird, beautifully captured.


Times two! Love your work mate.

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Posts: 151 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 05 July 2008 at 23:01
I followed this guy around for a while yesterday AM. I could even get him to talk to me...






He is one of four(maybe a family?) living behind my house right now. Yesterday AM 3 of them were in my yard eyeballing my pugs. However the dogs are to big and fat for the hawks to go after. When I ran in to get my camera they flew out of the yard, so I followed them onto the hill behind my house.
Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube.
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Posts: 1095 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 05 July 2008 at 23:08
FEED ME !

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Posts: 20650 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 05 July 2008 at 23:24
Justin

Your raptor shots would have been much improved if you had managed to include all of the tail and feet.

Edited by brettania - 05 July 2008 at 23:24
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