Show your Bird Portraits
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...ISv: from where I sit (midwest USA)...virtually ALL of your posted images are birds not present in my areaI'm envious for the last shot: we have the Northern Mockingbird on Oahu (and I have seen it twice!) but I still have no photo! For the first one (very nice photo!) I'm not really envious: I already figured out that to be envious for birds not present in your area means to be constantly envious!
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My first for the season Bristle-thighed Curlew. They seems to be unusually low number on Oahu this year - today (after two unsuccessful attempts before) I saw two. In the previous years I have seen 10-20 at once! With something between 7-10, 000 total for the world population it's alarming. Hopefully it's just this year!
And Saffron Finches on Australian Iron Tree where they can't hide very well in the foliage...
And Saffron Finches on Australian Iron Tree where they can't hide very well in the foliage...
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Interestingly, I got yesterday a shot of a Eurasian Teal, which has a horizontal white stripe, compared with your America Teal that has a vertical shoulder stripe. Here it is plus a Shoveller and a very small Little Egret that came very close. I wish we had your Wood Ducks and Hooded Mergansers.
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This Kestrel showed up frequently during our walks last year. So, I took my RF 100-500mm out, put a 2x TC on it and went at it
R5 + RF 100-500mm + 2x TC
600mm
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For the American Ornithological Society (AOS) the Eurasian and the American Teals are two subspecies of the same species. For most other ornithologists they are two closely related species. The mitochondrial DNA data are showing deep difference between the two taxa but the genome DNA data are showing (from conservative regions of DNA) high similarity (but still with differences!). The hybrids between thees two species (they hybridize in the Bering See at higher rate) have both, vertical and horizontal white strips!
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