Category: Flying Birds
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A Wild Swan Ascends into the Spring Sky
At precisely half-past eight on a cold, blue-sky April morning in Jyväskylä’s Kukumäki district, the quiet street is pierced by a keen, metallic rush of air—the wing-beats of Whooper Swans overhead. Having wintered on the milder shores of southern Norway, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands, these stalwart travellers now arrow northward, homing in on Finland’s…
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Little Stern
The little stern catches a fish in the marsh of Ria Formosas of Portugal’s Algarve. The bird breeds in the sand dunes at the atlantic coast and the inland marshes are its hunting grounds. At a fish pond I saw several of them. They stand still in the air and when they see a fish…
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Pelican ascending
Pelican ascending – Lacul Roşu, Romania, June 2015 In the danube delta, the rosa pelican is an abundant species and lives between the swimming islands. It is only seen in the more remote lakes where they can live widely undisturbed.Here we can see a pelican ascending and starting his flight in the middle of Lacul…
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Cattle Egret
The cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) flies in the evening over the bridge that links the mainland with Ilha Faro (Portugal), The outstreched mudflats of the Ria Formosa natural reserve provide a rich source of food, not only for this water-bird. Making of: I used the Nikon 300s, Nikon 300mm lense and a low exposure time…
Michael Emmerich 