These are, what I believe to be the best images of birds I have taken, IN THE WILD. They are also, concomitantly, a collection of my most favorite birds till date. I have the year the photos were taken in the watermark, as I like to remember the chronology. Other details are in the caption.
(Title inspired by L.Cohen’s song)
Double-striped thick-knee, Trinidad, July 2017. This is likely the rarest bird I have ever photographed, it was last reported in Trinidad in 2007 and has only been reported 5 times (sixth time I was there). Location details: Abandoned airfield, Agricultural research center, Arima.Bearded bell-bird, calling. Trinidad. Location details: Asa Wright Nature Center, Arima‘Who, me? I din’ do, din’ see nothin’, said the pygmy owl. Ferruginous pygmy owl, Trinidad. Location detail: Blanchiseusse.Oil-bird with regurgitated food, Trinidad. Location detail: Asa Wright Nature Center, Arima.Flustered. Purple honeycreeper (male), Trinidad. Location detail: Asa Wright Nature Center, Arima.Purple honeycreeper (female). Location detail: Asa Wright Nature Center, Arima.Hanging with the old man.. Old and young white-necked jacobins. Location detail: Asa Wright Nature Center, Arima.Tranquility . Young white-necked jacobin. Location detail: Asa Wright Nature Center, Arima.Up early or late? White-tailed nightjar (female). Tobago, 2012. Location details: Little tobago island.
Golden-headed tanager, Costa Rica. Location details: Puerto Viejo de SarapiquiChestnut colored woodpecker, Costa Rica. Location details: La Selva biological station, Puerto Viejo de SarapiquiPalm tanager eating wild tobacco, Trinidad. Location details: Asa Wright Nature Center, Arima.Collared aracari and its berry, Costa Rica. Location details: TortugueroJuvenile yellow-headed caracara, Tobago.Green honeycreeper, Costa Rica. Location detail: Puerto Viejo de SarapiquiTrumpeter swan, U.S.A. Location details: Yellowstone National park, Montana.Northern Jacana, Costa Rica. Location details: TortugueroGiraffed. Tiger heron, Costa Rica. Location details: TortugueroTrinidad piping guan with epiphytes, Trinidad. This is the one of the few critically endangered species I have photographed in the wild. Location details: Grand Riviere.Hoatzin, Peru. Location details: Along the Maranon river, Peruvian amazonRufous sibia, India. Location details: Himalayan foothills, Uttar PradeshRed-legged honeycreeper, Costa Rica. Location detail: Puerto Viejo de SarapiquiHorned screamer, Peru. Location details: Along the Maranon river, Peruvian amazonBarred antshrike (female), Trinidad. Location detail: Asa Wright Nature Center, Arima.
These photos have three types of birds I have photographed:
Rare birds in the wild: Double-striped thick knee (because of being a vagrant in Trinidad), Trinidad piping guan with epiphytes, Oil-bird, Bearded bell-bird, Hoatzin, Horned screamer, Rufous sibia.
Common birds (in parts photographed) as art: Palm tanager with wild tobacco, White-necked jacobins in the rain, Collared aracari reaching for a berry, Green honeycreeper, Purple honeycreeper, Barred antshrike, Northern Jacana.
