PLANET EARTH BIRD WORLD

Bow after the show

Male chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) bows after his singing performance, only to resume it a moment later.

Female mallard duck (Anas platyrhynchos) in a duckweed-covered river.

Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs), Male, Hovering

Band-tailed Manakin – uirapuru-laranja – Pipra fasciicauda

Rufous Hummingbird (male)

Singing chaffinch
Common chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) sitting on oak branch and singing.

Striated Pardalote

These birds are incredibly small (roughly the same size a a finch) and very twitchy requiring a high shutter speed at times. This particular animal is in the process of building a tunnel in the side of a dirt hill with it’s 5 companions, of which it will use as a nest for its babies when the weather begins to cool. They are very hard and dedicated workers and even if you are close to the nest they will continue to build and feed their babies.

Encontro (Icterus pyrrhopterus) – Variable Oriole

Yellow-crowned night heron hunts prey in wetlands of Sea Pines Forest Preserve on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.