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The Blog - Site news, articles and posts on my photographic outings in the field, starting with the most recent. In this section “Over time” you can follow the Camargue birds over the different seasons.
Many articles are devoted to a particular bird. I give you some indications on its identification, its place of life and reproduction, and its protection status... These articles are obviously accompanied by a photo gallery dedicated to this bird.
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Common Starling
November 3, 2024
Common Starling is a species of passerine bird in the family Sturnidae, and the order Passeriformes. It is native to most of Eurasia, but has been introduced to all continents except Antarctica. The Starling has become one of the most familiar birds in temperate regions. With its plump body, short, triangular and pointed wings, and short, square tail, its silhouette ...
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Gadwall
October 29, 2024
Gadwall is a dull-coloured dabbling duck. The male is grey with a black rump and white belly. It has a white wing speculum edged with black and rufous that can be seen both in flight and at rest. The bill is grey. Female is difficult to distinguish from the female of the mallard. The gadwall is monogamous. It can be observed in pairs or in small groups not exceeding ...
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Great Cormorant
October 2, 2024
The Great Cormorant or Common Cormorant, is a species of piscivorous aquatic bird therefore belonging to the Phalacrocoracidae family. Furthermore, its distribution area is very vast (Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa, and an eastern fringe of North America); there are usually five to eight subspecies.
Adult great cormorant in breeding plumage is black, with blue and bronze-green highlights. The back is gray-bronze with dark...
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Common Tern
September 10, 2024
It is a web-footed bird, of the order Charadriiformes and the family Laridae. The common tern has a grayish mantle on the back and upper part of the wings, while the cheeks, neck, nape, ventral part and notched tail are white. The top of the head is adorned with an entirely black cap up to the eyes extended by an erectile crest. Long, curved beak is orange-red with a black tip. Unlike other species that have black legs...
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Osprey
August 30, 2024
The Osprey is a species of medium-sized diurnal raptor. Its underparts are white, as is the head. It has a dark band over its eyes, more or less pronounced depending on the subspecies. The chest and the underside of the wings and tail have different dark markings, varying in intensity depending on the subspecies: a large dark band at the fold of the wrist and at the end of the remiges, dark spots ...
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Little Tern
August 4, 2024
It is a small tern recognizable by its yellow beak with black tip, the white forehead which gives it its Latin name (albifrons) and its yellow legs. The outer primaries are blackish. Its tail is short and shakes with jerky movements. Both sexes are similar.
It is the smallest of the European terns. A coastal bird of sandy and pebble beaches...
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Black-necked Grebe
June 15, 2024
Black-necked Grebe has a slightly upturned bill that is thinner than that of its cousin, the Horned Grebe. This beak is, moreover, entirely black. Like all grebes, the Black-necked Grebe has greenish legs. They are positioned far back on the body, which makes swimming easier, and its toes are lobed. The eye is red in adults. The Black-necked Grebe with a rounded and stocky body...
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Northern Lapwing
June 5, 2024
Northern Lapwing is a species of medium-sized wading birds, often living in flocks, common in Europe. It has a characteristic long, tapered black crest, while the back and tail plumage are green, although it appears black from a distance. The underparts are white with chestnut undertails. Its white belly brings out the pink color of its legs, which are very thin and short. The beak is black. Its broad ...
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Eurasian Curlew
May 16, 2024
The Eurasian Curlew is a species of wader belonging to the large family Scolopacidae. On the other hand, it is the largest European shorebird of its kind. Its long legs are grey-blue, and end in 4 fingers. The plumage is speckled and streaked with gray, red, brown, tawny and white. The white rump is clearly visible in flight, its beak is very long and curved. However, it is quite timid and suspicious ...
Tutorial
Panoramic photography
May 5, 2024
Panoramic photography is a genre of photography or technique that involves creating images with exceptionally wide fields. This is almost always a photograph that will be in landscape mode. A panoramic photography therefore appears in a very elongated format. The height/width ratio should therefore be approximately 1/3. However, some photographers consider that ...
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Common Moorhen
April 10, 2024
The Common Moorhen is a species of bird belonging to the order Gruiformes and the family Rallidae. It is very common in ponds and marsh, as well as in waterways where the vegetation is sufficiently dense. It is easily recognized by its red beak with a yellow tip which extends towards the forehead with a red and oval frontal plate. The eyes are dark red. Its plumage ranges from dark blue ...
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Water Rail
March 17, 2024
The water rail is easily distinguished from other rails and crakes by its long, thin reddish bill. Adults have slate-grey face and underparts. The mantle and wing coverts are brown with regular black patterns. The sides are clearly barred with black and white, the legs are pink. Juveniles look quite similar to adults, however duller and browner above, less gray below. During the day, the water rail...
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Goldcrest
March 01, 2024
Goldcrest is one of the smallest birds in Europe with its congener the Common Firecrest. It has a size of approximately 9 cm and a weight of 4 to 7 grams. This is part of the Regulidae family, which are very small insectivorous passerines from the northern hemisphere. The beak is black, thin and pointed. Light brown legs have strong toes allowing the bird to stand upside ...
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Common Crane
February 24, 2024
Common Crane is one of the largest birds in Europe. It has slaty gray plumage, with black or bluish black feathers on the primaries and secondaries. A red cap located on the top of the head is also more or less visible depending on the season. The upper neck, throat, forehead and nape are black. A white patch starts from the eyes and extends toward the ...
Tutorial
Images, different formats
February 6, 2024
Since the beginnings of computing, the different image formats have appeared as technology and the needs of photographers and graphic designers have evolved. Two types of image formats...
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