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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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Birds
Common Pochard
May 9, 2023
It is a medium-sized bird, slightly smaller than the mallard, with a short tail, the back of which is oriented upwards when swimming. Its long neck and its long beak with a concave culmen which continues with a sloping front give it a fairly typical profile, with a slightly conical crown. In all plumages, the wings show a diffuse greyish bar. The male in courtship has a reddish-brown head, a black beak with a pale gray ...
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Mute Swan
May 2, 2023
Mute Swan is a species of bird in the Anatidae family. Its name comes from the bump it has on its beak, called a tubercle. Its plumage is immaculate white. Eyes are hazel in color. Beak is orange with a black tab at the end. The short, webbed legs are blackish. The two sexes are identical, except in spring: the tuber is then larger in the male than in the female. In juveniles...
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Mallard
April 25, 2023
The Mallard is a species of bird of the order Ansériformes, of the family Anatidae. It is the best known and recognizable of all ducks, due to the existence of breeds of domestic ducks descended from this species. The male of the wild populations is easily recognizable, during the nuptial period, by his shiny green head. The rest of the plumage is grey-brown to white, with a blue-purple wing patch; the beak ...
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European Goldfinch
April 18, 2023
European Goldfinch is a species of passerine bird of the finch family, partially migratory, small and very motley. Thus, the adult has a scarlet red face surrounded by white and black, a brown back and sides, a black tail with white spots and a white rump. The plumage of its wings is black striped with a wide band of bright yellow. Sexual dimorphism is not marked in this species. The female is however a little less motley than the male ...
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European Robin
Mach 20, 2023
European Robin is a not very shy bird, its not very shy nature allows it to be approached easily and it readily agrees to show itself. This little sparrow is however of a very irascible nature. It defends its territory with unfailing determination against the intrusion of its congeners. This defense takes place regardless of the season. The male and the female are almost identical, with a crown, wings, the top and the tail of brown color ...
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White Stork
March 9, 2023
White Stork is a large species of wading bird in the Ciconiidae family. The plumage is entirely pure white, except for the primaries and secondaries which are black. The pigment responsible for this coloration is melanin. Breast feathers are long and shaggy, and form a ruff used in courtship. Adults have long red legs and a long, straight red beak. In juveniles, the tip of the beak is ...
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Eurasian Teal
February 25, 2023
Eurasian Teal is the smallest of the common surface ducks. It is an excellent sailboat, nervous, often active and noisy at night. It is found in Europe, North America and also in Asia. In these regions, it lives in temperate to northern zones. It is hunted in large numbers in Europe and North America. This species shows a clear sexual dimorphism during the breeding season. The male gradually takes on its nuptial plumage from October ...
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Northern Shoveler
February 17, 2023
Northern Shoveler is a surface dabbling duck. It is characterized by a massive, elongated beak, flattened and widened at its end in the shape of a small spatula. Like the other Anatidae, the species has a sexual dimorphism which results in a particularly colored plumage for the males in the nuptial period which runs from October to June. The legs are red, the head bottle-green and its irises yellow. The female is duller ....
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Black-crowned Night Heron
February 6, 2023
Black-crowned Night Heron is a stocky bird with a broad head, thick, short neck, and short legs. The adult has black crown and mantle. The black bill is short and thick. Wings, rump and tail are grey, and whitish underparts. Legs and feet are greenish-yellow. The Black-crowned Night Heron does not take on its adult plumage until its third year. It is a bird that leads a rather nocturnal, or at least crepuscular ....
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Bearded Reedling
February 01, 2023
Bearded Reedling is a passerine the size of a chickadee, with a long stored tail. The male, in its nuptial plumage, presents itself as a very red bird with a gray-blue-blue head it sporting two long and very visible black "mustaches" starting from the lores. The throat is white, the beak pointed and thin and the iris yellow-orange. Top of the body, the tail and the flanks are very rufous.The white outer scapulars and the white edges of the primaries ...
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Black-headed Gull
January 26, 2023
Black-headed Gull is a bird of the Laridae family, a family that notably includes seagulls and gulls. It is white in color with pearl gray wings except the black tip. The brown-black hood she wears in spring disappears in summer and the head then turns white. Legs are orange or orange-red. The beak is red-yellow. The eyes are dark brown, surrounded by two white crescents. It is also easily confused with the Mediterranean Gull ...
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Red-crested Pochard
January 18, 2023
This diving duck is remarkable for its very contrasting colors. Male and female are quite dissimilar. The male has a bright red head with a yellow underside. The neck, chest and belly are black, the sides white and the back dark brown. A white band crosses the shoulder. Beak is scarlet red, the legs are red-orange. The female is more discreet: she has a dark brown top of the head, greyish-white cheeks, brown back, paler underside, she has ...
Favorites
Favorites 2022
December 31, 2022
Here is a selection of my photographs from 2022, my favorite images taken during the past year. I have deliberately limited this gallery to around forty photographs, but the selection process is always difficult and subjective. ...
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Glossy Ibis
December 24, 2022
Glossy Ibis is a species of bird in the Threskiornithidae family. At first glance it appears black, but it has rust colored feathers with metallic green tints. Head and neck are paler. He has no feathers around his eyes. It has a pale blue line decorating the contours of the face. In breeding plumage, the species shows thin white streaks on head and neck. There is no sexual dimorphism in this bird ...
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Eurasian Spoonbill
December 11, 2022
This large heron-like bird with an elegant drooping crest, with white plumage is recognizable by its long and wide beak, curiously wrinkled and spatulate at the end. This long spatula-shaped beak allows it to stir up mud and swallow plankton. The breeding adult sports an orange-tinged crest on the nape and a similarly colored collar at the base of the neck. Its beak is black with yellow tip. Legs and feet are black. ...
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