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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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Concepts of Ornithology
December 8, 2022
Ornithological concepts on the classification of birds, with more than 11,000 recognized species, birds (Class Aves) constitute a group that is both extremely diverse, with twice as many species as mammals, and relatively homogeneous morphologically. It was especially from the end of the 1970s that the systematics of birds could, however, really begin to be constructed....
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Spotted Redshank
December 4, 2022
Spotted Redshank is a species of shorebird belonging to the family Scolopacidae. It is a slender, long-legged wading bird, slightly larger than the common redshank. The size of a pigeon, it nevertheless has a more slender and slender look, characterizing the waders, with a long thin and straight beak, marked by a red lower mandible. The plumage is completely different between the winter and the breeding season, which has consequently earned ...
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Black-tailed Godwit
November 22, 2022
Black-tailed Godwit is a species of shorebird in the Scolopacidae family. It is one of the two species of godwits living in France. It is a fairly large wader without well-marked sexual dimorphism. The females have a slightly paler plumage and are a little larger. In breeding plumage, the top of the skull and the nape are reddish, streaked with brown. The eyebrow, the chin and the underside of the eye are white. A brown streak runs across the face of the eye ...
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Common Shelduck
November 14, 2022
The Common Shelduck is a cave-dwelling species that preferably nests in rabbit burrows. It is the largest surface duck in France. The male has a greenish-black head, a red beak with a wattle of the same color, a reddish pectoral band from which a dark ventral stripe starts, white wings with black scapulars and primaries marked with a green speculum and the rest of the white body. The female is duller and has no wattle on the beak, often more marked ...
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Great Egret
November 11, 2022
The Great Egret is a wading bird living near freshwater. It is the largest of the herons and egrets present in Europe. This one almost disappeared, decimated by hunters who sold the long bridal feathers to decorate ladies' hats from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century. It was then the destruction of wetlands and pesticides that made its survival difficult....
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Western Cattle Egret
November 2, 2022
This little white heron owes its name to the fact that it likes to stay near livestock. It takes advantage of the latter's presence by feeding on frightened insects. It can be recognized by its rather stocky silhouette, its rather short beak and the distinct bulge of feathers under it. The cattle egret differs from other herons by its massive silhouette and short beak ...
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Common Snipe
October 28, 2022
The common snipe is a wader the size of a blackbird. Its upperparts are striped and spotted with light and dark brown. Then the underparts are white with black stripes on the sides. The chest is buff, spotted with brown. Tail is fawn-coloured, finely barred with black. Wings are long and pointed. The head has clear stripes. Finally, its 7-centimetre-long beak ....
Tutorial
Workflow concept
October 20, 2022
Digital technology has revolutionized photography, resulting in many amateur photographers ignoring the "Concept of Workflow", and feeling out of the game when it comes to digital post-processing. However, it is not as difficult as you might think to achieve a consistent production of professional quality photographic images ...
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Grey heron
October 13, 2022
Grey Heron is the best known of our herons, it often nests in colonies, in trees near water. (heronry). In the Camargue, it is found near ponds and marshes, it likes shallow stretches of water. This bird is recognizable by its yellow beak (orange-yellow in the breeding season), and its ash gray plumage (hence its name) and its white and black head, neck striped with grayish white and black. ...
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Black-winged Stilt
Octobre 01, 2022
Black-winged Stilt belonging to the group of waders is recognizable by its thin, straight beak, its white body plumage, its black wings, its very long red legs which clearly protrude from the tail in flight. Both sexes are almost alike. The female is brownish while the male is blacker. Juvenile is paler than adult. The Black-winged Stilt has direct and rapid flight ...
Other - Birds
Birds' quarrels
September 20, 2022
Bird Quarrels can have several origins :
- the courtship for a female; male birds in their breeding plumage try to attract the female, competing with each other in style and elegance,
- the conquest of a nesting territory, this choice is vital depending on the security it offers to build a nest there,
- protection against intrusions by other birds into the nesting territory...
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Little Egret
September 13, 2022
Little egret is the most widespread of the egrets. It is recognized by its white plumage, its very elongated black beak, its black legs with yellow fingers. This Egret, smaller than the Great Egret, has two very long fine white ornamental feathers behind the crown, extending from the nape to the middle of the neck, and which play an important role during the courtship display. This wading bird frequents a wide range...
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Pied Avocet
September 6, 2022
The Pied Avocet well deserves its name and has not usurped its qualifier of elegant. This large wader is easily recognizable with its fine black beak curved upwards, its white plumage dotted with black spots, its gray blue legs, the feet are webbed. Both sexes are similar. Avocets are gregarious birds. It is very common to see them in groups, on the ground or in flight during ...
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Little Grebe
August 17, 2022
The little grebe is the smallest and stockiest of the grebes. It is immediately identifiable by its small round head, its small thin beak with often visible pale corners and its inimitable way of floating like a cork. This small Grebe has the back of its body truncated. During the breeding season, the chestnut can be recognized by its reddish-brown cheeks, throat and foreneck contrasting with the rest of the dark brown plumage ...
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Greater Flamingo
August 8, 2022
The Greater Flamingo is the emblematic bird of the Camargue. It is the only region of France where these birds nest and one of the only places in the world where the pink flamingo has returned to lay eggs every year since 1969. On the "Etang du Fangassier" more than 10,000 flamingos come to breed. These gregarious birds live in groups in wetlands ...
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