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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
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. ...
Birds
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 ...
Birds
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. ...
Tutorials
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....
Birds
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 ...
Birds
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 ...
Birds
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 ...
Birds
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....
Birds
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 ...
Birds
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 ...
Birds
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. ...
Birds
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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