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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
Zitting Cisticola...
January 10, 2026
The Zitting Cisticola is a species of passerine bird in the Cisticolidae family, very discreet outside the breeding season. It is the only representative of this family in Europe. The adult has buff or reddish-brown upperparts with dark streaks on the crown, mantle, back, and uppertail coverts. The rump is nearly plain. The upperparts become ...
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Favorites 2025
December 28, 2025
To close out this year, here is my selection of "Favorite Photographs" for 2025. I took these photographs throughout the past year, primarily in the Camargue region. Some of them have already been published in the "Latest Photos" section of the website.
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Western Swamphen...
November 22, 2025
The Western Swamphen is the largest rail in France. Its upperparts are dark purplish-blue, and its throat and breast are turquoise. The undertail coverts are pure white (an important characteristic for identification from a distance). The bill is massive, topped with a broad, bright red frontal plate...
Tutorial
Print a photo
September 30, 2025
You've taken a lot of photos, and they're in your image editing software's catalog on your computer. You'd like to print some of them for various reasons... Also from this moment different questions arise for you...
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European Roller
Juily 17, 2025
European Roller (Coracias garrulus) is also the only species of the Coraciidae family to live in France. It is a brightly colored bird. First of all, the plumage of the European Roller is distinctive, with its turquoise-blue coloration on the underside of the body and head, contrasting with the reddish-brown coat. The primary flight feathers...
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Mediterranean Gull
May 19, 2025
Mediterranean Gull is a medium-sized gull. It resembles the Black-headed Gull, but lacks black primaries. The eye is edged with white. The mantle is light gray, the upperside of the wings is gray at the base, and the primaries are white. Beak and legs are dark red. Mediterranean Gull has a dark head during the breeding season...
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Common Pheasant
April 7, 2025
Common Pheasant, or Ring-necked Pheasant, is a species of galliform bird in the Phasianidae family, native to Asia and introduced to Europe in the Middle Ages. It is the most common pheasant in Europe, and if the term is used alone, it is probably this species that is referred to. It is hunted as game and farmed for its meat. The male displays bright colors and has a tail...
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Long-tailed Tit
March 10, 2025
Often called the Long-tailed Tit, wrongly because it is not a true tit, the Long-tailed Tit is a species of passerine bird in the Aegithalidae family. This small passerine was formerly called Tupinet or Orite. The Long-tailed Tit has a compact body, a large round head with a small beak and a very long black and white tail. It is a very small bird with a very long tail and small round wings. It has a slightly pinkish ...
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Ruff
February 11, 2025
The Ruff in fact closer to sandpipers, is a species of wading birds of the Scolopacidae family and presenting a clear sexual dimorphism, especially during the breeding season. In spring, the male Ruff has an extraordinary appearance because it wears a large ruff, and on the sides of the head, tufts of erectile feathers like the ruff. The coloring of these ornamental feathers varies from white to gray...
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Eurasian Hobby
January 18, 2025
Eurasian Hobby is a small bird of prey the size of the Kestrel belonging to the Falconidae family. This bird of prey is one of the rare birds faster than the Chimney Swift in flight. The adult has slate-grey upperparts, with slightly darker flight feathers. In addition, the head is hooded in black, on which the white cheeks and throat contrast strongly. Between the latter ...
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Favorites 2024
January 8, 2025
To conclude this year, here is my selection of "Favorite Photographs" for 2024. I took these photos throughout the past year. Some of them were also published in the "Latest Photos" section of the website. This year was somewhat unusual, with a heatwave during the summer...
Tutorial
Bird Protection
December 2, 2024
Bird Protection is a field of conservation biology that deals with threatened bird species. Population declines and even extinctions have been observed for several species since the 1850s for a variety of reasons.«Birds are first and foremost among the most crucial species for the global ecosystem. They must therefore be protected at all costs. » For thousands of years, birds have flown around the world ...
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Ruddy Shelduck
November 25, 2024
Ruddy Shelduck is a large duck that has entirely orange-fawn plumage except for the head, which is much lighter. The head-body transition is made by a small black collar in the case of the male. Wings are black and white with a small green mirror in its central part. Beak, legs, flight feathers and rump are black. The female can be distinguished from the male by the extended ....
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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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