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  1. Black-crowned Night-Heron

    Black-crowned Night-Heron

    Just before landing.
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    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  2. Yellow-rumped Cacique

    Yellow-rumped Cacique

    The song of the male Yellow-rumped Cacique is a brilliant mixture of fluting notes with cackles, wheezes and sometimes mimicry. There are also many varied calls, and an active colony can be heard from a considerable distance.[
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    • cacicus cela yellow-rumped cacique
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  3. Capped Heron

    Capped Heron

    Uncommon but widespread in marshes, swampy areas and along larger rivers; most numerous in the Pantanal.
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    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  4. Green Kingfisher

    Green Kingfisher

    This small kingfisher breeds by streams in forests or mangroves. The nest is in a horizontal tunnel up to a metre long made in a river bank.
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    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  5. Yellow-billed Cardinal

    Yellow-billed Cardinal

    The Yellow-billed Cardinal is one of the Pantanals characteristic birds and can occur in large flocks.
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    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  6. Chestnut-eared Aracari

    Chestnut-eared Aracari

    A real fruit lover
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    • Comments: 7
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  7. Rufous-sided Pygmy-Tyrant

    Rufous-sided Pygmy-Tyrant

    Rare in shrubby cerrado; overall numbers depleted by habitat destruction and disturbance.
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    • euscarthmus rufomarginatus rufous-sided pygmy-tyrant
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  8. Blue Finch

    Blue Finch

    An uncommon bird and local (seasonal) in grassy cerrado bushes and low trees; favours rocky terrain in parts of Brazil and Bolivia. Photographed in the Pantanal, Brazil
    • Peter van Zoest
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    • blue finch
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  9. African Green Pigeon

    African Green Pigeon

    This photo is published in the Sasol Guide Birds of the Bushveld. It's difficult to make a good photo of these birds, most of the time they are high in the treetops and hide between the leaves. I was lucky to become such a shot in the Kruger NP. The African Green Pigeon, treron calva, is common...
  10. Common Pochard

    Common Pochard

    The Common Pochard (Aythya ferina) is any of the 14 to 16 species of diving ducks of the tribe Aythyini (family Anatidae, order Anseriformes), often called bay ducks.
    • Peter van Zoest
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    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  11. Red-crested Pochard

    Red-crested Pochard

    The Red-crested Pochard (Netta rufina) is a large diving duck. Their breeding habitat is lowland marshes and lakes in southern Europe and southern and central Asia. They are somewhat migratory, and northern birds winter further south and into north Africa.
    • Peter van Zoest
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    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  12. Great Cormorant

    Great Cormorant

    The Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), known as the Great Black Cormorant across the Northern Hemisphere, the Black Cormorant in Australia and the Black Shag further south in New Zealand, is a widespread member of the cormorant family of seabirds. It breeds in much of the Old World and the...
    • Peter van Zoest
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    • Comments: 8
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  13. Northern Red (Orange) Bishop

    Northern Red (Orange) Bishop

    The Northern Red Bishop or Orange Bishop is a resident breeding bird species in Africa south of the Sahara Desert and north of the Equator. This common weaver occurs in a range of open country, especially tall grassland and often near water. It builds a spherical woven nest in tall grass. 2-4...
  14. Blue Dacnis - male

    Blue Dacnis - male

    The Blue Dacnis or Turquoise Honeycreeper, Dacnis cayana, is a small passerine bird. This member of the tanager family is a resident breeder from Nicaragua to Panama, on Trinidad, and in South America south to Bolivia and northern Argentina.
    • Peter van Zoest
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    • Comments: 10
    • Category: Central & South America & Mexico
  15. On mothers back

    On mothers back

    A photo from last year. Hope to take another one soon. The Grebes are breeding now. Photo taken in front of my house.
    • Peter van Zoest
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    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Britain & Europe
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