stone curlew

Stone curlews in a field on Lanzarote - there are more than 1 and less than 10 hint - look for legs

I waited a long time for this picture tocome about, but as they say "patience is a vertue".

Stone Curlew

The great stone-curlew or great thick-knee (Esacus recurvirostris) is a large wader which is a resident breeder in tropical southern Asia from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka into South-east Asia. This species prefers gravel banks along rivers or large lakes, and also beaches. A single egg is laid...

Another shot from my Mallorca trip in May.

I took this picture on Mallorca/Slbufera, Hide 10 Sa Roca in Octobre 2013. The hide is not perfet for photography, but i will be back there. I hope you like it a little bit. Greetings from Germany

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Found this bird at the S'albufera in Majorca. I spent quite a time sat in the hide waiting for the bird to come closer, sadly a family entered the hide and the father proceeded to shove his camera out the window and spooked the bird

Stone Curlew, at Mallorca. We saw severall.

2 of a flock of about a dozen birds I chanced upon on Lanzarote. I was lucky to get these two in the frame and in focus.

Just north of Puerto del Carmen on Lanzarote I'd been following a small flock of finches, they flew across a field and I was so intent on not loosing where they landed I didn't realise that there were at least a dozen stone curlews in the field until they too took to the air. I took a couple of...

Second visit to Eastern Canaries. The Stone-curlew is a bird which I always considered impossible to photograph, but this time it was surprisingly "easy" in the dry steppes of the middle of the island.

An old one from last year.

What a result, never expected this when I woke that morning

This was very much a one-chance shot; as soon as it had landed in front of the hide, it took off again as soon as it heard the camera shutter!