IMG_4756.JPGFar Eastern Curlew
Scientific name - Numenius madagascariensis
Habitat - Uncommon along coast on exposed mud and coral flats. |
IMG_4673.JPGFar Eastern Curlew
Scientific name - Numenius madagascariensis
Habitat - Uncommon along coast on exposed mud and coral flats. |
IMG_4909.JPGFar Eastern Curlew
Scientific name - Numenius madagascariensis
Habitat - Uncommon along coast on exposed mud and coral flats. |
IMG_5022.JPGGreat Egret
Scientific name - Egretta alba
Habitat - Uncommon in a variety of wetlands from coastal marshes to ricefields.
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IMG_5030.JPGGreat Egret
Scientific name - Egretta alba
Habitat - Uncommon in a variety of wetlands from coastal marshes to ricefields.
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IMG_4902.JPGGull-billed Tern
Scientific name - Gelochelidon nilotica
Habitat - Uncommon in variety of wetlands.
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IMG_4689.JPGGull-billed Tern
Scientific name - Gelochelidon nilotica
Habitat - Uncommon in variety of wetlands.
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IMG_4703.JPGGull-billed Tern
Scientific name - Gelochelidon nilotica
Habitat - Uncommon in variety of wetlands.
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IMG_5047.JPGGull-billed Tern
Scientific name - Gelochelidon nilotica
Habitat - Uncommon in variety of wetlands.
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IMG_5090.JPGWhimbrel
Scientific name - Numenius phaeopus
Habitat - Along the coast in grassy marshes, mud and on exposed coral flats, beaches and sometimes in ricefields.
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IMG_4873.JPGBar-tailed Godwit
Scientific name - Limosa lapponica
Habitat - Uncommon along coast on exposed mud and coral flats, and at river mouths. |
IMG_4889.JPGBar-tailed Godwit
Scientific name - Limosa lapponica
Habitat - Uncommon along coast on exposed mud and coral flats, and at river mouths.
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IMG_4814.JPGBar-tailed Godwit
Scientific name - Limosa lapponica
Habitat - Uncommon along coast on exposed mud and coral flats, and at river mouths.
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IMG_4897.JPGAsian Dowitcher
Scientific name - Limnodromus semipalmatus
Habitat - Rare on tidal mud flats. |
IMG_5137.JPGBrown Shrike
Scientific name - Lanius cristatus
Habitat - Common in all habitats at all elevations.
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IMG_4837.JPGLittle Tern
(Two birds at right)
Scientific name - Sterna albifrons
Habitat - Uncommon along coasts, bays and river mouths. |
IMG_4830.JPGLittle Tern
Scientific name - Sterna albifrons
Habitat - Uncommon along coasts, bays and river mouths. |
IMG_4746.jpgRuddy Turnstone
Scientific name - Arenaria interpres
Habitat - Beaches and exposed tidal flats.
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IMG_4843.JPGRuddy Turnstone
Scientific name - Arenaria interpres
Habitat - Beaches and exposed tidal flats. |
IMG_4864.JPGRuddy Turnstone
Scientific name - Arenaria interpres
Habitat - Beaches and exposed tidal flats.
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IMG_5062.JPGOlive-backed Sunbird (Male)
Scientific name - Nectarinia jugularis
Habitat - Common lowland sunbird
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IMG_5124.JPGLittle Egret
Scientific name: Egretta Garzetta
Habitat: Common in coastal marsh and tidal flats to ricefields.
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IMG_4960.JPGPacific Swallow
Scientific name - Hirundo tahitica
Habitat - Common along coasts, in towns and open country, rarely over forest.
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IMG_5135.JPGCommon Sandpiper
Scientific name - Actitis hypoleucos
Habitat - Common along the shores of wide variety of wetlands.
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IMG_4694.JPGGreater Sand-Plover
Scientific Name - Charadrius leschenaultii
Habitat - Along the coast on exposed mud, sand and coral flats.
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IMG_4923.JPGGreat Knot
Scientific name - Calidris tenuirostris
Habitat - Uncommon along coast on exposed mud and coral flats. |
IMG_4998.JPGCommon Greenshank
Scientific name - Tringa nebularia
Habitat - Ricefields to coastal mud and coral flats.
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IMG_4866.jpgGrey-tailed Tattler
Scientific name - Heteroscelus brevipes
Habitat - Along coast on exposed mud, sand and coral flats, on rocks, and also ricefields. |
IMG_4834.jpgGrey-tailed Tattler
Scientific name - Heteroscelus brevipes
Habitat - Along coast on exposed mud, sand and coral flats, on rocks, and also ricefields. |
IMG_4988.JPGGrey-tailed Tattler
Scientific name - Heteroscelus brevipes
Habitat - Along coast on exposed mud, sand and coral flats, on rocks, and also ricefields.
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IMG_4994.JPGGrey-tailed Tattler
Scientific name - Heteroscelus brevipes
Habitat - Along coast on exposed mud, sand and coral flats, on rocks, and also ricefields.
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IMG_5054.JPGCommon Redshank
Scientific name - Tringa totanus
Habitat - Common, coastal to rice fields.
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IMG_5059.JPGCommon Greenshank
Scientific name - Tringa nebularia
Habitat - Ricefields to coastal mud and coral flats.
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IMG_4805.JPGRufous-necked Stint
Scientific name - Calidris ruficollis
Habitat - Mud flats and ricefields. |
IMG_4815.JPGRufous-necked Stint
Scientific name - Calidris ruficollis
Habitat - Mud flats and ricefields. |
IMG_4855.JPGGreater Sand-Plover
Scientific Name - Charadrius leschenaultii
Habitat - Along the coast on exposed mud, sand and coral flats. |
IMG_5077.JPGGreater Sand-Plover
Scientific Name - Charadrius leschenaultii
Habitat - Along the coast on exposed mud, sand and coral flats.
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IMG_4898.JPGGrey Plover
Scientific name - Pluvialis squatarola
Habitat - Exposed mud and coral flats, and beaches. |
IMG_4747.JPGGreater Sand-Plover
Scientific Name - Charadrius leschenaultii
Habitat - Along the coast on exposed mud, sand and coral flats.
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IMG_4736.JPGTerek Sandpiper
Scientific name - Xenus cinereus
Habitat - Along coast on mud, sand and coral flats. |
IMG_4735.JPGTerek Sandpiper
Scientific name - Xenus cinereus
Habitat - Along coast on mud, sand and coral flats. |
IMG_4671.jpgCommon Greenshank
Scientific name - Tringa nebularia
Habitat - Ricefields to coastal mud and coral flats.
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IMG_1960.JPGOLANGO ISLAND: The tropical Cebu sun provided good light for handholding the 20D + 400 5.6L, a few times even with the 2x teleconverter.
I'm shooting the Gull-billed Tern here, as my legs and feet are sunburned to a crisp...8-) |
IMG_5101.JPGNilo Arribas, looking like a soldier in full-battle gear, tries the 300D + Bigma on some waders. |
IMG_2219.JPGOLANGO ISLAND: I have to use a tripod when I snapped on the Sigma 2x TC to my 400 5.6L while shooting the Little Egret that appears in the Olango Island gallery.
This was in my early bird-shooting days, before I learned that a lower shooting angle is preferred for water birds. |
IMG_2125.JPGThis is part of the Olango tidal flats teeming with marine life, providing a virtual banquet for water birds as Nilo put it. |
IMG_2130.JPGOLANGO ISLAND: Bird hide no. 1 affords a good view of one of the tidal flats. The elevated walkway is no longer there, probably a victim of government funding red tape. |
IMG_2165.JPGSHOES NOT RECOMMENDED AT OLANGO ISLAND. If you really want to get close and personal with the Olango birds, sandals are a must.
Better yet, you can wade in your bare feet for that ticklish feeling that the sand makes with your soles. Just avoid the sharp corals and broken shells, of course. |