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romy ocon | profile | all galleries >> Wild Birds of the Philippines (Photos) >> Bird Galleries by Location >> Archives of Older Galleries by Location >> Archives - Part 11 >> Revisiting Sta. Cruz, Zambales tree view | thumbnails | slideshow

Revisiting Sta. Cruz, Zambales

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Haven't seen the vast fishponds of this beautiful place in two years, but a business trip to a nearby town made a short birding sortie to Sta. Cruz possible.
Brahminy Kite Scientific name - Haliastur indus Habitat - Open areas often near water, and also in mountains to 1500 m [STA. CRUZ, ZAMBALES PROVINCE, 40D + 500 f4 IS, manual exposure, 475B/3421 support]
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Brahminy Kite

Scientific name - Haliastur indus

Habitat - Open areas often near water, and also in mountains to 1500 m

[STA. CRUZ, ZAMBALES PROVINCE, 40D + 500 f4 IS, manual exposure, 475B/3421 support]

 Little Egret Scientific name: Egretta garzetta Habitat: Coastal marsh and tidal flats to ricefields. [STA. CRUZ, ZAMBALES PROVINCE, 40D + 500 f4 IS + Canon 1.4x TC, manual exposure, bean bag]
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Little Egret

Scientific name: Egretta garzetta

Habitat: Coastal marsh and tidal flats to ricefields.

[STA. CRUZ, ZAMBALES PROVINCE, 40D + 500 f4 IS + Canon 1.4x TC, manual exposure, bean bag]

Collared Kingfisher Scientific name: Todiramphus chloris Habitat: Coastal areas to open country, but seldom in forest [STA. CRUZ, ZAMBALES PROVINCE, 1DM2 + 500 f4 IS + Canon 1.4x TC, manual exposure, 475B/3421 support]
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Collared Kingfisher

Scientific name: Todiramphus chloris

Habitat: Coastal areas to open country, but seldom in forest

[STA. CRUZ, ZAMBALES PROVINCE, 1DM2 + 500 f4 IS + Canon 1.4x TC, manual exposure, 475B/3421 support]

 Blue-tailed Bee-eater (immature) Scientific name - Merops philippinus Habitat - Open country usually associated with water along rivers, marshes and ricefields. [STA. CRUZ, ZAMBALES PROVINCE, 1DM2 + 500 f4 IS + Canon 1.4x TC, manual exposure, 475B/3421 support]
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Blue-tailed Bee-eater (immature)

Scientific name - Merops philippinus

Habitat - Open country usually associated with water along rivers, marshes and ricefields.

[STA. CRUZ, ZAMBALES PROVINCE, 1DM2 + 500 f4 IS + Canon 1.4x TC, manual exposure, 475B/3421 support]

 Little Egret (breeding plumage) Scientific name: Egretta garzetta Habitat: Coastal marsh and tidal flats to ricefields. [STA. CRUZ, ZAMBALES PROVINCE, 40D + 500 f4 IS + Canon 1.4x TC, manual exposure, bean bag]
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Little Egret (breeding plumage)

Scientific name: Egretta garzetta

Habitat: Coastal marsh and tidal flats to ricefields.

[STA. CRUZ, ZAMBALES PROVINCE, 40D + 500 f4 IS + Canon 1.4x TC, manual exposure, bean bag]
Blue-tailed Bee-eater Scientific name - Merops philippinus Habitat - Open country usually associated with water along rivers, marshes and ricefields. [STA. CRUZ, ZAMBALES PROVINCE, 40D + 500 f4 IS, manual exposure, 475B/3421 support]
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Blue-tailed Bee-eater

Scientific name - Merops philippinus

Habitat - Open country usually associated with water along rivers, marshes and ricefields.

[STA. CRUZ, ZAMBALES PROVINCE, 40D + 500 f4 IS, manual exposure, 475B/3421 support]

Little Egret Scientific name: Egretta garzetta Habitat: Coastal marsh and tidal flats to ricefields. [STA. CRUZ, ZAMBALES PROVINCE, 1DM2 + 500 f4 IS + Canon 1.4x TC, manual exposure, 475B/3421 support]
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Little Egret

Scientific name: Egretta garzetta

Habitat: Coastal marsh and tidal flats to ricefields.

[STA. CRUZ, ZAMBALES PROVINCE, 1DM2 + 500 f4 IS + Canon 1.4x TC, manual exposure, 475B/3421 support]

 Brahminy Kite Scientific name - Haliastur indus Habitat - Open areas often near water, and also in mountains to 1500 m [STA. CRUZ, ZAMBALES PROVINCE, 40D + 500 f4 IS, manual exposure, 475B/3421 support]
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Brahminy Kite

Scientific name - Haliastur indus

Habitat - Open areas often near water, and also in mountains to 1500 m

[STA. CRUZ, ZAMBALES PROVINCE, 40D + 500 f4 IS, manual exposure, 475B/3421 support]

THREATENING RAINCLOUDS. This was the beach front of the resort where I stayed the night before birding the fishponds of Sta. Cruz, Zambales [40D + Sigma 18-200 OS, hand held, resized full frame]
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THREATENING RAINCLOUDS. This was the beach front of the resort where I stayed the night before birding the fishponds of Sta. Cruz, Zambales

[40D + Sigma 18-200 OS, hand held, resized full frame]

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Ted Chappell28-Jun-2008 02:14
I have been checking for recent images amongst my favourites: obviously you are in that list. I really love your work, and these recent examples are stunning as always.
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