Keep sending in the photos, folks. I’ll be here all year!
Today we have more lovely bird photos by reader Colin Franks (photography site here, Facebook page here, Instagram page here). Note that the photos below are copyrighted by a professional photographer; I have permission to show them here, but please don’t purloin or reproduce them further.
Northern Pintail (Anas acuta):
Belted Kingfisher – female (Megaceryle alcyon):
Red-breasted Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus ruber):
Anna’s Hummingbird (Calypte anna):
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Regulus calendula):
Spotted Towhee (Pipilo maculatus):
Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis):
Varied Thrush (Ixoreus naevius):
Excellent. The pintail is my favorite.
Would love to get my hair spiked like the Belted Kingfisher! But would that be cultural appropriation?
I especially like the kingfisher. These are adorable birds. Deadly, but adorable.
It’s also the sharpest, clearest pic of a kingfisher that I’ve seen. A good catch.
“Deadly but adorable”
Depends on what you are- from the point of view of a caterpillar, for example, a chickadee is a good deal deadlier! (Both adorable though!).
Ah, the varied thrush is a traditional sign of spring in Southeast Alaska. It’s the song the Tongass National Forest makes when waking up from winter.
Mike
The pintail is my favourite duck. Graceful, beautiful & always a thrill to see on a cold, white winter’s morning.
The kinglet looks like he has a wristband. What’s that for?
It’s a ring (or band as I believe they are known in the US) which carries a unique id number. After ringing/banding large numbers of birds, biologists can use the information from recaptures and recovered corpses to work out mortality/survival rates, migration routes and wintering areas and other key information about the life history traits of species that would not be possible without individual recognition.
(If your question was intended humorously then apologies for taking it literally 🙂 ).
The Belted Kingfisher gets my vote for best in show. All of these are very good though.
Excellent Colin! (Not like you need me to tell you that!) The Kingfisher is my favorite.
This seems a good occasion to ask: What is the copyright status of other photos in Readers’ Wildlife Photographs posts? Can they be reblogged or used as illustrations for lectures and other educational materials?
Whether an image has a watermark, copyright “C” or not, all images are inherently the photographers property and it is illegal to use it in any way, shape or form without expressed permission from the photographer.