Bird Portraits - Post Yours!

[Levina de Ruijter]

South Island Robin, New Zealand
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Lovely shot, Jason.

He's so differently coloured than our Robins although the breast patch seems to have some orange in it.

 

[K9Kirk]

Jr. was jumping up & down, itching to give his wings a try outside the nest. He got his wish a week later, and I wasn't there to capture it.

233-studio25 by Kirk Behymer, on Flickr

 

[K9Kirk]

An older shot of a pied billed grebe I spotted at Robinson Preserve.

333cv-studio25 by Kirk Behymer, on Flickr

 

[K9Kirk]

Yes, at the zoo.

Did the zoo say what kind of vulture it is?

 

[Jack Dawe]

Lovely shot, Jason.

He's so differently coloured than our Robins although the breast patch seems to have some orange in it.

More a primrose yellow. There are several fairly similar species in NZ, two on the main islands and the rest on the smaller, less inaccessible ones. I guess they were called robins by the early European settlers because they are a similar shape to ours and similarly tame—in fact even more tame.

 

[Capn Jack]

Eared doves live on Aruba
JAK_0692 by Jack Silver, on Flickr

 

[fotoi]

Did the zoo say what kind of vulture it is?

There was a sign, but I don't recall the name.

 

[fotoi]

Mallard hen

 

[Jack Dawe]

There was a sign, but I don't recall the name.

I think it's an Andean Condor.

 

[K9Kirk]

Sandhill cranes at Myakka River State Park.

221-studio25 by Kirk Behymer, on Flickr