Tag: Bird Photography

• The Really Stunning Courtship Behavior of the Great Egret Part II

  

  The courtship and mating behavior of the great egret is full of intricate movements designed to attract a mate while also halting the advances of the competition. Aside from the stunning displays, the Great Egret’s mating ritual is an annual extravaganza that includes the development of special feathers and color changes.

  Perla Copernik

  April 6, 2022

  Animal Behavior, Bird Photography, Birds, great egret, photography

  Bird Photography, Conservation, Nature, photography, wildlife

• Part II: Nuts About Hornbills: What’s So Special About Them?

  

  “No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.” -William Blake There are many fascinating things about these amazingly weird looking birds; a couple of them are pretty obvious their colorful and in some species huge casques and large bills. The other one, which is not so obvious, but very interesting, is […]

  Perla Copernik

  March 3, 2014

  Africa, Asia, Birds, Conservation, Evolution, Hornbills, Nature, photography, wildlife

  Bird Photography, Birds, Conservation, ground-honbills, Hornbills, nesting behavior, wrinkled hornbill

• Expert Advice on Bird Photography from Someone that is Not Very Good at It

  

  “Oh, for the wings of a dove, men, envious, cry. What bones, what muscles, have birds and not I, That give them freedom of the boundless sky?” – Joel Peters I imagine you would ask yourself, then, why should I read this?…Well for starters there are good pictures of amazing and unique African birds, and […]

  Perla Copernik

  January 8, 2012

  Africa, Birds, Conservation, Nature, photography, wildlife

  Africa, Bird Photography, Birds, Fishe Eagle, Helmeted Guineafowl, Kenya, Lappet-Faced Vulture, Lilac-breasted Roller, Masai Mara, photography, Pied Kingfisher, Saddled-Billed Stork, Secretarybird