Crab-plover - Dromas ardeola
23rd Jan, 2010: Started the day with an excyrsion to the Naliya Grasslands. The trip started off well with spotting of a Male Pallid Harrier soaking up the heat of the early morning sun. As soon as we had enough of the Harrier we spotted another beautiful lifer Black Francolin.
There after we saw a Long legged Buzzard and again the Black Francolin who was passionately calling and gave excellent poses. The highlight of Naliha was a small waterhole where dozens of chestnut bellied Sand grouse come to drink. Along with the Sand grouse are Bimaculate Larks. Got some very interesting pictures here.
After Naliha we drove to Mandavi about 60 odd Kilometer and from there to Motwa village beach. Motwa is fishing village and the beach is pretty much untouched by tourist and thus largely unpolluted. The target species here was the Crab Plover – Crab Plover is an unusual bird belonging to monotypic genus Dromadidae. In zoology a monotypic genus is one which has only one species. We got a glimpse of a Crab Plover as soon as we reached… Here for the first time I saw Flamigos swim – never knew they could!
There were a whole lot of other lifers for me here like the Eurasian Oyster catcher, Reef Egret, Ruddy Turnstone and Great thick knee to name a few. Aasim caught a glimpse of a McQueen’s Bustard in flight but unfortunately it was too fast to take a picture. The long walk on the beach was refreshing and brought back memories of Alibaug for me. Which is where I took a first real vacation with Swati.
On the gadget front I am quite disappointed with Canon 50D because of its poor battery life and dust reaching and sticking on the sensor despite not changing the lens even once in the entire trip.
The most tiring part of the day was traveling in the Trax! Thankfully tomorrow will not involve much traveling on the roads….
Pallid Harrier - Circus macrourus (male)
Black Francolin - Francolinus francolinus
Black Francolin - Francolinus francolinus
Grey Francolin - Francolinus pondicerianus
Common Stonechat - Saxicola torquata
Short-toed Snake Eagle - Circaetus gallicus
Short-toed Snake Eagle - Circaetus gallicus
Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse - Pterocles exustus
Isabelline Wheatear - Oenanthe isabellina
Isabelline Wheatear - Oenanthe isabellina
Bimaculated lark - Melanocorypha bimaculata
Bimaculated lark - Melanocorypha bimaculata
Drinking in unison!
Great White Pelican - Pelecanus onocrotalus
Dalmatian Pelican - Pelecanus crispus
Eurasian Curlew - Numenius arquata
Common Redshank - Tringa totanus
Gull-billed Tern - Gelochelidon nilotica
Western Reef Egret - Egretta gularis
Ruddy Turnstone - Arenaria interpres
Eurasian Oystercatcher - Haematopus ostralegus
Crab-plover - Dromas ardeola
Crab-plover - Dromas ardeola
Great Thick-knee - Esacus recurvirostris
Greater Flamingo - Phoenicopterus ruber
nice!!
Straight out of Animal Planet! In fact, this whole series is so!!
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Great capture! The colors are perfectly captured.
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Amazing capture!
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Superb clarity and pose!
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Beautiful bird! Amazing colors!
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Great pose!
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Hey all your bird caputures are brilliant as always
Beautiful and nice tones.
Nice and beautiful bird.
Nice capture of bird in flight. As usual your DOF is perfect. Hope we see more of these in time to come. Your images on nature are inspiring.
great capture!
Fantastic Shot!
Nice capture of flamingo’s
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Very nice shot…
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Nice catch
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Wonderful shot, awesome
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exquisite shot, very well captured
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Wonderful shot, awesome
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Beautiful!
Such a gorgeous bird and magnificent capture…..awesome
I love the movement echo of the two birds that are bent over but don’t have their heads in the water yet. Really nice shot!
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very nice capture..
Beautiful capture..
A great capture, and it’s quite funny, too.
I like the perfect DOF.
Lovely capture..
nice..
This bird is wonderful! I have never seen him!
Beautiful!
Outstanding. Details are superb.
Looks as a beautifully dressed up lady in B&W! Excellent shot!
Look at those eyes!
Awesome!
Really nice. I like your shore birds!
Nice!
fantastic..!
awsome!
Very nice.
Nice posture! Excellent capture!
simply superb
Excellent set of shots from day 3.
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Beautiful shot. I have not seen one like this yet.
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Nice pose. Excellent lighting.
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Thats so wow
Excellent capture!
beautiful
so cute…..very beautiful
Marvellous flamingo shot !
Great catch !
Very close and pretty bird photo !
Excellent colours and very sharp shot !
A pretty nature photo !
Simply stunning!
Love the group capture and details
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Lovely capture!
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Good catch! Very elegant.
This is Beautiful!!!!!
I have seen your “Animals–beautiful Visto en Animals — beautiful
The EYES have it. Fantastic shot, great detail.
Great capture…. where were all his mates?
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Excellent shot.
You caught him in a moment. Nice job.
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Outstanding head shot. The eyes are simply glowing with color and clarity.
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Just ordered me a Canon 500mm f/4 IS USM lens, maybe I can get some shots like yours (I need the skill also).
Stunning ! peaceful framing and perspective with the water to the left.
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Awesome shot , don’t see many photos where the eyes stand out so well
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Brilliant shot awesome bird
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Brilliant shot awesome bird
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Great pose!
Is this eurasian curlew or whimbrel?
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/45256858@N05] this is Eurasian Curlew.