Here, I'll share the beautiful creations of ALLAH SWT. Everything has its importance and beauty, Alhamdulilah!! I'll share here the birds, the plants, sceneries and animals. Everyone can share, BUT please, the size cannot be too big, or else the beauty of the thread will be ruined.
Another Lilac-breasted Roller ... I never tire of photographing this species.
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d'Arnaud's barbets.
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Long-tailed fiscal, a shrike-like bird.
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Lesser Blue-eared Starling. We photographed four species of colorful iridescent starlings (Hildebrandt's, Ruppell's Long-tailed, Superb and Lesser Blue-eared).
Southern Red Bishop. We didn't see any of these in January and even in April we only saw them at Lake Manyara, where they were numerous but hard to photograph.
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Little Bee-eater. These are common and often perch near roads as they watch for flying insects, so relatively easy to photograph compared to more skittish species.
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Pied Kingfisher, a new species for me (the only one we saw) .
Female Saddle-billed Stork in flight, a pretty rare bird. This is the only one we saw this trip. .
Black Heron. A first sighting for us ... this species feeds by covering its head with its wings, squatting over the water and stirring up the mud with its feet. Apparently shading with the wings allows it to see better. Here it's pulling the wings over-head before lowering itself.
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In the next shot the heron is crouching under outstretched wings while stirring up the bottom by kicking its feet and grabbing the small prey that get flushed out.
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