Birds > popular today > White-throated Sparrow / Bruant à gorge blanche
White-striped colour morphology
Zonotrichia albicollis
Bill Mason Centre for Outdoor Education, Dunrobin, Ontario
26 June 2009
Birds > popular today > American Tree Sparrow / Bruant hudsonien
Spizella arborea
Marshall 40-Foot Road, Amherst Island, Ontario
4 November 2009
Birds > popular today > Bufflehead (female) / Garrot albéole (femelle)
Bucephala albeola
Andrew Haydon Park, Ottawa, Ontario
6 November 2009

Bufflehead are usually very skittish, and I have been unable to get a photo of one despite years of trying.  Luckily a female bufflehead must have found a good feeding area, because she continually resurfaced on the Ottawa River in the same place, roughly 9m (30ft) from shore.
Birds > popular today > Lesser Scaup (male) / Fuligule à tête noire (mâle)
Aythya affinis
Andrew Haydon Park, Ottawa, Ontario
6 November 2009
Birds > popular today > Green-winged Teal (male) / Sarcelle d'hiver (mâle)
Adult in breeding plumage
Anas carolinensis
Andrew Haydon Park, Ottawa, Ontario
9 November 2009
Birds > popular today > Sparrows & Allies photo
Birds > popular today > Juvenile Peregrine Falcon mantling over lunch (Pigeon/Rock Dove)
Birds > popular today > The Lilac-Breasted Roller is the national bird of Botswana.

Photographers tend to love Rollers due to their bright plumage and general lack of skittishness - you can get quite close to them a lot of the time, like this nice detail shot demonstrates.

For the sake of disclosure be aware that I clone-stamped out a bunch of extraneous limbs and branches to clean up this shot.

Location: Chobe National Park, Botswana

Lens used: n/a (Canon S1 IS point-and-shoot)
Birds > popular today > Sparrows & Allies photo
White-throated Sparrow / Bruant à gorge blanche
White-striped colour morphology
Zonotrichia albicollis
Bill Mason Centre for Outdoor Education, Dunrobin, Ontario
26 June 2009
 > White-throated Sparrow / Bruant à gorge blanche
White-striped colour morphology
Zonotrichia albicollis
Bill Mason Centre for Outdoor Education, Dunrobin, Ontario
26 June 2009
White-throated Sparrow / Bruant à gorge blanche
White-striped colour morphology
Zonotrichia albicollis
Bill Mason Centre for Outdoor Education, Dunrobin, Ontario
26 June 2009
Photo by: Patrick J. Blake • see photo in gallery

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