A tricky bird to photograph with its secretive sulking habits. Luckily the pond was frozen over and this rail had to cross every now and then to get to another patch of reeds. Had to be quick on the shutter as this bird moves fast!

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Douc Langur capture in Singapore Zoo, Mars 2016

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The barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) is the most widespread species of swallow in the world. It is a distinctive passerine bird with blue upperparts, a long, deeply forked tail and curved, pointed wings. It is found in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. In Anglophone Europe it is just called the swallow; in Northern Europe it is the only common species called a “swallow” rather than a “martin”. The adult male barn swallow of the nominate subspecies H. r. rustica is 17–19 cm (6.7–7.5 in) long including 2–7 cm (0.79–2.76 in) of elongated outer tail feathers. It has a wingspan of 32–34.5 cm (12.6–13.6 in) and weighs 16–22 g (0.56–0.78 oz). It has steel blue upperparts and a rufous forehead, chin and throat, which are separated from the off-white underparts by a broad dark blue breast band. The outer tail feathers are elongated, giving the distinctive deeply forked “swallow tail”. There is a line of white spots across the outer end of the upper tail. The female is similar in appearance to the male, but the tail streamers are shorter, the blue of the upperparts and breast band is less glossy, and the underparts paler. The juvenile is browner and has a paler rufous face and whiter underparts. It also lacks the long tail streamers of the adult.

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Very tricky to get shots of small birds in flight. This is cropped almost 50% but the image quality has remained fairly good.

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South African Boerboel

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this was yesterday after big effort…regards

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I admit that I have a thing for Mountain Goats. In a past life I did a bit of climbing in the White Clouds and learned to admire the raw ability that mountain goats have in impossible terrain and shear rock faces. Also, they just look cool… don’t you think?

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