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Cute colseup of a female Pearl grey Guinea fowl. For lots more photos and information on Guinea fowl visit: guineafowlbirds.com
Haute Couture, Crested Guineafowl style Photo: Etienne Nortje via Avant Gardens
I recently felt the need to go to the Zoo, maybe because I had not been there since 1996 and was curious to see what new exhibitions were added in the last couple of years. Boy was I surprised, the…
Helmeted Guineafowl, Kruger National Park, South Africa. Not the greatest pic but I think his (her?) expression makes up for it...
2. Color When we talk about the impact provided by color combination we are generally talking about the avian world, although there are notable exceptions. There are few riotously colored mammals and as they generally rely on stealth and camouflage you can see why natural selection would have taken care of lime green and orange striped cats. I may add at this point that we are not considering marine photographic targets where color palettes can really go wild and some fluorescent combinations would make Magnificent Quetzals or Rainbow Lorikeets look positively dull. The human brain is wired to appreciate particular combinations of color. It is generally unfair or at best incongruous that the rarest bird in the world, if it was colored black or a ‘little Brown Job’, would attract little interest from nature photographers and even more so from family or photographic critics. It seems to be the more riotous colors displayed the better. Red and yellow are the dominant colors that attract the attention of the human eye. It was no random choice that Kodak chose yellow boxes for all their films. These two colors on a primary subject can add impact to images. The examples I give below represent only a small sample of the riot of color that is present on many African birds; particularly the vast array of Bee-eaters and Sunbirds. Red or yellow coloration can be displayed over the entire or majority of the bird………. Flamingos at Lake Nakuru Flamingo; lines and colors Yellow-throated Longclaws Red-headed Weaver ……………or used as accessory colors. Southern Ground Hornbill d'Arnaud's Barbet Yellow-necked Spurfowl African Crowned Crane Helmeted Guineafowl White-fronted Bee-eater White-fronted Bee-eaters The Red/yellow coloration my be confined to small areas like the bill where it still adds impact. Yellow-billed Oxpeckers Other birds do not employ highlights but go for the full palette or eye-catching combinations of color. Fischer's Lovebirds A Tanzanian Christmas tree? Lilac-breasted Rollers are relatively common and have bright coloring under the wings as well. Lilac-breasted Roller Little Bee-eater A number of African birds employ variations of blue that shimmer and change hues like satin in the sunlight. White-bellied Sunbird (male) Southern Blue-eared Starling Ruppell's Long-tailed Starling Superb Starling, nestbuilding The riotous combination of color is not confined to birds but is also employed by their distant relatives, the lizards. In particular male Agamid lizards during the mating season display some very vivid coloration. Agama Lizard (South Africa) Agama Lizard (Maasai Mara, Kenya) The reader should play particular attention the backgrounds of the majority of images displayed above. They are generally smooth without any obvious distraction. To be continued..............
Ecuadorian artist Beto Val alchemizes vintage illustrations into bizarre compositions that blend fruits with fowl and aquatic life with land animals. Using imagery available through the public domain, Val cuts and repositions fins, wings, and scaly talons into surreal creatures: round owl faces peer out from pineapples, autumn leaves sprout from tropical birds, and a rendering evocative of a biological chart displays fish with bodies made of strawberries, brains, and an early, industrial locomotive. More
Wonderful (female) Wood Duck - photo by Chris Cochems
La mouette de la Frise orientale est une race de poule domestique.
Ito Jakuchu - Hydrangeas with fowl (Edo Period, 18th century) at Imperial Palace Tokyo Japan
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He is gorgeous. I love to hear the crowing of a rooster in the distance. I recently met the one I can hear from my cottage. He's black and white. I've been eating fresh eggs for a week today. via
