Birds Photo Click 53: Eurasian Sparrowhawk.

Accipiter nisus The Eurasian Sparrowhawk is widespread, throughout the temperate and subtropical parts of the Old World. It is a bird of prey that specializes in catching birds, mostly in flight, and especially in woodlands, but not only. It can be found in a variety of habitats, including towns and cities. The larger female, can...

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European Roller. Photographed in Kenya. Following long tripUnfamiliar surroundingsWarm winter ahead. Haiku 390.

Birds Photo Click 181: Moussier’s Redstart (2).

Phoenicurus moussieri Male. Photographed in Malta. The Moussier’s Redstart is an endemic resident breeder in the Atlas Mountains of northwest Africa. Its typical habitat is open country with bushes and trees, small open woodland in rocky areas, often on mountain slopes but also bushy coastal forests, cultivated land and gardens, from sea level up to...

Birds Photo Click 182: Wood Warbler.

Phylloscopus sibilatrix The Wood Warbler breeds throughout northern and temperate Europe, and just into the extreme west of Asian Russia, in the southern Ural Mountains. It is a strongly migratory species and the entire population winters in tropical Africa. The preferred breeding habitat consists of open but shady mature woodlands, typically deciduous woodlands, such as...

Birds Photo Click 174: Red Knot.

Calidris canutus The Red Knot is a wader that has a circumpolar distribution during the breeding season. It breeds in tundra habitat and the Arctic Cordillera in the far north of Canada, Europe, and Russia. It is the second largest of the Calidris sandpipers, second only to the Great Knot (Calidris tenuirostris). There are six...

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White Stork. Photographed in Malta. A journey beginsOpen wings conquer the airLong flight path ahead. Haiku 342.

Birds Photo Click 156: Little Egret.

Egretta garzetta The Little Egret is a small successful heron, distributed in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. It prefers wetland habitats in warm, temperate and tropical zones, including lake shores, rivers, canals, ponds, lagoons, marshes, mangroves, swamps, mudflats, sandy beaches, reefs and flooded land such as rice fields. It is a resident breeding species in...

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Lesser Spotted Eagle. Photographed in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. A soaring eagleThreads an invisible pathOn its way down south. Haiku 326.

Birds Photo Click 139: Eurasian Whimbrel.

Numenius phaeopus The Eurasian Whimbrel is a widespread species that breeds across much of subarctic Asia and Europe. It is a coastal, migratory bird, that winters along the coasts of Africa, South Asia and Australasia. The adults are very defensive of their nests which is a bare scrape on tundra or Arctic moorland. They will...

Birds Photo Click 174: Red Knot.

Calidris canutus The Red Knot is a wader that has a circumpolar distribution during the breeding season. It breeds in tundra habitat and the Arctic Cordillera in the far north of Canada, Europe, and Russia. It is the second largest of the Calidris sandpipers, second only to the Great Knot (Calidris tenuirostris). There are six...