Insects Photo Click 54: Long Skimmer (2).

Orthetrum trinacria The Long Skimmer is a powerful, aggressive and fast flying dragonfly. It is often very weary and flies off from a perch, as fast as it had landed. It’s proportionately long abdomen, is typical and hence it’s name. The Long Skimmer is a common dragonfly distributed in tropical Africa and southern Africa including...

Birds Photo Click 147: Saker Falcon (2)

Falco cherrug The Saker Falcon is a large falcon that breeds from central Europe, eastwards across the Palearctic to Manchuria. It is mainly a migratory species, except in the southernmost parts of its range. It’s wintering grounds include Ethiopia, the Arabian peninsula, northern Pakistan and western China. It’s preferred habitat is open grasslands, preferably with...

Birds Photo Click 197: Lesser Spotted Eagle (2).

Clanga pomarina Once known as Aquila pomarina. The Lesser Spotted Eagle is a medium sized eagle, with a breeding distribution in Central and Eastern Europe and southeast to Turkey and Armenia. The whole population undergoes a mass migration to it’s winter quarters, in Africa. The pair lays one to three eggs, but if the prey...

Birds Photo Click 164: Brown Skua.

Stercorarius antarcticus The Brown Skua also know as Antarctic Skua or Subantarctic Skua is a large skua that breeds in the subantarctic and Antarctic zones. Outside the breeding season they move further north. It is the heaviest of the skuas, often equal to the largest gulls. Their taxonomy is highly complex and for many years,...

Insects Photo Click 23: Keeled Skimmer.

Orthetrum coerulescens Male. The Keeled Skimmer is a common dragonfly distributed over central and southern Europe, parts of Northern Europe where it is local, North Africa, Turkey, the Middle East, including Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan and marginally entering Russia. Compared to other dragonflies it gives the impression that it has a weak flight, however, it...

Insects Photo Click 41: Long Skimmer.

Orthetrum trinacria Photographed in Malta. The Long Skimmer is a powerful, aggressive and fast flying dragonfly. It is often very weary and flies off from a perch, as fast as it had landed. It’s proportionately long abdomen, is typical and hence it’s name. Photographed in Malta The Long Skimmer is a common dragonfly in tropical...

Birds Photo Click 44: Changeable Hawk- eagle.

Nisaetus cirrhatus Photographed in Sri Lanka. The Changeable Hawk-eagle, also known as Crested Hawk-eagle is the most widespread of it’s genus. It’s extensive range, includes much of the Indian subcontinent and southeast Asia. It is largely a resident species, but stragglers have been observed in other countries, in which it is not a resident species....

Bird Photo Click 17: Golden Eagle.

Aquila chrysaetos Photographed in Mongolia. The Golden Eagle is a well known and well studied, powerful and majestic bird of prey. It is a species found in the Northern Hemisphere, and it is the most widespread of the large eagles. It prefers to hunt in open spaces, but due to human disturbance and encroachment, it...