Africa Wild

There is no doubt that this is a tawny eagle -O



I am not too sure about this one though -O



Re colours.....there are blondes ( various shades ), red-heads, brown, black and all the in betweens, not to talk about the meshes
.....why should the birds be different? I must ask Darwin!

Tawny in Flight - both in KTP

11.10.2009 /Kruger

steamtrainfan wrote:Awesome pics Duke. Looks like photographing birds in flight is your forte?

I find BIF most challenging but also most rewarding STF. Yes, I have many bloopers too -O

This one was seen just outside Olifants Camp. He was eating something on the ground and as we drove past he flew into a tree just alongside the road. You can see the crop from the feeding









Crop

When birds swallow their food it enters a specialized storage chamber known as the crop. The crop (or proventriculus in birds without a crop) softens the food and controls its passage through the digestive tract. This storage capacity allows birds to swallow much more food than they would otherwise be able to in one sitting. A raptor's crop is sometimes so large that it appears as a bulbous growth on its neck. The crop also allows adults to carry food back to their nest for their chicks

Reference: Rael and Helene Loon - Birds the inside Story

Kgalagadi 15.9.2009

Still some blonde -O
Kgalagadi February 2011

With a little help from Dewi.

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this tawny showed a rude sign and so a fight broke out..............


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