Birds

Lappet Faced Vulture (Torgos tracheliotus) attacking one of the White Backed Vultures (Gyps africanus), there was more than fifteen White Backed Vultures eating a dead animal when this Lappet Faced Vulture came and attack them all and took the dead animal for him self! he is such a big bird comparing to them! and they really afraid of him!

Greater Crested Terns (Thalasseus bergii velox) are one of the migratory birds to Sri Lanka and they habituate during mid-year in remote islands off Gulf of Mannar. This picture was taken with the depiction of vulnerability of this tern chick. I used a camouflage camera which was controlled by a remote shutter from a distance.

Lost among thousands of red knots (Calidris canutus islandica), there is a Sandwich tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis sandvicensis) with young begging for food. A unique moment of the interaction between mother and young, which simultaneously shows the dynamics of the Wadden land and sea.

Every spring I spend a lot of time on the Western capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus urogallus) lek to photograph their courting display ritual. This particular male had selected a small snowy hill in a tiny opening in the forest to display. I just managed to fit a photo hide between two trees and had a free back ground straight ahead. This particular morning I got extremely lucky, when the male mated a female at the exact right spot.

Brandt's cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus) feeds on small fish from the surface to sea floor, by pursuit diving using its feet for propulsion; they have been observed foraging at depths of over 36.5 m. It is a marine bird of extraordinary skills.

A group of King penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus patagonicus) is about to go fishing. They seem to hesitate, as they know of the presence of sea lions patrolling the shores with the only intention of hunting them.

I like to observe under the branches of this jujube tree (Ziziphus jujuba), because these branches meander upward and have strange shapes, adding a lot of abstraction and imagination to life. In an accidental moment, a group of migratory birds flew over these branches and disappeared into the sky.