Esther's photos with the keyword: passerine

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Samburu/Buffalo Springs National Reserve, Kenya LIMG 1143-1

I had the wrong lens and the camera was at the wrong ISO when I saw this bird. I was able to take three shots before it flew off and this was the best of them. AIMG 0759

Male Vermilion Flycatcher amid the carob trees in Tucume, Peru AIMG 3660

This blue jay tried his best to eat the acorn but he just could not do it. AIMG 4420

The Bananaquit is a small, yellow white and black passerine bird with a sweet tooth. It is particularly fond of sugar and had adapted to encroaching civilization by raiding breakfast tables for packages of sugar. It's Dutch name means "sugar thief." This was photographed in Curaçao AIMG 9187

The Bananaquit is a small, yellow white and black passerine bird with a sweet tooth. It is particularly fond of sugar and had adapted to encroaching civilization by raiding breakfast tables for packages of sugar. It's Dutch name means "sugar thief." This was photographed in Curaçao AIMG 9149

Welcome Swallows are arial acrobats and catch insects on the fly. Daintree Rainforest, Queensland Australia AIMG 7504

European Starling still in winter plumage. The European starling was introduced to America in the 19th century and has become a very common songbird. AIMG_5318

Great Kiskadee at Cano Negro Wildlife Reserve in Costa Rica waiting for an insect to fly by. AxMG_2533

Male Great-tailed grackle at Cano Negro Wildlife Reserve, Costa Rica. Great-tailed grackles are passerine birds native to the Americas. Males have a violet-blue iridescent sheen to their feathers. Females are much smaller and have light brown to black feathers. AIMG_0043

Great Kiskadee, Sarapiqui Rainforest Lodge, Costa Rica The Great Kiskadee is a common, noisy and conspicuous bird. It is almost omnivorous, and hunts like a shrike or flycatcher, waiting on an open perch high in a tree to sally out to catch insects in flight, or to pounce upon rodents and similar small vertebrates. It will also take prey and some fruit[3] from vegetation by gleaning and jumping for it or ripping it off in mid-hover, and occasionally dives for fish or tadpoles in shallow water, making it one of the few fishing passerines. They like to hunt on their own or in pairs, and though they might be expected to make good use of prey flushed by but too large for the smaller birds of the understory, they do not seem to join mixed-species feeding flocks very often. When they do, they hunt in the familiar manner. Such opportunistic feeding behavior makes it one of the commonest birds in urban areas around Latin America; its flashy belly and its shrill call make it one of the most conspicuous. From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Kiskadee AxMG_1747

Red-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus cafer) at Ranthambore Fort, Rajasthan, India. It feeds mainly on fruits, flower petals, nectar, insects and the occasional small lizard. AIMG_5324