Black-cheeked Woodpecker (Melanerpes pucherani)

Black-cheeked Woodpecker (Melanerpes pucherani)

A common and opportunistic bird that gladly eats from human feeding stations during its daily rounds in its range. It sounds like this:


Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus)

Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus)

The walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) utilizes their tusks as ice picks when they haul themselves up onto an ice float, and sometimes they might break as is the case…


Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus)

Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus)

These clumsy and fat mammals on land are amazingly fast and agile in the ocean! This encounter by the Seven Islands (Sjuøyane), Svalbard is from a zodiac, and…


Flaggspett (Dendrocopos major)

Flaggspett (Dendrocopos major)

Denne flaggspett (Dendrocopos major) ungen er fullt i stand til å fange sin egen mat nå, men sitter beleilig på denne døde grenen og håper foreldrene vil…


Green-barred Woodpecker (Colaptes melanochloros)

Green-barred Woodpecker (Colaptes melanochloros)

This was a brief encounter with a green-barred Woodpecker (Colaptes melanochloros) as I was about to leave SouthWild Pantanal and go to Chapada dos Guimarães -…


Pale-crested Woodpecker (Celeus lugubris)

Pale-crested Woodpecker (Celeus lugubris)

This was the only encounter with the pale-crested woodpecker (Celeus lugubris) during my stay in Pantanal, and is a female seen a few hours upstrem from Porto…


Vendehals (Jynx torquilla)

Vendehals (Jynx torquilla)

Vendehals (Jynx torquilla) med store unger! Det er nå juli og ungene maser veldig og "tyter" ut av redehullet, og det virker som om de kan forlate redet når…


Vendehals (Jynx torquilla)

Vendehals (Jynx torquilla)

En dag hørte jeg en sjelden lyd som trigget minner fra da jeg var liten. Kunne det være vendehals (Jynx torquilla)? Det lignet veldig, men lyden kom fra ulike…


Campo Flicker (Colaptes campestris)

Campo Flicker (Colaptes campestris)

Campo flicker (Colaptes campestris) is the only species of woodpecker I encountered while at Pousada Xaraés. This was the second and last, and being the last…


Southern Screamer (Chauna torquata)

Southern Screamer (Chauna torquata)

Southern screamer (Chauna torquata) is a large and somewhat peculiar bird that seems to enjoy life in the trees as well as in the water.