Birds Gone Wild

Bee Eater

Amidst the myriad of mammals, Africa has a potpourri of colorful birds. I didn’t scratch the surface with photographing birds, but one could spend all their time doing just that, with hundreds of types to view and learn.

Saddlebill Stork

I confined myself to only the more interesting birds, being more keen to photograph the many mammals that garnered my attention.

Verreaux’s eagle-owl
Yellow Horn Bill

Ostrich

The kori bustard for instance, is the largest flight bird native to Africa and the heaviest capable of flight.

There are 10 different types of king fisher alone.

The sheer number of fowl was a dizzying array of varieties and types.

The Marshial Eagle is considered the largest and most powerful eagle in Africa

Martial Eagle
Black Eagle

The fact that the guides around us could name them easily, not only by sight, but by sound was impressive.

Secretarybird

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Thailand Wildlife

Thailand is full of a myriad of flora and fauna, interesting flowers, and colorful birds. Our guide, Pip Pip, was good enough (and patient enough) to teach us many different varieties.

Little Green Bee Eater
White throated King fisher
Indo-Chinese Roller

As many birds as we saw, we only got a decent photographs of a few. Many were beautiful but just too far away, like the oriental honey buzzard, Asian open bill stork, and coppersmith barbet.

But we did manage to see Oriental Pie hornbill, such an interesting bird, and Orange breasted trogan.

Orange breasted trogan
Oriental Pie Hornbill
Hornbill

As much as I enjoyed the wide variety of amazing birds, I was really thrilled to see and photographically capture large mammals, like elephants, not in captivity, but in the wild, and Asian sun bear.

Asian elephant

Asian sun bear

We saw a variety of monkeys, including gibbons, long tailed macaque, and dusky langur’s.

Dusky Langur
Long tail macaque
Gibbons

While I would have loved to see more, I guess that would be greedy, as we were very fortunate to see what we saw.

I can’t thank our guide, Pip Pip, enough for his time, patience, and inspiration for teaching us and showing us these magnificent creatures. We had such an amazing time and saw so many fantastic sights.