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Photographed in Queensland, Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1452635887285-90GMGGJN1RSG98X58CQF/image-asset.jpeg Photography A female Super Fairy-wren pauses for moment in the rain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1452536890448-C45H92BTHVM9B4RAR75V/image-asset.jpeg Photography A male Red-backed Fairy-wren in breeding plumage. This male is colorbanded and is part of our study population. Each individual on our study site gets a unique combination of color bands on his or her legs that allow us to identify who's who without catching them. Photographed in July in Queensland, Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1452722271194-EKCAGR4WMGC4BUH02PLO/image-asset.jpeg Photography A pair of dull Red-backed Fairy-wrens photographed in Queensland, Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1452481285924-XKBVSH0H1C8PTB72CZF4/image-asset.jpeg Photography A male Splendid Fairy-wren sizes me up in the Australian Outback. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1452476865420-08O802Q19GVTEYUD4PYG/image-asset.jpeg Photography A female Variegated Fairy-wren with nesting material. She wasn't too happy that I interrupted her nest building but I quickly backed off. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1451323197246-ZYR2EBJ17WAL803MHJSZ/image-asset.jpeg Photography Male Splendid Fairy-wren. Photographed in September in Western Queensland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1451529106667-UG2H4J90XT7FP53OMYS1/image-asset.jpeg Photography Male White-winged Fairy-wren. Photographed in Western Queensland, Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1451353347089-0ND4MKYABEZ9KWQA6S01/image-asset.jpeg Photography Red-capped Robin. Western Queensland, Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1451325965389-P92VVXGS5QS1EJ3KKBW9/image-asset.jpeg Photography Monarch Butterfly on Goldenrod. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1451325997762-TDR46JTO25EM3MDGJSAA/image-asset.jpeg Photography Splendid Fairy-wren. He jumped up to this high perch, belted out a few songs, then dropped back out of site. Photographed in September in Western Queensland, Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1451326034502-4AROAN00U3YSORO999W8/image-asset.jpeg Photography Diamond Dove. Photographed in Western Queensland, Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1451326057404-1Y0NFVV8LUFVROH7FCVZ/image-asset.jpeg Photography Whooping Cranes - There are only around 600 individuals left in the wild today. The population declined to 15 birds in the 1940s but breeding programs and habitat management have slowly allowed their numbers to increase. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1451326091805-LZMNPT8C43R2OA99GGDN/image-asset.jpeg Photography A female Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo loses her grip on a eucalyptus tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1451326128940-USYL2VBWQ80K120KJ0PF/image-asset.jpeg Photography A male Splendid Fairy-wren https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1452723219463-6ZGI14E5C1631U9P9BKA/image-asset.jpeg Photography A pair of Red-backed Fairy-wrens. Photographed in Queensland, Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1451326207019-346JNVF26E5PDD8GCAB8/image-asset.jpeg Photography Carolina Chickadee with food. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1451326300956-PR1CDGENGWNMHN9A12CZ/image-asset.jpeg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1451326385139-YPS512E9Y1FG4LCQCT7N/image-asset.jpeg Photography A male and female red-backed fairy-wren duet in response to playback of a male's song. Photographed in Samford, Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1451326416584-4AZIOKNQSKPFZDWSBGGU/image-asset.jpeg Photography Olive-backed Sunbird. Photographed in the Atherton Tablelands, QLD, Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1451326469492-P8824MJPY27B1HAZROGC/image-asset.jpeg Photography Juvenile Cooper's hawk. Photographed in Noblesville, Indiana. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1451326543934-CE32FOIMYY4ORTH4AXGZ/image-asset.jpeg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1451326594831-HFR4AROITQTJDR2MMLHQ/image-asset.jpeg Photography Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher. Photographed in QLD, Australia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1451326733202-N3F2C343Y6GPVFGRGV3L/image-asset.jpeg Photography A male Red-backed Fairy-wren responds to a territorial intrusion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1451326818312-IQG7AEFVL8BZHMN9PB4B/image-asset.jpeg Photography Cades Cove, Smokey Mountains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1451326887461-PKMGC3BFWJ1C7ZFVBOZN/image-asset.jpeg Photography Cassowary, photographed at Etty Bay, QLD, Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1451326957524-ACGWL9VHYU4U8B37TAWC/image-asset.jpeg Photography Mirror Lake, New Hampshire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1451326985397-H5XDB7P9DNM1OC9W43P0/Cisticola+CR+Welklin+SS.jpg Photography Golden-headed Cisticola, near Samford, Australia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1451327009378-GZR17351C0U1QBZL2CEN/image-asset.jpeg Photography Bloomington, Indiana. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1451327111113-F51TB0WYP7Y4ELQ461TY/image-asset.jpeg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1451327176180-D10AK0SDRACYQDAIMLPI/image-asset.jpeg Photography Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Noblesville, IN. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1451327145672-441OI0ZR9X8TKV59PQXI/image-asset.jpeg Photography Cades Cove, Smokey Mountains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1451327035470-QX4UFK9QO3PJLVLZFBB3/image-asset.jpeg Photography An Atherton Scrub Wren returns to it's nest with food for it's nestlings. 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This cuckoo caught a giant hairy caterpillar and started beating it and rubbing it against the branch to kill it and get rid of all the hairs. At one point it was swinging the caterpillar round and round in circles, smacking it against the branch and that's what I managed to capture here. That's not a spiderweb people, those are caterpillar guts! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1451326787504-AYB8HG9TWF7WQ1NJOYP3/image-asset.jpeg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1451327374136-WXWR3CRXC41LLKMOR28W/image-asset.jpeg Photography Noblesville, Indiana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424807be4b0bfab03c682da/1451326511183-C9AYI8NCAVC0IR81C3OD/image-asset.jpeg Photography A male red-backed fairy-wren performs a petal display, in this case with a berry. When courting females, males often pick up pieces of red from their environment and use it to help advertise to prospective mates. 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