Bird pictures - featuring rainforest birds

Bird pictures: Birds of prey - Eagles.
A Brahminy Kite, or Red-backed Sea Eagle skips across still river waters leaving a trail of droplets, tasty prey clutched tightly in its claws.

Catch of the Day

Bird pictures: Birds of prey - Eagles.
A beautifully camoflaged Crested Serpent Eagle (Spilornis cheela) blends into the rainforest canopy as it silently scans for prey. Rainforest birds.

Crested Serpent Eagle

Bird Pictures - Woodland Birds.
A juvenile Greenfinch (Carduelis chloris) peeps up from behind a secret nest of pink geraniums, it's comfy nook discovered!

Greenfinch by Geranium

Bird pictures: Birds of prey - Eagles.
The intricately detailed wing markings of a juvenile White-bellied Sea Eagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster) contrast dramatically against the mangroves.

White-bellied Sea Eagle

Bird pictures - Rainforest birds.
High up in the rainforest canopy, an Oriental Pied-hornbill surveys the world beneath from his perfect rainforest view.

Perfect Perch

Bird pictures - Rainforest birds.
An Oriental Pied-hornbill (Merops philippinus) searches the surrounding rainforest trees for the ripest berries.

Curious Hornbill

Wildlife photos of birds - Wading Birds.
The gracefully long neck of a Great Egret strikes out with lightning precision, effortlessly capturing a tasty morsel from rock pools along the seashore.

Feeding Egret

Wildlife photos of birds - Wading Birds.
A Great Egret (Ardea alba) preens its wings whilst safely escounced in a leafy nest. Its pristine white feathers contrast with the dark foliage.

Preening Egret

Birdlife by the Water.
The electric blue colours of a White-throated kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis) shine out from amongst the tree branches.

White-throated Kingfisher

Birdlife by the Water.
Feast fit for a kingfisher. A collared kingfisher (Todiramphus chloris) gulps down a freshly caught crab with well deserved gusto.

Feasting Kingfisher

Birdlife by the Water.
A Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio) peeps up from amongst the flower filled foliage of its pond home, having caught a tasty bug.

Peeping Swamphen

Birdlife by the Water.
Where the rainforest meets the sea, the beautiful variant blue shades of a White-throated kingfisher shine out against the clear sky.

Blue on Blue Kingfisher

Island Birds.
Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula Arctica) contentedly taking forty winks, percariously perched out on the cliffs edge, unperturbed by the descent behind.

Puffin Perch

Island Birds.
A perfectly poised Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula Arctica) displays his features to their best advantage, undeterred by the cliffs edge behind.

Cliffside Puffin

Island Birds.
A cheeky white-breasted waterhen (Amaurornis phoenicurus) peeps out from his hiding place amongst the twining branches of a sea lettuce.

Cheeky Waterhen

Bird Pictures - Woodland Birds.
Close-up portrait of a common myna bird (Acridotheres tristis). Myna birds are versatile, living in a variety of environments.

Common Myna

Island Birds.
A pair of terns, lit by moonlight as they perch on volcanic rocks by the sea, strikingly contrasting against the night sky.

Moonlit Terns

Birdlife by the Water.
Exquisitely serene. Close up profile of a Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) displaying its gently arching neck as it stands perfectly still by the waters edge.

Mute Swan Profile