Bird photography | delan azabani

2024-09-08, raven grab
2024-09-08, more graceful than she might sound
2024-09-08, leaden crow-shrike
2024-09-07, oh a portrait? happy to oblige
2024-09-07, raven takeoff
2024-09-07, cogs are turning
2024-09-07, the pink underneath
2024-09-07, scritch scritch
2024-09-04, hole time o/
2024-09-04, red-capped parrots
2024-09-04, messy eaters
2024-09-04, little miss photobomb
2024-09-04, black-faced cuckooshrike
2024-09-02, nictitating membrane
2024-09-02, nooo where did my nut go?
2024-09-02, gotta bounce!
2024-09-01, great white staunch
2024-09-01, eyebrows and a handlebar
2024-09-01, brown honeyeater!
2024-08-31, is this thing on?
2024-08-28, hey check out how hard i can scream
2024-08-28, coming of age
2024-08-28, i’m flying! jack!
2024-08-26, metal gear solid alert
2024-08-18, sits in the old gum tree
2024-08-10, ow my poor neck
2024-08-10, how’s the weather up there?
2024-08-09, eucalyptus crimes
2024-08-07, bloody hell! magpie almost swooped me
2024-08-07, preening below
2024-08-07, preening behind
2024-08-07, scrunkle caruncle
2024-08-06, time to go the fuck home again
2024-08-05, the gang
2024-08-04, full circle
2024-07-27, spotless
2024-07-27, king of the gum tree
2024-07-27, wet and dry and somewhere in between
2024-07-26, bin chicken
2024-07-26, sing to me, erbarme dich
2024-07-23, brown honeyeater?
2024-07-22, family of non-magpie magpies
2024-07-17, local parrot conference 2
2024-07-17, powerline sucks… hit da bricks!!
2024-07-17, fence wagger
2024-07-16, ornithologist (culinary)
2024-07-14, local parrot conference
2024-06-25, you can paddle there? that’s adorable. i can walk there
2024-06-25, that’s a paddlin
2024-06-24, beep!! i’m a ringneck
2024-06-20, banksia banquet
2024-06-13, i am not a magpie (and nor are they)
2024-06-12, when will my {wagtail,wattlebird} return from war
2024-06-12, caught red beaked
2024-06-09, bird modem
2024-06-08, squawk squawk
2024-06-08, this machine kills snakes
2024-06-07, what’s all this racket?
2024-06-07, two galahs
2024-06-07, singing honeyeater
2024-05-25, crime babys

raven grab

🗓️: 2024-09-08
📷: Nikon D3200
👓: AF-S DX NIKKOR 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR
🐦: Australian raven (Corvus coronoides)

more graceful than she might sound

turns out 3d-tracking mode is pretty good.

🗓️: 2024-09-08
📷: Nikon D3200
👓: AF-S DX NIKKOR 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR
🐦: red-tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii)

leaden crow-shrike

i saw my first ever currawong! this guy belongs to the western subspecies of grey currawong (Strepera versicolor plumbea), historically known as the leaden crow-shrike. the wikipedia page listed it as a “leaden cuckoo-shrike” in some places, but checking the cited Whitlock (1910), that seems to have been a mistake.

🗓️: 2024-09-08
📷: Nikon D3200
👓: AF-S DX NIKKOR 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR
🐦: grey currawong, subspecies leaden crow-shrike (Strepera versicolor plumbea)

oh a portrait? happy to oblige

🗓️: 2024-09-07
📷: Nikon D3200
👓: AF-S DX NIKKOR 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR
🐦: galah (Eolophus roseicapilla)

raven takeoff

🗓️: 2024-09-07
📷: Nikon D3200
👓: AF-S DX NIKKOR 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR
🐦: Australian raven (Corvus coronoides)

cogs are turning

🗓️: 2024-09-07
📷: Nikon D3200
👓: AF-S DX NIKKOR 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR
🐦: Australian raven (Corvus coronoides)

the pink underneath

🗓️: 2024-09-07
📷: Nikon D3200
👓: AF-S DX NIKKOR 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR
🐦: galah (Eolophus roseicapilla)

scritch scritch

🗓️: 2024-09-07
📷: Nikon D3200
👓: AF-S DX NIKKOR 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR
🐦: galah (Eolophus roseicapilla)

hole time o/

🗓️: 2024-09-04
📷: Nikon D3200
👓: AF-S DX NIKKOR 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR
🐦: red-capped parrot (Purpureicephalus spurius)

red-capped parrots

top to bottom: male, female

🗓️: 2024-09-04
📷: Nikon D3200
👓: AF-S DX NIKKOR 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR
🐦: red-capped parrot (Purpureicephalus spurius)

messy eaters

top to bottom: female, male

🗓️: 2024-09-04
📷: Nikon D3200
👓: AF-S DX NIKKOR 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR
🐦: red-tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii)

little miss photobomb

🗓️: 2024-09-04
📷: Nikon D3200
👓: AF-S DX NIKKOR 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR
🐦: red-tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii)

black-faced cuckooshrike

🗓️: 2024-09-04
📷: Nikon D3200
👓: AF-S DX NIKKOR 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR
🐦: black-faced cuckooshrike (Coracina novaehollandiae)

nictitating membrane

🗓️: 2024-09-02
📷: Nikon D3200
👓: AF-S DX NIKKOR 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR
🐦: red-tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii)

nooo where did my nut go?

🗓️: 2024-09-02
📷: Nikon D3200
👓: AF-S DX NIKKOR 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR
🐦: red-tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii)

gotta bounce!

🗓️: 2024-09-02
📷: Nikon D3200
👓: AF-S DX NIKKOR 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR
🐦: red wattlebird (Anthochaera carunculata)

great white staunch

🗓️: 2024-09-01
📷: Nikon D3200
👓: AF-S DX NIKKOR 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR
🐦: Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata)

eyebrows and a handlebar

🗓️: 2024-09-01
📷: Nikon D3200
👓: AF-S DX NIKKOR 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR
🐦: willie wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)

brown honeyeater!

i was unsure of this one and this other one, because they seemed way too round to be brown honeyeaters! but now i think these are just juveniles.

🗓️: 2024-09-01
📷: Nikon D3200
👓: AF-S DX NIKKOR 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR
🐦: brown honeyeater (Lichmera indistincta)

is this thing on?

testing my new camera right after sunset. not gonna pretend these are great shots, but the fact that i can get something almost usable out of it at iso 3200 is neat.

🗓️: 2024-08-31
📷: Nikon D3200
👓: AF-S DX NIKKOR 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR
🐦: Australian magpie, western magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen dorsalis)
🐦: red wattlebird (Anthochaera carunculata)

hey check out how hard i can scream

🗓️: 2024-08-28
📷: Canon 1000D
👓: Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III
🐦: red wattlebird (Anthochaera carunculata)

coming of age

🗓️: 2024-08-28
📷: Canon 1000D
👓: Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III
🐦: Australian magpie, western magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen dorsalis)

i’m flying! jack!

🗓️: 2024-08-28
📷: Canon 1000D
👓: Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III
🐦: magpie-lark (Grallina cyanoleuca)

metal gear solid alert

🗓️: 2024-08-26
📷: Canon 1000D
👓: Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III
🐦: willie wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)

sits in the old gum tree

🗓️: 2024-08-18
📷: Canon 1000D
👓: Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III
🐦: laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae)

ow my poor neck

🗓️: 2024-08-10
📷: Google Pixel 8
🔭: Nikon Aculon A211 10-22x50
🐦: Australasian darter (Anhinga novaehollandiae)

how’s the weather up there?

🗓️: 2024-08-10
📷: Google Pixel 8
🔭: Nikon Aculon A211 10-22x50
🐦: eastern great egret (Ardea modesta), formerly Ardea alba modesta

eucalyptus crimes

🗓️: 2024-08-09
📷: Canon 1000D
👓: Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III
🐦: rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus)

bloody hell! magpie almost swooped me

🗓️: 2024-08-07
📷: Canon 1000D
👓: Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III
🐦: galah (Eolophus roseicapilla)

preening below

🗓️: 2024-08-07
📷: Canon 1000D
👓: Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III
🐦: galah (Eolophus roseicapilla)

preening behind

🗓️: 2024-08-07
📷: Canon 1000D
👓: Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III
🐦: galah (Eolophus roseicapilla)

scrunkle caruncle

🗓️: 2024-08-07
📷: Canon 1000D
👓: Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III
🐦: red wattlebird (Anthochaera carunculata)

time to go the fuck home again

🗓️: 2024-08-06
📷: Google Pixel 8
📷: ~~Canon 1000D~~
👓: ~~Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III~~
🐦: no hat, no play, no card, no bird

the gang

🗓️: 2024-08-05
📷: Canon 1000D
👓: Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III
🐦: red-tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii)

full circle

🗓️: 2024-08-04
📷: Google Pixel 8
🔭: Nikon Aculon A211 10-22x50
🐦: rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus)

spotless

🗓️: 2024-07-27
📷: Canon 1000D
👓: Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III
🐦: laughing dove (Spilopelia senegalensis), formerly Streptopelia

king of the gum tree

🗓️: 2024-07-27
📷: Canon 1000D
👓: Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III
🐦: red wattlebird (Anthochaera carunculata)

wet and dry and somewhere in between

🗓️: 2024-07-27
📷: Canon 1000D
👓: Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III
🐦: Australian wood duck (Chenonetta jubata)

bin chicken

🗓️: 2024-07-26
📷: Canon 1000D
👓: Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III
🐦: Australian white ibis (Threskiornis molucca)

sing to me, erbarme dich

🗓️: 2024-07-26
📷: Canon 1000D
👓: Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III
🐦: singing honeyeater (Gavicalis virescens)

brown honeyeater?

🗓️: 2024-07-23
📷: Google Pixel 8
🔭: Nikon Aculon A211 10-22x50
🐦: brown honeyeater (Lichmera indistincta)

family of non-magpie magpies

top to bottom: female adult, male adult, juvenile

🗓️: 2024-07-22
📷: Google Pixel 8
🔭: Nikon Aculon A211 10-22x50
🐦: Australian magpie, western magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen dorsalis)

local parrot conference 2

🗓️: 2024-07-17
📷: Google Pixel 8
🔭: Nikon Aculon A211 10-22x50
🐦: Australian ringneck, twenty-eight parrot (Barnardius zonarius semitorquatus)
🐦: galah (Eolophus roseicapilla)

powerline sucks… hit da bricks!!

🗓️: 2024-07-17
📷: Google Pixel 8
🔭: Nikon Aculon A211 10-22x50
🐦: willie wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)

fence wagger

🗓️: 2024-07-17
📷: Google Pixel 8
🔭: Nikon Aculon A211 10-22x50
🐦: willie wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)

ornithologist (culinary)

🗓️: 2024-07-16
📷: Google Pixel 8
🔭: Nikon Aculon A211 10-22x50
🐦: cat (Felis catus)

local parrot conference

🗓️: 2024-07-14
📷: Google Pixel 8
🔭: Nikon Aculon A211 10-22x50
🐦: Australian ringneck, Port Lincoln parrot (Barnardius zonarius zonarius)
🐦: galah (Eolophus roseicapilla)

you can paddle there? that’s adorable. i can walk there

🗓️: 2024-06-25
📷: Google Pixel 8
🐦: Australasian swamphen (Porphyrio melanotus), formerly purple swamphen

that’s a paddlin

🗓️: 2024-06-25
📷: Google Pixel 8
🐦: Pacific black duck (Anas superciliosa)

beep!! i’m a ringneck

🗓️: 2024-06-24
📷: Google Pixel 8
🔭: Nikon Aculon A211 10-22x50
🐦: Australian ringneck, twenty-eight parrot (Barnardius zonarius semitorquatus)