Camouflage
Top 25 Wild Bird Photographs of the Week
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Steve Boyes is a Fellow of the National Geographic Society and a 2013 National Geographic Emerging Explorer for his work in the Okavango Delta and on the Cape Parrot Project. He has dedicated his life to conserving Africa’s wilderness areas and the species that depend upon them. After having worked as a camp manager and wilderness guide in the Okavango Delta and doing his PhD field work on the little-known Meyer’s Parrot, Steve took up a position as a Centre of Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology. In 2019 Steve and the National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project won the Rolex Explorer of the year
Camouflage
Birds make use of plumage colouration and behaviour to conceal themselves from potential predators or prey, this is known as camouflage. In some species, plumage colour will match the surrounding environment, while patterns such as countershading reduce the shadow on the bird’s underside making it less visible.
Featured here is the Indian Nightjar, Chincholi Wildlife Sanctuary, Karnataka.
Photographed: March 15, 2020 | Published: June 19, 2020.
The Indian Nightjar is a small nightjar which is a resident breeder in open lands across South Asia and Southeast Asia. This nightjar can sometimes be spotted on roads when their eyes gleam red in the spotlight of a vehicle. Photographed in Karnataka, India
There was an earlier image which was shared as part of the Wild Bird Trust’s Top 25 Wild Birds #Camouflage theme on 11 November 2019.
Oriental Pipit. Photographed in Hyderabad.