Category: Animals

  • Long Tailed Tit

    Long Tailed Tit

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    Or “Bird on a Stick” because of their enormous tail while having a shape of an ball.

  • Great Reed Warbler

    Great Reed Warbler

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    The biggest of our european warblers. Its unique in its voice and appearance (just by the size). Is singing most of the times quite hidden or at the side of the reed you cant see because its the water side…  

  • Red Kite

    Red Kite

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    Red Kites are beautiful birds. They have very long wings in comparison to their “small body” which is around the same size as an bussard. They eat everything they find and is not dirt or a plant. In this case a farmer was in the process of mowing his grass. And all birds of prey…

  • Mandarin Duck

    Mandarin Duck

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    Beautiful Mandarin Duck in the Schlosspark Charlottenburg in the evening light.  

  • Starlings

    Starlings

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    Busy parents need to feed their chicks. Very exhausting times, but the children will be ready to fly out in a few days. And as a last picture – parent says “noooo”.  

  • Black Kite

    Black Kite

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    Female Black Kite in Fahrland, Potsdam. We think its pregnant.

  • Colorcontrast

    Colorcontrast

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    Most of our birds our grey, brown, black. But this one brings some color in the local avifauna. European goldfinch.

  • Chicks

    Chicks

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            The Greylag goose in Berlin have their chicks. They are growing really fast. This one is 2-3 weeks old. The parents do really dont like me in their proximity.

  • Cormorant II

    Cormorant II

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    Aand another cormorant. On a lake in Charlottenburg this time again. The coot was all but happy the visit, but the cormorant just wanted to rest a little bit.

  • Cormorant

    Cormorant

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    Aand another cormorant. On a lake in Charlottenburg this time. The coot was all but happy the visit, but the cormorant just wanted to rest a little bit.