Willi Braun: Grey-browed Brushfinch from a recent trip to Colombia.
Willi Braun: Scarlet-bellied Mountain Tanager from Colombia.
Willi Braun: Chestnut-crowned Antpitta from Colombia.
Willi Braun: Red-headed Barbet - a festive looking bird for the holidays. Merry Christmas, everyone.
Willi Braun: Andean King of the Rock
Willi Braun: We spent a couple of weeks in Colombia recently. Among the iconic birds we hoped to see is the weirdly beautiful Andean Cock of the Rock.
Willi Braun: Atlantic Puffin from our recent trip to Newfoundland.
Willi Braun: Savannah Sparrow
Willi Braun: Swamp Sparrow
Willi Braun: Chestnut-naped Antpitta from south Ecuador.
Willi Braun: Tawny Antpitta, one of three species we saw in southern Ecuador.
Willi Braun: Brown Violetear. One of more than 150 hummingbird species in Ecuador.
Willi Braun: Blue-throated Hillstar
Willi Braun: Jocotoco Antpitta
Willi Braun: Blue-mantled Thornbill, a large hummingbird, photographed in its high-altitude (3,600m) habitat in Cajas National Park, Ecuador.
Willi Braun: White-tailed Jays
Willi Braun: Song Sparrow
Willi Braun: Black Oystercatcher, on a Tofino, BC beach.
Willi Braun: White-faced Ibis, one of about ten, in Sturgeon County wetland.
Willi Braun: Upland Sandpiper from southern Alberta
Willi Braun: Swainson’s Hawk from southern Alberta
Willi Braun: Marsh Wren in St Albert
Willi Braun: Black- crowned Night Heron taken in St Albert.
Willi Braun: Mourning Dove from southern Alberta
Willi Braun: A White-crowned Sparrow having a bath.
Willi Braun: Yellow-rumped Warbler on a cattail.
Willi Braun: Another view of the Brewer’s Sparrow.
Willi Braun: Brewer’s Sparrow, a lifer. Southeastern Alberta, near Wild Horse.
Willi Braun: Thick-billed (formerly McCown’s) Longspur in southern Alberta just north of Medicine Hat. I had seen them before but had not been able to get a photo.
Willi Braun: Northern Harrier swooping about in the grasslands of southern Alberta.