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Baby
Bird Pictures
To
obtain baby bird pictures in
the wild requires a bit of effort as their parents usually
hide them
pretty well, or they run off when danger (including a safari vehicle or
humans on foot) approaches, in the case of slightly larger chicks.
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The tiny ugly
duckling will turn into a tall pink flamingo
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It is safe to say most
baby birds are not very
pretty.
Take
for instance the baby flamingo above – it shows hardly any
sign of the beautiful pink adult it is to become.
Baby
bird pictures of water birds will most probably show the family as a
group, scrambling
for the reeds with the chicks never far away from
their mother.
Eagles
on the other hand, rarely lay more than two eggs so you will only find
one or two gaping beaks among fluffy down feathers peeking out among
their sticks nest.
Where
to take baby bird pictures
The
beauty of birdlife is that it is so diverse and that birds occur
worldwide. The wildlife safari areas of East and Southern
Africa do however offer an astonishing
variety of birdlife. Southern
Africa alone boasts around 950 species.
As the different species occupy different habitats, you may find nests
in all sorts of locations: hanging from the end of a branch, huge
communal nests covering almost the whole tree, floating nests of twigs,
hollows in the ground…
Once you find a nest you can revisit it regularly until the chicks
hatch which should give you plenty of opportunity to
photograph the
baby birds from all angles. Unless they are in a closed nest which may
only afford you pictures of their hungry beaks every now and then.
In your quest to find and photograph wild baby birds, it’s
easiest to start by looking for ducklings or ground-dwelling birds like
guinea-fowl or francolins.
Related
Content:
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See baby bird pictures of a ground
hornbill chick born at the Honolulu Zoo.
From this website:
(Adult) bird pictures taken
on safari in Africa...
More baby animal pictures like baby
monkey, baby cheetah and lion cubs...
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