David Element
Wildlife Photography and Digital Video Images
_______________________________________________________________________________Birds 160 – Yellow-crowned Bishops
YELLOW-CROWNED
BISHOP Euplectes afer (m)
YELLOW-CROWNED
BISHOP Euplectes afer (m)
YELLOW-CROWNED
BISHOP Euplectes afer (m)
YELLOW-CROWNED
BISHOP Euplectes afer (m)
YELLOW-CROWNED
BISHOP Euplectes afer (m)
YELLOW-CROWNED
BISHOP Euplectes afer (m)
YELLOW-CROWNED
BISHOP Euplectes afer (m)
YELLOW-CROWNED
BISHOP Euplectes afer (m)
YELLOW-CROWNED
BISHOP Euplectes afer (m)
YELLOW-CROWNED
BISHOP Euplectes afer (m)
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The above illustrations are of male Yellow-crowned Bishops or Weavers
Euplectes afer in
their eye-catching breeding plumage. One can only presume that this finery also
makes them extremely visible to raptors! The photographs were taken near to the
Tagus Estuary in Portugal where this sub-Saharan African species has been
introduced and some (for example the final shot) have been adjusted to bring
out the plumage detail and the eyes as the deep black feathers are particularly
photo-opaque (a comparison of the final two images will illustrate the
difference) and they would not have shown up otherwise. The birds were
deliberately underexposed against a dark background for part of this sequence
to prevent over-exposure as the plumage looked superb in this light but the
depth of the colours could have been lost without compensation. These very
mobile and apparently rather skittish little birds were clearly very much at
home in the reed-beds and they were photographed through a car window. Attempts
to photograph the females were doomed to failure! With thanks to Bernardo
Barreto for providing both the transport and the ornithological expertise.
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