Tanzania - 2020 - Part 15 - Images of birds photographed in Tanzania in February, 2020

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Fourteen posts with photos and text related to a 2020 safari in Tanzania have been presented here previously. The supply of images depicting the amazing wildlife we observed during the trip was not depleted by those presentations, but entries about other topics appeared instead. In an effort to preserve memories of the trip, I recently reviewed the photos I saved from the trip and generated five additional blog entries.

Flamingo

Pied Avocet

Pied Avocet

African Spoonbill

Three-banded Plover

Blacksmith Plover

Blacksmith Plover

Double-banded Courser

Crested Bustard

Egyptian Goose

White Browed Coucal

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David Sparks

I retired in 2005 after 40 years of research and teaching at the University of Alabama in Birmingham (24 years), the University of Pennsylvania (8 years) and the Baylor College of Medicine (8 years). Photography is my retirement hobby.

Nature photography, especially bird photography, combines a number of things that I really enjoy: bird-watching, being outdoors, photography, travel, messing about with computers, and learning new skills and concepts.  I now spend much of my time engaged in these activities.

David Sibley in the preface to The Sibley Guide to Birds wrote "Birds are beautiful, in spectacular as well as subtle ways; their colors, shapes, actions, and sounds are among the most aesthetically pleasing in nature."  My goal is to acquire images that capture the beauty and uniqueness of selected species as well as images that highlight the engaging behaviors the birds exhibit.