My Favorites Photo Gallery by romy ocon at pbase.com

My Favorites

This gallery, a work in progress, contains my favorite wild bird pics. These are my favorites because I just like how the pic turned out, or there was an interesting circumstance behind the photograph.

The gallery has been split into several sub-galleries for easier browsing. Each photo contains the bird's ID, scientific name and habitat, as well as location of the shot. Camera settings during shooting and the date when taken are indicated in the EXIF data.

Grebes and Cormorants	Grey Heron	Purple Heron	Other Herons	Black-crowned Night-Herons
Rufous Night-Herons	Great Egret	Other Egrets	Little Egret	Cattle Egret
Cinnamon Bitterns	Yellow Bitterns	Black and Great Bitterns	Whistling, Pintail, Teal, Spot-billed Ducks, and Mallard	Philippine Duck
Other Ducks and Geese	Various Raptors	Kites	Serpent-Eagles	Falconets
Junglefowls and Quails	Rails and Crakes	Bush-Hens and Waterhens	Watercocks and Moorhens	Swamphens and Coots
Jacanas and Painted-Snipes	Plovers	Curlews, Whimbrels and Godwits	Redshanks and Greenshanks	Sandpipers
Tattlers, Turnstones, Dowitchers, Snipes and Knots	Stints and Pratincoles	Stilts	Gulls and Other Terns	Whiskered Terns
Pigeons	Doves	Parrots	Cuckoos and Drongo-cuckoos	Malkohas
Coucals	Owls	Nightjars, Needletails, Swifts, Swiftlets, Trogons and Dollarbirds	Common Kingfishers	Indigo-banded Kingfisher
Stork-billed and White-throated Kingfishers	Collared Kingfishers	Spotted Wood-Kingfishers	Blue-throated Bee-eaters	Blue-tailed Bee-eaters
Hoopoes and Hornbills	Barbets	Philippine (Pygmy) Woodpeckers	Other Woodpeckers	Pittas and Martins
Swallows and Larks	Cuckoo-shrikes, Trillers, Minivets, Leafbirds and Ioras	Bulbuls	Drongos and Balicassiaos	Orioles and Fairy-Bluebirds
Crows	Tits, Nuthatches, Rhabdornises and Babblers	Rubythroats, Magpie-robins and Shamas	Thrushes and Fly-eaters	Stonechats and Bushchats
Warblers	Grassbirds	Cisticolas and Tailorbirds	Flycatchers	Fantails
Monarchs and Whistlers	Wagtails	Pipits	Wood-swallows	Long-tailed Shrikes
Mountain Shrikes	Brown Shrikes	Starlings, Coletos and Mynas	Plain-throated, Olive-backed and Purple-throated Sunbirds	Flaming, Metallic-winged, Handsome and Crimson Sunbirds, and Spiderhunters
Flowerpeckers	White-eyes	Sparrows	White-bellied and Scaly-breasted Munias	Chestnut Munias and Red Crossbills

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Augusto		08-Nov-2012 01:05
Wow, as in Wow, I've never seen these birds before. Thanks for this very informative blogs now i know the names of the birds often visiting our background picking fruits on the tree over there; their names are Tarictic and Guaiabero! Got it from you. (from Subic Bay)

jasmin		08-Jan-2008 14:10
Mr. Romy! hi! i love and envy your photos! how i wish i also own the same equipments as you are using..i have these very few bird photos for my thesis, and they are ok. what i did is i positioned my digital camera's lens to ms. alice's scope's lens. the blue-tailed bee-eater, common and blue-collared kingfisher, and colasisi as my first lifebirds! i will be facing my thesis defense this last week of january. hope it gets well.^^ and even though you didn't know, your works are one of my inspirations. thanks a lot!! and special thanks to the wbcp!!

Alex		10-May-2007 14:27
Hello Romy, This is really nice......I rate this excellent especially the doves/pigeons. Keep on Bro...++++++

Elvin Sansona		31-Dec-2006 01:53
Hello Romy, Congrats sa very nice website, ayos ang pagka-present ng pics mo. Keep it up!

Guest		17-Mar-2006 23:57
Wow, the bird animations are really neat. Especially that bittern. Thanks.

Cas Acacio		20-Dec-2005 04:05
nys work... balak ko din magkaroon ng ganito... anong claseng camera ba ang ginamit mo... dito kasi ako sa cotabato nakatira and many birds can be found here. some of them are endemics... astig ka pare... keep it up!

Brian McGeough		24-Nov-2005 14:01
Had to bookmark your pages, so many great pictures unbeliveable, very nice

Guest		24-Aug-2005 09:14
well done!!

Eric Cu		13-Aug-2005 05:47
This is spectacular work,to say the least.you do not know how your photos,and your effort to capture these birds,provide profound inspiration to me and my kids.Mabuhay ka!

romy ocon		07-Aug-2005 04:51
Hi Angeo, The Philippine Eagle is not easy to capture in the wild, as it ranges in the remotest corners of our archipelago (Mindanao, and Sierra Madre). Photographing it in its natural habitat would require enormous logistics (not to mention safety concerns) which as a mere hobbyist I don't have at the moment. Besides, our national bird is already very well documented in photos. I'd like to prioritize the lesser known endemics first. Regards/

angeo de guia		07-Aug-2005 04:02
Dear Sir, I am Dr. angeo de guia. I am an internist. I am also an enthusiast of birds and I love your pictures especially the rarest and exotic ones. I was just wondering while you have the most remote and most exotic birds but you don't have a picture of our Philippine eagle especially the one in flight. Can you please email me back regarding this. Thank you so much sir.I really love your pics. Angeo

David Robert		11-Jul-2005 02:21
Breathtaking! What an inspiration to us birdwatchers!

Guest		06-Jul-2005 08:14
WOW! got my vote, your photos are excellent, a real pleasure to view.

Ron S. Bernardo		18-Jun-2005 13:09
Romy, you have my vote for this gallery. "A" for effort!

Guest		23-Apr-2005 08:28
Very, very beautiful images. Those birds must be hiding. I havn't seen them when I was in the Philippines. I was not even aware they may exist.

Ron S. Bernardo		07-Mar-2005 01:11
Romy, i never knew the Philippines still have many beautiful birds! This is a very nice collection. When i go there for vacation, i hope to join you. Ron http://www.pbase.com/ronnik_d70

QUERIDO		04-Mar-2005 07:25
it's a real prleasure tosee your pictures, you made a great job and also scientific with the latin name of species, pictures are very beautiful and you have a real great chance to have allthese birds in your country, very brilliant job

art fuentes		09-Jan-2005 18:49
hi, your photos are amazing! i've been looking for great photographs of philippine birds for a long time, and finally a friend referred me to your site and it just blew me away. astig! :)

Robert Scanlon		03-Dec-2004 13:18
Amazing selection of shots.

romy ocon		13-Nov-2004 00:50
Thanks for the suggestion, James. I'll see if I can find the time to come out with a "Featured Birds" gallery, where a write-up about the circumstances behind the pic will be posted. BTW, date when the pic was taken is already in the EXIF data. Cheers.

James		12-Nov-2004 05:26
Romy, hey rather than the habitat comment why dont you place the date and why the shot is your favorite, would be fun to read about what made it great for you :-) Lovely pics - so happy to finally see one of YW Bulbul, its the first I have seen of this supposedly 'common' spp. Congrats & hope we will go out sometime together! James

Giussani Luciano		17-Oct-2004 08:16
Excellent gallery very good bird picture

jun		17-Oct-2004 04:54
Nice shots pare! interesying subjects. BTW pre how much is 20D in Phil? Im thinking of buying here in Singapore. regards!

Tony		15-Oct-2004 11:50
Brilliant pictures Romy, for me these are exotic birds. Greetings = =

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