User:Charlesjsharp/favourites

Charles J Sharp's favourites This page has galleries of some favourites from photographs I have taken in the last five years Mammals ♀ Loxodonta africana (African Bush Elephant) with six-week-old baby, Matetsi Safari Area, Zimbabwe ♂ Panthera leo (lion) Old male in Chobe National Park, Botswana ♂ Panthera leo (lion) Six-year-old, Phinda Private Game Reserve, South Africa ♀ Acinonyx jubatus (Cheetah) Phinda Private Game Reserve, South Africa Panthera pardus pardus (African Leopard) stalking, Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana ♂ Panthera onca palustris (Pantanal Jaguar) Rio Negro, Pantanal, Brazil ♀ Panthera onca palustris (Pantanal Jaguar) Piquiri River, Pantanal, Brazil ♀ Panthera tigris tigris (Bengal tiger) Kanha National Park, India ♂ Gorilla beringei beringei (Mountain Gorilla) male of the Titus Group, Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda ♀ Gorilla beringei beringei (Mountain Gorilla) female, Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda ♀ Gorilla beringei beringei (Mountain Gorilla) 10-month-old baby, Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda Gorilla beringei beringei (Mountain Gorilla) 2-year-olds in the Mubare Group, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda ♀ Nasalis larvatus (Proboscis Monkey) Labuk Bay, Borneo, Malaysia Suricata suricatta (Meerkats) Dawn in Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, South Africa Canis simensis citernii (Ethiopian wolf) on the Sanetti Plateau, Ethiopia ♂ Syncerus caffer caffer (African buffalo) with a cattle egret in Chobe National Park, Botswana Aepyceros melampus (Red-billed oxpecker Buphagus erythrorhynchu on impala) in Chobe National Park, Botswana Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris (Capybara) with Yellow-headed caracara (Milvago chimachima), Brazil Phoca vitulina vitulina (Common seal) off the island of Lismore, Argyll, Scotland Zalophus wollebaeki (Galápagos sea lions) Isabela Island, Galápago, Ecuador Birds ♂ Pyrocephalus rubinus (Vermilion flycatcher) in the Pantanal, Brazil Icterus croconotus (Orange-backed troupial) in the Pantanal, Brazil ♂ Sicalis flaveola (Saffron finch) in the Pantanal, Brazil Merops philippinus (Cuban tody) on Cayo Guillermo, Cuba Hirundo leucosoma (Pied-winged swallow) in The Gambia ♂ Cyanerpes caeruleus longirostris (Purple honey-creeper) Asa Wright Nature Centre, Trinidad ♂ Cinnyricinclus leucogaster verreauxi (Violet-backed starling) drinking in Damaraland, Namibia ♂♀ Aquila fasciata (Bonelli's eagle) mating on the bank of the Chambal River, India ♂ Mellisuga helenae (Bee Hummingbird) the World’s smallest bird, a Cuban endemic Mellisuga minima (Vervain Hummingbird) the World’s 2nd smallest bird; in Jamaica ♀ Selasphorus scintilla (Scintillant hummingbird) the World’s 3rd smallest bird flower-piercing in Chiriquí Province, Panama ♂ Cinnyris osea osea (Palestine sunbird) feeding in the Dana Biosphere Reserve, Jordan Corythornis cristatus (Malachite Kingfisher) on Lake Baringo, Kenya ♀ Megaceryle maxima (Giant Kingfisher) Breaking the tilapia’s backbone, Lake Naivasha, Kenya ♂♀ Ceryle rudis rudis (Pied kingfishers) pair in Chobe National Park, Botswana Merops apiaster (European bee-eaters) each with a dragonfly, Hungary Merops bullockoides (White-fronted bee-eater) on the Linyanti River, Namibia Merops philippinus (Blue-tailed bee-eater) Kerala, India Agapornis roseicollis roseicollis (Rosy-faced lovebirds) making friends in Erongo, Namibia ♂ Ploceus cucullatus (Village Weaver) nest-building, Queen Elizabeth National Park Uganda Gracupica contra (Asian pied starlings) Sali, Uttar Pradesh, India Dendrocygna autumnalis (Black-bellied Whistling Ducks) on Tobago Cygnus olor (Mute swans) with cygnets at Wolvercote Lakes, Oxfordshire Buphagus africanus africanus (Yellow-billed oxpeckers on zebra) in Senegal Butterflies and moths Pachliopta hector (Crimson Rose) Kumarkom, Kerala, India Papilio andraemon (Bahamian swallowtail) Blue Mountains, Jamaica Papilio crino (Common banded peacock) Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala, India. Aporia crataegi (Black-veined white) on early marsh-orchid (Dactylorhiza incarnata), Tagamõisa Conservation Area, Saaremaa, Estonia Mylothris rueppellii haemus (Twin dotted border) newly emerged in Johannesburg, South Africa Pieris brassicae (Large white) Cumnor Hill, Oxfordshire Charaxes jasius jasius (Two-tailed pasha) Europe’s only charaxes, Sithonia, Greece Euphaedra themis (Crimson-spotted forester) in the Bobiri Forest, Ghana Doleschallia bisaltide (Autumn leaf) Bali|, Indonesia Cymothoe hobarti (Red glider) Kakamega Forest, Kenya Inachis io (European Peacock) Otmoor RSPB reserve, Oxfordshire Boloria graeca balcanica (Balkan fritillary) Yastrebets, Rila Mountains, Bulgaria Melitaea didyma (Spotted fritillary) Republic of North Macedonia Galichica National Park, Republic of North Macedonia Euphydryas aurinia (Marsh Fritillaries) mating in Brickes Wood, Lydlinch, Dorset Issoria baumanni excelsior (Baumann's mountain fritillary) Slopes of Mount Bisoge, Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda Polygonia c-album aberration hutchinsoni Comma Fermyn Woods, Northamptonshire Callicore texa (Texa eighty-eight) Cristalino Lodge, Amazon, Brazil Polyommatus bellargus (Adonis blue) Yoesden Bank, Buckinghamshire Leptotes cassius theonus (Cassius Blue) near Las Terrazas, Cuba ♂ Leptotes pirithous (Lang's Short-tailed Blue) Alvão Nature Park, Portugal Polyommatus icarus (Common blues) mating on Yoesden Bank, Buckinghamshire Brephidium exilis thompsoni (Grand Cayman pygmy blue) The World's smallest butterfly, endemic to Grand Cayman Callophrys rubi (Green hairstreak) Aston Upthorpe, Oxfordshire Tyria jacobaeae (Cinnabar moth) Piddington Wood, Oxfordshire Adscita statices (Green forester moth) Kampinos Forest, Poland Agrius convolvuli (Convolvulus hawk-moth ) Gorski kut, Rila Monastery, Bulgaria Yponomeuta evonymella (Bird-cherry ermine moth) a nest of caterpillars in Lahemaa National Park, Estonia Trosia nigropunctigera (Rosy ermine moth) Mount Totumas cloud forest, Chiriquí Province, Panama Adhemarius gannascus (Sphinx moth) in the Mount Totumas cloud forest, Panama Xylophanes crotonis (Sphinx moth caterpillar) in the Mount Totumas cloud forest, Panama Dragonflies and damselflies Somatochlora metallica (Brilliant emerald) teneral female, Moat Pond, Thursley, Surrey ♂ Brachytron pratense (Hairy dragonfly) eating a bee, Koigi Bog, Saaremaa, Estonia ♂♀ Sympetrum striolatum ( Common darters) mating in Kew Gardens, London ♂ Calopteryx virgo (Beautiful demoiselle) Crockford Stream, New Forest, Hampshire ♂♀ Enallagma cyathigerum (Common blue damselflies) mating in Whitecross Green Wood, Buckinghamshire ♀ Ischnura elegans form infuscans-obsoleta (Blue-tailed damselfly) Radley Lakes, Oxfordshire ♀♂ Ceriagrion tenellum female form typica (Small red damselflies) mating at Ober Water, New Forest, Hampshire ♂ Lestes sponsa (Emerald damselfly) Warren Heath, Hampshire Grasshoppers Acanthacris ruficornis (Garden locust) in Ghana ♀ Zonocerus variegatus (Variegated grasshopper) Bobiri Forest, Ghana (Metrioptera roeselii diluta (Roesel's bush-cricket) first record in Finemere Wood, Oxfordshire Insects and spiders Peucetia madagascariensis (Malagasy green lynx spider) with green bottle fly (Lucilia sp.) in Madagascar Phromnia rosea (Flatid leaf bugs and nymphs) in Ankarana Reserve, Madagascar Reptiles and amphibians ♂ Varanus komodoensis (Komodo Dragon) Komodo Island, Indonesia Caiman yacare (Yacare Caiman) in the Pantanal, Brazil Calumma brevicorne (Short-horned chameleon) in Andasibe, Madagascar ♀ Calumma crypticum (Blue-legged chameleon) in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar Trioceros rudis (Rough Chameleon) Slopes of Mount Bisoge, Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda ♀♂ Acanthodactylus boskianus (Bosc's fringe-toed lizards) courtship in the Dana Biosphere Reserve, Jordan Stellagama stellio (Roughtail rock agama) Dana Biosphere Reserve, Jordan Mantella baroni (Variegated golden frog) in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar Agalychnis annae (Golden-eyed tree frog) in Costa Rica Agalychnis annae (Golden-eyed tree frog) in Costa Rica