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  • A close up of a Spangled Skimmer sitting on a tan weed stock against a multi-shaded brown background.
    Spangled Skimmer Libellula cyanea.tif
  • A Common Whitetail Skimmer male perches on the top of a bent stock in a pond at the Pine Hollow Arboretum. His colloring shows well against a clear gray sky.
    Common Whitetailed Skimmer Male.tif
  • A beautiful white Nazca Booby standing on a rock ocean-side is stretching his neck, pointing his orange beak in the air, his mask apparent, and preparing to extend its dark-brown to black-tiped wings
    Nazca Booby Stretching 10x15 _2590.tif
  • A Giant Illoneus Owl with tattered hingwings hanging from a green leaf against a multi-green and red background. The lower edge of the forewings and the hindwngs glow irridecent blue.
    Owl - Illioneus Giant - Caligo Illio...tif
  • A close up Dorsal of Cream-striped Owls mating. The butterflys' multi-segmented eye, antennae and blue, cream and brown markings stand out against the digitally blurred background.
    Owl - Cream-striped - Mating.tif
  • A close up Dorsal of the Cream-strped Owl resting on a turquoise mesh curtain in a Butterfly Garden in Costa Rica. The butterfly's multi-segmented eye, antennae and blue, cream and brown markings stand out against the background and the blue "owl eye" shows beautifully.
    Owl - Cream-striped - Caligo teucer ...tif
  • A close up Dorsal of the Cream-strped Owl standing amongst leaf-looking cocoons waiting to dry in a Butterfly Garden in Costa Rica. The butterfly's multi-segmented eye, antennae and blue, cream and brown markings are clear on this newly hatched Owl.
    Owl - Cream-striped - Caligo teucer ...tif
  • A female of Australia's largest butterfly, the Cairn Birdwing (Ornithoptera euphorion), sitting on a green leaf facing the vewer. Red and yellow body markings are clear as is the butterfy's face, probiscus, legs and antenae.
    Cairns Birdwing Female - Ventrall.tif
  • The state butterfly of Florida, a Zebra Longwing, centered, sitting on a branch of a green vine with a unique phenomenon of another Zebra Longing rapidly approaching seen as a blurred sworls of white and brown stripes. PS: Not sure why or how this occurred - but interesting photo!
    Zebra Longwing - Heliconius chariton...tif
  • The state butterfly of Florida, a Zebra Longwing, centered, sitting on a branch of a green vine with a unique phenomenon of another Zebra Longing rapidly approaching seen as a blurred sworls of white and brown stripes. PS: Not sure why or how this occurred - but interesting photo!
    Zebra Longwing - Heliconius chartoni...tif
  • With its long wings spread out, a Blue-footed Booby flyes over a beautiful blue ocean in a light blue cloud-enhanced sky.
    Blue-footed Booby in Flight.tif
  • A beautifully marked Aglarua Olivewing, also named Green Back, sitting on blue cloth surface. The ventral markings and head stand out and there is a partial view of the brown and blue forewing.
    Aglaura Olivewing - Nessaea aglaura ...tif
  • A gentle image of a Eastern Tiger Swallowtail sipping from a trumpet-shaped, red flower in a garden in North Carolina.
    Swallowtail - Eastern Tiger Female V...tif
  • A mult-colored, Brown Cracker sitting on and sipping from a fresh orange surrounded by other fruit set out for the butterflies.
    Cracker - Brown Dorsal.tif
  • A gorgeous, beautifully marked, multi-colored Danaid Mimic Eggfly sipping from a purple flower stands out against soft green leaves.
    Eggfly - Danaid Mimic Ventral.tif
  • A multi-paned window, framed by two polished black columns, through which three very long lantern-like lights, hung from a high ceiling, glow in the diminishing light of the evenng.
    NYC - On 5th Avenue 1.tif
  • A Cattleheart sitting on a green leaf with wings fully spread  showing off his beautiful markings, his probiscus curled and fuzzy body apparent.
    Cattleheart Trans-Andean Dorsal 5x7.tif
  • A small, bright red-feathered, Vermillion Flycatcher perched on one of the branches of a leafless-bush against a pastel pink and green background.
    Vermillion Flycatcher 1.tif
  • A Tropical Kingbird, a large tyrant flycatcher, sitting on a branch displaying his bright yellow chest in the Pantanal area of Brazil. His beak is shadowed on his chest offering an interesting detail to the photograph.
    Tropical Kingbird.tif
  • A Galapagos Dove sits on the straw-covered ground on Espanola Island showing off its striking bright-blue rimmed eye, mahogany throat and multi-shaded wings above its red feet. Endemic to the Galapagos the dove  is fairly common in the semi-open habitat of the Island.
    Galapagos Dove Solo 1.tif
  • Two adult Galapagos Hawks perched on a large rock stand out in the leafless-brush on Espanola Island, in the Galapagos where they are endemic. Similar in size to the Red-tailed Hawk, the Galapaogs hawk is about 47-inches long with a wing span around 21-22 inches.
    Galapagos Hawks 1.tif
  • A single opium poppy with liight burgundy petals and dark burgandy interior and a bright green stigma and stamens. The poppy is in full bloom against a bed of of green leaves in a heritage garden.
    Poppy Burgundy - Opiium 1.tif
  • A beautiful juvenile Galapagos Hawk perched in a tree intently watching. His gold and brown coloring is beautiful, as is the intensity in his eyes. What power!
    Galapagos Hawk Juvenile Solo 1.tif
  • A single red and yellow Heliconia Caribaea Jacquini (a false bird-of-paradise) on a green stem against a black background photographed in Thailand..
    Heliconia Caribaea Jacquini.tif
  • A close up of a Blue-footed Booby standng on a whitish rock on its right foot while scratching its neck with the bent, middle "finger and nail" of its left foot. The flexibility a Booby has with its feet, "fingers" and nails is interesting and apparent. Note that the bird has straw around its beak. .
    Bue-footed Booby Scratching 2.tif
  • A Blue-footed Booby standng on a whitish rock on its right foot while scratching the  back of its head with its left foot. The Booby has tilted its head almost upside down and twisted it so the back of its head is very apparent.
    Bue-footed Booby Scratching 1.tif
  • Blue-footed Booby strutting along in its typical clumbsy way, checking out the surroundings. One foot is off the ground and in process of taking the next step.
    Blue-footed Booby Strutting 2.tif
  • Close up of a female Blue-footed Booby preparing her nest in the red sands of Rabida Island by picking up a pebble with her beak in order to remove from her nesting site.
    Blue-footed Booby Preparing Nest 2.tif
  • Male Blue-footed Booby, with his wings spread wide and head held high, is doing his best to court his fair lady and entice her into mating with him.
    Blue-footed Booby Courting Dance 1.tif
  • Juvenile Swallow-tailed Gull with three Sally Lightfoot crabs on brown and grey lava rocks in the Galapaogs Islands. The bright red and gold Sally Lightfoot crabs stand out against the dark lave rocks and one of the crabs is peeking out from under a rock.
    Swallow-tailed Gull Juvenile Sallyli...tif
  • Mother, father and juvenile Swallow-tailed gulls nestled in the islands red, gold and green vegetation . A mating pair of Swallow-tail gulls frequently stay together from year to year. They feed their chick for about 90 days before it ventures to the sea.
    Swallow-tailed Gull Family 2.tif
  • In tandem, two Blue-footed Boobys with their very long wings make a sweep showing off their tail feahter against a light blue sky in preparation for landing on a Galapagos Island.
    Blue-footted Bobbys in Flight .tif
  • Immature Blue-footed Booby with a white chest, brown head and back feathers and brown feet standing on a rocky surface in the Galapagos Islands
    Blue-footed Booby Juvenile.tif
  • A male Tiger Swallowtail hanging on a pink Mimosa tree with the sun shinning through its wings and all against a bright blue sky.
    Swallowtal - Eastern Tiger - Male Do...tif
  • A close up of an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail sipping on a lavendar flower against a multi-green background. Eyes, probiscus, head, antennae, legs prodominate.
    Swallowtail - Eastern Tiger - Female...tif
  • An exquisite little Thick-tipped Greta perched on the edge of a clear glass sipping nectar from a  blue sponge. The multi-green background is seen beautifully through the transparent wings and the body, antennae, probiscus are all clearly visible.
    Glasswing Thick-tipped Greta - Greta...tif
  • A male Grecian Shoemaker resting on a large green leaf showing off his flaming orange markings on his iridecent black wings.
    Shoemaker Grecian Male.tif
  • Postman resting on a dark green hanger with a dark green background showing off its double yellow bands and red markings.
    Postman - Heliconium Melpomene - Dor...tif
  • Toucan sitting on a branch of a tree in Brazil showing off his marvelous colors and amazing beak.
    Toucan 1 - Brazil.tif
  • Two of Australia's largest butterfly, the Cairn Birdwings (Ornithoptera euphorion), are fluttering around a green fern showing of their irridescent green marking on their black wings.
    Cairns Birdwing - 2 Males Dorsal.tif
  • Rarely photographed, this white moth with wings fringed in rust and irridencent gold, bead-like bars sits on a beige tile floor with its wings spread and rust colored antena apparent and shadowed. Markings on white wings are dotted with rust enhancing the scalloped edge of the moth. It took hours of searching to identify. It has no common name.
    Leuciris beneciliata, Proust 1910.tif
  • A felmale Euproctis similis with pure white wings with fluffy white "hairs" sticking out from her head and the yellow tip of her abdomen showing under the closed wings stands out agains the bright red cockscombe on which she is sitting.
    Goldtail Moth - Euproctis similis.tif
  • A blue-shaded, Tabular Iceberg glissening in the Antarctic sun sitting in the blue, blue sea. There are four "arches" have formed at sea-level forming intriguing caves.
    PB-Blue-Tabular-Iceberg.jpg
  • A male Julia Dryas sits on a vine showing its bright orange wings, white tinged hind wing, segmented eyes and orange-tipped antennae against a green background.
    Julia Dryas - Male Dorsal 1.tif
  • A blue, black and whte Common Eggfly sits on the edge of a white Phalaenopsis orchid  delicatlely decorated with water droplets.
    Eggfly - Commmon Male Dorsal on Orch...tif
  • A stunning Brown Clipper sits on a green and white leaf showing off its brown and gold wing, white markings and gold-tipped antennae.
    Clipper Brown R Dorsal 11x14.tif
  • A mosaic-like reflection of a historic church and a blue, blue sky in the all glass building across the street.
    NYC - Reflection 1.tif
  • A lovely dorsal view of a female Back Swallowtail sipping from a pink Hydrangea.
    Swallowtail - Black Female Dorsal 1.tif
  • A Black-collared Hawk, balancing on the top of a post, spotted as we cruised through the labyrinth  of rivers in the Pantanal area of Brazil. The hawk has a white head, tinged with buff and a ciinnamon-rufous body that is paler on the chest enhanced by a black crescent on the upper breast.
    Black-collared Hawk.tif
  • A beautiful juvenile Galapagos Hawk perched in a tree intently watching. His gold and brown coloring is beautiful, as is the intensity in his eyes. What power!
    Galapagos Hawk Juvenile Solo 1.tif
  • Close up of the pure white head and shoulders of a Nazca Booby, its black-masked, yellow eyes and long orangish-red beak against a blurred, multi-green and brown background.
    Nazca Booby Head.tif
  • A Nazca Booby is standing on a large, lava outcrop preening its beautiful white feathers in total concentration, oblivious of the ocean waves furiously crashing and spraying behind it.
    Nasca Booby Preening.tif
  • Blue-footed Boobys kissing by touching the tips of their beaks together against the straw-filled, red sands of Rabida Island.
    Blue-footed Boobys Kissing.tif
  • Blue-footed Booby strutting along in its typical clumbsy way, on the red sands of Rabida Island. One foot is off the ground and in process of taking the next step.
    Blue-footed Booby Strutting 3.tif
  • Close up of a female Blue-footed Booby preparing her nest in the red sands of Rabida Island by picking up a piece of straw with her beak in order to remove from her nesting site.
    Blue-footed Booby Preparing Nest 1.tif
  • A Blue-footed Booby leaves the straw nest containing two eggs, with straw still wrapped around its beak, as its mate arrives to take over the parenting duties. A intresting insight into parenting "Booby-style." I love the expression on the Booby being relieved!
    Blue-footed Booby Parenting 2.tif
  • A Blue-footed Booby, with one foot on two eggs in a straw nest, awaits its mate to arrive and take over the parenting duties. The Booby has straw wrapped around its beak and looks a little impatient - almost like it is tapping its foot.
    Blue-footed Booby Parenting 1 10x15 ...tif
  • A close up of a female, Black Swallowtail sipping from a bright pink flower against a multi-colored green background in a botanical gardien in North Carolina.
    Swallowtail - Black Female Ventral.tif
  • A close up of the face of a  broww/black, female Tiger Swallowtail sipping from a lavendarflower against a multi-colored background in a botanical gardien in North Carolina.
    Tiger Swallowtail - Papilio - Brown ...tif
  • Paper Kite, also called Rice Paper, Paper White or Large Tree Nymph, with battered wings is perched on a bright red flower protruding from dark green leaves against a grayish background.
    Paper Kite - Ide leuconone - Dorsal ...tif
  • A Malachite butterfly puched upside down on thin, green leaf clearly outlined against a pastel background.
    Malachite - Siproeta stelenes - Vent...tif
  • Full Dorsal view of a Tiger Leafwing in flight towards hanging vines against a multi-green/blue background.
    Tiger Leafwing - Consul fabius cecro...tif
  • Beautiful Common Buckeye sipping from a white flower showing the markings of this butterfly that are anything but common. It is against a background of white flowers and green leaves.
    Common Buckeye - Junionia coenia 2.tif
  • The state butterfly of Florida, a Zebra Longwing, is sitting on a shades of tan concrete piller with its wings spread wide showing off its beautiful white zebra-stripes and decorative bands along the edge of the hind wing.
    Zebra Longwing - Heliconius chariton...tif
  • An Indian Leaf butterfly with probiscus fully extended dringking from a orange, nectar soaked sponge. In dorsal view, the camouflage as a dead leaf is totally apparent as is the bottom of the hindwing which is tapered like a leaf stalk.
    Indian Leaf - Kallima inachus.tif
  • A Numata Longwing sitting on a green leaf its bright orange wings with black and white markings and its striped body are highlighted by a multi-colored green background. The probiscus, body, eyes, antenae are prominent. The Numata Longwing is known for its mimicry and varies tremendously in coloring and markings.
    Numata Longwing - Heliconius numata ...tif
  • A brightly colored male Cain Birdwing, Australia's largest butterfly, hangs on a leaf and is clearly defned against a multi-green background.
    Cairns Birdwing - Male Ventral.tif
  • A one-spotted prepona sitting with wings close on white looking straight ahead. Right bluish eye and red probiscus clearly visible. A neotropical butterfly having a tan ventral appearance in total contrast to its black and blue top wings.
    One-spotted prepona - Archaeoprepona...tif
  • A Sliver Spotted Skipper looks right at you from his perch on a white and pink flower. The sun shinning through his left fore-wing makes the band on on his forewing glow.
    Skipper - Silver-spotted.tif
  • A Blue Morpho Buterfly perches on a leaf with wings fully spread, showing off its bright blue coloring with its head and antennae erect.
    Blue Morpho Dorsal 4.tif
  • Taken from below showing underside of butterfly, a female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail  with wings fully spread and body curved balances on a flower in the North Carolina Botanical Gardens.
    Swallowtail - Eastern iger Femal Und...jpg
  • A full dorsal view of a male Starry Night Cracker showing off his beautiful irridescent blue spots against his dark wings. The Cracker is upside down on a grey-blue trunk.
    Cracker - Starry Night Male Dorsal.tif
  • Malachite butterfly full-wing spread showing off its beautiful brilliang green markings. It is sting on a fruit wedged between the trunks of a white-barked tree in a buttefly garden in Costa Rica.
    Malachite - Siproeta stelenes 1.tif
  • The beautiful gold coloring of this Julia Longwing stands out agains the multi-shade green background as it hangs on a brigh-red flower in a three-quarter vetnral position. Notice the berry dropping from the flower.
    Julia Longwing - Dryas julia - Ventr...tif
  • A Doris Longwing perched at the top of a bright red flower with suspended rain drops against a multi-colored green background. The ventral view shows the beauty and grace of this butterfly.
    Doris Longiwing Heliconius Doris - ...tif
  • A Blue Clipper butterfly - dorsal view - with color and markings showing against a bright red flower and a multi-shaded green background.
    Clipper - Blue Dorsal.tif
  • A close up dorsal view of a  Blue Clipper butterfly with color and markings showing against a bright red flower and a multi-shaded green background.
    Clipper - Blue Dorsal Close.tif
  • A Cattleheart calmly sitting on a green leaf with wings fully spread  showing off his beautiful markings, his probiscus curled and fuzzy body apparent.
    Cattleheart Trans-Andean Dorsal.tif
  • A Hyacinth Macaw, the largest flying parrot, sitting outside his nest in a big old tree in the Pantanal area of Brazil, displaying his bright blue back, wing and tail feathers beautifully. His head is turned in the typical, quizzical way parrots do.
    Hyacinth Macaw Nest.tif
  • An Amerian Hearring Gull poses rail post on Roosevelt Island overlooking the East River and Queens, NewYork City.
    NYC - American Herrng Gull Adult - Q...tif
  • A Amerian Hearring Gull poses on a rock in the East River close to Roosevelt Island in New York City. This medium-sized gull, native to North America, has a yellow bill with a black ring near the tip, yellow eye and egs, feathers shades of grey and black-tipped wings with white spots (mirrors:).
    American Herring Gull Adult 1.tif
  • Determined red berries poking through the red-tinted, white sand on the beaches of a Galapaogs Island. Two berries are perched at the end of their short branch emposing a reflective shadow on the sand.
    Berries in Sand .tif
  • Carnivorous Venus Flytraps with their red, hinged leaf-lobes, trimmed in gold and lined with red spiked hairs, open and iniviting  - ready to catch an unsuspecting insect.
    Venus Flytrap 1.tif
  • A close up of three light green, closed lotus flowers grouped with folded exterior petals ready to be presented to dieties at a temple in Thailand, sprinkeled with water droplets after a rain.
    Temple Lotus.tif
  • Water drops are almost three-dimensional sitting on a portion of golden gladiola right after a brief rain shower at an island hotel in Thailand. Print on metallic paper for interesting effect.
    Gladiola Tears.tif
  • Brown Pelican looking very regal as it poses on the reddish rocks of Rabida in the Galapgos Islands. Whith his long neck extended, his long grey beak rests against his white-feathered beast covered with closed wings in shades of brown.
    Brown Pelican Solo.tif
  • Male Nazca Booby, with its orange-red beak wide open, vocalizes as it stands on the rocky, ocean shore of the South Plaza, Santa Cruz Island, in the Galapagos Islands.
    Nazca Booby Vocalizing.tif
  • Close up of a Nazca Booby standing on a rock, in two-thirds profile, showing off its puffy white chest, orangish beak and black masked face against a multi-green background.
    Nazca Booby Solo 2.tif
  • Blue-footed Booby just took over the parenting detail and is looking none too happy about it.
    Blue-footed Booby Parenting 3.tif
  • As a male and female Blue-footed Booby dance past each other their heads are in profile, each looking in a different direction.
    Blue-footed Booby Mates Head to Head.tif
  • A male and female with beaks touching preforming a courting dance against the red sands of Rabida Island.
    Blue-footed Booby Courting 2.tif
  • Blue-footed Booby strutting along in its typical clumbsy way, checking out the surroundings. One foot is off the ground and in process of taking the next step.
    Blue-footed Booby Strutting 2.tif
  • A full-body portrait of a mature Blue-footed Booby standing on a red-lava rock on Rabina, Galapagos Island, in the middle of a dried-grass field.
    Blue-footed Booby Solo 2.tif
  • Swallow-tailed standing on brown, lava rocks on an island in the Galapagos. Its breading collors, the gull's head is black and the eyes red-rimmed. It is lovely grey and white shadings and dark swallow-tail are lovely against a background in shades of gray. Swallow-tailed gulls are the world's only fully nocturnal gull and seabird. The species is endemic to the Galapbaogs Islands and prey on squid and small fish.
    Swallow-tailed Gull Solo 1.tif
  • Swallow-tailed gulls about to mate with the female looking up at her mate who is standing on her shouldesr with wings spread. The gulls are in full breading collors of black head and red-rimmed eyes. Mating pairs frequently stay together from year to year and feed their chick for about 90 days.
    Swallow-tailed Gull Loving.tif
  • Swallow-tailed couple kissing [touching beaks] with their beautiful breeding colors of grey and white markings enhanced by their red eye-rims and feet stand out against a background of dark lava rocks in Galapagos. Mating pairs frequently stay together from year to year.
    Swallow-tailed Gull Kissing.tif
  • Mother, father and juvenile Swallow-tailed gulls. Junior, almost as big as its parents, is looking for food. A mating pair of Swallow-tail gulls  frequently stay together from year to year. They feed their chick for about 90 days before it ventures to the sea.
    Swallow-tailed Gull Family 1.tif
  • Two Blue-footed Boobys - an immature one in profile and an adult facing the viewer in a three-quarter stance - showing the coloring changes that occur as the birds mature.
    Blue-footed Boobys 1 .tif
  • Blue-footed Booby strutting right towards the viewer with one blue foot in the air and the very distinctive look on its face. Background is the reddisht earth of Rabida Island.
    Blue-footed Booby Strutting.tif
  • Blue-footed Booby proudly nestled down on eggs, two of which are visibile, on white island sand tucked in behind green plants.
    Blue-footed Booby Sitting on Eggs 10...tif
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