This gallery contains 2 photos. Noisy (but not unbearably loud) and restless during our first two meetings, the typically elusive Red-Winged Laughingthrush was uncharacteristically front-and-center during our third encounter — even quietly posing for my lens for a few minutes with choice positions worthy of a human model on the runway.
my camera needed to max out the ISO to illuminate this subject properly.
f/5.6, 1/500, 70-300mm lens, 250mm, ISO 12800
This Asian native makes up for its rather understated and drab plumage colours with a splash of bright red wing feathers for which it is named, and a birdsong decibel-worthy of Swiss yodelers.
even that silver-blue legband is looking quite fashionable as a foot bracelet.
f/5.6, 1/500, 70-300mm lens, 300mm, ISO 3200
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thank you! love the emoticon comments! 🙂
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My pleasure! (￣▽￣)ノ
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How extraordinarey how beatiful !
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thank you! glad s/he finally posed! 🙂
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Great photos. They aren’t noisy at all 🙂
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but they do live up to their name — when they call (loudly), they sound like they are laughing! 🙂
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You are so beautiful “my dear” ! 🙂
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thank you, lacrimaroua!
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🙂
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gorgeous pictures. It is a beautiful bird.
I wish you a good Sunday.
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thank you, Hervé! good Sunday to you, too!
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Was this in the wild? An irruptive species in BC? It’s beautiful!
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oh heavens, no! (I would be the envy of birders here if this was in the wild! 🙂 ) this beauty was actually photographed at the Bloedel Conservatory in Vancouver, where over 200 birds of various species fly freely in a very large, enclosed tropical biome that also houses 500 species of fauna.
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That must be an awesome place to visit. Another reason to put Vancouver on my bucket list!
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Handsome! Such a model .. Great name
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thank you, Julie! the name was quite the tickler for me, too! 🙂
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You have a talented eye. Great work. I don’t tire of seeing your photos.
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thank you, Nightwriter!
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Fabulous name and fabulous photos 🙂
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thank you, Elle! that bird lives up to its name!
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Fantastic shots of this unique and beautiful bird – Personally, I think his head coloring is pretty fancy, too! I had never heard of any kind of Laughingthrush.
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thank you! me, too! a personal first, even if it’s not in the wild. I heard plenty of them the first two times. 🙂
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What a beautiful bird. Fantastic captures.
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thank you, Tuxedo Cat! 🙂
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Nice modeling, and outfit too! Complete with the ankle bracelet 🙂 Super shots.
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🙂 🙂 🙂 thank you, Tiny! 🙂
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Beautiful! I have never heard of this bird.
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thank you! my first, too! 🙂
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Your photos reveal how gorgeous these birds are! Who banded this one?
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thank you, Noelle! no idea who banded it — but I think all birds housed at the Bloedel Conservatory are done so, for security’s sake and tracking purposes.
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I love the color on this one, beautiful red. Was it cold that day or is this bird really chubby? 😀
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oh, it was probably a cold and rainy day, but tropical birds like these are housed at the Bloedel Conservatory, which is an enclosed biome for hundreds of free flying birds and tropical/desert plants. 🙂
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Beautiful photos :-). I was in Vancouver for Thanksgiving and since it was raining on Saturday afternoon, I headed to Bloedel with my sister and husband. I took a couple photos of a Laughingthrush, but they came out quite blurry as it was on the move in the bushes. A pleasure to see one so clearly! Their splashes of rouge are quite lovely.
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Amazing photos. I love coming to your page.
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thank you!
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