Nature Photography
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Website of Tim Laman, a National Geographic Photographer. Tim is specialised in making pictures of difficult subjects in remote areas and owns a great collection of tropical rainforest birds. He is with Edwin Scholes author of the stunning book 'Birds of Paradise', for which he made all the photographs.
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Website of Vincent Munier, a French wildlife photographer. Master of the poor light conditions and the arctic.
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Website of the French photographer, Yann Arthus Bertrand. Superb aerial landscape photography. Author of the book: La Terre vue du ciel.
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Website of David Doubilet, a French underwater photographer. One of the pioneers of high quality under water photography and still making amazing images.
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Website of Mate Bence, a Hungarian Wildlife photographer specialised in bird phototography. Mate Bence is a very talented young photographer who developed a very creative and innovative way of photographing birds from hides. His wide angle bird images and actions shots are simply amazing! He also owns a great collection of tropical ant images.
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Flickr website from Nikola Rahmé, a very talented Hungarian nature photographer. Nikola is specialized in macro photography and Jewel Beetles. His site contains many excellent images from extremely small insects, often made with focus stackings in the field. His images made by stackings in the field are some of the best you will encounter! He owns a very impressive collection of superb images from Jewel Beetles.
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Another absolute master of macrophotography and a very creative illustrator of the fascinating world of tiny creatures. Alex is specialised in the photography of ants, for which he travels all over the world. As Alex is gifted with an impressive ecological knowledge about insects and as his notes are very pleasant to read, his blog deserves to be visited frequently!
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Website of Belgian landscape & nature photographer Bart Heirweg. Contains world class landscape photographs from places all over Europe.
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Website of a Belgian Nature Photographer, specialized in photography of amphibians and reptiles all over the world. World class images from amphibians occurring in very remote areas of the world.
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Website of the Belgian nature photographer Wouter Pattyn. His site contains superb images from landscapes and aerial views, as well as excellent bird and macro photographs, all of them mainly made in Western Europe and Scandinavia.
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The online photo catalog of Rollin Verlinde, Yves Adams, Lars Soerink and Jeroen Mentens, four excellent nature photographers form Belgium and The Netherlands (Lars). The site offers an amazing amount of high quality images from nature in Europe and covers almost every ecological aspect, ranging from landscapes, birds, mammals, fishes to insects.
Birds - information
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Factsheets with detailed information about ecology, behaviour, distribution, etc... Covers all the birds of the world.
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Website created by the authors of the 'Handbook of the Birds of the World', with bird videos, photos and sounds from all over the World. By far the most complete collection of images and videos of birds of the world.
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Website containing by far the most impressive collection of bird sounds from the whole world, and with free access to it! Started a few years ago and still growing every day, thanks to the pioneer role of people like Frank Lambert, who decided to put his entire sound collection for free access on the internet.
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Another website with a global database of well-documented, downloadable bird sounds.
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Website with trip reports of bird travellers. Despite being a very recent site, it seems already very complete and contains a lot of excellent trip reports.
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Website from African Bird Club. The African Bird Club was founded with the mission of raising awareness of birds of the African continent. Contains information about African bird species, local bird projects, etc... Members obtain twice a year an excellent bulletin.
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Website from Neotropical Bird Club. The Neotropical Bird Club was founded with the mission of raising awareness of birds of the South American continent. Contains information about Neotropical bird species, local bird projects, etc... Members obtain the excellent bulletins and magazines 'Cotinga' and 'Neotropical Birding'.
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Website from Oriental Bird Club. The Oriental Bird Club was founded with the mission of raising awareness of birds of Oriental Asia. Contains information about Oriental bird species, local bird projects, etc... Members obtain the excellent bulletins and magazines 'Forktail' and 'Birding Asia'.
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Huge image database of bird species from Oriental Asia.
Beetles, Coleoptera - information
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Website about the Carabidae. By far the most complete website about the Carabidae of the world. Contains a lot of excellent images and very useful for determinations or checking species variation.
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Website about Ground Beetles in Europe. Contains an extensive image database, information about contact persons per country and country species lists.
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Impressive image database with thousands of beetle images. Very usefull to check determinations or species variation.
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Website form Ted C. MacRae. Experiences and reflections of a Missouri entomologist. Ted seems a true Tiger Beetle addict, his blog contains interesting and pleasantly written literature about North American beetles. The site contains also great images of Tiger Beetles.
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Website from Ales Sedlacek, a Czech coleopterologist and photographer. The site contains many excellent images of various beetle families and a large collection of Carabus images. Very usefull for determinations and checking variation within one species.
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Website in French from André Lequet, a coleopterologist specialised in Carabidae. Contains an amazing amount of information about the genus Carabus in France. André is gifted with a very entertaining narrative style and a good sense of humour. His 'histoirettes' are wonderfull to read.
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Website in French from Claude Schott, a french entomologist, specialized in the Elzas region. The site contains a lot of excellent illustrations and images of many of the Mid- and Central European beetles. Particularly usefull information about Carabidae.
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Interesting website with good beetle images from all over the world, often including images from their habitat.
Tour companies
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New birdguiding company, specialized in the Philippines. The tours are led by Bram Demeulemeester, who has developed through the past ten years a great knowledge of the entire Philippines archipelago and its bird specialities.
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New Belgian tour company organizing a diverse range of birding and nature photography tours. Looks promising, judging by the programs and the quality of the tour guides.
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Belgian tour company specialized in nature photography tours. I joined them on a bird photography trip to Hungary and Norway, where the tour was led by Yves Adams. Very professional organisation and pleasant company of the tour leader.
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Tour company specialized in birding tours in West Papua, Indonesia. The company is led by Shita Prativi, who organised my tour on Batanta, Salawati and Waigeo. Very professional service and pleasant company of Shita, Zeth, Jamil and local birders.
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Tour company specialized in birding tours in India and Bhutan. The company is led by Peter Lobo, proprietor of 'Adventure Gurudongma'. Peter organised my tour to Nagaland in North East India. Very professional service and pleasant company of Peter and all the staff members.
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Hungarian Tour Company led by Janos Olah, specialized in birding and bird photography tours in Hungary, Romania and Slovakia. Excellent service and pleasant company of the guides.