I had to share

Today July.12.2013
One of my pictures made the "Photo of the Day" at National Geographic!
It's really an honor!

www.nationalgeographic.com

Taiwan Blue Magpie

The Taiwan Blue Magpie (Urocissa caerulea), also called the Taiwan Magpie or Formosan Blue Magpie (Chinese: 臺灣藍鵲; pinyin: Táiwān lán què) or the "long-tailed mountain lady" (Chinese: 長尾山娘; pinyin: Chángwěi shānniáng; Taiwanese: Tn̂g-boé soaⁿ-niû), is a member of the Crow family. It is an endemic species living in the mountains of Taiwan at elevations of 300 to 1200m.

Swallow fun!

I had some fun observing these swallows fighting for the best place to sit!

How to get a lot of flickr comments in a short time?!

Collared Bush-Robin (female)

I post a lot of pictures on flickr. Flickr can help you to get followers very easlily!

You just have to post your pictures in flickr groups to get noticed!

I do a lot of bird photography, but the groups I am going to list are are not nature specific!

You can add any kind of picture!

Most of the group have follow-up groups; if you got enough comments you can proceed to the next level!
Sometimes I get 400-500 comments in 2 days!

So, I will post some of my favorite groups! There are a lot of flickr groups, but those groups work best for me!

The Look and follow-up groups

Red Level 1 and follow-up groups 

Photography for Recreation and follow-up groups

The Galaxy

Remember that moment and follow-up groups

Super Six and follow-up groups

Music to my eyes and follow-up groups

My gear and me  and follow-up groups

Nice as it gets and follow-up groups

Beautiful earth  and follow-up groups

Have fun
Boris

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The Black-browed Barbet or Müller's Barbet (Megalaima oorti) is a bird belonging to the Asian barbet family, Megalaimidae.

It is 20-23.5 cm long. The plumage is mostly green apart from the head which is patterned with blue, yellow and red. There is a black stripe above the eye. The bill is black and the feet are grey-green. The Chinese name for the bird, "five-colored bird" (五色鳥) refers to the five colors seen on its plumage. Because of its colorful plumage and that its call resembles that of a percussion instrument known as a wooden fish, the species is also referred to as the "spotted monk of the forest" in Taiwan.

Brilliant sky

I got this swallow yesterday morning, the sky was just brilliant!

And I also got a shot at my "nemesis"!
The Black-naped Monarch or Black-naped Blue Flycatcher (Hypothymis azurea) is a slim and agile passerine bird belonging to the family of monarch flycatchers. They are sexually dimorphic with males having a distinctive black patch on the back of the head and a narrow black half collar ("necklace") while the female is duller and lacks the black markings. They have a call that is similar to that of the Asian Paradise Flycatcher and in tropical forest habitats pairs may join mixed-species foraging flocks. Populations differ slightly in plumage colour and sizes.

A mouthful

A mouthful

The Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus) is a passerine bird in the sparrow family with a rich chestnut crown and nape, and a black patch on each pure white cheek. The sexes are similarly plumaged, and young birds are a duller version of the adult. This sparrow breeds over most of temperate Eurasia and Southeast Asia, where it is known as the Tree Sparrow, and it has been introduced elsewhere including the United States, where it is known as the Eurasian Tree Sparrow or German Sparrow to differentiate it from the native unrelated American Tree Sparrow. Although several subspecies are recognised, the appearance of this bird varies little across its extensive range.