BIRDS OF INSTAGRAM

With contributions from around the world this heavyweight quality publication reproduces in full page colour approximately 150 of the finest bird photography from Instagram's inspiring photographer community. We love birds but they can be tricky to photograph. Enter the expert avian photographers who are uploading astounding captures of beauty and wit to be viewed on your phone screen. Posting from all corners of the globe, this new generation has raised the bar with some of their technically brilliant, characterful portraits. Now renowned ornithologist David Allen Sibley features with anecdotes and technical details the name, location if known, and of course the Instagram account for each beautiful image. There is a short-toed Snake-Eagle and Indian Cobra captured in India outstaring each other, a Common Potoo, normally a nocturnal bird, sitting motionless on the top of a broken-off tree, her fluffy chicks staring up at her, dozens of bathing birds which turn into 'adorable punk rockers' when wet, an Australian pelican using his pouch not only to contain fish but toss them around so they are easier to swallow, in a huge circular stretch of skin. 'A face only a mother could love! This Eurasian Coot chick was expecting to be fed by its mother.' A bit cruel, yes it has a bright red head, but fluffy feathers and his mother loves him. There are ducks and swans and turkeys with beautiful plumage and bright red berry-like dots on their faces, osprey and blue jay, flamingos and their chicks, a fiery-throated hummingbird from Costa Rica, indigo bunting from Canada, a cormorant full of personality, bright blue eye and beak wide open, mating pairs embracing each other like the royal tern, king penguin, common murre and northern gannet, a Roseate spoonbill in flight in Sarasota, wings like beautiful pink outstretched fans and a resplendent Quetzal with its bright green plumage, incredibly long sweeping tail and bright yellow beak captured in flight. 192pp, 19.7 x 23.8cm. A beautiful Abrams publication.
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