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Frontals is a series of bird photos I have been collecting for over ten years. When you get the time to take a series of pictures of one single bird, you will always have one or two frontals in between. I realized from the start that they made the birds look completely different. From that moment on, I decided to focus on it and make sure I would have at least one frontal in each series. Some birds start to look like angry birds, some funny or even ridiculous.

Especially waders change completely as they tend to have long bills not visible from the front. I am familiar with the species, but when you don’t know them, frontals can hide extreme characteristics of the birds. In owls and birds of prey, frontals are basically the normal way of looking at you, so they are only fun when they twist their heads. I think only spoonbills are really much prettier when they show their great bill with yellow spots and tufted head.

Frontals also allow you to create unusual compositions, from a photographic point of view. "Less is more" works great with frontal birds.

Enjoy the pictures and I think after seeing the frontals, you can never look at birds in the same way again!

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Red-Breasted Goose

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M O'Connell
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I will trade you 700 Canada Geese for one of these guys. Gorgeous.

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Mary Rose Kent
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Canada geese are too successful a species, at least in my mind. In the San Francisco Bay Area they NEVER LEAVE! Where I live now (still in California but farther north), they’re—thankfully—only here in the winter.

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Mary Rose Kent
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They’re in the genus Branta, which makes them relatives of the Canada Goose (Branta canadensis), but are found mostly in Siberia.

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Camille Lechliter
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We've got a ton of pigeons that come to our yard every day all day. I could send you some of them to add to the Canada Geese!

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Ashley Maurer
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It looks like a painting.... the white acrylic brush strokes and all

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Amelie C
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These geese are so nice! You can feed them at the wetlands centre near where we live. They are smaller than greylags or Canada geese and are very gentle.

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Black Stork

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The frontal look makes the stork look as if he left the oven on.

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Waxwing

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now it will fly head-first into somebody's window after getting drunk on fermented berries.

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Red Kite

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The first is so majestic and stunning, the second looks like my two year old nephew when we tell him no :)

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Long-Eared Owl

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Magpie

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Mary Rose Kent
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Magpies are related to crows and ravens (Corvidae), so you know they’re smart! California’s only endemic bird is the Yellow-billed Magpie.

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House Sparrow

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These birds may be the most invasive species in the world, but man, they are still adorable

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Jay

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Helena Bialecka
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

https://www.boredpanda.com/birds-photography-counting-jays-garden-ruurd-jelle-van-der-leij/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic is this also your post? Great story!

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Curlew

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Mary Rose Kent
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

North America has the incredibly gorgeous relative, the Long-billed Curlew!

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