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Benjamin V ḍ A 🦉🦋🦎
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🇧🇪 in 🇲🇨 Happy birder and nature enthusiast, innovation & data-viz, biodiversity & sustainability.
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White-headed Munia (Lonchura maja). A South-East Asia estrildid finch common in wetlands high grass. #Indonesia #BirdsSeenIn2026 🪶
January 12, 2026 at 12:44 AM
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Stunning bird.
Here is his cousin from Indonesia, the Javan Kingfisher, for blue bird lovers 💙 seen a few weeks ago. #BirdsSeenIn2025 🪶
January 8, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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Starting the year with a few poor shots of #birdsfromfaraway off #Java, #Indonesia
Collared Kingfisher, Pacific Swallow, Brahminy Kite, Greater Crested Tern.
All species enjoying the peaceful atoll life in the Sea of Java. 🪶
#BirdsSeenIn2026 #birding
Greater Crested Tern with distinct yellow bill and black crest/nape, perched on a pole in the sea Solitary Pacific Swallow perched on a stick. Reddish pattern on head, white underparts and dark upperparts, wings and nape Slightly patterned brown immature Brahminy Kite perched on a branch of a Casuarina tree with leaves obstructing partly the view. Very blurry Collared Kingfisher perched on a pole in the sea with distinct greenish-blue wings, white breast and underparts and red bill.
January 4, 2026 at 10:36 AM
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Here's how Mr Dove is supposed to look like
December 30, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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My small contribution to #birdbutt for #BirdOfTheDay. This is the beautiful Black-naped Fruit Dove hiding behind leaves. #BirdsSeenIn2025 #birding #java #indonesia 🇮🇩
December 30, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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I had the chance of doing some deep forest birding this week. Here's my latests sight : a Chestnut-breasted Malkoha #BirdOfTheDay #mostrecent #BirdsSeenIn2025 #birds #Java #Lifer #575
Large Malkoha bird with chestnut breast and undertail, green wings and upper parts, grey head, red eye mask and yellow iris, searched on the branch in front of a cliff , with some hanging tree branches. Location: East Java
December 28, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Functional architecture meets religion
#Bangkok #BKK #scapes
December 14, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Beauty is in the details 💚💛
Green and yellow tiled mosque cupola behind a green and yellow overpass. Indonesia
December 13, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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#BirdOfTheDay theme, the bird #least photographed by me. This cute Triple-Banded Plover seen once in South Africa, close to Kruger NP.
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Perhaps good inspiration from Merlin Bird ID App, targeting a broad spectrum of birders...
October 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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I will never grow tired of Kingfishers. They seem smartly dressed for the fashion week, casually perched with their amazing colors, yet in a flip of a second they turn into fierceful hunters flying off to their next snack. Preybirds cannot compete.

#BirdsSeenIn2025 #indonesia #mangrove #birding 🪶
Collared Kingfisher. Blue and white kingfisher perched on a mangrove aerial root on a leafy green background. Lombok, Indonesia
October 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Fantastic bird, I saw my first one today #Lifer WorldList #552😇 #BirdsSeenIn2025 #indonesia #lombok #birding 🪶
October 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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A Speckled Pigeon in South Africa for #BirdOfTheDay by @robcrank68.bsky.social

#birding #BirdsSeenIn2025 🪶 #Pigeon
September 21, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Red-winged Starling on Table Mountain
#BirdsSeenIn2025 #CapeTown
#SouthAfrica 🪶
Black Starling with a thin reddish stripe on the wings, perched on a rock in front of a cliff landscape with the sea in the background.
September 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Island life of the Collared Kingfisher -
Todiramphus chloris
#BirdsSeenIn2025 #BlueskyNatureCommunity
#indonesia 🇮🇩
Kingfisher perched on a branch, looking sideways. Pulau seribu, Java, Indonesia 2 white and blue kingfishers mating on a branch, green casuarina foliage in the background. Male and female typical slight colour difference visible
September 7, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Hyperactive creature, here's his Indonesian neighbour, in Jakarta
August 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Looks like I spotted a new butterfly species - love the contrast and colours. 🦋🌿
Green Baron - Euthalia adonia
#phonephotography #invertebrates #indonesia
Photo of a highly contrasted butterfly on a large green leaf. Butterfly displays large patches of glossy dark green and white, and smaller patches of glossy blue and bright red. Taken on Java Island.
August 3, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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SHOW ME SOMETHING BRANCHING OUT!

Theme: Trees
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#ShowMeSomething #BlueskyArtShow #Alternating #Jakarta
July 27, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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#BlueSkyArtshow #Alternating #Jakarta
Pedestrian overpass and high rise building
July 27, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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When the post office becomes a coffee shop... #artdeco #Hanoi ##urbanscape
July 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Final rays of the day on the mosque. #Jakarta
Sunset on mosque, viewed from under a road bridge. Masjid Darul Jannah, Kantor Walikota, Jakarta
July 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Beating traffic in #jakarta #urbanscape #scape
July 25, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Hanoi centre #urbanscape
July 25, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Overwhelmed by the beautiful landscapes in Northern Vietnam 🇻🇳 mountains, so of course I'm doing vertical shots 😅
July 20, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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My favourite utensil bird is definitely the Hamerkop. Rusty brown, straight out of an old toolbox 🪶
Hamerkop standing on the verge of a pond, head in shoulders, with dense bushy vegetation in the background. Limpopo, South Africa, 2023
July 12, 2025 at 6:19 AM