This Red-footed Booby was photographed today at sea much to the delight of the attending bird photographers here in the fabulous Reef Islands of the Solomons [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

This image of a White-tailed Tropicbird was photographed today here on this remote coral atoll in Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands [Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

This Black Noddy was seemingly unperturbed by my presence allowing this ultra-close photographic encounter as the bird was roosting at high tide on this sand bar here in the Solomon Islands [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

This image of a Black Noddy was photographed this morning gathering nesting material on a remote coral atoll in the fabulous Solomon Islands [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

This Brown Booby was clearly interested in our boat making a number of passes today at almost point blank range much to the delight of the attending bird photographers [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

Hidden from sight in a small ditch surrounded by rocks on this exposed sandbank at high tide allowed especially close encounters with the roosting seabirds including this Great Created Tern [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

This image of a Great Frigatebird drinking freshwater on the wing was taken earlier today here on a remote coral atoll in the fabulous Solomon Islands [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

This Black Noddy whilst roosting today on this exposed sand bar here in the Solomon Islands was seemingly oblivious to my presence allowing me to approach within just a few meters of his position [Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

This White-bellied Cuckooshrike with its black face-mask and snow-white underparts made a brief appearance earlier this morning here in Isabel Province, the Solomon Islands [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

This Claret-breasted Fruit Dove put in a most welcome appearance today here in the Solomons showing well his green coat, yellow bill, white shoulder patch, pale spots on the tertials and “trademark” purple breast [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

This male Ultramarine Kingfisher, a Solomon Islands’ endemic, posed briefly this morning showing well his Royal Blue coat and long, heavy dagger-shaped bill [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

This photographic encounter last night with the near threatened Solomons Frogmouth is one of the few sharp images that exists of this little-known species, showing well its piercing yellow eyes and white blotched wings and underparts [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

Spinner Dolphin making a welcome photographic appearance here today in the waters surrounding Central Province in the Solomon Islands [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

Little Pied Cormorant photographed this afternoon here on Rennell Province, the most southerly island in the Solomon Islands [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

This Cardinal Myzomela posed obligingly this morning here in Rennell and Bellona Province in the southern Solomon Islands [Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

Red-footed Booby photographed this morning at 600mm f/4 almost at point-blank range as it flew right past our boat here in the Solomon Islands [Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

This immature Red-footed Booby was photographed this afternoon here in the Solomons Islands [Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

The endemic birds here in the Solomon Islands continue to give themselves up to the camera and this Bare-eyed White-eye with its trademark black facial skin was the latest to succumb to the attending bird photographers [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

This male Rennell Shrikebill is a large endemic rufous-brown flycatcher with a long hooked bill and black face mask and was photographed this morning here in the Solomon Islands [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

This Rennell Gerygone photographed today here in the Solomons showing well its short eyebrow, olive upperparts and sulphur below was “promoted” to full species status in 2021 becoming one of the newest endemics in the archipelago [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

Chestnut-bellied Monarch, endemic to the Solomon Islands, and posing obligingly this morning for the camera [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

This Red-knobbed Imperial Pigeon posed obligingly today here in the Solomon Islands showing well his peach-coloured face, pale grey breast, chestnut belly, scarlet legs and prominent red nodule at the base of his bill [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com, #BirdsSeenIn2025].

It is unusual to photograph a Melanesian Megapode in full sunlight but for a few brief minutes earlier this morning this bird posed obligingly showing well its yellow bill, red face, grey underparts, brown wings and horn-coloured legs [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

Melanesian Megapode photographed today here in the Solomon Islands. The parents do not incubate their own eggs and instead buries them in the sand. The heat from the sun then incubates their eggs. Chicks emerge fully feathered, independent and capable of feeding themselves [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com]

This image of the endemic Yellow-bibbed Lory was taken today here in the Solomon Islands showing well the parrot’s red face, black cap, green wings and yellow patch across its upper breast from which is derives its English name [www.Bird-Photo-tours.com].

This adult male Blyth’s Hornbill put in a most welcome appearance here today in the rainforests of Guadalcanal Province on the Solomon Islands [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

This male Ultramarine Kingfisher, endemic to the Solomon Islands, made a welcome appearance today showing well his azure-blue colours from which he derives his English name [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

The Midget Flowerpecker is the smallest flowerpecker on our planet but what it lacks in size it makes up with both vigour and colour as this male in full song demonstrated so effectively earlier today here in the Solomons Islands [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

Up-close-and-personal with this Tibetan Lark on the “Roof of the World” here amongst the stunning scenery and fabulous light of the Indian State of Ladakh [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

This Friendly Fantail photographed here in Papua New Guinea lived up to its name allowing an approach at point-blank range [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

This image of a Hooded Butcherbird was taken in Papua New Guinea as the bird obligingly flew right towards my position [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

In island biogeography a supertramp species is one adept at colonising new islands. However, this Supertramp Fantail photographed here in the Lesser Sundas, was instead named because of its fondness for the British rock band [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

The Indian State of Ladakh offers some of the best August birding available in Asia, such that with the right tactics, close encounters with difficult-to-photograph birds like this Himalayan Snowcock are increasingly possible [Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

This female Lansberge’s Minivet, endemic to Flores Island here in the Lesser Sundas, posed obligingly for the camera showing well her orange wing panel and rump, brownish-grey upperparts and wholly white below [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

Approaching on rowing boats can produce close photographic encounters with elusive waterbirds such as this River Lapwing photographed here in India’s Himalayan region [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

Bismarck Crow: endemic to Papua New Guinea’s Bismarck Archipelago and the blue-eyed-boy of the corvid family [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

At high tide in the Bismarck Archipelago the number of exposed rocks for Roseate Terns to roost on are at a premium and following this face-off the right-hand-bird opted to search elsewhere [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

The Shining Myiagra is fairly widespread throughout New Guinea but this male photographed in the Bismarck Archipelago was without doubt the boldest of them all approaching at point-black range [Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

This image of a Timor Meliphaga, endemic to the Lesser Sundas, was photographed today showing well its grey-white underparts heavily streaked brown, bright yellow-orange ear patch and white submoustachial stripe thinly edged black [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

An exceptionally close encounter with this female Tibetan Sandgrouse showing well her orange cheeks and sandy finely-barred plumage [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

Here on the western edge of the Tibetan Plateau, high up in the Himalayas, this Blanford’s Snowfinch obligingly looked directly into the camera [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

The Indian State of Ladakh located on the southern edge of the Tibetan Plateau is surely one of the premier summer birding destinations in Asia and what better way to kick-off than with a close encounter with this Mountain Chiffchaff [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

This image of an Australasian Darter was taken as the bird had just swallowed a large fish, just noticeable via the bulge in its neck, as the fish makes its final journey down to the bird’s stomach [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

This White-rumped Kingfisher, a Lesser Sundas endemic, was photographed this morning showing well its large red bill, crimson orbital skin, black head and purple-blue upperparts [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

This image of a Timor Gerygone, endemic to the eastern Lesser Sundas, was taken today as the bird paused briefly for the camera [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

This endemic male Red-chested Flowerpecker was photographed today here in the Lesser Sundas proudly showing off his most recognisable field mark [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

This image of the Indonesian endemic Yellow-ringed White-eye was taken as the bird was preening itself shortly after dawn today on Flores Island here in the Lesser Sundas [Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

This image of a Yellow-browed Heleia, endemic to Indonesia’s Flores Island, was taken today showing well the bird’s most recognisable field mark: its prominent eyebrow [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

This Brown-capped Fantail, endemic to Indonesia’s Lesser Sunda Islands, was photographed today showing well the bird’s rufous-edged flight feathers, pale eye-ring, white throat, and greyish upperparts [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].

This image of the endemic Elegant Pitta with its thin supercilium, black face, emerald green upperparts and buff below, turquoise wing flash and crimson-red rump was taken here today in Indonesia’s Lesser Sundas [www.Bird-Photo-Tours.com].