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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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#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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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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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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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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'Stop staring at me!' Javan Red-faced Coppersmith Barbet interrupted in action #BirdsSeenIn2025 #birdsfromfaraway #birding #BlueskyNatureCommunity #Indonesia 🪶
Barbet perched on a birdhole on a palm-tree trunk, bill is open, ready for action. Location : Bogor, Indonesia
July 12, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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#travelphotography #lao #vientiane
Massive painted gong in a Buddhist temple along Mekong River near Vientiane, Lao Stone carving details in Tham Phra Temple along Mekong River near Vientiane, Lao.
June 1, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Birding from airports waiting for flights... Asian Openbill and Black-winged Stilt.

#Bangkok #BKK #birdsfromfaraway #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Thailand #digiscopy #birding
Black-winged Stilt walking on the side of a drain with a grass patch in the background. Blurred photo taken through binoculars and airport windows. Asian Openbill feeding in a waterdrain with a grass patch in the foreground, next to taxiway. Blurred photo taken through binoculars and airport windows.
June 1, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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We need a #birdingrun hashtag like there is one for #birdingbybike !
Anyway, 2 new Lifer for me, as I discovered Singapore UNESCO Botanical Garden
✅️Common Flameback
✅️Common Hill Myna
Now on #521 Global

#running #blueskyrun #blueskyrunning #Singapore #birding 🪶 #blueskyNaturePhotography
Nothing much to see here, but a wooden path across a rainforest. Oh and I also ran on this path, while listening to the loud Mynas, about 9km in total
May 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Good Day from Jakarta. For this week's #BlueskyArtShow theme of #Lines, here's a classic mix of telecom and building lines.
May 10, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Tough morning at work :-)
Asian Openbill in sight
#AlwaysBringYourBins

#KualaLumpur #casualbirding #birding #Wetlands
Photo of me seen from the back looking through binoculars over a lake, lush green vegetation surrounding me in a soft yellowish morning light. I'm wearing a formal white shirt and blue pants.
May 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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#BlueskyArtShow #Green

Oleander Hawkmoth,
Daphnis nerii, 2020
#Ghana
A massive velvety hawkmoth with a paintlike camo pattern in green and pale pink, perched on green leaves.
May 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Morning run to start the week on a good foot
#running #strava #parkrun
April 28, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Ready for departure? Yila!
I love trains.
#BlueskyArtShow #Arch #ArtTravel #Marrakech #Maroc #Morocco 2022
Majestic arch entrance of the main station of Marrakesh in Morocco. Wall covered with ceramic patterned tiles, the arch is in red bricks and design continues down to the windows. On the floor the tiles pattern are inviting the travelle to enter the station.
March 29, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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When worship meets ships.
Grundtvigs kirke, København

#BlueskyArtShow #Arch #Denmark
A wooden model sailboat is hanging from the roof of a large church build in yellow bricks in a minimalist 1920's style. The high ceiling shows the intercrossing arches of bricks. Grundtvigs kirke, DK, 2023
March 29, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Throwback Thursday - Ta Phrom Temple in the haze
#scape #Cambodia #Journey #KHM
Typical carved stone temple in Siem Reap, Cambodia, covered by moss and trees over centuries, slight smoke in the air, gigantic tropical trees reaching for the sky in the background. A lady seen from the back walks on a wooden path in the foreground. Ta Phrom temple 2024
March 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Red and green

#scape #tiles #roofs #java #indonesia #Blueskies
Intricate maze of tiled (and tired) roofs with a few trees sticking out their crowns in a modest neighbourhood. Cast blue sky announcing probable rains in the course of the afternoon. City of Bandung, Java. Indonesia
March 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM