Yes, there are a few varieties of ibis. The most famous are red. But there are black ones like this one and red ones with white heads. And among the black ones you can also find ones with feathers on their heads.
Yes, and it’s much faster because there’s less to do.
Thank you, This is the Pairi Daiza park located in Belgium. It is the most beautiful park in Europe at the moment. It is constantly expanding.
This is the whole park with the parking lot behind.
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Hello Harald.
I’m enjoying looking at your pictures. Nice work. For what it’s worth the Golden monkeys are actually Golden Snub Nosed monkeys from China.
And the Red ibis - Imgsli 1 is actually a Scarlet Ibis.
REally nice pictures.
Regards.
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Thanks 
Some new and improved photos.
Before
After
Another photo of an oxheart heron before cropping
After
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And here are the last ones with the Nile Shoebill
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After
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Beautiful collection of birds! Really nicely done, the details. I am still fascinated by what lives with us on Earth.
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Thanks.
Yeah, and in Pairi Daiza Park, there are a lot of birds. In fact, when the park first opened in 1994 (at the time, it was called “Paradisio”. This name is actually a combination of two French words: “paradis” and “oiseaux” which basically meant “le paradis des oiseaux” in French), there were only birds at first.
Paradise (glorious sight) for the eyes? Sounds lovely!
And also “le paradis des photographers”, as I see it. 
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Yes, If you ever get the chance to visit, it’s worth it. There are even hotels throughout the park for those coming from far away. The park is so big that it’s impossible to see everything in one day.
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I discovered my 10-year-old photos from Everglades National Park (Florida). Not only lots of alligators, but also a number of interesting birds. I tried to improve one photo – a bird (according to the guide called a Snake-bird) that hunts submerged in water except for its head on a long neck. I was lucky in one place because it was standing there with its wings spread and drying itself. These birds are said to not have waterproof feathers (unlike others, e.g. ducks) and so they have to dry themselves occasionally, as the picture shows.
The first picture is the original, with typical flaws. I tried to improve it with Gigapixel 1.0.2 using also Photo 1.0.1 (the tools used are in the title of the second picture). Then I slightly blurred the background in the PhotoDirector 2025 editor to make the bird stand out more. Whatever the photo is, the bird itself is certainly nice, isn’t it? It would probably take more additional effort, but also too much time, so I’ll settle for this one.
Well, all I see are 2 black boxes where images should appear. When I click on them I get the msg “Image cannot be loaded.” Same thing happens with several (not all) of Harald’s posted images.
Well, that’s weird. Images appear for most other posts above. Wonder what’s causing that. It seemed to happen after (#$@X&!) Microsoft’s last update around Oct. 15. It also broke several other apps and functions on my PC immediately after that update ran.
Anyway, I’m sure the bird is very cool. Whatever it is.
Hmmm, strange… I (so far) can see all of Harald’s photos (and others). This must be some new weird invention. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s related to the latest imposed #$@X&! from Microsoft (I have Win 11 Home).
I’ll try to insert a printscreen of the photo here (not the file itself), can you see it?
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Darn it. Same thing. A black box with that ‘image cannot be displayed’ msg when I click on the blk box. Kinda defeats the purpose of an image-oriented forum… It happened to me when I try to post images too.
Never did that before the Msft update. Blankety blankety blank. I even already had Win 11. Wasn’t like I was going through the EoL of Win 10. I’ve just posted a rpt (you might be too young to read it…) on the Msft Issues Hub.
Thanks for trying the alternate post method!
I got an email notif of your post - in it I can see the photo of the bird. Just out of curiosity I made a snip of that and ‘played’ a little in Ps (just to create a diff image) & wanted to see if I can post that rev here and view it…. Here goes:
Nope. I see a black box. But I can’t view the image rev I just posted. Says, “Image cannot be loaded”. Next experiment, I’ll see if I can view it from my Android mobile devices. That doesn’t help me for communicating here. But that would prove it was a {$%$##} Msft issue. On Android tablet now. See the images just fine. No black boxes. No error msgs. I know my GPU driver is current…
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Thank you! I’ll try it.
Just did it. It worked! What the heck. causes that, I wonder. There were a lot of weird things in the list and partitioned things and not intuitive things in that list.
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