Joseph Welklin

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A male Red-backed Fairy-wren grooms his mate. Photographed in Queensland, Australia.

A female Super Fairy-wren pauses for moment in the rain.

A male Red-backed Fairy-wren in breeding plumage. This male is colorbanded and is part of our study population. Each individual on our study site gets a unique combination of color bands on his or her legs that allow us to identify who's who without

A pair of dull Red-backed Fairy-wrens photographed in Queensland, Australia.

A male Splendid Fairy-wren sizes me up in the Australian Outback.

A female Variegated Fairy-wren with nesting material. She wasn't too happy that I interrupted her nest building but I quickly backed off.

Male Splendid Fairy-wren. Photographed in September in Western Queensland.

Male White-winged Fairy-wren. Photographed in Western Queensland, Australia.

Red-capped Robin. Western Queensland, Australia.

Monarch Butterfly on Goldenrod.

Splendid Fairy-wren. He jumped up to this high perch, belted out a few songs, then dropped back out of site. Photographed in September in Western Queensland, Australia.

Diamond Dove. Photographed in Western Queensland, Australia.

Whooping Cranes - There are only around 600 individuals left in the wild today. The population declined to 15 birds in the 1940s but breeding programs and habitat management have slowly allowed their numbers to increase.

A female Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo loses her grip on a eucalyptus tree.

A male Splendid Fairy-wren

A pair of Red-backed Fairy-wrens. Photographed in Queensland, Australia.

Carolina Chickadee with food.

A male and female red-backed fairy-wren duet in response to playback of a male's song. Photographed in Samford, Australia.

Olive-backed Sunbird. Photographed in the Atherton Tablelands, QLD, Australia.

Juvenile Cooper's hawk. Photographed in Noblesville, Indiana.

Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher. Photographed in QLD, Australia

A male Red-backed Fairy-wren responds to a territorial intrusion.

Cades Cove, Smokey Mountains

Cassowary, photographed at Etty Bay, QLD, Australia.

Mirror Lake, New Hampshire.

Golden-headed Cisticola, near Samford, Australia

Bloomington, Indiana.

Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Noblesville, IN.

Cades Cove, Smokey Mountains.

An Atherton Scrub Wren returns to it's nest with food for it's nestlings. QLD, Australia.

Cades Cove, Smokey Mountains.

Red-backed Fairy-wrens, near Samford, Australia.

Port Sulphur, Louisiana.

Cades Cove, Smokey Mountains

Cades Cove, Smokey Mountains.

Can you see what's happening? This cuckoo caught a giant hairy caterpillar and started beating it and rubbing it against the branch to kill it and get rid of all the hairs. At one point it was swinging the caterpillar round and round in circles, sma

Noblesville, Indiana

A male red-backed fairy-wren performs a petal display, in this case with a berry. When courting females, males often pick up pieces of red from their environment and use it to help advertise to prospective mates. Often they use red petals but I've s

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