Photographers’ favourite birds, top ten list

This is a video about a great grey shrike, which has impaled a vole on a thorn. The video is from Belarus; however, the great grey shrike is also the favourite bird of Dutch photographers.

Photographer Jeffrey van Houten made a list, published today (with photos there), based on comments at the site Birdpix.nl, of the top ten species which Dutch bird photographers like to photograph most.

They are:

1. Great grey shrike

2. Bearded reedling

3. Short-eared owl

4. Little owl

5. Bee-eater

6. Cuckoo

7. Water rail

8. Barn owl

9. Long-eared owl

10. Goshawk

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