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Wildlife Photo Gallery

Here is my first photo gallery, with images taken with my also first wildlife photography gear (a Nikon Z 50 II with a Nikkor Z 400mm f/4.5), which I bought in September 2025, with the addition of my just acquired (in September 2026) second lens, Nikkor Z 70-200mm f/2.8 S II. 

It is arranged per year and per month, hoping that it can show an increase of quality, as I learn how to photograph in manual mode, and how to edit raw file pictures (to see my very first photos, check out my previous post here).


2025 

October


South American Sea Lion with a stalking Snowy Sheathbill (Necochea, Argentina)

A happy Southern Elephant Seal pup (Necochea, Argentina)

Talas Tuco-tuco in Cariló (Argentina)

Vermilion Flycatcher habitat in General Conesa (Argentina)

Dolphin Gull portrait in Ancud (Chile)

November

Tawny-throated Dotterel in its habitat (El Calafate, Argentina)

Burrowing Parakeets in Las Grutas (Argentina)

Snowy Sheathbill in the Beagle Channel (Argentina)

Fuegian Cinclodes in the Beagle Channel (Argentina)

Leopard Seal in Parry Fjiord (Chile)


December



Streamer-tailed Tyrant right before dusk, in the Campos of Southern Misiones (Argentina)

Sickle-winged Nightjar, in the night of Southern Misiones (Argentina)

Sharp-tailed Tyrant, a miniature of the Campos of Southern Misiones (Argentina)

Unicolored Blackbird (one of the most poorly-named bird species in the world), enjoying the rain in Ibera Marsh, Argentina

Hudson's Canastero claiming his patch of territory in what is left of the once seemingly endless Argentine Pampas grassland


2026 

January

First wildlife photo of the year (January 1st): a Snowy-crowned Tern on the beach of Buenos Aires province 

Photographic guiding trip to NW Argentina (my first one, since I started with photography):

Female Torrent Duck in Yala

Yungas Guan in Yala

Andean Flamingos in the Puna of Jujuy

Puna (Lesser) Rhea in the Argentine altiplano

Culpeo Fox pup in the Puna highlands

Wedge-tailed Hillstar in Yavi

Sky-gazing Toco Toucan in the Yungas of Jujuy 

Snacking Tataupa Tinamou in the Yungas of Jujuy

Wide-angled Tataupa Tinamou in the Yungas of Jujuy

Red-legged Seriema's watchful eye

Full breeding-plumaged male Blue-tufted Starthroat in the Chaco of Salta

White-winged Black-Tyrant, take 1

White-winged Black-Tyrant, take 2

White-winged Black-Tyrant, take 3

Rusty Flowerpiercer in the Yungas of Salta

"White tree" - Burrowing Parakeet

Burrowing Owl in the Yungas of Tucuman

"Life in the desert" - White-throated Cacholote

A landscape photograph with a 600 (equivalent) milimeters

"Slow down" - South American Grey Fox


Last few photos of a calendar year with my Z50II and Z400 f/4.5:

March

Fiercy Austral Pygmy-Owl (Chilean Patagonia)

"Jaluel" (a Northeast Patagonian Orca, Argentina)


April

"Capybara Tyrant" (Cattle Tyrant on Greater Capybara from Argentina)

June

A very proud Gray-flanked Cinclodes from Mendoza (Argentina)

Rufous-throated Dipper (Jujuy, Argentina)

Yungas Sparrow (Jujuy, Argentina)

July

Eurasian Treecreeper in the Caledonian Forest (Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland)
 
Great Spotted Woodpecker in the Caledonian Forest (Nethybridge, Scotland)

James's Flamingo (Jujuy, Argentina)

Ornate Tinamou (Jujuy, Argentina)

September

First 3 photos with my new lens Z70-200 f/2.8 S II (still with the Z50II APS-C camera body):

White-tufted Grebe in Buenos Aires city (with a TC 2.0)

Pied-billed Grebe in Buenos Aires city (with a TC 2.0)

Yes, a feral Rock Pigeon (Buenos Aires city)



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