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Avid outdoorsman and underwater photographer, Barry Brown has spent the last seven years documenting life above and below water in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. Focusing on the island's coral reefs, he has worked hand-in-hand with several businesses and environmental groups, including SECORE, a marine conservation organization based in the Netherlands. His image of a research submersible was recently featured on the cover of DIVER magazine.

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Jan 20, 10     Comments Off
Trupial in Curacao

Trupial in Curacao

Good evening readers, here’s another beautiful trupial from high atop mount Christoffel.  This flying beauty was sitting on a perch made of ball moss, air plants and epiphytic bromeliads.  These trupials seem to eat just about anything they can find and this one here was hunting for insects or small lizards that hide in these bromeliads.
These little bromeliads he’s sitting on can also hold water for long periods of time meaning these trupials may also be also feeding on small frogs as well.  I have watched these birds for years and they really are smart and aggressive, they love getting into trash and will chase off any other smaller birds.  These birds also have the most unusual and beautiful sounds you will ever here, it’s so distinctive that no matter where you are when you hear it you know there’s a trupial near by. 
 
That’s it for tonight, we all worked today, it was hot and windy!!  See you soon, Barry
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