While many bird photographers enjoy the challenge of still photography–capturing that split second in time when all the elements of a good image come together–video footage, however, can sometimes provide a complete story, capturing behaviors that a still image might not be able to do.

Video clips of Bonaire’s birds, illustrating behaviors.

Enjoy these short clips of some of Bonaire’s birds, including a few rare ones, as they go about their lives.  You’ll find Bonaire’s famous American Flamingos having a little argument, a Lesser Yellowlegs feasting on brine flies, as it runs along a shoreline with its mouth open, or Southern Lapwings using their carpal spurs during a little internal spat.

Enjoy!