I have always loved birds. I began photographing birds when I moved to Singapore in 1998 and bought a camera with a second-hand telephoto lens. I guess that was the top of a slippery slope! For me, as for many others, birding is more of a passion than a hobby! I am not a professional photographer, I just love photographing and observing birds in their natural habitats!

Zoologists divide the world up into 6 zoogeographical realms and I have chosen to organize my photos according to these. To see my photos from a particular realm, simply click on the relevant section of the map below (i don't have photographs from every realm yet).

Realms are further subdivided into sub-realms and regions, and some of my pages may reflect this. For the sake of simplicity, the photos on each page are organized in alphabetical order of their common names. The status of threatened and endangered species (according to Birdlife International) is given in brackets after the common name.

All the images on this page are copyright c. artuso. Most are 35mm slides (a few from my earliest days with a camera are prints). Although "digipixing" (using a digital camera through a spotting scope) is now becoming more and more popular for bird photography, I still prefer old-fashioned slides - more difficult but you can do more with them! Unfortunately, for the purposes of this page, these images are all very low in resolution and many were cropped to reduce their size - I prefer the originals where you can see more of the surrounding habitat! Of course I also have many photographs of other species not shown here (over 1200 species in fact!).

If you are interested in obtaining prints or larger resolution images, or would like to comment on any of my photos, you can email me at chartuso@hotmail.com

I hope you enjoy these images!

christian artuso