Charlesjsharp

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Charles has uploaded 188 featured pictures to Wikimedia Commons.

Charles has uploaded 1830 quality images to Wikimedia Commons.

Charles has uploaded 2095 valued images to Wikimedia Commons.

This user has uploaded 4309 images to Wikimedia Commons.

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Argentina

Botswana

Brazil

Bulgaria

Cayman Islands

Costa Rica

Cuba

Dominica

Ecuador

Estonia

Ethiopia

France

Gambia

Ghana

Greece

Hungary

India

Indonesia

Italy

Jamaica

Jordan

Kenya

North Macedonia

Madagascar

Malaysia

Morocco

Namibia

Oman

Panama

Poland

Portugal

Rwanda

Senegal

Singapore

South Africa

Sweden

Tanzania

Trinidad and Tobago

Uganda

UAE

United Kingdom

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Wildlife portrait photographer from the UK.

My web site is Sharp Photography. It has a search facility. Full size images are stored on Flickr.
Many of my pictures are taken outside of the UK and the best ones will be in my galleries of favourites, Featured pictures (188 from 34 countries), Quality images (1,840) and Valued images (2,105).
I have a Gallery of European butterflies
The quality of Valued Images may not be great, but are provided as reference images - the best we have at the moment. Click the star for POTY and barnstars
Awards
I have 100 Featured pictures on English Wikipedia.
Please feel free to use any of the wildlife photos that I have uploaded here, most of which are used in Wikipedia articles, with attribution Charles J Sharp
Males are marked ♂ and females ♀
These animals were not photographed in zoos, safari parks, rescue centres, butterfly houses or in captivity.

Featured pictures by Charles J SharpEdit

Featured pictures by country
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Botswana
Brazil
Bulgaria
Cayman Islands
Costa Rica
Cuba
Estonia
Ethiopia
Gambia
Ghana
Greece
Hungary
India
Indonesia
Italy
Jamaica
Jordan
Kenya
North Macedonia
Madagascar
Malaysia
Morocco
Namibia
Panama
Poland
Portugal
Rwanda
Senegal
South Africa
Sweden
Trinidad and Tobago
Uganda
UK
Zimbabwe

Mammals (9% of FPs of mammals on Commons)

African bush elephants
Loxodonta africana
♀
Jaguar
Panthera onca palustris
♂
Lion
Panthera leo
♂
Cheetah
Acinonyx jubatus
♀
Cheetah cub
Acinonyx jubatus
Spotted hyena
Crocuta crocuta
Mountain gorilla
Gorilla beringei beringei
♀
Proboscis monkey
Nasalis larvatus
♀
Proboscis monkey
Nasalis larvatus
♂
Long-tailed macaque
Macaca fascicularis
Green monkey
Chlorocebus sabaeus juvenile
Southern plains grey langur
Semnopithecus dussumieri
♀
Abyssinian black-and-white colobus Colobus guereza
♂
Grivet
Chlorocebus aethiops
Olive baboon with juvenile
Papio anubis
♀
Chacma baboon
Papio ursinus
♂
African buffalo
Syncerus caffer
♂
Red-billed oxpecker on buffalo Syncerus caffer
♂
Nilgai
Boselaphus tragocamelus
♂
Sable antelope
Hippotragus niger
♂
Ugandan kobs
Kobus kob thomasi
♂
Topi
Damaliscus lunatus topi
♀
Black-faced impala
Aepyceros melampus petersi
♀
Red-billed oxpecker on impala
B. erythrorhynchus
Ugandan defassa waterbuck
Kobus ellipsiprymnus defassa ♂
Nilgiri tahr
Nilgiritragus hylocrius
♀
Southern warthog
Phacochoerus africanus sundevallii ♂
Southern warthogs
Phacochoerus africanus sundevallii ♂♂
Nolan warthogs (juveniles)
Phacochoerus africanus africanus
Yellow-headed caracara on capybara M. chimachima,H. hydrochaeris
Cattle tyrant on Capybara Machetornis rixosa, H. hydrochaeris
Meerkats
Suricata suricatta
Rock hyrax
Procavia capensis
Grey squirrel
Sciurus carolinensis
Grey squirrel
Sciurus carolinensis
Common seal
Phoca vitulina

Birds (4.5% of FPs of birds on Commons)

Black-chested snake-eagle
Circaetus pectoralis
Eastern chanting goshawk
Melierax poliopterus
Common black-hawk
Buteogallus anthracinus
Savanna hawk
Buteogallus meridionalis
Southern crested caracara
Caracara plancus
Roadside hawk
Rupornis magnirostris
Smooth-billed ani
Crotophaga ani
Vervain hummingbird
Mellisuga minima
Red-billed streamertail
Trochilus polytmus
♀
Bee hummingbird
Mellisuga helenae
immature ♂
Scintillant hummingbird
Selasphorus scintilla'
♀
2 of 3
3 of 3
Sapphire-throated hummingbird Lepidopyga coeruleogularis♂
Snowy-bellied hummingbird
Amazilia edward
Rufous-tailed flycatcher
Myiarchus validus
Campo flicker
Colaptes campestris
Red-crowned woodpecker
Melanerpes rubricapillus ♀
Cuban green woodpecker
Xiphidiopicus percussus
♀
Giant kingfisher
Megaceryle maxima
♀
Malachite kingfisher
Corythornis cristatus cristatus
Malachite kingfisher
Corythornis cristatus cristatus
Malachite kingfisher
Corythornis cristatus stuartkeithi
Pied kingfisher
Ceryle rudis rudis
♀
Pied kingfisher
Ceryle rudis leucomelanurus
♀
Common kingfisher
Alcedo atthis ispida
♀
Swallow-tailed bee-eater
Merops hirundineus chrysolaimus
European bee-eaters
Merops apiaster with dragonflies
Indian roller
Coracias benghalensis
Rufous-headed ground-roller
Atelornis crossleyi
European roller
Coracias garrulus
African emerald cuckoo
Chrysococcyx cupreus
♂
Marabou stork
Leptoptilos crumenifer
Red-legged seriema
Cariama cristata
Chaco chachalaca
Tyrannus melancholicus
Bare-faced curassow
Crax fasciolata
♀
African Grey Hornbill
Tockus nasutus
♀
Turquoise-fronted amazon
Amazona aestiva
Yellow-billed shrike
Corvinella corvina corvina
Black-headed lapwing
Vanellus tectus
Spur-winged lapwing
Vanellus spinosus
Yellow-billed oxpeckers
Buphagus africanus africanus
Pied-winged swallow
Hirundo leucosoma
Southern rough-winged swallow
Stelgidopteryx ruficollis
Tropical kingbird
Tyrannus melancholicus
Northern masked weaver
Ploceus taeniopterus
♀
Village weaver
Ploceus cucullatus
♀
Black-headed weaver
Ploceus cucullatus bohndorffi
Robin (juvenile)
Erithacus rubecula
c
Saffron finch
Sicalis flaveola
♂
Baywing
Agelaioides badius
Bank myna
Acridotheres ginginianus
Asian pied starlings
Gracupica contra
Violet-backed starling
Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
♂
Paddyfield pipit
Anthus rufulus
Brown rock chat
Oenanthe fusca
Pied bushchat
Saxicola caprata
♀
Palestine sunbird
Cinnyris osea
♂
Madagascar magpie-robin
Copsychus albospecularis
♀
Amber mountain rock thrush
Monticola sharpei erythronotus ♂
Madagascar fody
Foudia madagascariensis
♂
Rosy-faced lovebirds
Agapornis roseicollis
Common blackbird
Turdus merula mauretanicus
♀
Rufous-collared sparrow
Zonotrichia capensis
Mute swans and cygnets
Cygnus olor
Black-bellied whistling ducks
Dendrocygna autumnalis
West Indian whistling duck
Dendrocygna arborea
Greylag goose
Anser anser
Helmeted guineafowl
Numida meleagris

Insects (2.1% of FPs of insects on Commons)
Butterflies and moths

Old World swallowtail
Papilio machaon gorganus
Gold rim swallowtail
Battus polydamas jamaicensis
Black-veined white
Aporia crataegi
♂
Large white
Pieris brassicae
Common Brimstone
Gonepteryx rhamni
♂
Common Brimstone
Gonepteryx rhamni
♀
Adonis blue
Polyommatus bellargus
♂
Chalkhill blues mating
Polyommatus coridon
♂♀
Common blues mating
Polyommatus icarus
♂♀
Cassius blue
Leptotes cassius
Lang's short tail blue
Leptotes pirithous
♀
Green hairstreak
Callophrys rubi
Brown hairstreak
Thecla betulae
hairstreak
Hemiolaus cobaltina
Madagascar black-eye
Leptomyrina phidias
Common tiger
Danaus genutia
♂
Plain tiger
Danaus chrysippus
♂
Dark blue tiger
Tirumala septentrionis
♂
Peacock
Aglais io
Autumn leaf
Doleschallia bisaltide
White peacock
Anartia jatrophae jatrophae
Two-tailed pasha
Charaxes jasius
Balkan fritillary
Boloria graeca
Knapweed fritillary
Melitaea phoebe
Spotted fritillary
Melitaea didyma
Small pearl-bordered fritillary
Boloria selene
Marsh fritillary
Euphydryas aurinia
♂
Marsh fritillary
Euphydryas aurinia
♀
Marsh fritillaries mating
Euphydryas aurinia
♂♀
Small heath
Coenonympha pamphilus
Silver-spotted skipper
Hesperia comma
♀
Silver-spotted skipper
Hesperia comma
Large skipper
Ochlodes sylvanus
Sphinx moth
Adhemarius gannascus
Sphinx moth
Adhemarius donysa
♂
Owl moth
Automeris belti
Convolvulus hawk-moth
Agrius convolvuli
Magpie moth
Abraxas grossulariata
Rosy ermine moth
Trosia nigropunctigera
Bird-cherry ermine moth
Yponomeuta evonymella caterpillars

Dragonflies and damselflies

Brilliant emerald
Somatochlora metallica
♀
Four-spotted chaser dragonfly
Libellula quadrimaculata
♀
Black darter
Sympetrum danae
♂
Hairy dragonfly
''Brachytron pratense
♂
Scarlet darter
Crocothemis erythraea
♀
Beautiful demoiselle
Calopteryx virgo
♂
Blue-tailed damselfly
Ischnura elegans
♀
Blue-tailed damselflies
Ischnura elegans
♂♀
Blue-tailed damselfies
Ischnura elegans
mating ♀
Common blue damselfly
Enallagma cyathigerum
immature ♂
Common blue damselflies
Enallagma cyathigerum mating ♂♀
Large red damselfly
Pyrrhosoma nymphula
♂
Large red damselfly
Pyrrhosoma nymphula
♂
Small red damselfly
Ceriagrion tenellum form melanogastrum♀
Small red damselflies
Ceriagrion tenellum mating female typica ♂♀
Emerald damselfly
Lestes sponsa
♂

Grasshoppers, locusts and other insects

Italian locust
Calliptamus italicus
♀
Garden locust
Acanthacris ruficornis
Variegated grasshopper
Zonocerus variegatus
Koppie foam grasshopper nymph Dictyophorus spumans
Roesel's bush-cricket
Metrioptera roeselii diluta
♂
Assassin bug
Rhynocoris iracundus with bee (Apis sp)
Rose chafers
Cetonia aurata on thistle
Flatid leaf bugs and nymphs
Phromnia rosea

Spiders

Malagasy green lynx spider
Peucetia madagascariensis green bottle fly Lucilia sp
Wandering spider
Cupiennius getazi katydid Tettigoniidae sp.
Crab spider
Misumena Vatia with skipper Hesperia comma