This is my third article about ‘less is more’ it surely won’t be the last! (see link to second and first article). ‘Less is more’ has become really my favorite thing. I'm even considering selling my 500-mm-telephoto lens as it’s lying around in my basement uselessly (that being said, I keep using it regularly).
What does ‘less is more’ mean again? A ‘less is more’ picture should be taken with a few millimetres, using a wide angle lens. A lot of attention should be paid to the vicinity, so there is less focus on the bird itself. The bird should be quite small in the frame of the picture. This is one way of ‘less is more’.
There is another way of ‘less is more’: a picture, taken by a telephoto lens, with a small but recognizable bird. Again a lot of attention has been paid to the vicinity, but the focus is also on the bird itself. 
Wide angle shot. Maybe you thought that this carrion crow was Photoshopped? No, no, this is an original photo. It cost me an hour, but the crow finally flew away from it’s nest.
Wide angle shot. Waterfowl in a city pond: Whooper Swans and a drake eider. Only possible in Iceland!
Wide angle shot. Whooper Swans and their surroundings.
Wide angle shot. The skyline of Rotterdam with a very small Lesser Black-backed Gull. Maybe it’s too small?
'Less is more’, but made with a telephoto lens. There is a good match between the yellow colour of the Yellowhammer and the moss.
A ‘small’ Parrot Crossbill. Telephoto lens shot.
Wide angle shot. Hooded Crow in Hoek van Holland. The bird and the location are recognizable in the frame of the picture.
Wide angle shot. It’s hard to make a different picture of a much photographed popular bird. This is an attempt to do so…
Wide angle shot. A Great Grey Shrike in his natural vicinity.
Wide angle shot. What a beautiful lady! Hey, I mean that Brown Pelican!
Wide angle shot. Three drunkards at a bar. 
Wide angle shot. A road sign, a couple of geese and an impending rainstorm.
Wide angle shot. A Glaucus Gull at the place where he actually belongs: the pack ice (Barrow, Alaska).
Dead and life (in that order), Alaska.
Wide angle shot. Pacific diver amidst the ice.
Wide angle shot. Two birdphotographers and three tame Red Phalaropes.
Wide angle shot. Always difficult when a bird is too close… 
Wide angle shot. A Red Phalarope: a tame lady. The bird could have been in a larger dimension in the frame, couldn‘t it?
Wide angle shot. What is the true size of the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker? That small, according to these pictures.
Wide angle shot. What is the true size of the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker? That small, according to these pictures.
Telephoto lens shot. These greylag geese are living in discord. It would be nicer if they looked each other in the eye… right?
Not an original ‘less is more’ (the vicinity is hardly in the frame of the picture). But it also isn’t an average picture. Telephoto lens shot.