African Cuckoo Hawk

[Ken Watkins]

Uganda proved to be good for me, this is another first!

Taken in Toro-Semliki Gane Reserve, Uganda, 20th June 2012

EOS 1D MkIV

500mm F4 hand-held

F7.1, ISO 800, 1/200, EV +0.67

[Ofer Levy]

Interesting bird. However, IQ is not great - looks like a massive crop to me.

[arash_hazeghi]

it's a nice raptor and a good pose. I agree with ofer regarding IQ and noise

[Ken Watkins]

Ofer and Arash,

I agree that the crop is just too much to get decent IQ, I should probably have opened up a lot more or better still got closer but this was not possible.