Purple fronted Fruitcrow

[Richard Unsworth]

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A Cotinga captured here (Costa Rica) in the close canopy. A hard bird as they move together and at speed through the trees with Black chested Jays and Toucans.
Their call is haunting and melodious - unmistakeable.

Took out big log pointing to face, worked on BG to balance, NR and smartsharp

HH 7D 100-400 1/100 eV +2 ISO 800 F5.6 TRIPOD

[Arthur Morris]

Nice bird and surely hard to photograph but the steep angle to the subject, lots of noise in the dark tones, and a haze (from the processing ???) on the fore-crown are all problematic.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Very nice fruitcrow! Arthur already mentioned the areas to improve but I know how hard it is to shoot in the tropics! just a quick note: the actual name is purple-throated fruitcrow! querula purpurata.

[Richard Unsworth]

Thanks Juan dont have my book with me here :-)