Asian Openbill.

[Satish Ranadive]

Image was created in the last week of Jan,2015.Basic editing, cropped for composition.
Perch cleaned. Selective NR applied to blacks.

ISO :200, 1/1000,@5.6.Manual. 550D,100-400.

Thanks for viewing ,appreciation, comments and critiques.
Kind Regards.
Satish.

[David Salem]

Thats pretty funny because I was looking at this frame and wondered what that gap was in the bill, so I decided to look at your title to look up the bird on line, but the title says it all:S3: Very unique looking bird. It obviously uses the open part of it's bill in it's gathering of food. Nice pose, techs and comp Satish.

[John Robinson]

Yes Satish wierd and wonderful. Lovely colour tint on the bird too. evidently the bill is designed to cope with large apple snails.
Good one.
John

[Daniel Cadieux]

Pretty neat bill for sure. I love the foot peeking out of of the feathers. I also like the feathers in the bill from the preening. Good vertical composition.

[arash_hazeghi]

nice tall portrait, I just wish you had a better perch

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

Excellent pose and colours Satish with good composition. I like it a lot.

[christopher galeski]

very nice,good detail and pose.