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    Ken Watkins
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    Just for a change, a Kingfisher not covered in twigs. Taken from a boat in Lake Manze Channel, Selous Game Reserve, 5th July 2012

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    500mm F4 hand-held

    F4, ISO 400, 1/800

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    Hi Ken, a good close up of this fellow, and I like the pose and feather detail. Nicely in the open as you mentioned, colours look good, as does the BG. I like this lots.

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    Ken this is great stuff....can't believe its a handheld with a 500. Love the feather details and the crispness of the beak.

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    Nice looking bird, great pose and excellent feather details, Ken.

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    Killer close up, though it looks like a decent crop and a bit looser would look nice.
    Beautiful bird.
    Dan Kearl

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    Thanks everybody for your comments much appreciated.

    Dan,

    I am not very good at cropping this is around 20% of RAW, mainly to eliminate sticks running everywhere.

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    Very nice Ken, stunning detail and vibrancy in this shot and the perfect mottled backdrop imo....a tad more light in the eye would be even nicer, but that's being pedantic.

    this looks to be a larger species of Kingfisher, similar to our Australian Kookaburra possibly...by chance does this species have the typical laughing style call of the Kookaburra ?

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    Phil,

    I just love being asked questions on birds a subject where my knowledge is extremely limited
    Anyway this appears to be a relatively normal size Kingfisher being 19-20 cm tall, the call is described as "tyi-ti-ti-ti" whatever that means.

    I have never seen a Kookaburra but understand they are very big, I would think that the only Kingfisher we have in Africa that could be described as large is the Giant Kingfisher which is 38-43 cm.

    Hope this has cleared everything up

    Cheers

    Ken

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    Taa Ken....so I can just go on living with the fact that it really was just an Australian Kookaburra that was heard in most of the Tarzan movies and not a local bird,. { that's actually a truthful bit of trivia }

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