American White Pelican

[Amol Khedgikar]

This is one of the " exotic" birds that visit Dallas in winter. LIfe gets exciting for birders here... Just that they spend their days grooming and preening....This is the best of the action all day...





5D iii+500 f4, ISO 1000, 1/1600, f4, o a cloudy day.

What do You all think?

[Bill Marquardt]

It's beautiful, I've never seen anything like that around here !!!!

[arash_hazeghi]

nice pose that shows the behavior, I like the BG too

[christopher galeski]

nice capture,like all the veins showing,nice pose and BG.

[gail bisson]

Great pose and a good choice of composition. Great look at the vascular network on the pouch.
It looks like he has something at the lower end of the pouch. Wonder what it is?
I see a slight blue cast in the whites and would address that.
I like the image,
Gail

[Richard Flack]

Nice image Amol. Really like the detail on the pouch and pose! TFS

[Shawn Zierman]

Wonderful image. I like the head angle too because it afforded a nice look inside and outside of the throat pouch. Exposure work looks very good to me as well.

[Amol Khedgikar]

thank you all!,

Shawn, it looks like there is something there but its the bird's tongue or the proventriculus and a large blood vessel passing through there.