Costa Rica's Orange Chin

[Don Hamilton Jr.]

The Orange-chinned Parakeet (Brotogeris jugularis) - also known as Bee-bee Parrot or Tovi Parakeet - has the most northerly range of the brotogeris family. It is found in the subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and heavily degraded former forest. Found this bad boy raiding some fruit trees in dense northern costa rica. Boy when a flock of these come in, not only is it noisy, but they can stip the fruit off the tree in a matter of minutes Thks for looking!
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Canon 1dx, ISO 1000, Fill Flash, manual, 250s F 8

[Randy Stout]

Don:

Beautifully captured, with good head position, bg, large but interesting perch with flattering curve that frames the bird well.

Sharp,well exposed, with soft light.

Cheers

Randy

[Don Hamilton Jr.]

Thks Randy, yes would agree... the buggers had to land and give me the perfect look,yet on less than a perfect/scale perch... Dangit....oh well regardless thks for the C&C!
Don

[keith mitchell]

The bird looks spot on! to me Don, lovely shades of green and blue, perch with all it's different foliage adds more interest, yourself or something else as certainly got the birds attention ,very nice indeed.



Keith.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Bravo on a superb image. Everything just gels together so well here, I especially like the colours. Really nicely done waiting for a perfect head angle.

[gail bisson]

This is excellent! Love the color palette and that perfect HA is, well...perfect.
Great perch and IQ and DOF.
No nits from me,
Gail

[christopher galeski]

Agree with others,nice image,love the pose,nice BG and perch,nice detail,well done.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Just superb Don Don. Really lovely tones and colours and the perch is fantastic, but only due
to all that gorgeous green vegetation. Great HA on the parrot. Eye contact perfect.
Wonderful.
Thanks for sharing.

PS. With my forum template your text is nigh unreadable due to the font colour. (I use the Capt. James Shadle II - side template)

[Grace Scalzo]

Love it, Don. I wouldn't mind just a little more space at the top, but that's a personal preference.

[Karl Egressy]

Great looking image, Great looking back pose and excellent IQ.

[stuart wanuck]

Lovely image