Rufous-bellied Thrush (zorzal colorado)

[Patricio Murphy]

This is the one bird that you discover when you're young and return home late after a party: it starts singing before dawn, and it's omnipresent. You usually see it on the ground, or in low branches like this one.



Nikon D200, AI Nikkor 400mm f/3.5 ED-IF (I forgot to change the appropriate setting on the D200, hence teh EXIF shows... 20mm!) :) 1/320, f/4 ISO 160

[Sabyasachi Patra]

I am a bit bothered by the black portion of the bg. I would crop from the left to remove the green triangle in the upper left corner. Else your eyes moves from black to that small patch of green in the upper left corner. I would have loved to have a better perch as well.

Having said all that, the thrush is sharp and singing. I like that. Most of the times we don't bother to shoot the thrush, as it is always there. Who knows, even one day their numbers will come down. Thanks for sharing.

[Alfred Forns]

Agree with the crop suggestion Much stronger image if you take form the left, don't need that much negative space and the green triangle does catch the eye. I like the pose and strong eye contact !!

[Daniel Cadieux]

Good crop suggestion by M. Patra. I also find the OOF object in URC distracting. The bird itself and the perch look good.

[Stephen Stephen]

I really like the sharpness and the head angle on this bird, a species that I've never seen before.

Dan is right about the upper right corner OOF object (Metal, cut branch?). If you decide to remove the green triangle from the left then the OOF object will become the next distraction.

[John Chardine]

It would be interesting to know where and when the photography was made.

I like the comp. and sharpness of the image very much.

[Patricio Murphy]

Thanks everybody for the comments!
Here it goes a repost taking (almost, I cloned the triangle but forgot the crop :)) all the advice into account. I'm still quite bad at cloning, but to get an idea of the end result I think it works.
John, the pictures are taken this month in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in a natural reserve minutes from downtown.