Australia: Eclectus Parrots in Flight

[Jim Neiger]

Northern Cape York Peninsula - 1D3, 500mm+1.4xTC, hand held, 1/1600, F5.6, ISO 1000, manual exposure

The rare Eclectus Parrots are the only parrot species where the male and female have such drastically different plumage. The Male is mainly green and red and the female is mainly red and purple.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Excellent colour comparision Jim, and Ilike the wings up/wings down pattern! If this were mine I'd be tempted to "cheat" in PS and bring the birds a little closer in the comp (with disclosure of course!)

[James Shadle]

Jimmy,

Killer colors and congrats on the rare capture.
Is this much of a crop? The detail is not what I'm used to seeing from your images.

[Ilija Dukovski]

Some birds, great colors, if you only had better angle and, as Daniel said, they were bit closer.
Good to see these beauties here.

[Simon Bennett]

Excellent capture Jim I think this would be one of the very few images of a male and female Eclectus parrot flying together.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Beautiful image .. loved the opp wing position and the colourful birds..

[Jim Neiger]

Jimmy,

Killer colors and congrats on the rare capture.
Is this much of a crop? The detail is not what I'm used to seeing from your images.

Here is the original image unmodified except for generic RAW conversion and resize.

[Jim Neiger]

Excellent capture Jim I think this would be one of the very few images of a male and female Eclectus parrot flying together.

Simon,

I've never seen an image of either male or female in flight.

[James Shadle]

Thanks Jimmy.
I thought it might be. Your images are usually sharp and very detailed.
None the less, cool capture of a rare speciman.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Still great Jim, good to see one of our rarities. Wait till I get up to the York! ;) Wish, wish. :D