Red-Billed Tropicbird

[Art Peslak]

Hood Island Galapagos

Nikon D3, Sigma 100-300mm f/4 at 300mm, ISO 250, 1/2000 at f/5.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Beautiful one, Loved the exposure and the supersonic pose... Congrats

[Connie Mier]

I like the white bird with the white background, a beautiful capture.

[Harshad Barve]

White on white, nice pose of bird makes it for me
TFS

[Fabs Forns]

Lovely high key, Art. Especially love ethe long tail. I could have sworn I saw one of these in NL, bu the pier in Witless Bay.

[Ilija Dukovski]

Lovely whites, I love these birds. I would try a pano crop if possible to go along the long tail.
Great to see this species here. I think you can safely saturate the reds bit more here to pop the bill more.

[Brian Barcelos]

Very nice capture. Wing position is nice and your exposure was great. I wonder if a little more contrast might make the bird stick out a little more.

Brian

[Indranil Sircar]

Beautiful composition, Art. Long tail is the most interesting. Love the hk feel...

[Stu Bowie]

Super high key Art, and would cool looking long tail. I agree with Brian that adding some contast, or midtone levels will work.

[John Chardine]

Nice Art. These birds are hard to capture as they fly pretty quickly. I will second the need, on my monitor at least, for more contrast and some punch to bring down the blacks, whiten the whites and redden the reds.

[Art Peslak]

Lovely high key, Art. Especially love ethe long tail. I could have sworn I saw one of these in NL, bu the pier in Witless Bay.

Fabs,
I also thought I had seen one of these birds in NF. The interesting thing is that the island in the Galapagos where the tropicbirds and albatrosses breed were had high cliffs over looking to ocean that reminded me of Cape ST Marys in NF.

[John Chardine]

Red-billed Tropicbirds breed on some Caribbean islands and at least one individual has made it up to the northeast coast of the US and east coast of Canada for the past few summers. Not sure about Newfoundland but I can find out.