Northern Black Korhaan (male)

[Morkel Erasmus]

I posted the female of this species a while ago (http://www.birdphotographers.net/for...ad.php?t=47822). Taken in early morning light in the Kalahari.

This is the loud-mouthed male with its gorgeous plumage.

Techs:
Canon 40D with 100-400mm L IS USM @ 160mm
f5.0 @ 1/250 SS @ ISO-400
Exp +0.3

[Ofer Levy]

Gorgeous plumage indeed!! Nicely composed image with great pose.

[Alfred Forns]

Hi Morkel

Fine exposure for one difficult bird, good shadow detail and whites look good !!

About all I can suggest is if you could have moved a little to to your left to avoid the more prominent bg weeds, do like it a lot as presented and You came up with one fine image !!!

[Fabs Forns]

He is gorgeous for sure :)
Agree on Al's comment about your placing, but it may not have been possible.
Very nice light and EXP.
TFS!

[Harshad Barve]

One beautiful image , How I wish their cousines are cooperative here in India :(
Lovely look back pose
TFS

[Morkel Erasmus]

thanks for the kind comments Harshad Bhai, Fabs, Ofer and Alfred. He only gave me 3 seconds of this pose and then disappeared into the long grass...taken from vehicle with beanbag over window.

[Stu Bowie]

Great HA mate, and I like the detail and colours. Very skittish characters for sure.

[Betsie Storm]

Lovely shot, Morkel, like the overall sharpness and clean forgeround. I happened to look at my shots of this bird over the weekend, most of them are obscured by long grass. Did you manage to get a BIF of these guys? I tried many times, not too successful! They must be one of the noisiest birds, shouting all the time when flying.