Egyptian Goose

[Chris van Rooyen]

The Egyptian Goose is the Canada Goose of Africa. It is common and well adapted to artificial environments such as city parks and farm dams. They are very aggressive and chase other waterfowl all the time, as well as other rivals of the same species. This guy was coming in to chase an intruder away from his territory, all the while calling loudly! Image was captured near Johannesburg at Rondebult Bird Sanctuary.

Camera Model: Canon EOS-1D Mark II
Date/Time: 2006:04:15 08:38:35
Shutter speed: 1/2000 sec
Aperture: 9
Exposure mode: Av
Exposure compensation: -1/3
Flash: Off
Metering mode: Multi-segment
ISO: 400
Lens: 500mm
Focal length: 500mm

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

Great flight shot,I Iike the pose,timing and wing position!

[Maxis Gamez]

Hello Chris,

Excellent timing and exposure control. Very nice capture.

[Tony Whitehead]

Another great shot, Chris. Great action with the calling and feet raised.

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Awesome action you captured in this image Chris and all the techs look great. Wonderful image and thanks for sharing.

[Gary Dumer]

Great shot Chris

You have to be a master at in-flight shots!!!

[George DeCamp]

...and a really noisy bird too right? :)

You caught him at a nice moment and did really well on the techs here.

[Alfred Forns]

Love the feel of this image Chris and can appreciated the behavior Our local population terrorizes the other birds 24X7X365 I have seen them fighting in the water with one trying to actually kill the other by drowning !!! Love everything about this image The landing pose is spectacular !!!!

[Chris van Rooyen]

Thanks for the comments guys, appreciated:) Noisy, aggressive but quite handsome:D