Rufous-necked Wood-Rail

[Katie Rupp]

From Doug Brown's Costa Rica workshop: Our boat captain became extremely excited when he spotted this bird walking just behind the vegetation along the shoreline. It seems that finding a Rufous-necked Wood-Rail is a rare event and getting a photograph is even rarer. I saw the bird through the vegetation and was lucky enough to be able to get two images as it passed by tangled openings along the shore. I cropped this image just a bit for composition, adjusted levels, curves, s/h and sharpening, only.

1dm3; f4.5, 1/200; Av +2/3; ISO 1000; 500f4 hh

[Ilija Dukovski]

Oh wow, you have no idea how much I envy....
Great bird....

[John Chardine]

Nice to see and even better to photograph. I can only imagine how hard a species like this must be!

[Dan Brown]

Cool bird Katie! We missed that one last year! Good find!