Swainson's Francolin

[Ken Watkins]

Just spotted this in passing after a quick stop I managed a coouple of frames before it disappeared.

Taken in Ruaha National Park, Tanzania, 5th September 2010

EOS 1D MkIV

500mm F4 IS hand-held from open game viewing vehicle.

F7.1, ISO 800, 1/640

[Scott Frye]

Very unusual bird with some nice colors. The headon look does do it for me and background is just too busy for my tastes

[denise ippolito]

Ken, I like the head on pose and the colorful BG. I might give another round of sharpening to the head for web presentation. The BG is just a touch distracting,probably because of all the lines. This is a very interesting looking bird so TFS.:)

[Arthur Morris]

Cool bird and pose and I like that the perch is angled nicely away but the BKGR just competes too much.

[Ken Watkins]

Thanks for the comments, I agree the BG is awful, but the bird is quite nice.