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Saddle-billed Stork feeding

Saddle-billed Stork feeding - Adult female

Photographer

» Glenn Pure

Location

» Okavango Delta

Country image taken

» Botswana

Date

» May, 2017

Equipment

» Canon 80D with Canon 100-400mm Mark II L IS USM at 400mm handheld

Bird Species

»Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis - Saddle-billed Stork

Bird Species (French)

»Jabiru d'Afrique

Bird Family

»Ciconiidae - Storks

Bird Group

»Pelecaniformes Pelicans, Ibises, Spoonbills, Herons, Bitterns

Bird Status

» Least Concern

Remarks

» I was impressed that the stork could pluck such a tiny fish from the water. Manual exposure 1/1250 sec, f7.1 ISO 640. Lighting adjustments, NR, cropping and digital lens optimiser applied in Canon DPP 4. Exported 16 bit TIFF file processed in Adobe Photoshop Elements with Neat Image NR plugin to reduce noise. Sharpened after final size reduction.

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