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Pied Kingfisher with frog

Pied Kingfisher with frog - Adult male

Photographer

» Glenn Pure

Location

» Chobe River near Kasane

Country image taken

» Botswana

Date

» May, 2017

Equipment

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

Bird Species

»Ceryle rudis - Pied Kingfisher

Bird Species (French)

»Martin-pêcheur pie

Bird Family

»Alcedinidae - Kingfishers

Bird Group

»Coraciiformes Bee-eater, Kingfisher, Roller

Bird Status

» Least Concern

Remarks

» The bird gave the frog a very good beating before swallowing it. Manual exposure 1/1600 sec, f7.1 ISO 800. 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 reduced noise and sharpen after final size reduction.

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